Akili
Brand intelligence for multi-site food and beverage brands. It reads everything customers say in public, works out what each problem costs, and returns a ranked list of fixes.
Visit AkiliSoftware for growing businesses
Better tools for the businesses big software overlooks.
We build focused products that give growing businesses the kind of tools usually reserved for the largest companies. Priced for your business, built for your market, and backed by people who answer when you call.
Why we exist
You should not need an enterprise budget to get enterprise-grade tools.
Most powerful software is built for the largest companies in the biggest markets. A franchise group in Manchester, a hotel group in Porto or a retailer in Lagos faces the same problems, but gets a watered-down version, a price it cannot justify, or nothing at all.
We build for those businesses: products that solve one problem well, set up in days rather than months, and priced for what you actually use.
Our products
Focused products that each solve one problem well.
Each product has its own dedicated team. All of them share the same engineering standards and the same promise: it has to earn its place in your business.
Glint
Intelligent AI search for ecommerce. Shoppers describe what they want in their own words, in their own language, and find it.
Ask about GlintHave a problem no tool solves well?
Tell us what is slowing your business down. Our next product may start with your answer.
Why 12Kobo
What you can expect from every 12Kobo product.
Proven engineering
Built by the team behind complex platforms for well‑known UK retailers, utilities and brands.
Every product is designed, tested and supported by experienced engineers. We use AI where it genuinely makes the product better, and never as a shortcut.
Works where you already work
Results arrive in the tools your team already uses: Slack, Teams, Shopify, email. No new system to learn.
Priced for your business
Clear, flat pricing with no enterprise contract and no per-seat surprises. You pay for the value, not the headcount.
It has to pay for itself
Every product is built around a measurable outcome, so you can see what it is worth to your business.
Local beats generic
Your language, your regulations, your customers. We sweat the local details the big platforms skip.
Fast to start
Set up in days, not months, with our team alongside you until it is working for you.
Real people behind it
You talk to the people who build the product, not a ticket queue. Your feedback shapes what we ship next.
Work with us
Four ways in.
Customers
Find the product that fits your business, or tell us what you need.
Partners and co‑founders
Know a market or a business model well? Build the next product with us.
Investors
A growing group of focused software companies, each built to pay its own way.
Careers
We are hiring senior builders in Lisbon, London and Cape Town.
For people who would rather build a company than have a career at one.
You will get responsibility early, a business that is yours to grow and a small team with no one to hand the hard decisions to. We look for people who are entrepreneurial by instinct, care about the customer more than the technology, and ship the simple version first.
Where we came from
12Kobo is a venture studio. We grew out of RAD, a London and Lisbon consultancy that has spent years building complex platforms for businesses. We now use that experience to build and run products of our own.