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12 markets · 3 languages · zero real-money risk

Kenya’s first & only AI-enabled trading evaluation platform.

Learn to trade Kenyan markets — with an AI coach that speaks your language.

Trade NSE Equities · FX · T-Bills & Bonds · Options · Crypto · Commodities · Rainfall · MMFs on one KES-consolidated portfolio. Built for individuals, CMA-regulated brokers, and colleges and universities.

5-second signup · 10 recovery codes · Individuals free forever · No card required, ever

12
simulated asset classes
24
things Obondo does for you
100%
virtual capital · no real-money risk
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No real money — ever.
No card on file — no auto-charges.
Delete your account in one click.
AI-augmented terminal · risk-enforced

Every trade sanity-checked before you click BUY.

12 asset classes on one KES book. Obondo, our trilingual (English · Kiswahili · Sheng) AI copilot, reviews every ticket before you click BUY. Cross the drawdown line — the terminal locks itself.

  • 12 asset classes, one rulebook — NSE Equities · FX · T-Bills & Bonds · Options · Crypto · Commodities · Rainfall · MMFs.
  • Pre-trade AI review — concentration, drawdown-proximity, exposure. In your language.
  • 5% daily / 10% max drawdown — one budget across all 12 assets. Cross it → account freezes.
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AI-narrated intel

Same intel the desk sees.

NSE actions, CBK auctions, CMA notices — parsed and pushed to your bell within 60 seconds. Tap any alert to ask Obondo: "what does this mean for my book?"

Corporate actions
Dividends, splits, M&A — tagged the moment NSE publishes.
Macro & rates
CBK auctions, foreign flows, MPC. Six Kenyan feeds, deduped.
Alpha alerts
HIGH-VOLATILITY events. Sub-minute to your notification bell.
AI-narrated
Portfolio-aware answer, in your language, in seconds.
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NSE · intel · liveLIVE
01[KCB]KCB Group Announces KES 3.9 Interim Dividend as Profits Rise by 6.2%
02[MACRO]CMA Penalty of KES 2 Million Imposed on Broker for Client-Money Breach
03[MACRO]CBK Cuts Central Bank Rate at 11.98% Following MPC Meeting
04[MACRO]CMA Penalty of KES 3 Million Imposed on Broker for Client-Money Breach
05[MACRO]NSE Trading Halt Ordered on Uchumi Supermarkets Pending Announcement
6 feeds · deduped4m 12s

Meet Obondo · your world-class institutional coach

24 Things Obondo Does For You.

Part junior desk analyst, part risk manager, part patient tutor — always in your language, always on your side. Standard on every Institutional seat.

01

Sanity-checks every ticket before it hurts you

The instant you tap BUY, Obondo runs a concentration + drawdown check. You'll never build a career-ending position by accident.

02

Fluent in the way you actually speak

English, Kiswahili, and Nairobi Sheng — same intelligence, no dumbed-down translations. Your money talks the way you do.

03

Answers however you want to ask

Voice memo on your commute, chart annotation at your desk, text at midnight. Obondo meets you where your hands are free.

04

Feeds you signals you can actually act on

A fresh Buy / Sell / Trim call every five minutes — grounded in your book, not a mailing list of guesses.

05

Turns headlines into your next move

The moment CBK moves, hear what it means for the positions you already hold. Your language. One tap.

06

Steers you clear of the daily-drawdown line

"Uko 1.2% from freeze, buda — sit this one out." The whisper that quietly keeps your seat alive.

07

Sees the concentration you don't

When SCOM quietly grows to 38% of your book, Obondo flags it before the market does the flagging for you.

08

Demystifies options for grown-ups

Delta, gamma, theta, vega — decoded in words you'd use at a matatu stage. Payoff diagrams on demand.

09

Drafts the flex post for your #1 rank

Congratulations — you crushed it. Obondo writes the WhatsApp brag so you don't fumble your victory lap.

10

Remembers your sessions like a proper analyst

Yesterday's trades, this week's PnL, the KCB thesis you had last Tuesday — recalled instantly. Continuity, not amnesia.

11

Rebalances toward your best possible portfolio

One tap runs mean-variance optimisation across your holdings, shows you the max-Sharpe target — and the trades to get there.

12

Backtests any idea in thirty seconds

Replay the last 30–180 days with realistic slippage and fees. Decide with evidence, not vibes.

13

Sizes every position mathematically right

Kelly criterion, capped by your personal risk-aversion. No more over-leveraging when confidence gets ahead of the odds.

14

Never lets a trade go out without a stop

Every execution auto-attaches SL/TP computed from ATR and Obondo's confidence in the setup. Discipline enforced at source.

15

Enforces sector caps so you can't blow up

Banking, Telco, Energy — hard caps applied before the order fires. Your worst impulse day still can't wreck the book.

16

Reads the mood of the market in real time

Sentiment scores from the live headline stream feed directly into every signal. You never trade against a room you can't see.

17

Trades your rules while you sleep

Flip on Autopilot — Obondo executes strictly inside your guardrails, every action explained in the audit log by morning.

18

Checks the macro story before firing

Won't buy KES-strong FX while shorting NSE Banks. Obondo verifies the whole picture is coherent — no self-cancelling trades.

19

Debriefs every trade you close

Each closed position becomes a two-minute post-mortem — what worked, what didn't, what to reuse tomorrow. Compounding wisdom, not just capital.

20

Wakes with you at 08:45 EAT

A pre-market briefing built around your book, not the internet's. The three things that will move your positions today, before the bell.

21

Sees storms three ticks early

Continuously scans your holdings for volatility regime shifts. You hear about the tremor before it becomes the earthquake.

22

Coaches you between the ticks

"How's the SCOM thesis holding up?" — quiet check-ins in the slow patches, so patience becomes discipline, not drift.

23

Builds a curriculum around your actual mistakes

Tracks the errors you keep making and teaches you around them. No generic course library — just your gaps, quietly closed.

24

Adjusts depth like a good tutor would

Starter, analyst, or CFA depth — Obondo lifts or lowers accordingly. Never talked down to. Never in over your head.

Individual (free) tier gets Kimani, the rule-based FAQ chatbot. All twenty-four capabilities above ship with every Institutional seat — MoE (KES 30k/mo) or CMA (KES 50k/mo).


Public board · social share

Rank publicly. Bring your circle.

Top-3 unlocks a rank-personalised share card. Obondo even drafts the caption. Referred friends land on the same board — race the people you actually know.

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1.
Share your code
Auto-generated at signup
2.
Friend joins free
Lands on the same board
3.
Both rank up
Bragging rights, not billing
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See it in action

Obondo knows your book.

Ask a question in English, Kiswahili, or Nairobi Sheng. Get an answer grounded in your actual open positions, drawdown state, and closed trades. Available on every Institutional seat.

You
Boss, check my portfolio — any concentration risk?

Yes, there's an issue — SCOM is 38% of your book, and today's drawdown is already 6.2%. Your single-name risk on SCOM alone is 3.4× your other positions combined. Trim the position by 25% to bring you back inside your rulebook.

Portfolio concentration
SCOM
38%
EQTY
22%
KCB
15%
EABL
12%
Other
13%
Illustrative — same brain, three languages · Text · Voice · Graph
Before you commit real capital

Melian Dialogue vs. a traditional Kenyan broker.

Question you're really asking
Melian Dialogue
Traditional broker
How much capital to get started?
KES 0
KES 100,000+
Can I lose my own money?
No — virtual capital only
Yes — every trade
Do I get a personal AI coach?
Yes — Obondo, in 3 languages
No — you're on your own
24/7 practice + weekend drills?
Yes — market simulator never sleeps
No — markets closed

Prove your edge here first. Then, if you want, take it to a real broker with the confidence you built.

Three tiers · one shared board

Individuals free. Institutions 30-day free trial.

The free tier stays free forever — no downgrade traps. Institutions get 30 days free to run the admin console end-to-end with up to 100 seats and Obondo (English · Kiswahili · Sheng) on every trader — then one annual bank transfer covers the year.

Direct bank transfer only. No M-Pesa. No card processors. No third-party checkout. Your money moves bank-to-bank — nothing else touches it.

  • Live seat monitor
  • Warn / freeze automatically
  • Obondo usage per seat
This is exactly what your broker admin sees post-login.
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Tier 1

Individual · Free

Free/ forever

Pure educational experience. Everything you need to learn markets, risk, and Greeks with virtual capital.

  • 12 Simulated Asset Classes (Equities · FX · Options · Crypto · …)
  • Full Terminal · Watchlists · Charts · Order Flow
  • Community Feed · Public Leaderboard
  • In-App Inbox + PDF Audit Trail (no email needed)
  • Kimani — AI FAQ chatbot (rule-based, in-app)
  • AI Trading Assistant (institutional-only)
Sign up free
Tier 2

Schools & Universities

(MoE-verified)
30-day free trial
KES 29,167/ month · billed annually
≈ USD 225

For schools, colleges & universities registered with the Kenyan Ministry of Education. Start free — pay only after 30 days.

  • 30-day free trial · every feature unlocked
  • Up to 100 Staff + Student Seats
  • Configurable Virtual Capital · up to KES 2M per learner
  • Staff Admin Dashboard + Private Class Leaderboard
  • AI Trading Assistant for every seat
  • Verify via MoE Certificate · Pay by Bank Transfer
Start 30-day free trial
Institutional · Recommended
Tier 3

CMA-Regulated Institution

30-day free trial
KES 41,667/ month · billed annually
≈ USD 321

For CMA-licensed brokers, dealers, and fund managers onboarding in-house traders + their client book. Start free — pay only after 30 days.

  • 30-day free trial · every feature unlocked
  • Up to 100 seats · In-house traders + Clients
  • Configurable Virtual Capital · up to KES 2M per trader
  • Broker Admin Dashboard + Private Agency Leaderboard
  • AI Trading Assistant for every seat
  • Verify via CMA Licence · Pay by Bank Transfer
Start 30-day free trial

Individual accounts stay free forever — no trial, no downgrade, no card on file. Institutions get a 30-day free trial the moment we verify their licence — then one annual bank transfer keeps them live for the year.


5-second signup · no email verification

Sign up in 5 seconds. Two ways.

Google Sign-In or email + password — both give you 10 single-use recovery codes as your backup. No email verification links, no SMS OTPs, no password-reset chains. Your account. Your keys. Screenshot the codes once and you're set.

Why recovery codes and not SMS? Kenyan SMS OTPs fail on roughly 1 in 5 sends — your printed codes work even without signal.

Your recovery codes
10 single-use codes. Shown once. Screenshot & store safely.
A7QK-92LM
X3PN-4RTV
K8DZ-P1WQ
M2HB-6JYT
R9CV-3NKX
T5FG-8ZQE
H4WS-Y7BM
L6JR-Q2XD
P0VN-K3TU
B8YE-9CGA
Print them. Bookmark them. Never lose access.
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12 asset classes. 10 recovery codes. Same rulebook as institutions. Free tier is the full solo experience — no trial, no downgrade. Institutions unlock Obondo — the English · Kiswahili · Sheng AI copilot.

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