Experience Across Industries
Building Ventures. Scaling Businesses. Strengthening Operations.
Tactive Consulting is a specialised project and management team that works with entrepreneurs, investors and organisations to launch new ventures, operationalise investments and scale existing businesses. We are particularly valuable at moments of transition—when an investment is moving from concept to execution, when a new business needs to establish its operating capability, or when an existing organisation needs the structure, systems and leadership capacity to reach its next stage of growth.
TROYKA 🇰🇪
Stage: Business Restructure & Scaling New Vertical
Tactive was engaged to support the restructuring of the existing business while assessing and building the commercial and operational foundations for a new green-energy vertical.
Our mandate included:
- Business and investment assessment
- Financial and commercial modelling
- Revenue model development
- Technical team mobilisation
- Supplier and contractor selection
- Project management and implementation oversight
- Operational setup and process development
- Recruitment and management structure
- Governance and financial controls
- Commercial strategy and market development
- Performance management
The engagement strengthened the commercial and revenue model, established the operational structure required to execute the new vertical, and mobilised the technical partners, suppliers and contractors required for implementation. Tactive continues to support management in moving the business from restructuring and investment planning into commercial execution and scalable operations.
DEPO LIMITED 🇺🇬
Stage: Business Transformation & Commercial Activation
Tactive was engaged to support the transformation and commercial activation of Depo Limited, a Ugandan construction materials and finishing-solutions business with over two decades of market experience, operating through Depo Premium and Foster Builders Warehouse. The engagement focuses on strengthening leadership, professionalizing operations, improving commercial execution and establishing the systems and accountability structures required for sustainable growth.
Our mandate included:
- Business and operational assessment
- Leadership and management structuring
- Recruitment and deployment of key talent
- Development of management roles, responsibilities and reporting structures
- Leadership development and succession planning
- Operational process optimisation and SOP development
- Commercial strategy and sales activation
- Customer database reactivation and sales pipeline development
- Performance management and KPI frameworks
- Financial reporting and budget refinement
- Digital tools and systems implementation
- Governance and management reporting
- Ongoing advisory and implementation oversight
A key component of the engagement was the establishment of a stronger management layer. Tactive developed the General Manager role and job description, supported the recruitment and onboarding process, and helped define the GM's mandate, reporting structure and performance expectations. The GM role was designed to provide strategic and operational leadership across the business, with responsibility for growth, operational excellence, financial sustainability, team leadership and performance management.
The engagement has supported Depo in transitioning from a largely founder-led and manually managed operating model toward a more structured, professionally managed and performance-driven organisation. Key outcomes include the establishment of a stronger management layer through the onboarding of a General Manager, improved financial and management visibility, more structured operational and performance systems, strengthened commercial and sales processes, and the introduction of digital tools and reporting frameworks to improve coordination and accountability. Tactive has also supported the development of clearer roles, reporting structures, management processes and governance mechanisms, creating greater ownership within the organisation and reducing reliance on founder-led execution. The work continues to focus on embedding the management, operational and commercial systems required to improve execution, strengthen accountability and build a scalable platform for long-term growth.
E4Impact Africa Venture-Building Programme 🌍
Stage: Multi-Country Strategy and Venture Building
Seven ventures. Six African markets. Tactive partnered with E4Impact Africa to refine the strategies of seven high-potential agriculture and agritech businesses across Kenya, Uganda, Somalia, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The businesses ranged from established food processors and seed companies to circular agritech and agricultural-technology ventures. Tactive worked directly with their founders and management teams to clarify commercial positioning, test growth assumptions, identify priority markets and translate their ambitions into practical implementation roadmaps.
Programme at a Glance:
- 7 ventures
- 6 African countries
- Up to 500 retail outlets within an individual venture’s distribution network
Navigating Different Markets and Growth Realities: Each venture operated within a different commercial environment and faced a distinct growth challenge—from production capacity, working capital and route-to-market constraints to technology commercialisation, channel productivity and regional expansion. The strategies were therefore developed around the realities of each business, its customers, market position, operational capacity and stage of growth.
Ventures Supported:
- 🇿🇲 Forest Africa — Indigenous Food Processing | Strategic shift: From an impact-led narrative to customer-led commercial positioning.
- 🇿🇼 Hekhani Seeds — Climate-Smart Seed Production and Distribution | Strategic shift: From selling seed to supporting dependable, market-linked agricultural supply chains.
- 🇲🇼 Mtengo Wakumunda — Nutrition-Focused Food Processing | Strategic shift: From demand-constrained production to a prioritised retail, route-to-market and product-growth strategy.
- 🇰🇪 Bio Afriq Energy — Post-Harvest Processing and Dehydration Technology | Strategic shift: From rapid hub expansion to strengthening the core business and validating new opportunities through controlled commercial pilots.
- 🇸🇴 GreenLife Agribusiness — Agricultural Inputs, Technology and Technical Services | Strategic shift: From multiple parallel activities to a clearly defined agricultural-input distribution platform supported by technical solutions.
- 🇺🇬 Akatale on Cloud — Circular Agritech and Technology-Enabled Agriculture | Strategic shift: From a complex portfolio of activities to a clearer, integrated and technology-enabled agribusiness model.
- 🇰🇪 Nyota Limited — Food Processing and Frozen Indigenous Foods | Strategic shift: From product-led expansion to channel-led commercial growth.
Across the seven ventures, Tactive helped management teams make clearer choices about: the customers and markets capable of generating sustainable commercial value; the products, channels and business lines that should receive priority; the positioning and capabilities that differentiated each business; the assumptions that needed to be validated before further investment; the operational and financial capabilities required for scale; and the actions needed to move from strategic ambition to implementation. The engagement demonstrates Tactive’s ability to understand businesses operating in different African markets, address complex growth questions and develop practical strategies grounded in each company’s commercial and operating reality.
UBUNTU 🇰🇪
Stage: Business Scale-Up
Tactive was engaged to strengthen the management and operating platform required to scale a growing manufacturing and consumer business across multiple markets and sales channels.
Our mandate included:
- Business and operational assessment
- Financial and commercial modelling
- Production and capacity planning
- Management structure and leadership support
- Supply-chain and operational optimisation
- Governance and financial controls
- Margin and cost management
- Commercial strategy
- New market and channel development
- Performance management and reporting
The engagement has supported the business in building the management capability and operating systems required for scale, while improving commercial and operational performance. Key outcomes include increased production capacity, improved margins, expansion into the East African market, and the establishment of new distribution channels in the US, including DTC, wholesale and retail partnerships. The work continues to focus on creating a more profitable, professionally managed and scalable manufacturing business.
STORE & GO 🇰🇪
Stage: New Venture / Investment / Operationalisation
Tactive supported the development of Store & Go from investment concept through to operational and commercial launch.
Our mandate included:
- Investment and business feasibility assessment
- Financial and commercial modelling
- Market and customer assessment
- Technical team mobilisation
- Supplier and contractor selection
- Project management
- Operational setup
- Recruitment and management structure
- Governance and financial controls
- Pricing and commercial strategy
- Sales and customer acquisition
- Performance and occupancy management
The engagement successfully operationalised the new venture and established a new market segment, including the mobilisation of the technical partners, suppliers and contractors required to launch the business. Following launch, the business achieved occupancy and revenue performance within approximately 10% of plan, validating the underlying commercial model and creating a foundation for further location and market expansion.
NORKAN 🇰🇪
Stage: Scale-Up
Supporting succession planning, organisational restructuring and the professionalisation of family- and founder-led businesses, while providing owner-side support across real estate development and construction projects.
Our mandate included:
- Investment and business assessment
- Financial and commercial modelling
- Technical team mobilisation
- Supplier and contractor selection
- Project management
- Operational setup
- Recruitment and management structure
- Governance and financial controls
- Commercial strategy
- Performance management
The engagement resulted in improved revenue, capacity and operational efficiency, strengthened governance and management structures, a clearer growth strategy, and the successful development and expansion of new business units.