Lusaka, Zambia · Clients stay 10+ years

One system that runs your whole business — built for how you actually work.

Stock, fuel, payroll, invoicing, ZRA compliance — custom software for Zambian farms, plants, and trading operations. Built in Lusaka by the person who answers when you call.

Trusted by Ross Breeders Zambia, Tombwe Processing, and ATS — every major client has stayed for 10+ years.

Built for operations, whatever you run

  • Farms & agribusiness
  • Processing plants
  • Trading & wholesale
  • Logistics & transport
  • Clinics & services
  • Any operation that outgrew Excel

Does this sound like your week?

Growing businesses outgrow spreadsheets. If you nodded at any of these, you're in the right place.

Spreadsheets that don't agree

The stock file says one thing, the accounts file another, and nobody knows which is right.

Approvals lost in WhatsApp

Purchases and sign-offs scattered across chats and emails, with no record when it matters.

Flying blind between month-ends

No live view of stock, fuel, or cash — you find out what happened weeks after it happened.

Fuel & assets leaking money

Unaccounted litres and machine hours quietly eating your margins, month after month.

Payroll that takes days

Piecework, allowances, NAPSA, NHIMA, PAYE — calculated by hand, checked by prayer.

ZRA pressure rising

Smart Invoice, VAT schedules, audits — compliance getting harder while you're busy running the business.

Custom-built ERP & operational software

What I build for you

Not off-the-shelf software you bend your business around — a system shaped to how your operation actually runs.

Run the operation

  • Stock & inventory across depots
  • Buying & purchase approvals with a trail
  • Fuel tracking per vehicle & machine
  • Payroll, piecework & timesheets
  • Assets, maintenance & lifecycles

See what's really happening

  • One dashboard for the whole operation
  • Live costs per field, batch, or truck
  • Alerts when something drifts off plan
  • Cash flow you can see coming
  • Reports your accountant asks for, ready

Stay compliant & connected

  • ZRA Smart Invoice built in
  • Weighbridges, scales & devices connected
  • Bank & mobile money integrations
  • SMS & email alerts to your team
  • Runs on Zambian internet speeds
ZRA certification in progress

Need ZRA Smart Invoice? Meet Fiscari.

Electronic invoicing is mandatory for every VAT-registered business in Zambia — and since January 2025, only Smart Invoice invoices count for input VAT claims.

Fiscari is our Smart Invoice ERP: compliant invoices, credit notes, purchases, stock, and VAT reports in one system — with the certified part sealed, so custom features never put your compliance at risk.

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Already "compliant" but fighting your system?

Many businesses grabbed whatever worked before the deadline. If yours means double capture and reports your accountant has to fix, switching is a three-step process:

1 Free review of your current setup
2 Parallel run — nothing stops working
3 Go live, trained and supported locally
Proven in production

Systems running real Zambian operations

Not prototypes. Live systems processing transactions every day — for clients who have stayed for years.

Ross Breeders Zambia

Poultry production

Long-term systems partner: operational software, Android field applications, cloud hosting, and a 24/7 support agreement — every day of the year.

Multi-year relationship · 24/7 supported

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Tombwe Processing

Tobacco processing

Operational systems covering farmer management, laboratory, production, and HR — built module by module around how a working processing plant actually runs.

Client since 2019 · 11 applications in production

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ATS Zambia

Tobacco trading

Licensed trading platform on an annual subscription — a system so dependable it was recommended to them by another client's managing director.

Annual license · Won by referral

How working with me goes

1

I come to your operation

Not a sales call — a walk through your yard, floor, or depot. The system gets designed around what I see, not what a brochure assumes.

2

We build around how you work

Module by module, starting where it hurts most. Your team keeps working; nothing switches off overnight.

3

You get a partner, not a project

Support is a WhatsApp message to me — the person who built it. That's why clients are still here after 10 years.

Why businesses pick me over a big vendor

Typical vendorDeviatov Software
Sells you their productBuilds around your operation
Disappears after go-liveAnswers his own WhatsApp, for years
Support ticket queuesThe developer is the support line
Numbers that "mostly" add upAccounting-correct, audit-safe data

Fast on Zambian internet, safe in the cloud. Systems are built for slow connections, backed up daily, and keep working when the network doesn't.

Ilia Deviatov

Ilia Deviatov

Systems architect · Lusaka

For over ten years I've built the systems Zambian farms, processing plants, and trading businesses run on. I know what a tobacco grading floor looks like at 6am and what NAPSA does to a payroll run — and I build software that survives contact with both.

Deep in agriculture & operations · Accounting-correct systems · Cloud, mobile & hardware integration

Tell me what's slowing your business down.

One message. I'll tell you honestly whether a system will fix it, what it would look like, and what it would cost — no obligation.

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