A microservices-powered mobility operating system engineered for African cities — safe, reliable, and architected to scale across the continent.
Existing platforms extract 25–30% per trip, treat cash as an afterthought, and ignore the reality of African infrastructure. Drivers churn. Riders pay more. Safety is bolted on, not built in.
PRYDE is a mobility operating system — not an app. Lower commissions, first-class cash support, women-only rides, real-time SOS, and intelligent routing optimised for African roads.
One app. Two sides. Riders and drivers, equally served.
In-app wallet, instant top-ups, instant driver payouts, and cash-friendly payments. Load vouchers work even without airtime.
Drivers create pools with their own seat configuration. Riders browse pools and driver profiles, pick their seat, share the fare.
Panic button, live SOS, verified identities, reciprocating reviews, and live trip tracking shareable with family.
Book now or book ahead. Schedule your daily work commute once and let PRYDE keep the time.
Women-only pools and ride options, matched and tracked by design.
Tiered rewards, points, referrals and trip promotions — for riders and drivers alike.
PRYDE is not a ride-hailing app. It is the beginning of a continental mobility operating system.
Digital ticketing, route optimisation, and driver verification for the informal transport that moves millions daily.
Scheduled shared rides between cities with guaranteed seating, transparent pricing, and live tracking.
Same-driver logistics for documents, groceries, and e-commerce — leveraging existing driver density.
Unified transport procurement for businesses, schools, and government with consolidated invoicing.
The goal is not to replace Africa's transport culture but to digitise it, formalise it, and make it safer and more profitable for everyone who moves within it.
Nine autonomous microservices, event-driven architecture, and AWS-native infrastructure — built to survive African network conditions and scale to millions of trips.
Auth, OTP, KYC documents, queue for manual review. Every driver and rider is verified before their first trip.
Fastify + JWTBook, negotiate, accept, track, complete — plus scheduling and real-time driver matching.
Fastify + RedisBalance, top-up, transactions, payouts, PayFast webhooks. Ledger-based with full audit trails.
Fastify + KafkaEmergency triggers, incident tracking, safety ratings, and direct emergency service integration.
Fastify + TwilioShared rides, future bookings, route optimisation, and seat management for high-density corridors.
Fastify + PostGISTiered rewards, points accrual, referrals, and promotions — for both riders and drivers.
Fastify + RedisPush, SMS, email — real-time updates with local language support across all channels.
Fastify + KafkaCorporate ride agreements, invoicing, fleet management, and institutional procurement.
Fastify + MinioUnified entry point, auth, routing, rate limiting, and WebSocket support for live tracking.
Fastify + JWTAll services share PostgreSQL/PostGIS + Redis cache and communicate via Redpanda (Kafka-compatible event bus).
Designed for high availability, auto-scaling, and cost efficiency across African regions.
Auth, rate limiting, WebSocket for real-time tracking
Node.js (Fastify), containerised, running on EC2 with auto-scaling
Multi-AZ with read replicas, PostGIS for geospatial queries
Document storage (KYC), static assets, CDN delivery
Event-driven asynchronous communication between services
Logging, metrics, distributed tracing, and automated alerting
EC2 servers running. CI/CD pipeline active. Live APK in testing. We are iterating toward a Q4 2026 pilot and seeking strategic partners to scale across Africa.