Doki

Kenya generates 22,000 - 24,000 tonnes of waste daily; 60–80% is organic, yet only 18% is composted or diverted from landfills. The remainder is burned, dumped, or landfilled, generating methane emissions and costing disposal fees for the businesses producing it. The missed opportunity is structural. Circular economy businesses- compost producers, biogas plants, Black Soldier Fly farms, and organic fertiliser manufacturers, need a steady supply of this exact organic feedstock to operate. They already exist. The waste already exists. But informal B2B connections keep breaking down for three specific, solvable reasons: 1. Supply is unreliable. Agro-processor output fluctuates week to week. A biogas plant or BSF farm cannot absorb that volatility without a reliable sourcing mechanism. 2. Trust is unverifiable. Waste contaminated with plastics or chemical residue can destroy an entire compost batch or insect colony, with no quality signal available before delivery. 3. Logistics has no neutral coordinator. Every informal deal collapses into a dispute over who funds transport and who bears liability for late or incorrect deliveries. These are not problems a simple listing board solves. They are the precise failures DoKi is designed to fix, and fixing them is what turns organic waste diversion from an aspiration into a scalable, economically viable system.

DoKi is an AI-powered B2B organic waste marketplace that makes Kenya's organic waste streams searchable, verifiable, and tradeable, directly advancing the composting, biogas generation, and landfill diversion goals of Track 04. THE CORE PRODUCT Sellers: food processors, breweries, maize mills, coffee factories, dairies, hotels, list available organic waste streams on DoKi. They upload a photo; DoKi's AI automatically classifies the waste type and generates a structured listing, removing the expertise barrier entirely. Buyers: compost producers, biogas plants, BSF farms, organic fertiliser manufacturers, search and filter by waste type, quantity, and location, then connect directly with sellers to complete transactions. DoKi earns a 5–10% commission on completed deals. DoKi is asset-light: no trucks, no processing facilities, no physical waste ownership. It is a software coordination layer that makes existing supply and demand visible, trusted, and executable. INNOVATION DoKi's AI waste classification from a single photo is a novel application of image recognition to an underserved domain. More importantly, DoKi's product roadmap is built around the specific market failures that cause informal organic waste deals to collapse: Stage 1 (Now): Structured quality and purity checklists embedded in every listing give buyers a verifiable trust signal before any deal is made. This standardises what "good organic waste" looks like across the marketplace. Stage 2 (Next): Demand aggregation across multiple sellers smooths supply volatility; a buyer's demand is filled from a pool of suppliers rather than a single source, turning DoKi from a listings board into a supply guarantee for biogas and compost operations. Confirmed matches generate a binding digital transaction agreement, locking waste specification, price, and delivery terms, with payment held in M-Pesa escrow until delivery is verified on the platform. Stage 3 (Later): Logistics-aware M-Pesa escrow, paired with on-demand trucking partners like Amitruck, eliminates the coordination and liability disputes that kill informal deals. FEASIBILITY The supply side is proven: TakaTaka Solutions, Regen Organics, and Ecodudu already source organic waste from Nairobi's agro-processors, confirming that the feedstock exists and that circular economy buyers are willing to pay for it. DoKi's advantage is that it opens this to the entire market rather than locking it into vertically integrated supply chains. IMPACT Primary metric: tonnes of organic waste diverted from landfills. Secondary metrics: successful transactions completed, participating businesses, methane emissions avoided, and waste converted into useful circular economy products. Kenya loses 22,000+ tonnes of organic material to landfills every day. DoKi makes that waste someone else's raw material and builds the infrastructure to keep it that way.