Concepttolive is an independent software studio based in Spintex, Accra. We design, build, host and support the RunMy family — a set of vertical SaaS platforms, each one built for a single kind of organization operating in Ghana and West Africa.
Walk into most schools, training programs, NGOs and small institutions in Ghana and you will find the same thing: operations running on paper ledgers, WhatsApp groups, and a spreadsheet that only one person truly understands. Not because these organizations don't want software — but because the software marketed to them was designed for a different context entirely.
It prices in dollars. It assumes card payments and stable broadband. It models an academic calendar, a fee structure, and a reporting requirement that doesn't match the one the organization actually operates under. So it gets bought, half-implemented, and quietly abandoned — and the spreadsheet comes back.
Concepttolive exists to close that gap. We build software the way it should have been built for this market from the start: priced in cedis, paid for by Mobile Money, designed around the workflows people here actually run, and supported by someone in the same time zone who picks up the phone.
We deliberately don't build one generic platform with a hundred settings. Each product in the RunMy family is a separate product, built from the ground up for one kind of organization — because a school and an NGO do not run on the same logic, and pretending otherwise is how software ends up useless to both.
Before writing anything, we spend time inside the organization — watching how admissions actually happen, how fees actually get chased, what the term-end report actually has to contain. The product follows the real process, not a diagram of it.
A first version goes live with a small number of real organizations paying real money. Not a free beta — paying customers, because that's the only feedback that tells you whether the thing is genuinely worth having.
Every customer gets setup support: data migration from whatever they were using, configuration for their fee structure and calendar, and training for the staff who will use it daily. Software nobody was taught to use is shelfware.
Support runs on WhatsApp, phone and email during Ghana business hours. No offshore ticket queue, no eight-hour lag on an answer someone needs before the school day starts.
We only list what is actually shipped and in use. Two products are live today; the rest of the RunMy family is on the roadmap and will appear here when it is genuinely available.
End-to-end school management for private basic and secondary schools: admissions, student records, fee billing and collection, academics and report cards, timetabling, and parent communication.
Cohort and program management for training providers, bootcamps, accelerators and skills programs: applications, cohort tracking, attendance, assessment, certification and outcome reporting.
The same approach, applied one vertical at a time — organizations that want to be first on a new platform can register interest and help shape it.
Concepttolive is a one-founder studio. Jeff Bans (Jephthah Bansah) designs, builds and supports the products, working with a small network of contractors for specific pieces of work. That is not a growth story we're hiding — it's a deliberate stage, and it's why we go deep on one vertical at a time rather than spreading thin across eight.
Practically, it means the person who wrote the fee-billing module is the same person who answers when a bursar calls about it. Customers deal with the studio directly, not a reseller or an account manager layer.
Full disclosure of the entity behind the products, for customers, partners and payment providers carrying out due diligence.