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Otutu exists to empower businesses and individuals to take full control of their finances—clearly, transparently, and confidently. Our mission is to make accounting understandable, auditable, and trustworthy, while ensuring businesses truly own their financial data. We believe financial systems should work for their users, not lock them in, obscure the truth, or compromise privacy.
Values
At Otutu, our values are not marketing slogans—they guide how we design our software, work with customers, and make long-term decisions. They shape the product we build and the company we are becoming. Our team operates with trust and responsibility. Each person takes ownership of their work while understanding that meaningful progress comes from collaboration. We emphasize teamwork over individual stardom, shared goals over personal credit, and long-term thinking over short-term wins. Great financial software is built through consistency, care, and collective effort.
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We Are Builders:
We are a team of dedicated builders who genuinely care about what we create. We don’t build features for the sake of complexity—we build systems that solve real financial problems. Our focus is on creating accounting software that delivers real-world value: clarity in numbers, confidence in decisions, and trust in the data behind every report. We believe software should earn trust through correctness, transparency, and reliability.
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We Build with Principles:
Otutu is built on strong foundational principles that prioritize users over shortcuts. We believe accounting software must be understandable and auditable. Financial systems should not be black boxes. Every calculation, balance, and report should be explainable and traceable. Your financial data belongs to you—always. We design Otutu so businesses maintain control over their records, histories, and reports without unnecessary restrictions or lock-ins. Financial data is deeply sensitive. We treat privacy as a core requirement, not an afterthought. Our architecture and workflows are designed to protect user data and limit unnecessary exposure.
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We Welcome Collaboration:
We believe the best systems are built together. Otutu welcomes contributors, partners, and professionals who share our mission and actively use the product themselves. Whether through feedback, integrations, extensions, or improvements, collaboration helps Otutu grow stronger and more resilient over time. We value people who are motivated by quality, integrity, and long-term impact—not quick wins.
Our Vision
Otutu is building the foundation for modern business finance. We envision Otutu as a single, trusted system where businesses can view, manage, and understand their entire financial operation—clearly and accurately. Otutu aspires to:
Be the central place to manage accounting, banking, payables, receivables, and financial reporting.
Provide a clear, real-time view of business performance and financial health.
Enable accurate monthly, quarterly, and yearly financial reporting without complexity.
A modular system that many contributors outside our team can extend. For example, if someone wants to integrate tax accounting rules for a specific jurisdiction, they are experts on or integrate a chain they know of.
