Platform Strategy

Transform your business into a platform

Transformez votre entreprise en plateforme

We help enterprises, startups, and governments design, build, and scale multisided platforms that create lasting competitive advantages.

Nous aidons les entreprises, startups et gouvernements a concevoir, construire et developper des plateformes multifaces creant des avantages competitifs durables.

pltfrmize vision
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Why PlatformsPourquoi les Plateformes

Why pltfrmize your business?

Pourquoi platformiser votre entreprise ?

Platforms don't just compete — they reshape entire industries. The top 7 companies by market cap are all platforms.

Les plateformes ne font pas que concurrencer — elles redefinent des industries entieres. Les 7 plus grandes capitalisations mondiales sont toutes des plateformes.

📈 Network Effects

📈 Effets de Reseau

Each new user makes the platform more valuable for everyone. This creates exponential, winner-take-all dynamics.

Chaque nouvel utilisateur rend la plateforme plus precieuse pour tous. Dynamique exponentielle "winner-take-all".

🔒 Competitive Moat

🔒 Avantage Competitif

Platform economics create switching costs and lock-in that protect your business from disruption.

L'economie de plateforme cree des couts de migration et un verrouillage qui protevent votre activite.

🚀 Asset-Light Scaling

🚀 Scalabilite sans Actifs

Platforms leverage third-party assets to scale faster with less capital. Uber owns no cars. Airbnb owns no hotels.

Les plateformes leviersent les actifs tiers pour croitre plus vite. Uber n'a pas de voitures. Airbnb n'a pas d'hotels.

Platform data
Network effects
Strategy
Platform strategy
What is a platform
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What We OfferNotre Offre

Solutions for every stage

Des solutions pour chaque etape

Whether you're a startup with a new idea, an established enterprise, or a government body — we have the right engagement model.

Que vous soyez une startup, une entreprise etablie ou un gouvernement — nous avons le modele d'engagement adapte.

Team collaboration
▶ Tailored engagement models
▶ Modeles d'engagement sur mesure
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New Idea

Nouvelle Idee

From concept to MVP. We validate your platform hypothesis, design the architecture, and build the first version.

Du concept au MVP. Nous validons votre hypothese, concevons l'architecture et construisons la premiere version.

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Established Enterprise

Entreprise Etablie

Transform your linear business into a platform. We identify platform opportunities in your existing value chain.

Transformez votre activite lineaire en plateforme. Nous identifions les opportunites dans votre chaine de valeur.

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Government (CaaP)

Gouvernement (CaaP)

Country-as-a-Platform: digital identity, e-gov services, fintech infrastructure for sovereign digital transformation.

Country-as-a-Platform : identite numerique, e-gov, infrastructure fintech pour la transformation souveraine.

Platformize

Our 5-phase methodology

Notre methodologie en 5 phases

A proven framework to take your platform from idea to scale.

Un cadre eprouve pour faire passer votre plateforme de l'idee au passage a l'echelle.

01
Design
02
Build
03
Launch
04
Monetize
05
Openness

🎨 Design — Platform Canvas

🎨 Design — Canvas Plateforme

Identify participants, core interactions, value units, and governance rules. Map your multisided ecosystem.

Identifier les participants, interactions cles, unites de valeur et regles de gouvernance.

⚙️ Build — Core Interaction

⚙️ Build — Interaction Cle

Engineer the core interaction that creates value. Build the minimum viable platform (MVPl).

Concevoir l'interaction cle qui cree la valeur. Construire la plateforme minimum viable.

🚀 Launch — Chicken & Egg

🚀 Launch — Poule & Oeuf

Solve the cold start problem. Seed supply, attract demand, ignite network effects.

Resoudre le probleme du demarrage. Amorcer l'offre, attirer la demande, activer les effets reseau.

💰 Monetize — Value Capture

💰 Monetize — Capture de Valeur

Design revenue models: transaction fees, subscriptions, freemium, data monetization.

Modeles de revenus : commissions, abonnements, freemium, monetisation des donnees.

🌐 Openness — Ecosystem Scale

🌐 Openness — Ecosysteme

APIs, developer programs, partner ecosystems. Scale beyond your core through openness.

APIs, programmes developpeurs, ecosystemes partenaires. Croitre au-dela du noyau par l'ouverture.

Platform design
▶ Platform Canvas workshop
▶ Atelier Canvas Plateforme
Build
Build
Launch
Launch & Scale
CTO consulting
▶ Strategic consulting in action
▶ Conseil strategique en action
Services

How we engage

Nos modes d'engagement

Four ways to work with us, adapted to your needs and stage.

Quatre facons de travailler avec nous, adaptees a vos besoins.

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Fractional CTO

CTO Fractionnaire

Part-time technology leadership. Architecture decisions, team management, and technical strategy without full-time cost.

Direction technologique a temps partiel. Architecture, management equipe et strategie technique sans le cout temps plein.

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Strategy Facilitator

Facilitateur Strategie

Workshops, platform canvas sessions, and strategic roadmaps. We guide your team through the platformization journey.

Ateliers, sessions canvas plateforme et feuilles de route. Nous guidons votre equipe dans la platformisation.

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Adviser

Conseiller

Board-level advisory for platform economics, competitive positioning, and ecosystem strategy.

Conseil au niveau CA : economie de plateforme, positionnement concurrentiel et strategie ecosysteme.

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Team Assembly

Constitution d'Equipe

We help recruit and assemble your platform engineering and product teams with the right talent.

Nous aidons a recruter et constituer vos equipes produit et ingenierie plateforme.

InnovateInnover

6 types of platform innovation

6 types d'innovation plateforme

Platforms innovate differently than traditional businesses. We master all six dimensions.

Les plateformes innovent differemment. Nous maitrisons les six dimensions.

🔄 Interaction Innovation

🔄 Innovation Interaction

📊 Data Innovation

📊 Innovation Donnees

🏗️ Architecture Innovation

🏗️ Innovation Architecture

🤝 Ecosystem Innovation

🤝 Innovation Ecosysteme

💵 Monetization Innovation

💵 Innovation Monetisation

⚖️ Governance Innovation

⚖️ Innovation Gouvernance

Innovation
▶ Innovation at the intersection of technology & strategy
▶ Innovation a l'intersection technologie & strategie
Platform innovation
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AboutA Propos

Led by Seny Ganemtore

Dirige par Seny Ganemtore

29+ years in telecom & technology across Africa. Former CTO of MTN, Etisalat, and Airtel. Pioneer of mobile money deployment across multiple African countries. Platform strategy expert.

29+ ans dans les telecoms & technologies en Afrique. Ancien CTO de MTN, Etisalat et Airtel. Pionnier du deploiement mobile money dans plusieurs pays africains. Expert en strategie de plateforme.

29+
Years Experience
Ans d'Experience
5+
Platforms Built
Plateformes Creees
12+
Countries
Pays
Seny Ganemtore
▶ Seny Ganemtore — Founder & CEO
▶ Seny Ganemtore — Fondateur & CEO
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LearnApprendre

Platform knowledge hub

Hub de connaissances plateforme

Courses, case studies, and insights to deepen your platform expertise.

Cours, etudes de cas et analyses pour approfondir votre expertise plateforme.

Courses

📚 Courses

📚 Cours

Self-paced and instructor-led courses on platform economics, strategy, and engineering.

Cours en autonomie et avec formateur sur l'economie, la strategie et l'ingenierie de plateforme.

Case studies

📊 Case Studies

📊 Etudes de Cas

Real-world platform transformations: from telecoms to fintech to government services.

Transformations plateforme reelles : telecoms, fintech, services gouvernementaux.

Blog

✍️ Blog & Documents

✍️ Blog & Documents

Thought leadership on platform trends, African tech ecosystems, and innovation frameworks.

Analyses sur les tendances plateforme, ecosystemes tech africains et cadres d'innovation.

Ready to platformize?

Pret a platformiser ?

Let's transform your platform vision into reality. Your entrepreneurial journey starts here.

Transformons votre vision de plateforme en realite. Votre parcours entrepreneurial commence ici.

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Contact

Let's connect

Restons en contact

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Waltham, MA

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Waltham, Massachusetts
United States

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Ouagadougou

Ouaga 2000
Ouagadougou
Burkina Faso

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Abidjan

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Abidjan
Cote d'Ivoire