Lagos, Nigeria · Product studio est. 2020

We build what
others only pitch.

Rimola is a product studio grounded in execution. We design and ship software at the intersection of fintech, applied AI and developer infrastructure — with the polish to earn trust and the depth to survive scale.

6Products shipped
50K+People served
2020Founded in Lagos
99.9%Platform uptime
Selected work

Six products. All of them live.

We are our own hardest client. Everything below was designed, built and shipped in-house — and most of it is running in production right now.

How we work

Calm, senior execution — strategy through production.

No discovery theatre, no bench of juniors, no quarterly disappearing act. A small team that treats your product the way it treats its own.

01

Frame the real problem

We start by narrowing scope, not widening it. A week of hard questions about who this is for and what has to be true — before a single line of code earns its cost.

02

Design and build as one motion

Interface, architecture, and infrastructure move together in weekly cycles. You see something running at the end of every one, on a real deployment, not a prototype.

03

Ship it, then own it

Launch is the midpoint. We instrument, monitor and harden what we build — the same discipline we apply to our own products carrying real money.

The stack we trust

Boring tools, chosen on purpose.

TSTypeScript
Vercel
Postgres
Stripe
Docker
Claude
The team

Small team. Serious craft.

The people you meet in the first call are the people who build it. That is the whole model.

Issa Raji, Founder at Rimola Studio01

Issa Raji

Founder

Sets the studio's direction and decides what Rimola builds and, just as often, what it declines. Keeps the team small on purpose and every engagement close to the work.

Jamal Akinola, Backend Engineer at Rimola Studio02

Jamal Akinola

Backend Engineer

Builds the systems underneath the products — payment flows, APIs, and the deployment infrastructure they run on. Self-taught, and responsible for most of what Rimola runs in production.

Ayyuba Taiwo, Product Manager at Rimola Studio03

Ayyuba Taiwo

Product Manager

Turns messy market reality into scope a small team can actually ship. Owns the roadmap, the release cadence, and the hard conversations about what gets cut.

FAQs

Questions we get asked all the time

Still unsure whether we are the right fit? Write to us anyway — we will tell you honestly if you are better served elsewhere.

End-to-end product engagements in fintech, applied AI, and developer infrastructure — the same three domains our own products live in. That usually means taking something from a rough strategy to a production system: architecture, interface design, backend, infrastructure, and the deploy pipeline that keeps it running.

We build and operate our own products, so we carry real operational scars — payments that must reconcile, agents that must not hallucinate a transfer, servers that must survive a Monday. You get a team that has already made the expensive mistakes on its own money.

A focused v1 typically ships in 6–10 weeks. Larger platform work runs in monthly cycles with something demonstrable at the end of every one. We do not disappear for a quarter and return with a slide deck.

Every scope is different, so we quote per engagement rather than per hour. Send us a paragraph on what you are building and we will come back with a fixed scope, a timeline, and a number — usually within two working days.

Most of them are. We are Lagos-based and work across European and North American time zones with a deliberate overlap window each day. Async by default, with a standing weekly call.

The people you meet in the first call. We stay deliberately small and take a limited number of engagements at a time — there is no bench of juniors behind the pitch.

Taking on two projects this quarter

Let's build something that lasts.

If you are building in fintech, applied AI or infrastructure, tell us what you are after. One paragraph is enough to start the conversation.