Team Lewis Kariuki is the sole founder and CEO of Uwazi, based in Nairobi, Kenya. Built the entire platform solo — 14-gate conditions engine, forensic asset map, mobile sentinel network, zero-knowledge vault, SHA-256 audit trail, and ghost worker audit engine — with zero funding in under 5 months. Simultaneously built Nexus v34, a full African social and commerce platform, in the same period. Cold-pitched the World Bank on uwazi and presented to 16 Financial Management officials on 21 April 2026. Cold-emailed the Law Society of Kenya — CEO escalated to LSK President within 23 minutes.