You make.Intelligence moves
the business.

The AI operating system for makers: one house of intelligent specialists that answers, books, chases, markets and wins you work, so the business runs on a single system. Nothing sends without your yes.

Lost business never announces itself.

It goes quiet. In every conversation we have with makers, the same five moments come up.

The overnight enquiry

She found you at 11pm, because that is when people scroll. You replied at lunch. Someone else answered at 11:04.

The bare-number price

A price sent as a number closes the door. Sent with a question, it starts a conversation. Most makers, exhausted, send the number.

The unrecognised referral

Your warmest lead arrives saying a friend sent her, and gets greeted like a stranger.

The quiet follow-up

She asked, you answered, she went silent. One gentle nudge converts a remarkable share. Almost nobody sends it.

The busy-season pile-up

December triples your enquiries exactly when your hands are fullest. Your best month loses the clients your slowest month needed.

Your hands make the work. The system carries the rest.

No system sews a gown, braids hair or shapes wood. It carries what surrounds the work: the answering, remembering, chasing and counting that eats your evenings. And that is only the front of house.

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The counter

Every enquiry answered within moments, in your voice, with the question that keeps the thread alive. At 11pm and in December.

The order book

Measurements, deposits, preferences, dates. Written once, remembered forever.

The gentle chase

Deposits followed, appointments confirmed, quiet clients nudged. Drafted for your approval.

The ledger

What sold, who came back, what to make more of. Told to you plainly, every week.

Handmade leather goods arranged on a workbench
A furniture maker's chair in natural hardwood

One system. Fifteen specialists. One shared memory.

Makers Intelligence is built as one operating system for the whole business, so you should never need another tool to run it. Four departments, every specialist working your way, and every one of them answering to you.

Front of house

The Concierge

Answers every enquiry on WhatsApp, Instagram, phone and web, in your voice, at any hour, and never lets a thread go cold.

The Appointment Keeper

Books fittings and consultations, confirms them, reminds both sides, and reshuffles the day when life happens.

The Salesroom

Prices the quote properly, presents it beautifully, asks for the deposit, and makes saying yes the easy part.

The Gentle Chaser

Drafts the follow-up you never get to: the deposit, the quiet client, the aftercare note. Sent only on your yes.

The workroom

The Order Keeper

Holds the order book: measurements, deposits, deadlines and balances, written once and remembered forever.

The Workroom Planner

Plans the making itself: what is on the bench this week, what the deadlines allow, and when to stop taking orders.

The Storekeeper

Watches materials and supplies: what is running low, what to reorder, and which supplier quoted best last time.

The Fitting Room

Shows a client the piece before it exists: the shoe on their own foot, the gown on their own frame, from nothing but photographs.

The growth office

The Market Reader

Reads your market so you charge what the work is worth: what sells, what it goes for, and where demand is moving.

The Revenue Specialist

Scouts the work you don't see: buyers worth pitching, events worth a table, open calls and funding. Brings each one to you, and on your yes drafts the proposal and submits it in your name.

The Campaign Studio

Turns your pieces into marketing: campaign imagery, presenter-led video and content made with AI, in your brand's voice.

The Reputation Keeper

Works the word of mouth: reviews asked for at the right moment, referrals thanked, your best praise put to work.

The Shopfront

Builds and keeps your web presence: a site that sells the work properly, kept current without you touching it.

The counting house

The Bookkeeper

Handles the money paperwork: invoices sent, payments matched, receipts kept, nothing owed forgotten.

The Ledger

Reads the whole house every week: what sold, who came back, what to make more of, told to you plainly.

They share one memory. What the Concierge hears, the Order Keeper remembers, the Workroom Planner schedules, the Bookkeeper bills and the Ledger counts. The Campaign Studio turns it into the next campaign, and the Market Reader prices the one after. Nothing is typed twice, and nothing leaves the house without your yes.

The house grows as you do.

No maker needs every specialist on day one. The system starts where the loss is worst, and climbs stage by stage.

The front of house

The Concierge, the Appointment Keeper, the Salesroom and the Gentle Chaser take the counter, with the Order Keeper behind them. The leaks close first.

The workroom in order

The workroom and the counting house come to order: the making planned, materials watched, invoices sent, the week read plainly.

The full house

The growth office opens: the market read, opportunities scouted and proposals submitted, campaigns made, reputation worked, the shopfront raised, the fitting room dressed. One system runs the whole business.

Where you start, and when you climb, is agreed in your session, not read off a pricing page.

Your craft is world-class. Time your business caught up.

Drafted by intelligence. Sent by you. Always.

Measured first. Built to fit. Worn every day.

This is a consultancy, not a software box. We coach the business while the system carries it, and we stay until it fits.

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The measure

Thirty minutes on your real week

The enquiries, the orders, the follow-up. We show you precisely where it leaks and what the system would hold. You leave with a written note either way.

The build

A system made to your measurements

Your voice, your prices, your clients' names. We walk you through every detail before it goes near a client. You approve every word it will ever send.

The everyday

One button, then back to the bench

We stay alongside: coaching, refining, adjusting as the business grows. A person replies within one business day.

Thirty seconds of honesty.

What is running the business by memory actually costing you?

$0 of making time spent on admin, every month

Craft hours valued conservatively at half your rate. The full audit uses your real prices and enquiries.

Run the full audit

Made for people whose hands are full.

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Fashion & tailoring
A braider at work in a bright salon
Beauty, hair & spa
Beadwork detail on a bridal gown
Jewellery & beadwork
A hardwood chair in a maker's studio
Furniture & interiors
A nail artist finishing a detailed manicure
Skincare & body care
A model on a runway in a made-to-measure look
Where the work ends up
Hannah Kwakye, founder of Makers Intelligence
Hannah Kwakye standing in the studio
Hannah Kwakye · Founder

Why this house exists

I grew up around people who make things properly. I watched craft that belongs on any stage in the world lose orders to businesses with half the talent and twice the follow-up. The work was never the problem. The business around the work was.

Makers Intelligence closes that gap. Not another app to learn, but a practice: we measure your actual week, build a system to fit it, and stay beside you while it beds in. Coaching on one side, intelligence on the other, your name on everything.

Hannah Kwakye, founder

Wherever you make, every thread leads back to your bench.

Enquiries arrive from every direction: a WhatsApp voice note at midnight, an Instagram message asking for a price, a referral passed across a dinner table. The system gathers every thread into one order book, in your voice, wherever in the world you and your clients happen to be.

  • Set up remotely, in your time zone. The system is fitted to your working week, wherever the workshop stands.
  • Priced in your currency. USD by card or ACH, GH₵ by mobile money or bank transfer.
  • Light on data, heavy on care. Built to work beautifully on the connection you actually have.
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Four promises, in writing.

Nothing reaches a client without your yes.

Every message the system drafts waits for your approval. No exceptions, ever.

Your client book is yours.

Leave any day and take every record with you. Your business belongs to you.

A person replies within one business day.

Always a person. No ticket numbers, no bots answering for us.

If it doesn't move the business, we fix it.

We adjust the system until it earns its place. That is the whole arrangement.

Know makers? Work with the house.

We grow through partners, not agencies: stylists, photographers, suppliers, consultants, community leaders, anyone makers already trust. Introduce a client to the house and you earn a referral commission on the engagement that follows. You make the introduction, we do the work, you share in it. Terms are agreed in writing, partner by partner.

Introduce yourself

Tell us about your business. We'll show you what's possible.

We're taking two hundred founding businesses across our launch markets. Founding businesses shape the practice and hold their terms for life.

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Book your session

Thirty minutes on your actual order book. A person replies within one business day.

No newsletter. No sequence. One person, one reply, within a business day.

Your session is in the book.

A member of the team writes within one business day to set the time. Bring one normal week's messages. That's all the session needs.