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The Tech Bay · Product studio · Agadir, Morocco

A studio that ships.
In weeks, not quarters.

Real products — designed, built, and shipped to market in weeks. You bring the market and the distribution; The Tech Bay brings everything it takes to build.

The Tech Bay · Product studio · Agadir, Morocco

A studio that ships.
In weeks, not quarters.

Real products — designed, built, and shipped to market in weeks. You bring the market and the distribution; The Tech Bay brings everything it takes to build.

The Tech Bay

What's shipped

Real products. Open any of them.

The bay isn't a deck of ideas — it's a shelf of things that exist. Some are live today, some land in the next few weeks.

Khobz Index
Live · Open source

Khobz Index

What a day of food costs around the world — a more honest, global take on the Big Mac Index.

Open dataEconomicsR&DWeb
Told.
On the App Store

Told.

Go on record. Three taps to seal a prediction, keep the receipts, and prove you saw it coming.

iOSPredictionsSocial
Coming soon

Karama

A social ledger for everyday life.

iOSAndroidSocial
Coming soon

Ouech!

A trust-based social marketplace for Africa.

MarketplaceSocial
Work together

A fractional CTO who actually builds.

Most fractional CTOs advise. The Tech Bay ships. For funded startups and serious companies across France, Morocco, French- and English-speaking Africa (Lagos, Nairobi, Cape Town, Accra, Kigali), and the UAE (Dubai, Abu Dhabi).

The Tech Bay is a product studio in Agadir, Morocco. A fractional CTO who ships — architecture, build, and production — for founders and tech/innovation leaders across France, Morocco, Africa, and the UAE.

01

Fractional CTO

Ongoing technical leadership that ships. Architecture, the build, the hires, the calls — owned end to end, part-time, with founder-grade accountability.

02

AI Implementation

Wire AI into one painful workflow with a measurable before/after — not a demo. Ops teardown in 48h, or a one-week sprint that ships a system your team can keep running.

03

Innovation & tech consulting

A senior technical brain on demand: build-vs-buy, de-risking a new initiative, and shipping a credible v1 instead of a slide deck.

04

Free product teardown

Send your product or idea. Get back a sharp, no-fluff teardown — architecture, the AI opportunities, and the fastest path to shipping. No pitch. (A few each month.)

05

Free AI & innovation audit

For established companies weighing AI or innovation: send a process, product, or challenge. Get back a clear-eyed audit — where AI and innovation actually move the needle, and the fastest path to a working v1. No pitch. (A few each month.)

Smail El Boukfaoui

Founder & CTO

  • Centrale Paris Engineering School — Executive MSc, Project Management
  • UVSQ Versailles — MSc, Radio & Wireless Networks
  • Iron Hack — UX / UI, Stanford Design Thinking
  • Institute of Applied Engineering — BSc, Computer Science (Honours)
Fit check

If the gap is build,
does this match what you need?

The best fit: you already own demand — and need one partner across the stack, not another pitch.

  1. 01

    Design

    UX → UI → design systems, multi-actor information architecture

  2. 02

    Mobile

    iOS shipping, App Store distribution, in-app subscriptions, push

  3. 03

    Web

    React / Vite / TypeScript — customer product + internal tools

  4. 04

    Backend

    APIs, async workers, third-party integrations, webhook handling

  5. 05

    Data

    schema design, row-level security, pgvector, realtime, migrations

  6. 06

    AI / LLM

    orchestration, retrieval, embeddings, AI-augmented pipelines

  7. 07

    Infra

    provisioning, security posture, observability, cost stewardship

  8. 08

    Payments

    Stripe, RevenueCat, subscription + billing webhooks

  9. 09

    i18n

    multilingual UI, content systems, and multi-market expansion

30 months
running a live, multi-country B2B SaaS (under NDA) with hundreds of paying users
6–7 weeks
to ship a full-stack iOS app — design through App Store
9 / 9
product functions in-house: design, mobile, web, backend, data, AI, infra, payments, i18n
The system

The playbook is open.

The same idea-to-App-Store-in-weeks system behind every product — the prompts, the phase gates, the rules. Open-sourced. Fork it. Ship with it.

ideation

brief

strategy

design

architecture

build

launch

Example output

Told.

Phase 1 design deliverables from the playbook — user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity screens. Shipped to the App Store as Told.

The long game

World-class technology and innovation, built from Morocco and held to a global bar — showing what's possible from here, and opening the way for the next generation of builders across Africa and beyond.

— The Tech Bay
Let's talk

Bring the market. The Tech Bay brings the build.

Work with The Tech Bay

Fractional CTO, AI implementation, or tech / innovation consulting for funded startups and serious companies.

Free teardown or audit

Building a product? Get back a sharp teardown. An established company weighing AI or innovation? Get back a clear-eyed audit. No pitch, no fluff.