Last Mile Technologies
Our mission is to help impact-driven businesses turn technology & data into actions and smarter decisions, driving efficiency, profitability, and growth.
Our mission is to help impact-driven businesses turn technology & data into actions and smarter decisions, driving efficiency, profitability, and growth.
AI is fundamentally transforming how people interact with systems and data, making complex information more accessible and actionable.
Companies today collect vast amounts of rich data, yet much of it remains underutilized, failing to translate into meaningful insights or tangible impact. This disconnect limits the potential value that businesses can extract from their own information.
We believe AI can bridge this gap, driving smarter decision-making for operational field teams.
Our solutions are designed to turn raw data into actionable intelligence, ensuring that businesses not only collect information but also leverage it to create real value.
Businesses are built on models and assumptions, often captured in high-level business plans and Excel sheets that provide a broad strategic view.
However, these traditional models can lack the granularity needed to truly understand a company’s operational health. We propose a more detailed approach—translating these models into a decomposition of operational business metrics and projections.
This allows for a much finer and dynamic analysis of business performance, moving beyond static spreadsheets to a more data-driven understanding.
By leveraging customer-level unit economics, companies can gain precise insights into profitability, efficiency, and growth levers, ultimately informing smarter strategic decisions across the organization.
In low-margin businesses and niche markets, technology must be pragmatic, delivering tangible value rather than complexity for its own sake.
Contrary to common belief, advanced solutions don’t have to be expensive—recent advancements in cloud computing and AI have significantly reduced costs, making powerful and tailored tools more accessible than ever.
The key is choosing the simplest, most effective strategies that ensure both robustness and scalability without unnecessary overhead.
We specialize in helping businesses navigate these choices, designing cost-efficient architectures that maximize impact while staying lean, practical, and aligned with real operational needs.
Impact-driven businesses in Africa operate in some of the toughest environments, serving customers often ignored by mainstream businesses, navigating the pressure to scale affordable and impactful solutions. Addressing these needs requires bold innovation and hands-on expertise with limited ressources.
To overcome these challenges, David Hugues started Last Mile Technologies after serving as CTO for Baobab+.
He is leveraging over a decade of hands-on experience integrating technology, data and operations in frontier markets to drive transformative impact.