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TKOS founded in Johannesburg
A pair of South African network engineers got tired of stitching telco APIs together. They built one — and started selling minutes to MSPs across SADC.
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A decade of carrier-grade voice, AI and contact center engineering — packaged on one login. Born in Johannesburg, trusted in Lagos, Nairobi and beyond.
10+
Years operating
500+
Carrier interconnects
500+
Active partners
98%
Partner retention
25+
Countries served
Everything you used to buy from three vendors — collapsed onto the same network, the same dashboard and the same support engineers.
Every line of TKOS ships from the same engineering team that wrote the first version. Six chapters of compounding craft.
TKOS founded in Johannesburg
A pair of South African network engineers got tired of stitching telco APIs together. They built one — and started selling minutes to MSPs across SADC.
First tier-1 SA interconnect
Direct interconnect to the country's incumbent carriers — fewer hops, cheaper minutes and lower PDD for every customer that came after.
UCaaS platform launch
Hosted phone, SMS and team chat unified under a single login. The platform that powers our customers today shipped its first version.
AI receptionist & analytics
We started bundling speech AI on top of every call: live transcription, sentiment, agent assist and the AI receptionist that answers when humans can't.
500 carriers, 500 partners
Two milestones in one year — 500+ direct carrier interconnects and 500+ active channel partners with 98% retention. Pan-African coverage closed.
The platform you pilot today
Same login. Same network. Built to scale to your millionth minute without a replatform. That's the promise.
Make carrier-grade voice, AI and contact center infrastructure as easy to ship as a SaaS app— without giving up the SLAs you'd expect from a tier-1 telco.
“The platform you pilot today is the platform that carries your millionth minute. No migration. No replatforming. No renegotiation.”
TKOS founding principle
Carrier-grade by default
We engineer for the same SLAs we sign on tier-1 contracts — six nines, sub-200ms PDD, FAS-free routes — without asking customers to opt in.
Built for African operators
Lagos, Nairobi and Johannesburg aren't afterthoughts on our roadmap. We test in-region, price in-region and hire in-region.
Trust is non-negotiable
HIPAA attestations and STIR/SHAKEN routing details are signed and in your inbox the same day you ask. No legal escalation, no NDA gymnastics.
Same platform, every customer
What our biggest enterprise gets, the SMB on a free trial gets too. Same SLAs, same network, same support engineers.
Three regions. 25+ cities. 500+ direct carrier interconnects. Every minute lands on a tier-1 path the first time.
Africa
12 cities · 22 carriers
Europe
5 PoPs · 180+ carriers
Americas & APAC
8 cities · 290+ carriers
500+
Direct carrier interconnects
<200ms
Median PDD globally
99.9%
Network uptime SLA
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Every quote reflects a verified customer outcome, logged through the account review process — covering voice, messaging, and the AI layer stitched between them.
David Whitfield
Director of Revenue Ops
Southline Medical
“Trained the voice bot on our intake scripts and after-hours rules. Leads stopped going to voicemail — we booked twelve percent more consults on the same ad spend.”
Carla Mendez
Head of Operations
Prime Roofing
“Four locations ran on four legacy PBXs. The migration took a weekend. We kept every number and cut our phone bill by thirty-one percent.”
Jordan Bell
Managing Partner
Bell & Cross Legal
“The chatbot qualifies cases overnight and drops them into our CRM by morning. Our intake team starts the day with a queue instead of an empty inbox.”
Priya Shah
Director of CX
Harborlight Swim
“Web chat, Instagram DMs, and the main line land in one agent thread. CSAT moved from 4.1 to 4.7 in a single quarter.”
The platform you pilot today is the platform that carries your millionth minute. No migration. No replatforming. No renegotiation.