Hospitality technology by Kodawa Labs
We build the digital experiences that help hotels and restaurants attract guests, own their bookings, and deliver better service.
YOUR NEXT EXPERIENCE
The product suite
Three focused products covering what happens before a guest books, while they are being served, and after the experience ends.
Discover
An AI-powered destination companion that helps guests discover where to eat, what to do, and what to book around them.
Book
A direct reservation platform for restaurants to manage availability, confirmations, waitlists, and guest relationships.
Serve
A guest-request and staff operations layer that routes service, housekeeping, and maintenance requests to the right team.
Hospitality work
A growing collection of independent concepts exploring how hospitality brands can inspire guests and drive direct action.
Kenyan hospitality
Concepts for Tamarind Group, Mawimbi, INTI Nikkei, Cultiva, Carnivore, Oliveira, and more.
Explore the collection ↗These concepts were created independently to demonstrate our approach and are not presented as commissioned client work.
What we build
From the first search to the next visit, every system should make service easier for the guest and more valuable for the business.
We create hospitality websites that communicate atmosphere, build trust, and guide guests toward a direct action.
We connect the website to booking, payment, and follow-up systems so the business owns more of the guest relationship.
We build AI-powered tools that reduce repetitive work, coordinate guest requests, and reveal where service can improve.
About Brian
I’m Brian Kodawa, a Kenyan-born developer, entrepreneur, and founder of Kodawa Labs, currently based in Canada.
My journey began in Nairobi with a fascination for how businesses grow. It took me through entrepreneurship, e-commerce, digital marketing, operations, music production, and hospitality—including working behind the bar and seeing guest experience from the inside.
I learned business by building. I launched an online sneaker business, managed operations, created marketing campaigns, and saw how difficult it is for good businesses to attract customers and compete without the right digital systems.
After moving to Canada, I studied Data Analytics for Business Decision Making while expanding into web development, artificial intelligence, and automation. Websites stopped looking like online brochures. They became tools for earning trust, generating revenue, saving time, and creating opportunity.
The question behind every project:How can technology improve the guest experience and the business behind it?
That belief is now the hospitality focus of Kodawa Labs. We design websites, develop digital products, and build AI-powered systems that help hotels and restaurants attract guests, own more of the customer relationship, and deliver service with confidence.
Start a hospitality project
Tell us where guests are dropping off, where staff are losing time, or what experience you want to create next.
Brian.Kodawa@gmail.com