Stocmed

Eight months ago, StocMed could not do the one thing it promised. A patient would search for paracetamol. A pharmacy two streets away had it. And our app would return nothing, because that pharmacy had typed "Paracetamol 500mg" and we were looking for "paracetamol 500 mg." A space. That was the whole failure. We had a demo. We did not have a product. So we tore it down and rebuilt the foundation. Today StocMed carries a catalogue of 3,289 medicines, almost every one carrying its NAFDAC registration number. A pharmacist does not type a drug name anymore. They search, they select, they add their price. Fifteen seconds. Today every unit of stock in StocMed lives in a permanent ledger. Nothing can be quietly changed or lost. Every sale, every delivery, every correction, recorded forever. Today we track every batch and every expiry date separately, the way stock actually sits on a shelf. Excel cannot do this. QuickBooks cannot do this, it tells its own users to type the expiry date into the product name. Nigerian pharmacies have been losing money to expired stock because their software was never built for medicine. Today our POS sells the oldest stock first, automatically. The cashier never chooses. The shelf clears itself in the right order. And today, this is the one I am most proud of, StocMed keeps selling when the network dies. NEPA takes light, the network drops, and the till keeps working. Every sale saved. Everything syncs when you come back. Because if a system ever tells a Nigerian pharmacist "no connection, you cannot sell," they will go back to their notebook that same afternoon, and they will be right to. Here is the part nobody else can copy. We have the patient side. So we can walk into a pharmacy and say: fourteen people within two kilometres of your shop searched for Amlodipine this week. You were out of stock. That was fourteen customers who walked to someone else. No inventory app in this country can say that sentence. Not one. Because they count what is on your shelf. We show your shelf to the person who is looking for it right now. Now the honest part. Plenty of people have cold feet. Pharmacists who have been burned by software that died on them. Owners who have heard the pitch before. People who nod politely and never call back. That is the job. Nobody owes you their business because you built something. But some said yes. 11 pharmacies are live on StocMed right now. Real shops, real shelves, real people behind the counter who decided to trust four young pharmacists with a laptop and a promise. They did not do it because our design was pretty. They did it because they have watched a patient walk out of their shop and go looking, and they know what that walk costs. To those pharmacies, thank you. You are not our customers. You are the reason this exists. Because underneath all of it, this is not about inventory software. It is about a woman in Yaba at 9pm with a prescription in her hand and no idea which of the six pharmacies near her actually has it. It is about a father driving between shops with a sick child in the back seat. It is about a country where the medicine you need is often available two streets away and you have no way to know. We are fixing that. One pharmacy at a time. Two things I am asking for. If you know a pharmacy, your family's chemist, the one on your street, the one your mother has used for twenty years, send them to us. It is free to start. We will import their entire stock list for them, in minutes, in person. They lose nothing by trying. And if you need medicine, search on StocMed before you start walking. askstocmed.com. Free, always, for every patient. We are building this in Nigeria, for Nigerians, with Nigerian pharmacists. Send us your local pharmacy. Let us go and get them. 🇳🇬

I'm happy to announce that my company STOCMED has secured a ₦50 million grant from the @NigEducation SVCG Program. We have been fueled. We will become the uber for medication access in Nigeria.