Talproz is a Kenyan recruitment agency that places workers with employers locally and across the Gulf and the UK. Their site lives at talprozrecruiting.co.ke. The brief came in as a marketing site. What we ended up shipping was a marketing site backed by a custom admin CMS, so the team can publish jobs and run their candidate pipeline without a developer touching the code.
Talproz had been running its recruitment operation the way most small agencies in the sector do. Free listings on third-party job boards. Applications coming in over WhatsApp and email. A loose spreadsheet for candidates. None of it lived on a domain they controlled. For an employer trying to vet whether the agency was credible, there was nowhere obvious online that answered the basic questions about what they do or how to submit a vacancy.
The project was framed as a marketing site at the start. After we sat down with the founder to scope it out, it became clear the site on its own would only solve part of the problem. The agency also needed a public job board candidates could apply to directly, and an internal admin where the team could manage the pipeline without spreadsheets. We folded all of that into one build with a one-month deadline.
The build is custom. The frontend is hand-coded HTML, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript. The backend is PHP and MySQL. The admin is fully bespoke, scoped to how a small recruitment team actually works rather than retrofitted from a general-purpose CMS like WordPress, which would have left the agency on the hook for ongoing plugin maintenance they did not want.
Here is what went into phase one:
The client did not have bandwidth for the discovery sessions copy normally needs, so we owned the content layer in-house. We wrote and edited every page ourselves, working from briefs about the agency's industry verticals (healthcare and care homes, hospitality and hotels, construction and trades, domestic services, logistics and transport) and the working knowledge of placing Kenyan workers in the UK, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar. Photography is licensed stock from our Envato subscription.
"The brief was a marketing site. After kickoff, it was clear that on its own, that would only solve part of the problem. We folded a public job board and a custom admin into the same build instead of splitting them across phases, and shipped the whole thing in one month."The Baobab Collective Team
Talproz launched in late April 2026 at talprozrecruiting.co.ke. Everything in phase one went live on schedule: marketing site, public job board, candidate application flow, and the admin CMS the team now uses to run the operation day to day.
The team can publish a vacancy from the admin and have it appear on the public job board in under a minute. Business inquiries that come in through the hire form land in a single inbox. The whole platform runs on standard Apache shared hosting, which keeps monthly running costs in line with what a small agency can actually sustain.
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