Orcaa · founded in Cairo, 2025
The whole business in one place, built by one person who kept meeting the same owners
The gap
For years he built enterprise management systems for other companies: platforms that run residential communities, and clinic systems that handle patients, appointments and records. The software worked, but it was built for organisations with budgets and IT teams.
The independent businesses he met had the same problems and none of the budget. A salon owner, a physician running a two room clinic, a lawyer tracking cases in a spreadsheet: all of them were quoted enterprise prices for enterprise complexity, and all of them went back to paper.
Orcaa is the answer to that gap. One platform that runs the whole business, priced for a business that has an owner rather than a procurement department.
What it runs
13 business types, 22 modules an owner switches on
Every capability is a module. A café switches on tables and QR ordering, a dental clinic switches on charting and clinical records, a supermarket switches on point of sale and production. The core stays the same.
Business types
- Beauty salons
- Spas and wellness
- Medical clinics
- Dental clinics
- Gyms and fitness
- Consulting
- Law firms
- Real estate
- Clothing stores
- Supermarkets and hypermarkets
- Restaurants
- Cafés and coffee shops
- Other businesses
Modules
- Bookings
- Packages
- Memberships
- Classes and workshops
- Rooms and resources
- Waiting room
- Online and virtual
- Point of sale
- Customer shop
- Dining and kitchen
- Floor and tables
- Recipes and food cost
- Production and manufacturing
- QR table ordering
- Clinical records
- Dental
- Legal cases
- Real estate
- Consulting contracts
- Loyalty program
- Intake forms
- Articles
- 13
- business types, each with its own tools
- 22
- add-on modules an owner switches on when needed
- 5
- platforms: web, Android, Windows, macOS and Linux
- 74
- countries in the business country picker
- 2
- interface languages, Arabic and English
Figures read from Orcaa's own configuration, last checked September 2026
How it is built
End to end, by one engineer, in the open
The stack is chosen for how it behaves under a busy counter at noon, not for how it reads on a slide. Everything below is what actually runs.
Laravel on Octane and RoadRunner
A multi-tenant Laravel backend with PostgreSQL and Redis, WebSockets for live updates, role based access owners define themselves, and per-tenant encryption of sensitive data.
React on every screen owners use
Web apps for owners, staff and customers, desktop clients for Windows, macOS and Linux, and an Android app. The point of sale keeps selling when the internet does not.
Deployed without downtime, watched in public
Docker and Nginx on Ubuntu with GitHub Actions rollouts, daily off-site backups, and a public status page that reports every component in real time.
A co-pilot inside the product
Gigx is Orcaa's assistant, a co-pilot that gets things done with you: it answers questions about the business from its real data and carries out tasks on the pages where the work happens.
The product
Screens from a working day
Milestones
From a first paying business to a second generation
- 2025
Founded in Cairo
Orcaa starts as the platform he wished his earlier clients had had: everything in one place, fairly priced, with support that understands how independent businesses work.
- 2025
The first paying businesses
Clinics, gyms and salons across Egypt come aboard in the first year, each one adding a request that becomes part of the product.
- 2026
Generation 2
Orcaa ships generations, not versions. The second generation added retail and dining verticals, offline mode across the whole system, and Gigx, alongside the desktop and mobile clients.
Frequently asked questions
What is Orcaa?
Orcaa is a business management platform from Cairo that runs bookings, point of sale, inventory, customer records, invoicing, team management and reporting in one workspace, in Arabic and English, for 13 business types from salons and clinics to supermarkets and cafés.
Who founded Orcaa and when?
Tommy Ahmed founded Orcaa in Cairo in 2025. It is independent and self funded, with no outside investors, and he builds the whole product himself.
What is Orcaa built with?
A Laravel backend running on Octane and RoadRunner with PostgreSQL and Redis, React apps for the web, desktop clients for Windows, macOS and Linux, and an Android app. The platform works offline and publishes a live status page for every component.
See the product itself
Features, pricing, documentation and a free trial live on the company site. The founder page there links back here.