Ideas,
culture,
code.
Thoughts from the team building HesabNa in Cairo.
Why we built HesabNa
Every Egyptian has a Koshary moment — the one where no one knows what anyone owes and three people end up Instapaying the wrong amount. We got tired of doing the maths. So we automated it.
How AI reads an Egyptian receipt (and why it's harder than you think)
Arabic numerals, handwritten totals, composite tax lines, smudged thermal paper. Here's what we had to solve to make receipt scanning work reliably in Cairo.
InstaPay changed how Egyptians split bills. HesabNa finishes the job.
The infrastructure is there. Everyone has a wallet. The missing piece was the calculation — turning a receipt into individual amounts, fast.
The Egyptian restaurant bill explained: service charge, VAT, and who owes what
A plain-language breakdown of every line item on an Egyptian restaurant receipt and how HesabNa handles each one.
El Mo'refa: the social weight of asking for your money back
In Egyptian social culture, asking to be paid back can feel awkward. We designed HesabNa to remove the ask — the link does it for you.
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