benitoishimwe/UbukweHub-app

UbukweHub is a full-stack business operations platform designed for wedding services companies in Rwanda. # UbukweHub — Wedding Operations Management Platform > End-to-end operations platform for professional wedding services companies in Rwanda. > Manage inventory, events, staff, vendors, and AI-assisted planning in one place. --- ## About the Name **Ubukwe** (pronounced *oo-boo-KWEH*) is the Kinyarwanda word for **wedding** or **marriage ceremony**. Kinyarwanda is the national language of Rwanda, spoken by approximately 12 million people. The name grounds the platform in its cultural context — this is not a generic event app; it was built for the Rwandan wedding industry. --- ## What is UbukweHub? UbukweHub is a full-stack business operations platform designed for wedding services companies in Rwanda. A typical Rwandan wedding company rents out tables, chairs, audio equipment, tents, linens, and decorations while coordinating catering, photography, music, and transport through a network of vendors. Managing all of this across dozens of simultaneous events — tracking which items are rented out, which staff are on which shift, which vendor is confirmed — is an operational nightmare without dedicated tooling. UbukweHub solves this by providing a single operations hub: inventory tracking with QR scanning, event management with budget and guest tracking, staff shift scheduling, vendor relationship management, and a full transaction log. It adds an AI layer (GPT-4o) that scores wedding readiness, generates planning checklists, forecasts budgets, and answers questions in both English and Kinyarwanda. --- ## Context: Why This Problem Matters in Rwanda Rwanda's events and hospitality sector has grown significantly following the country's post-1994 reconstruction and its rise as a regional conference and tourism destination. Weddings in Rwanda are culturally significant multi-day affairs that often involve hundreds of guests and coordinated logistics across many service providers. Most wedding equipment rental companies in Rwanda still manage operations through What …