bgachichio/kenya-pulse

A dipstick on the Kenyan economy, and a read on where money is being paid # Kenya Pulse **A dipstick on the Kenyan economy, and a read on where money is being paid.** Thirty published indicators from free sources. Three layers of signal. One JSON file. No database, no accounts, no paid feeds. `Python 3` · `React 19` · `Vite` · `PWA` · `MIT` **Live app:** kenyapulse.gachichio.org · **Feed:** gachichio.org --- ## What it does Most macro dashboards show numbers. This one answers three questions in order. | Layer | Question | Method | |---|---|---| | **Ladder** | Where is money actually being paid? | Every Kenyan instrument, after withholding tax, less inflation, ranked by **real** return | | **Chain** | What is coming but has not printed? | Policy rate to GDP across five links, each with its own lag | | **Breaks** | What is mispriced? | Long-held relationships (bank margin over policy, sovereign spread, real deposit rate…) flagged when they leave their range | A number alone is noise. A number against its own history is context. A number against a relationship that has held for twenty years is a signal. There is deliberately **no composite score**. The headline is the most actionable fact instead: the best real return available today, and what standing still in cash costs against it. --- ## Architecture ``` cron: 1st & 16th, plus a lighter Saturday pass │ ▼ CBK ──▶┌──────────────────────┐ NSE ──▶│ │──▶ public/data.json one static file, FRED ──▶│ kenya_pulse.py │ served by Caddy IMF ──▶│ │──▶ Telegram alert when something moves WB ──▶│ reconcile → ladder │ or a rate goes stale manual ──▶│ chain · breaks │ └──────────────────────┘ │ ▼ Kenya Pulse PWA — React + Vite, hosted on Vercel, installable on Android, iOS and desktop ``` One script writes one file. The app reads it. Nothing else runs. **Why no database.** Twenty-five years of history is under 2 MB. Postgres to hold 2 MB buys a daemon, a port, a backup policy and an upgrade path in exc …