Harvesting Rain. Securing Harvests.

Turning smallholder farming
into a bankable
business.

MajiDepot is a 20-year warranted underground water storage and irrigation system, monitored by IoT and installed by certified local masons, that gives Kenyan smallholder farmers year-round water security and the documented income data to access agricultural finance.

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4.5M
smallholder households in Kenya with no reliable supplemental irrigation
KSh 150B+
total addressable market across Kenya's main agricultural zones
20 yrs
structural warranty on the ferro-cement underground cistern making it a collateralisable asset
25 to 40
year documented design life of ferro-cement cisterns across East Africa since the 1970s

The Problem

Three converging water challenges.

Smallholder farmers across Kenya face compounding water pressures that no single existing solution fully addresses.

Challenge 01
Rainfall Fragmentation
Kenya's two traditional rainy seasons are compressing into shorter, more intense events with longer dry spells between them. Crops now routinely experience moisture stress at critical growth stages not because of insufficient rainfall, but because water arrives outside the crop's biological window. This is not a soil problem or a seed problem. It is a water storage problem.
AcceleratingIPCC AR6 confirms East African precipitation variability is worsening year on year
Challenge 02
Groundwater Depletion
As irrigation adoption grows across Kenya, so does pressure on underground water sources. Aquifer levels across the Central Highlands, Rift Valley, and peri-urban zones are dropping faster than natural recharge allows, raising pumping depths, increasing energy costs, and eroding the long-term viability of groundwater as a reliable irrigation source.
Structural riskFalling water tables affect farmers across all income levels as aquifer depletion accelerates
Challenge 03
Storage Inefficiency
Surface water ponds lose enormous volumes to evaporation and harbour mosquitoes, algae, and waterborne contaminants. Standard surface tanks bridge short dry spells but cannot provide the year-round reliable supply needed to shift from subsistence to commercial farming. No existing solution combines underground storage, solar pumping, precision irrigation, and IoT monitoring at smallholder price points.
2,400mmannual evaporation loss from open pond and surface storage before a drop reaches any crop

The Core Insight

A timing problem
is a storage problem.

Rainfall in East Africa is not declining. It is becoming erratic. Capture rain when it falls, store it where it cannot evaporate, and deliver it when crops need it, and agricultural viability is restored regardless of what climate change does to rainfall timing. The technology has existed for decades. What is new is assembling it into an affordable, warranted, IoT-connected system at smallholder price points and structuring that system as a bankable asset that Kenyan agricultural lenders can finance.

The Solution

Five modules. One integrated platform.

MajiDepot assembles proven technology into a complete, groundwater-independent, evaporation-proof, locally repairable water system with every installation connected to an intelligent network from day one and backed by a 20-year structural warranty.

MajiDepot five module system: catchment, underground cistern, solar pump, drip irrigation, IoT monitoring
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Module 01
Catch
First-flush diverter and 3-stage filter
Captures rooftop rainwater and removes debris and biological contaminants before storage
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Module 02
Store
Sealed ferro-cement underground cistern
tank with zero evaporation loss. 20-year structural warranty. Locally fabricated by certified masons.
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Module 03
Lift
Solar pump and elevated tank
Fills distribution tank daily via solar power. Gravity-fed delivery with zero ongoing energy cost.
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Module 04
Deliver
Drip irrigation system
90% water efficiency versus 40% for furrow irrigation. Direct root-zone delivery to every plant.
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Module 05
Measure
IoT sensor array and GSM gateway
Real-time monitoring of cistern level, soil moisture, rainfall, temperature, and pump runtime

The Platform

Intelligence that compounds
with every new node.

Every MajiDepot installation is an IoT node from day one. As nodes grow, the platform transforms individual water systems into a distributed intelligence network generating the continuous performance data that underpins both agronomic recommendations and agricultural lending.

Layer 1
Field
Layer 2
Data
Layer 3
Intelligence
Layer 4
Application

Impact and Economics

Built to be measurably better.

Every metric in MajiDepot's model is designed to be documentable and verifiable. From farmer payback periods to water efficiency gains, the numbers are generated by real IoT data, not projections.

2 to 3
growing seasons to full system payback for a smallholder farmer on 0.5 to 2.0 acres
500,000
farms in Kenya's main agricultural zones that would benefit immediately from MajiDepot
20+ yrs
ferro-cement cistern structural warranty with zero evaporation loss underground
90%
water use efficiency through drip irrigation versus 40% for furrow methods

A new asset class for Kenyan agricultural lending.

A warranted 20-year underground cistern with documented IoT performance data is collateral. It changes the conversation with agricultural lenders from an unsecured loan request to a structured, asset-backed financing facility. MajiDepot's Phase 2 and Phase 3 data collection is designed from the outset to generate the income documentation, repayment evidence, and asset valuation methodology that a dedicated agricultural lending facility requires. The 500-site Phase 3 target represents the threshold at which a dedicated lending product becomes viable for a major Kenyan bank.

Strategic Programme

Three phases. Evidence gated.

MajiDepot's path to commercial scale is structured as a hypothesis-testing programme. Each phase generates the specific evidence needed to validate the next. No phase begins before the previous one has produced its documented evidence base.

Phase 1 · In Progress
2026
Kericho County

Proof of Concept

IoT-enabled drip irrigation on a Kenyan highland farm, documenting measurable farm income uplift and proving that a surface tank provides insufficient year-round water security, establishing the evidence base for the underground cistern in Phase 2.

Phase 2 · Upcoming
2027
5 to 20 sites across Kenya

Technology Validation

Ferro-cement underground cisterns built by certified mason teams across diverse agro-ecological zones, farm sizes, and crop types, generating the multi-site, multi-season dataset that validates the commercial model and the asset-backed lending case.

Express Interest
Phase 3 · 2028
2028
500 pre-sold sites nationwide

Commercial Launch

Every installation confirmed and finance-approved before construction begins. Farmer repayment through bank loans secured against the cistern as a collateralisable asset, aligned to harvest cycles. Backed by institutional grant funding and a certified mason network operating independently nationwide.

The Team

Founded in Kenya. Built for Africa.

MajiDepot is a product of Futuris Infrastructure, a lean Kenyan company building IoT-powered renewable energy solutions across water, agriculture, and cold chain infrastructure.

Kipyegon Bett, Founder of Futuris Infrastructure
Kipyegon Bett
Founder · Futuris Infrastructure
A business development and engineering leader with over 13 years of experience spanning agriculture, renewable energy, manufacturing and technology. Bett holds a BSc in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Nairobi and has led organisations across East Africa in sales strategy, operations, grant fundraising and investor engagement.

Before founding Futuris Infrastructure, Bett served in various leadership and commercial roles where he secured over $250,000 grant from funders such as Efficiency for Access and led company acceptance into programmes such as European Get.Invest Programme. He has represented African agri-tech companies at international platforms including GOGLA, Sankalp, and VC4A; and has delivered projects ranging from a WFP Sprint Challenge in Kakuma to solar microgrid installations across Kenya.

At Futuris, Bett is building MajiDepot as the first product on a proprietary AI-powered IoT platform, alongside Chilly, a solar cold chain solution for agricultural produce launching in 2028.
Business Development Grant Fundraising Renewable Energy IoT and Technology Operations Investor Engagement

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Let's build the future of water together.

Whether you are a grant funder, impact investor, agricultural lender, development organisation, farmer or aggregator, we would love to hear from you. Reach out to learn more about MajiDepot or to explore how we can work together.

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Email [email protected]
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Website www.majidepot.com
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Location Rift Valley, Kenya