Engineering at Odit

Odit reads the transaction SMS that Ethiopian banks already send and turns them into a running record of your money. There is no open banking API here to lean on, so the hard parts are the ones nobody writes about: twenty-one providers with no shared format, templates that change without notice, and an inbox where most messages are not transactions at all.

Written up the way they were recorded internally: how a piece of it works, or what broke, what the actual cause turned out to be, and the change that kept it from coming back.