Notes on minutes, compliance and the boardroom.
Practical guides for company secretaries and governance teams in Nigeria and South Africa, plus what we are building.
CIPC annual returns and beneficial ownership: a company secretary’s checklist
What South African companies must file with CIPC each year, why the beneficial ownership filing now comes first, and how to stop a client from being referred for deregistration.
Read the article →From minutes to filing: CosecScribe now runs the whole compliance job
The company desk, statutory deadlines with penalty exposure, a board portal with e-signing, filing packs and shared firm books are live for Nigeria and South Africa.
CAC annual returns in Nigeria: deadlines, penalties and how to keep a book of companies active
Who must file an annual return with the Corporate Affairs Commission, what happens when it is missed, and a working routine for practices that look after many companies.
Can company secretaries trust AI with confidential boardroom conversations?
Who can access a board recording, where it is stored, whether the AI remembers it and what happens if a platform is attacked. Honest answers to the questions secretaries ask us most.
AI meeting minutes for Nigerian board meetings: from recording to board-ready
What CAMA-compliant board minutes should contain, why generic AI notetakers fall short for Nigerian boards, and how a recording becomes formal minutes you can circulate.
In-person meeting transcription without a bot, and without the privacy headaches
Uninvited meeting bots have become the category’s biggest complaint. Here is the privacy-first alternative for physical meetings.
Meeting transcription that understands Nigerian English and Pidgin
Global transcription tools lose accuracy on Nigerian accents and code-switching. Why that happens, and how CosecScribe is built for the way Nigeria actually meets.
Introducing meeting capture: record in person or online
CosecScribe captures every kind of meeting: record in person from your device, send the notetaker to online calls, and get a private summary with action items.
Week one: our pivot, our launch and what comes next
Most of our waitlist did not convert. Talking to company secretaries directly did, and it showed us that the real friction lives in teams.
We launched CosecScribe
Transcription is only part of the problem. The real work begins after the audio has been transcribed, which is why we built CosecScribe for company secretaries.