The MDB Stacks
Choose the regulated activity your business must make real.
Each Stack connects legal requirements to the product, transaction, operating controls and evidence. Start with the closest activity; MDB Law confirms the final route during Stack Fit.
MDB Law architects and guides the framework.
The client implements and operates it.
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The label comes after the activity.
Show us what the product does. The legal route follows the activity, customer, value flow and responsibility.
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Every fintech build starts on a garage bench. A customer. A problem. Show us what your product does. Then find the Stack that fits. The label comes after the activity. Activity first. Label second. Build what Africa needs next.
Choose your starting point
One architecture.
Five clear entry paths.
Each Stack page gives enough information to recognise the likely fit, understand what it connects and take one useful next step.
Not sure where to start?
Start with what the business will do.
You do not need to know the authorisation label. Answer three short questions and see the most useful first Stack to explore.
The MDB method
Never start
with a blank page.
We arrive with a controlled architecture, decision method, guidance, diagrams, workbooks, model wording and prescribed-form pathways.
- 0Fit
Confirm the likely Stack, target state and dependencies.
- 1Discover
Turn the facts and documents into one source of truth.
- 2Decide
Record the perimeter, product and governance choices.
- 3Architect
Connect transactions, controls, capability and evidence.
- 4Equip
Provide configured resources and form pathways.
- 5Review
Test the completed model for legal-regulatory consistency.
- 6Authorise
Assemble the pack and manage formal responses.
- 7Update
Assess change and issue controlled updates.