Why Meraxis exists

Line 01 — Origin

Started around a kitchen table in Machakos

Meraxis began as a set of informal sessions for a handful of county reporters who kept asking the same question: how do you actually read a budget document, line by line, without losing the thread across financial years?

What started as an afternoon of walking through disbursement records grew into a structured practice, still built entirely on published, lawfully obtained material. We have never taught, and will never teach, methods that rely on anything else.

Today the sessions run across counties, but the approach has stayed the same: slow, careful, and grounded in what the documents actually say.