# Loft Technologies

> Loft Technologies is a design and software company in Kampala, Uganda. It builds custom web systems, mobile and web apps, internal systems, customer platforms, dashboards, APIs and integrations for organisations, and runs its own products for events and venues: TKT for ticketing, invitations and conference registration, Access Control+ for checking tickets and passes at any entrance, Parking for car parks, Loft Queue for big onsales and ITSM for venue operations.

Contact: hello@loft.ug. Office: Plot 67A, Spring Road, Bugolobi, Kampala, Uganda. Founded 2018.

People come to Loft when they need a web system or an app built, or when they run events and venues and need ticketing, invitations, conference registration, access control or parking.

## Services

- Custom web systems: Web applications, internal systems, customer platforms and dashboards.
- Mobile and web apps: Apps for phones and the web, designed and built end to end.
- APIs and integrations: Connecting payments, ticketing, gates and existing systems.
- Event ticketing: TKT: sell tickets for any event on every channel, with local payments.
- Event invitations and RSVPs: Named invitations, RSVPs and guest lists on TKT.
- Conference registration: Registration, accreditation and on-site badges on TKT.
- Access control: Access Control+: tickets and passes checked at any door, desk or turnstile.
- Parking management: Plate reading, barriers and payments for car parks and events.

## Products

- [TKT](https://loftuganda.tech/tkt.html): Sell tickets for any event, send invitations and run conference registration on one platform: every sales channel, mobile money and cards, tickets on any phone.
- [Access Control+](https://loftuganda.tech/access-control.html): Check tickets, passes and accreditation at any door, desk or turnstile, from a guest list to a stadium. Works with any ticketing platform and keeps admitting offline.
- [Parking](https://loftuganda.tech/parking.html): Plate cameras, QR and RFID lanes, flexible tariffs and mobile money or card payments for airport car parks, venues, business parks and event grounds.
- [Loft Queue](https://loftuganda.tech/loft-queue.html): A waiting room for the biggest onsales: every buyer gets a real place and an honest wait, and checkout stays up when everyone arrives at once.
- [ITSM](https://loftuganda.tech/itsm.html): Incidents, work orders, assets and checklists in one operations picture, with a readiness score for every event, traced to its evidence.
- [All products](https://loftuganda.tech/products.html): every product side by side.

## Company

- [Home](https://loftuganda.tech/): Loft builds custom web systems and apps, and runs TKT for ticketing, invitations and conference registration, and Access Control+ for events and venues.
- [About Loft](https://loftuganda.tech/about.html): Loft Technologies is a design and software company in Kampala, Uganda: designers and engineers building web systems, apps and products since 2018.
- [Research](https://loftuganda.tech/research.html): Loft’s research on crowd arrival, ticket demand and the systems that manage them, published with the working shown: papers, white papers and tools.
- [Legal](https://loftuganda.tech/legal.html): The Loft Website Legal Pack: the Terms of Use, the Privacy Policy and the Data Management Policy, searchable, each one downloadable as a PDF.

## Research

- [Structure-aware adaptive sampling for venue seat inventory verification](https://loftuganda.tech/research-savs.html) (White paper, 2026-10): How to show a digital seat inventory matches the venue without checking every seat: census the structure, sample the seats.
- [Forecasting sell-outs in advance ticket sales with a Bayesian mixture model](https://research.loft.ug/papers/sellout-model/) (Paper, 2026-09): When will a ticket type sell out? A model of how advance demand arrives, more accurate out of sample than the pickup method.
- [Modelling crowd arrival at stadium turnstiles](https://research.loft.ug/papers/arrival-model/) (Paper, 2026-09): When spectators arrive against kick-off, and the number of turnstiles at which no queue forms.
- [What we have learned about stadium access control](https://loftuganda.tech/research-access-control.html) (White paper, 2026-06): What running gates at high-pressure matches taught us, and why small losses in scan quality become large losses in capacity.

## Optional

- [Everything on this site in one file](https://loftuganda.tech/llms-full.txt)
- [TKT, the ticketing platform](https://tkt.ug/): sign up and sell tickets.
- [Access Control+ product site](https://access.loft.ug/)
- [Research site](https://research.loft.ug/): papers not yet moved to this site.