Prepared for Rapta · Mountain Mall, Thika Road
The club and events side of Rapta isn't missing from the internet by accident. It had its own website, its own client list, and its own catalogue — and that domain is now dead. Here's what I found, what your competitors are doing, and what I'd build.
Where this came from
I've bought from you, so I know what's in that shop. When I went through the website to find the stage lighting and the hire service, I couldn't — and then I found out why.
The short version: Rapta Smart Home is doing its job. 38 products, real prices, a working cart, a clean category structure. As a smart-home shop it stands up fine against anyone in Nairobi. Nothing below is a complaint about it.
The problem is what it leaves out. There is no stage lighting, no DJ gear, no trussing, no staging, no PA, and no hire service anywhere on it. Not buried — absent. And the moment you look at your own social links, you can see that absence isn't because the business doesn't exist.
Three findings
The contact page on the smart-home site links out to Facebook and Instagram. Both of them are Rapta Soundz Entertainment, not Rapta Smart Home. TikTok is a third variant again.
So a customer who finds the smart-home site and clicks through to your socials lands on an events company. And a customer who finds the events socials and goes looking for a website finds… the next finding.
The events business had a full website. It doesn't resolve any more — the domain itself is unregistered, not just offline.
Google still has the old pages indexed, which is how I found it. Your Facebook page still points customers at it. Anyone who follows that link today gets nothing.
I recovered the old site's structure from web archives. It wasn't a placeholder. It had five service lines, an events calendar, a shop, and a gallery:
Services: Sound · Stage & Lighting · Trussing & Rigging · Road Shows · Screens
Shop: DJ mixers (including Pioneer CDJ), amplifiers, equalizers, speakers, microphones, guitars, drum kits
Also: upcoming events, recent events, a weekly event page, and a photo gallery with trussing and rigging work
And a client logo wall. These are the names the archive holds:
Be careful with this one. What I can prove is that logo files with these names sat on your old site. I can't prove the depth of any single relationship, and I couldn't load the pages themselves — the archive was down for page retrieval while I was working. Confirm each one yourself before any of it goes back online.
Caveat aside — that is a stronger client list than anything I found on any competitor site in this market. And K1 Klub House is the one that matters most, because it's proof in exactly the category the rest of this pitch is about.
The competition
I went through eight companies in this space. The pattern is consistent enough to build a strategy on: almost nobody does both, and nobody at all publishes hire prices.
| Company | Sells gear | Hires gear | Venue install | Prices public | Client proof | What they're known for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rapta (today) | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Smart home only — 38 SKUs, KSh 3.5k–93k |
| Sound Creations | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Chauvet dealer, distribution & integration, Kigali branch |
| Audiocom Kenya | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | 28 lighting SKUs online, KSh 3k–60k, full cart |
| Avenue Sounds | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Instruments & moving heads, priced product pages |
| Sound Hire Nairobi | No | Yes | No | No | No | Huge service menu, 16 industries — but zero portfolio |
| SoundFusion | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Best-presented rival: logo wall, gallery, PDF profile |
| Dyson Events | No | Yes | No | No | No | Rental only, contact-for-quote throughout |
| Premier AudioVisual | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Closest to the model below — named packages, no prices |
Read down the Prices public column. Every company that sells publishes prices, because that's just how e-commerce works. Every company that hires hides them behind a quote form — all four of them, without exception.
And read down Client proof. Only SoundFusion has a logo wall. Sound Hire Nairobi claims a decade of experience and East Africa's most comprehensive inventory, and shows not one photograph of a job they've done.
The opening
Every hire company makes you phone for a price. Most small customers — a wedding, a birthday, a church, a campus event — won't phone. They'll click the next result. A public day-rate card wins that entire long tail without a single conversation, and it costs nothing but the decision to publish.
A club owner weighing four moving heads for a season against four for one night currently has to deal with two different companies. Put both prices on one product page and you capture the decision whichever way it falls — and hire becomes the cheapest possible first sale.
Distributors sell the boxes. Hire companies rig for one night and take it away. Nobody is marketing the permanent fit-out of a bar or club's sound and lighting rig — and that is precisely where your two halves meet. You already do low-voltage installation. You already have the K1 credential.
The recommendation
Don't build a second website. That's what you had, and it's what lapsed.
A second site is a second domain to renew, a second host to pay, a second thing to update, and it splits your search ranking in half. The smart-home site already has the hard parts done: a working shop, payments, categories, and Google's attention. The events business needs a home, not a headquarters.
So: keep one site, and give it two clearly marked front doors off the homepage.
Door 1 — Smart Home
Everything that's there today, untouched.
Door 2 — Rapta Soundz
The half that's currently invisible.
The Soundz name is worth keeping as the events door, because it's the name on your socials, the name your event clients know you by, and the name attached to that client list. You just stop making people choose between two companies that are actually one shop.
What it looks like
Mockups, not final design — built to show the ideas above sitting inside the site you already have. Products and rates shown are illustrative until you fill in your real stock.
Stage lighting, DJ gear, PA and staging — to buy outright or hire by the day. Same shop, Mountain Mall, since before your favourite club opened.
Real prices, published. No form to fill in before you know what it costs.
| Item | Buy | 1 day | Weekend |
|---|---|---|---|
| 230W Beam Moving Head | 45,000 | 4,500 | 7,500 |
| LED Par Can RGBW | 9,000 | 1,200 | 2,000 |
| Laser Projector RGB | 28,000 | 3,500 | 5,800 |
| 1500W Haze Machine | 18,000 | 2,500 | 4,000 |
| DMX Controller 192ch | 12,000 | 1,500 | 2,500 |
| 12" Powered Speaker | 55,000 | 5,000 | 8,500 |
| 2m Aluminium Truss | 16,500 | 1,800 | 3,000 |
| Stage Deck 1m × 2m | 32,000 | 2,000 | 3,400 |
How to get there
Ordered by return, not by effort. The first phase costs nothing and you could do it yourself this week.
Before anything gets built
You already own the gear, the shop, the staff and the client list.
The only thing missing is the page that says so.