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About

Africa's indigenous
intelligence layer.

AIAI is a Pan-African company building sovereign data infrastructure for the AI era. We turn pastoral, ecological, and oral traditions into AI-ready datasets — without extracting them from the communities that hold them.

01

Sovereignty

Knowledge holders set the terms. Every dataset is governed by the community it comes from, with consent recorded and benefit-sharing wired in from day one.

02

Structure

Oral traditions, ecological indicators, and pastoral memory turned into machine-readable corpora, ontologies, and graphs that AI systems can actually read.

03

Continuity

We document so the next generation can build. The work outlives any single project — datasets, methodologies, and partnerships compound over time.

Where we work

Rooted in Kenya.
Built for the continent.

Headquartered in Ruiru, Kiambu County, with research partnerships across Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and the Horn of Africa.

Meet the teamResearchers, engineers, and community liaisons.→Open rolesWe're hiring across research and engineering.→Partner with usCommunities, researchers, and labs.→

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African knowledge?

Partner with AIAI to access structured indigenous datasets. Research access is free. Commercial licensing available.

Ruiru, Kiambu County, Kenya