01Fika
Swahili — "to arrive"Ride-hailing, rebuilt for Africa. Driver-first economics, M-Pesa-native payments, and safety at the core — a mobility brand with real African soul, not a foreign copy.
M
African SMEs underserved
$B
African AI market by 2030
%
Annual market growth
Nations, one digital market
dhamiraThe Mission
Not another tool. The foundation underneath them all.
Global AI was built for Western enterprise budgets and Western context. It is priced out of reach for 99% of African businesses — and it doesn't speak their languages, understand their markets, or respect their data. Akili Mind exists to close that gap from the ground up.
Africa-native by design
Proprietary models trained on local languages, aesthetics and business logic — not a translated Western wrapper.
Built to be affordable
Infrastructure-grade AI delivered to small businesses at a fraction of agency cost — accessible, not exclusive.
Sovereign & data-first
African intelligence processed on African terms — compliant, local, and owned by the continent it serves.
Where everyone else falls short
Global AI agencies$10k+/month · Western-built
InaccessibleGeneric AI toolsNo local context or language
Tone-deafTraditional local agenciesManual · weeks to deliver
Can't scaleAkili MindAffordable + cultural + scalable
The gap
mfumoThe Model
One company. Two engines. A shared brain.
Akili Mind runs a self-reinforcing, dual-engine model. Every app we ship and every video we produce trains the same proprietary African AI core — a data flywheel global competitors can't replicate.
Engine 01
A software ecosystem for African business
Not a single app — a growing family of AI-powered platforms that run the real businesses of the continent: moving people, planning journeys, trading harvests, finding homes. Each one named for a verb of everyday African life.
- Mobility
- Travel
- Agriculture
- Real estate & living
- Freemium → Enterprise
Engine 02
An AI-run content network at continental scale
A faceless, automated media network producing culturally-native video at a scale no human studio can match — across YouTube, TikTok and Facebook — plus virtual creators and content-scaling for enterprise clients. Immediate cash flow and an endless funnel into the apps.
- 100+ channels
- Virtual creators
- B2B content scaling
- Ad & brand revenue
The shared cognitive layer
A proprietary, African-trained AI core — and autonomous agent teams — power every app and every channel.
The more the ecosystem is used, the sharper the intelligence becomes. That compounding data advantage is the moat.
hudumaOur Services
Hire the brain behind the apps.
The same AI workforce that runs our own ventures is open to any company. Akili Mind isn't only a portfolio — it's a platform you can put to work, from a single agent to a whole AI department.
AI Agents-as-a-Service
A team of AI agents that work like staff — marketing, support, research, sales, operations — onboarded to your business and running around the clock, for a fraction of the cost of a human team.
AI Consulting & Build
Strategy, build and deployment. We help you adopt AI and ship custom agent systems on your own data, tools and workflows — from first audit to a live system in production.
The Enterprise Core
License the African-trained models and multi-agent fabric beneath every Akili venture as your own infrastructure — API-first, sovereign, and engineered to run lean.
01
Tell us your need
A quick conversation about what you're trying to achieve — no jargon required.
02
We scope, build & train
We design the agents or system on your data, tools and workflows — and prove it before you scale.
03
You go live — we support
Your AI ships to production. We monitor, tune and grow it alongside you.
Every service is proven on our own ventures before it is ever sold — we run on it first.
miradiThe Ventures
The apps building Africa's digital backbone.
These aren't scattered side-projects. Each is a live instance of Engine 01 — proving the platform in a real market, on the same shared AI core. Every name is a Swahili verb of daily life. Akili means mind.
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02Twende
Swahili — "let's go"An AI travel agency. From East-African safari to multi-generational journeys, every trip is designed end-to-end by a team of AI agents — concierge, designer, booker and guardian working together.
03Vuna
Swahili — "to harvest"Agritech marketplace linking smallholder farmers directly to commercial buyers. Fair pricing, M-Pesa settlement, and the Mtaalam AI brain guiding every harvest to market.
04Twishi
Swahili — "let's live"A real-estate & lifestyle marketplace across five pillars — Buy, Rent, Stay, Move and Rides — with an AI guide built in to walk you from first search to front door.
05S
Live & producing
Akili Studios
Engine 02 — the content networkOur AI-run media network — thousands of culturally-native videos a year across YouTube, TikTok and Facebook. Flagship brands are already publishing and growing real audiences.
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Powering all
The Akili Core
The shared cognitive layerThe proprietary African-trained models and autonomous agent fabric beneath every venture. Run lean and local — engineered to keep compute costs low and margins high from day one.
Mirabelle Artists Creative arm
Our sister brand on the creative side — an international magic & performance collective led by Muoka the Illusionist. Where Akili Mind builds the infrastructure, Mirabelle builds the culture: premium live illusion, mentalism and stage artistry.
nuruThe Connective Light
Nuru — one light across the whole ecosystem.
One identity and one reward balance follow every person across every Akili venture — ride with Fika, trade on Vuna, book through Twende, and the same Nuru moves with you. 1 Nuru = KES 1. It is the loyalty and identity fabric that turns separate apps into a single network — and the seed of a continental value layer.
kwa nini sasaWhy Now
A once-in-a-decade window.
The infrastructure, the demand and the policy have converged at the same moment. Early movers will own entire regions.
01
Infrastructure is ready
Subsea cables, local data centres and 5G have finally built the low-latency backbone real-time AI needs.
02
Demand is exploding
44 million SMEs are digitizing to survive, led by the world's youngest, most mobile-native population.
03
Policy favours the local
A borderless AfCFTA market plus data-sovereignty mandates reward locally-hosted, culturally-native AI.
timuThe Team
Operators who build and ship.
A lean, technical, Africa-rooted team combining product, AI research and relentless execution.
Muoka
Founder & CEO
The architect behind Akili Mind's shift from app to infrastructure. A rare blend of marketing, product and engineering — and a deep cultural read of the African consumer.
Michael Munavu
Senior Software Engineer
Full-stack builder and architect of scale. Elixir/Phoenix specialist, creator of CallWisely, and a multi-time hackathon champion who ships production code under pressure.
Hannes Bend
AI Inventor & Science Advisor
Pioneer in bio-adaptive AI and founder of breathing.ai. Patented research validated at MIT and Stanford — bringing rigorous, human-centered method to Akili's models.
maonoVision 2030
The invisible layer powering a continent.
By 2030, Akili Mind becomes the foundational intelligence millions of African businesses run on — and the bridge that exports African creativity to the world.
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Autonomous SME ecosystem
From AI assistance to AI agency — autonomous agents running marketing, sales and operations for African businesses end-to-end.
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Sovereign AI infrastructure
African business logic, culture and economic data processed on African soil — independent of Western legacy systems.
03
Global cultural export
Once the foundation is secured, Akili becomes the channel exporting African design, creativity and models to the world.
wasilianaStart a Project
Tell us what you need. We'll build the intelligence.
A team of AI agents to run your operations, a custom system built on your data, or expert guidance to get there — we've proven it on our own ventures, and we'll do it for you. Start a project below and we'll reply within one business day.
Email uspartner@akilimind.com
Nairobi, KenyaKilimani · serving businesses across Africa
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Your data, your termsAfrica-hosted, confidential, sovereign
wekezaInvest in Akili Mind
Back the foundation Africa's
Back the foundation Africa's
economy will run on.
We are raising a $170K pre-seed round to scale the platform — and the ventures it powers — across the continent. We are in conversation with investors, operators and institutions who see the shift to sovereign, African-built AI.