We are Akili AI
Delivering Digital Transformation with Responsible AI
We are Akili AI
Delivering Digital Transformation with Responsible AI

About Akili AI
Akili AI is accelerating Digital Transformation across Africa.
Combining the policy expertise of the African Centre for Technology Studies and leading AI experts from the University of Cambridge in the UK, Akili AI helps businesses, governments and institutions navigate the path to profitable AI.
Together, we can make Artificial Intelligence work for Africa.



In 2022, a team in the world-renowned African Centre for Technology Studies came together to see how responsible AI can transform Africa. The result was Akili AI, a business founded to demystify AI and help organisations in Africa maximise the opportunities offered by AI in a safe and responsible way.
Our services include opportunity analysis, landscape mapping, policy development, AI audit, through to turnkey AI solution delivery.
Our mission is to serve Africa as the trusted authority for responsible AI through evidence-based policy and regulatory analysis, product innovation and commercialisation and leading-edge skills transfer.



Future Oriented
AI has the power to transform. Our strategy is to support corporate Africa through the AI journey, applying leading AI technologies to unlock value and operational efficiency for the benefit of consumers throughout the continent.
We bring together world-leading expertise in AI, policy and ethics to support our customers adopting the power of AI to make a sustainable digital transformation in operations, competitiveness and efficiency.

Progress through Responsible AI
An AI strategy must be built, not just with a view to where the world is today but also taking into account where the world will be in the future.
We ensure our customers have the tools, processes and capabilities to take full advantage of the benefits AI has to offer in an environment with trust, fairness, data privacy and accountability at its core.

What We Do
Digital Transformation – Delivered
AI is moving fast. Whether you are just starting your AI journey or an experienced practitioner, we can help you keep up with the latest trends and tools, ensuring your organisation is ideally positioned as you deploy transformative technology.- AI opportunity assessment
- Solution mapping
- Project initiation
- Data conditioning
- Solution execution
- Optimisation and fine-tuning
- Lifecycle management
- AI compliance audit
- Ethics frameworks and governance
- Process documentation

Opportunity assessment
AI comes in many forms. What is right for you? How can you benefit from AI? What data do you hold that can be used to mine deeper insights and improve your business processes? We help you develop an opportunity framework to focus your AI efforts on the most promising areas of your organisation – fast!

Solution Mapping
How does AI fit into your existing processes? Do you want it to inform your strategy or to optimise your day-to-day operational activities? How will AIs interact with your existing corporate data? We will map your most promising business areas to identify specific opportunities for AI that maximise ROI and fit seamlessly into your business operations.

Project execution
Want to implement AI but don’t have a team? We will help build your AI solution. Starting with the data, we will help you identify, analyse and clean the material to be used by the AI to ensure the best possible outcome. Using this data, we will build a solution, initially in a sandbox to allow you to assess the capability in a fully controlled environment and then, when all criteria are passed, into a full production environment.

Optimisation and fine-tuning
Your business does not stand still and neither does AI technology. We will help you monitor, optimise and finetune your solutions as new data, technologies and tools become available, ensuring that your solutions remain at peak performance delivering value for the organisation.

Compliance
With great power comes great responsibility. We are committed to the responsible use of AI and supporting you to remain fully compliant with all applicable laws and regulations, from data privacy to fairness and bias management, explainability, AI ethics, documentation and regulatory compliance. We take the hard work out of keeping you on the right side of the regulations in this fast moving field.

Our Approach

Step 1
Define the approach, processes, standards

Step 2
Identify the wins

Step 3


Technologies using AI have the power to unintentionally replicate harms at incredible speed and scale, making the need for a thoughtful, careful approach even more important

Latest News

Martin Mbaya Talks AI in Finance at UK-Kenya Forum
Akili AI Director, Martin Mbaya, joins industry and government panel to debate the impact of AI on the financial sector, at the UK-Kenya Investment Conference, Nairobi

Akili AI and iLab Partner on AI Research in Africa
Akili AI signs a strategic MOU with iLab at the leading Strathmore University in Nairobi, for collaboration on policy, strategy and research regarding the impact of AI in Africa
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Our Locations
Nairobi
Johannesburg
Lagos
London