We are Akili AI

Delivering Digital Transformation with Responsible AI

We are Akili AI

Delivering Digital Transformation with Responsible AI
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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.

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About Akili AI
Akili AI - Our Story

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.
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.
Akili AI Strategy - Future Oriented

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.

Akili AI - Principles

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.

Navigating the AI “Once in a Generation” Opportunity

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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.
Akili AI - Opportunity assessment

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!

Akili AI - Solution Mapping

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.

Akili AI - Project execution

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.

Akili AI - Optimisation and fine-tuning

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.

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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 Focus Areas

Application Development

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Policy & Regulation

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Corporate AI Governance

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Opinions of our customers

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Our Approach

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Define the approach, processes, standards

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Identify the wins

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Independently assess, monitor and document
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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

The Economist Intelligence Unit, 2021
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Our Locations

Nairobi

Johannesburg

Lagos

London