What is the name of your organization?
Amini
What is the name of your solution?
Amini
Provide a one-line summary or tagline for your solution.
Building sovereign, AI-native distributed infrastructure for the Global South, where data is unstructured, compute and connectivity are scarce, and trust is earned, to transition 4 billion people to the AI economy.
In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?
Nairobi
In what country is your solution team headquartered?
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What type of organization is your solution team?
For-Profit
Film your elevator pitch.
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What specific problem are you solving?
4 billion people in the Global South risk exclusion from the AI economy due to structural divides. Data: information remains trapped in paper records and fragmented systems. Connectivity: billions remain unconnected or underserved. Compute: regions like Africa hold less than 1% of global compute capacity, limiting ability to build AI.
What is your solution?
Amini is building the sovereign, AI-native distributed infrastructure stack for the Global South. Our solution addresses three structural divides: data, connectivity, and compute through four integrated products. (1) Amini Soma, an agentic AI system that transforms paper into machine-readable intelligence (99% typed / 95% handwritten accuracy, 40+ languages, 250,000x faster than manual effort). (2) Amini Origin, an API-first multimodal data platform with governance, lineage tracking, versioning, and interoperability. (3) Amini Ulap, an AI-native connectivity layer that converts idle spectrum into sovereign 4G/5G private networks (94.2% spectrum sensing accuracy, 23ms latency). (4) Amini Pods, modular Tier-3 micro data centers (100kW–25MW) co-locating compute, storage, 5G, and sovereign cloud, designed to be renewable-ready and vendor-agnostic. Together, these systems enable nations to become visible, connected, represented, and sovereign.
Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?
Amini serves governments, public institutions, developers, and citizens across the Global South, beginning with small island developing states and African nations. For governments, we provide sovereign digital infrastructure that enables countries to manage data, connectivity, and AI systems under national control. This includes tools to digitize records, organize government data, and run AI services locally. For civil servants, our AI systems transform paper archives and spreadsheets into structured data, reducing weeks of work to minutes and enabling faster decision making across ministries. For citizens, ChatBB provides instant multilingual access to government services through channels such as WhatsApp, making information easier to access. For developers and data scientists, our capacity-building programs and open challenges have trained more than 15,000 people across 42 African countries, creating pathways into the AI economy. By enabling nations to own data, connectivity, and compute, Amini helps ensure four billion people can participate in the AI economy.
