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Every product here is built by our engineers and students, for real users. See what's already launched — and claim an open brief to build the next one.
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Real users.
Shipped by our engineers and students, used by real people across the continent — not demos, not prototypes.
Crop disease detection
Identifies crop diseases from a single phone photo for smallholder farmers.
Clinic triage assistant
Helps clinics triage patients before a doctor is even available.
Alternative credit scoring
Scores creditworthiness from M-Pesa transaction history — no bank record needed.
Cross-border freight router
Optimises truck routes and loads across East African borders.
Produce price forecaster
Predicts market prices so farmers know where to sell before they travel.
Technical skills verifier
Assesses what a tech candidate can actually build — beyond the CV.
Real problems,
published and ready to build.
This is what makes the Hub different. Each brief is a real, validated problem — with the goal, what to build, the stack, and what you walk away with. Claim one and our engineers and students start executing immediately, with mentor support all the way to a shipped product.
SMS crop prices
IntermediateSmallholder farmers travel hours to a market only to find a bad price — and most don’t own a smartphone.
- Keyword SMS service returning today’s prices by market
- A daily price-update pipeline from partner sources
- A simple admin to manage markets and crops
Artisan marketplace
AdvancedLocal artisans make beautiful products but can’t reach buyers beyond their street — and have no way to deliver.
- Marketplace web app: listings, search, checkout
- Seller onboarding with lightweight inventory
- Delivery/logistics handoff with order tracking
Local-language flashcards
StarterKids learning to code have almost no practice material in the language they actually think in.
- A flashcard and quiz web app
- Content packs in two or more local languages
- Streaks and progress to keep them coming back
Water-point tracker
IntermediateCommunities lose days when a borehole breaks, because no one knows which water points actually work today.
- A live map of water points with current status
- Crowd-sourced reporting over SMS and web
- Alerts to the local people who maintain them
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Products our engineers and students are actively building, and what's lined up next.
Autonomous credit engine
Self-learning underwriting that prices risk in real time from mobile-money, behavioural and transaction-graph signals.
African-language LLM
A multilingual foundation model fine-tuned for Swahili, Yoruba, Amharic and more — powering tutors, search and voice.
Predictive supply-chain AI
Forecasts medicine demand across thousands of clinics from disease, weather and consumption signals — ending stock-outs.
Usage-based risk engine
Real-time telematics and ML pricing for pay-as-you-go cover across millions of micro-policies.
Satellite yield AI
Computer vision on satellite and drone imagery to forecast yields and underwrite crop credit at field resolution.
Real-time fraud graph
Streaming graph-ML that catches mobile-money fraud and account takeover in milliseconds, continent-wide.
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Original research from our community, reviewed by our editors, plus the products being built here in the Hub.