● Lagos, Nigeria Physical AI Infrastructure

Physical AI
for Africa. Built from Lagos.

We build the infrastructure layer for Physical AI in the Global Majority, designed from the start for the power, bandwidth, and hardware realities the industry's defaults assume away. What works here makes AI work everywhere.

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Ships locally first. Expands outward.
Practical systems for real infrastructure.
Lekki-Ikoyi Bridge at dusk, Lagos
Lagos, Nigeria
Lekki · Lagos

AI for the billions of people the defaults leave out.

The model
01
The thesis

Physical AI is being designed for Western homes, smart cities, and enterprise facilities. The billions of people in Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Rwanda, and the rest of the Global Majority are absent from those assumptions.

02
Our approach

Build practical systems that work inside the infrastructure people actually have: intermittent power, unstable internet, mid-tier hardware, messaging apps in place of broadband. Ship locally first. Expand outward.

03
The horizon

Each deployment, with consent, produces real-world data from environments almost entirely missing from current training sets: the infrastructure layer for physical AI in emerging markets.

Now shipping

A look at our first product.

04 First product

Gateman-AI

AI that watches your gate, accessible through WhatsApp.

A small box on-site. Events, not footage. Answers on WhatsApp. Built for the way Lagos actually works.

A WhatsApp-native AI that watches your gate. A small box on-site plugs into the cameras you already have and turns a passive CCTV feed into an attentive assistant — instead of hours of footage nobody watches, you get events, described in plain language and answerable like a conversation.

  • →WhatsApp-native. No new app to learn — alerts and answers arrive where you already are
  • →On-premise, resilient. The box keeps capturing through power and network cuts, buffering locally and syncing when the connection returns
  • →Events, not footage. Each event is text plus one key frame — ~38 KB for a day of activity, not gigabytes of video. Cheap to store, instant to search
  • →Conversational, grounded. Ask in plain language and it answers from what it actually saw, never invented
  • →Standing watches. Tell it once — “alert me if anyone lingers more than two minutes” — and it watches, day and night
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Deployment
On-premise
Storage
~38 KB / day
Interface
WhatsApp
05 Why now
“AI is likely to close the technology divide,” offering developing countries a chance to narrow long-standing gaps through its accessibility and abundance.
— Jensen Huang · CEO, NVIDIA

We agree, with a caveat.

Every prior wave reached Africa assuming infrastructure that wasn't there. AI is the first we can design for those constraints from the start, but the divide only closes if someone builds the layer underneath.

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06 Why we started
“If they can implement this, it will help with the cultism and secret cults in the school area.”
— Bakery manager · Yaba, Lagos

A bakery beside Yabatech Polytechnic, through a stretch of repeated gun violence. We built Gateman-AI for the people the enterprise security industry never reaches.

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