- About this Job
As an AI-focused startup, Tafuta.ai, we are set to disrupt the digital foothold across Africa. Our core goal is to leverage state-of-the-art artificial intelligence technologies yielding a suite of innovative digital tools optimized for African dialects. This includes an advanced search engine, a versatile chat system, video services, and a more accurately portrayed mapping tool. This unique focus ideally positions us to cater to a significantly underserved demographic and numerous unattended problem areas in Africa's digital ecosystem. As such, we seek to onboard an equally visionary co-founder who can share the responsibility of this ambitious journey. The co-founder's role is to strategize, realize, and capitalize on market opportunities while integrating and synchronizing operations within our growth plans. This involves guiding Tafuta.ai through a growth phase, developing our technology, expanding the team, defining our culture, securing our financial future, and building relationships with stakeholders and partners. The co-founder's focus on product development, business strategy, financial management
- Idea
Tafuta.ai is forging an AI-led digital revolution for Africa's 1.4 billion residents by righting digital inequities and friction points. Our aim is to build an ecosystem that addresses Africa's unique challenges and untapped potential - serving overlooked local languages, promoting fairer creator monetization and providing locally relevant digital tools. Our suite of services, fine-tuned for African dynamics and later adaptable for other regions, includes an AI search engine, a multilingual chat, video and mail services
- Problems
1. Africa’s 1.4B people underserved in digital tools. Algorithmic unfairness blocks creativity and business. 2. 2,000+ languages ignored by global platforms 3. African creators struggle to monetize fairly 4. Africa’s Map projected incorrectly by global mapping tools 5. MSMEs priced out of digital advertising
- Solution
Our solution is an AI-driven ecosystem, including a search engine, phone, chat, video platform and mapping tools all optimized for African languages and infrastructure.
