Your problem deserves its own model
We've shipped 31+ specialist models in public. Now we build them for companies: fine-tuned on your data, running on your hardware, owned by you.
Six ways to put our models to work
Custom Model Development
A compact model built end-to-end for your exact task: data pipeline, training, evaluation, and deployment. Small specialist models run on cheap hardware and often beat giant APIs on your problem, at a fraction of the ongoing cost.
Fine-Tuning & Private Weights
We adapt our own stack (MIST LLMs, DiacNet, LID, rerankers, Prism) or any open model to your domain and data. You own the resulting weights: keep them private, or open-source them with us.
African-Language Enablement
Shipping a product for Nigerian or African users? We add the language layer almost nobody else can: language identification, diacritic restoration, local-language search, and text normalisation for YorĂčbĂĄ, Igbo, Hausa, and Pidgin.
Search & RAG Systems
Retrieval built properly: embeddings, cross-encoder reranking, and evaluation, running on your infrastructure with our compact models, so quality goes up while your per-query cost goes down.
Managed Inference & APIs
Don't want to host models yourself? Hosted API endpoints for our models are on the roadmap. Get in touch now and we'll notify you at launch. Early enquiries help us decide which models to host first.
Advisory & Team Training
Model strategy for your roadmap: build-vs-buy analysis, evaluation design, and hands-on training that leaves your engineers able to fine-tune and ship models themselves.
From first call to production weights
Scope
A free call to understand your problem, data, and constraints. We tell you honestly whether a custom model is worth it. Sometimes an open one already does the job.
Prototype
A fixed-scope pilot, typically 2â4 weeks: a working model evaluated on your data with clear metrics, so you can judge the value before committing further.
Deliver & Support
Production weights, deployment code, and documentation, all handed over completely. Optional retainer for monitoring, retraining, and improvements.
Our promise: if an existing open model, ours or anyone's, already solves your problem, we'll tell you on the first call and point you to it for free. We'd rather earn your trust than a needless invoice.
Judge us by what we've already shipped
A public track record
31+ open models on Hugging Face. Every capability we sell is demonstrated in public. Download our work and judge it before you pay for anything.
Specialists cost less
Our whole philosophy is small, task-specific models. That means low inference bills, on-prem options, and no per-token metering surprises.
Expertise nobody else has
We are the lab for Nigerian-language AI: tokenizers, encoders, LID, and diacritics that general-purpose vendors simply do not offer.
Sponsor African-language AI
Our open models exist because people fund open work. Organisations can sponsor a model family, a dataset, or an entire language, and put their name on research that hundreds of millions of speakers will benefit from. Universities, NGOs, and companies entering African markets: this is the highest-leverage way in.
- Sponsor a model release or dataset (with attribution)
- Research partnerships with universities & NGOs
- Early access and priority support on our roadmap
Tell us about your problem
One email is enough to start: what you're building, what data you have, and what's not working. We reply to every serious enquiry.