African design and innovation firm with offices in Dakar, Accra, Lagos, Abuja, Brazzaville, Kigali, and Nairobi. ~50 staff including ML engineers and researchers. Their AI arm operates through Kitala AI (https://kitala.ai/), offering culturally grounded AI data services: LLM bias evaluation, RLHF testing, voice datasets for ASR, and domain-specific Q&A datasets. The YUX Cultural AI Lab produces open research including the AfriStereo bias benchmark. Recent work includes Wolof ASR fine-tuning for maternal and reproductive health in collaboration with Stanford University.
Already a UNICEF client (via YUX Design). Wolof maternal health ASR directly applicable to UNICEF health programmes in Senegal. LLM bias evaluation relevant for responsible AI deployment. Multi-country WCA presence (Dakar, Accra, Lagos).