Company
We build AI that works in the real world.
LEANGOOGS AI is an African artificial intelligence company building the data infrastructure, speech models, and production products that will power African AI, starting with Nigeria and expanding across the continent.
Mission
Build sovereign African AI, from the data up.
500 million Africans communicate in indigenous languages that global AI ignores. We are fixing that, building the labeled datasets, trained models, and production products that make AI work for Africans in the languages they actually speak. African data stays on African servers under African law.
Vision
10 African languages. Continent-wide AI infrastructure. By 2028.
Starting with Igbo and Nigerian Pidgin, expanding to Yoruba, Hausa, Swahili, Amharic and beyond. Every hospital, bank, government agency, and farmer in Africa served by AI that understands them, in their own voice.
Partners & Letters of Interest
Active Product Partner
PlotYGuard
AI-powered property fraud detection, live at plotyguard.com.
Research Partner
African AI Sovereignty Network
Continental research collaboration for African-first AI development.
Letter of Interest
Microsoft
Microsoft has formally expressed interest in our African language AI infrastructure project.
Government LOI
Government of Cameroon
Formal letter of interest for African language AI deployment.
Government LOI
Government of Kenya
Formal letter of interest for speech translation infrastructure.
Research Pipeline
Lean Lab
10,000+ labeled African language audio clips. Speech model training in progress.
Our Values
Research First
We invest in understanding before building. Every product we ship is grounded in rigorous research and honest evaluation.
Production Obsessed
A demo is not a product. We build for the conditions of the real world , reliability, scale, and zero-downtime operations.
Long-Term Thinking
We take on fewer clients to go deeper. We are not a vendor , we are a long-term technical partner.
Honest by Default
We tell clients what will work and what will not. We do not oversell, and we do not under-deliver.
Open to the World
We are a global team. Our products are built for worldwide deployment and our thinking is not constrained by geography.
Safety & Responsibility
We take AI safety seriously , not as a marketing claim but as an engineering discipline embedded in how we build.