Research & Innovation
Lean Lab
LEANGOOGS AI's research laboratory — where we build the data infrastructure, models, and tools that power African AI. We focus on problems that matter to Nigeria and the continent.
African-First Research
Every project we run is designed to solve a real African problem — not adapted from Western research that ignores our context.
Open Data
We publish our datasets openly on Hugging Face so researchers worldwide can build on our work and advance African AI.
Production-Ready
Our research does not stay in the lab. Every project has a clear path to a real product used by real Nigerians.
Current Projects
Nigerian Language Speech Dataset
ActiveBuilding the first large-scale speech dataset for Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa and Nigerian Pidgin — enabling real-time voice translation across African languages.
Document Fraud Detection
ActiveAI system for detecting forged Nigerian identity documents — NIN, CAC, land titles, and WAEC certificates — trained on real and synthetic document data.
Lean Translate
ActiveSpeech-to-speech translation system enabling real-time communication between Nigerian language speakers and Chinese, French, and English speakers.
Agricultural Crop Disease Detection
Coming SoonAI model that identifies crop diseases from phone photos — helping Nigerian smallholder farmers protect their harvests using only a smartphone camera.
Nigerian Financial Fraud Patterns
Coming SoonResearch into mobile money fraud, POS fraud, and BVN spoofing patterns specific to the Nigerian financial ecosystem.
Lab Team
Prince Onyeji
Founder & Lab Director
AI Infrastructure, Document Intelligence, African Language AI
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