African businesses deserve world-class AI at African prices. We build locally-hosted, affordable automation that competes with platforms costing ten times more — on African soil, on the data you already own.
Four moments. One throughline: AI infrastructure that works for African budgets and African data.
African enterprises were paying $500K–$1M+ a year for analytics platforms built for Western markets. Local SMEs couldn't even afford basic automation. The same AI capabilities were becoming commoditised globally — just not for Africa.
What if we built enterprise-grade AI on open-source foundations, hosted it locally for data sovereignty, and priced it for African budgets? We didn't need to reinvent AI — we needed to democratise access to it.
We began building THESA — our enterprise platform — and SME AI tools on Ollama for local LLMs, agentic workflow automation, and open-source analytics stacks. Every component picked for cost and self-hostability.
ALAT Labs was incorporated in Kenya (Reg: PVT-3B15E93Y). We launched with five THESA verticals — Banking, Health, Pathways, AI Hub, Media — and six SME AI products. The mission: make AI accessible to every African business.
Thirty-plus combined years of enterprise tech meeting modern agentic automation.
Fifteen-plus years as a fintech software engineer. Ex-Craft Silicon. Former CTO at Taz Technologies.
Built payment systems handling 10M+ daily transactions.
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Fifteen-plus years in ERP implementation, two-plus years in AI automation. MSc MIS (Surrey, UK). BSc Computer Science.
Architected 100+ AI agent workflows. SAP Certified. Google PM Certified.
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Self-hosted Ollama-4 LLM plus agentic workflows.
50+ autonomous tasks · 100+ VC research dossiers · 50+ docs generated.
The principles that hold under pressure — at every product, every customer, every workflow we build.
Built for Africa, by Africans. We understand the currencies, the connectivity, the working day, and the business contexts. We don't ship a translated foreign product.
Data sovereignty matters. Your data stays in Africa, on infrastructure you control. No silent egress. No quiet retention. No surprises.
Roughly 90% cheaper than foreign alternatives. Enterprise AI shouldn't need an enterprise budget — pricing is the access problem, so we treat it as one.
No vendor lock-in. Built on open foundations so you own the stack you depend on. If we ever disappoint you, you walk with your data and your workflows.
Twenty-minute call. We'll show you a workflow already running, then talk about yours.