Where to actually start with AI in your business
You don't need a strategy, a budget, or a technical team to begin. You need one boring task and thirty minutes. Here's the honest first step.
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Karani Geoffrey
Karani Geoffrey is the founder and director of UPEO.AI, where the work is helping businesses benefit from AI — building AI systems and advising on where AI genuinely fits and where it does not. He also founded Upeosoft Limited, a separate enterprise-software and ERP company whose systems have been implemented across every continent — years of hard-won delivery experience, in demanding real-world conditions, that directly shapes how he builds with AI today. He writes from the workshop floor: the systems here are ones he and his team build and run, not commentary from the sidelines.
Writing by Karani Geoffrey
Putting AI on your own documents without it making things up
Retrieval-augmented generation, explained for people who ship. The architecture, a minimal implementation, and the failure modes that bite in production.
4 min read
A WhatsApp assistant for a retail counter: what we built and what we learned
How a retail business moved its most repetitive customer questions onto an AI assistant inside WhatsApp — the design, the guardrails, and the honest trade-offs.
3 min read
Thinking about AI in your own business?
We build the systems we write about — for retail, clinics, workshops and property businesses across Africa. Tell us what you run, and we will tell you honestly where AI would help and where it would not.