Before AI can answer anything about your shop, something has to be writing it down
The most common reason an AI tool disappoints a business owner is not the AI. It is that the business was never recording the thing they wanted answered.
6 min read
Retail
How retailers and distributors use AI across stock, sales, customer messages, and the day-to-day of running a counter or a warehouse.
An analyst that answers on WhatsApp, in the language you actually think in
We could have shipped Rai as a beautiful dashboard nobody logs into. Instead it answers on WhatsApp, in English, Swahili or Sheng, because adoption is not won by features - it is won by removing the reasons not to ask.
4 min read
I gave it a photo of a delivery note. Watch.
A quick demonstration: a badly-lit, angled photo of a carbon-copy delivery note, turned into clean typed data in seconds. Stage 2 works on real paper, not just tidy files - with one thing you must always check.
2 min read
Three supplier quotes, two minutes, one table
Comparing supplier quotes by eye is slow and easy to get wrong - different formats, hidden extras, different units. Upload them and get one clear table in two minutes. A simple, repeatable stage 2 win.
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Why AI gives you confidently wrong numbers - and what we did about it
A wrong number delivered confidently is worse than no number at all. The reason AI tools get business figures wrong is not that the model is stupid - it is that your database does not mean what its table names say. This is the fix.
5 min read
Meet Rai: ask your shop anything, get an answer from your own numbers
Most shop owners already have the data they need to run a tighter business. It is just locked inside a system that only answers the questions someone built a report for. Rai is an AI analyst that answers the questions you actually ask - in plain language, from your own numbers.
5 min read
200 product descriptions in one afternoon
A walk through writing a whole product catalogue with an AI assistant - the messy input, the prompt that worked, the output, and the ones we had to fix. This is stage 1: AI as a fast, capable assistant you brief and check.
5 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.