Writing / Essays / Notes

Ideas about AI infrastructure, voice systems, and what real deployment actually requires.

Writing is where I try to make the strategy legible. The product work matters, but the deeper questions are usually about language, access, infrastructure, and what it takes to build systems that survive contact with the real world.

Essays

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Pieces on language infrastructure, voice, and execution

Themes

  • Datasets
  • Speech
  • Evaluation
  • Voice
  • Distribution
  • Product
  • Execution
  • Deployment
  • Operations

Featured Essay

2024 — Language infrastructure / 6 min read

Datasets are the real bottleneck in African AI

If data is shallow, culturally misaligned, or collected without enough real-world variation, the rest of the stack inherits those weaknesses.

A serious African AI strategy starts with the data layer: speech, text, evaluation, and the discipline required to keep them useful over time.

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Why This Page Exists

Product pages should be concise. Essays can carry the more difficult arguments: why voice matters, why datasets matter, and why most AI teams underestimate the operational layer.

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Editorial Note

These pieces are written from the operator side of the work. They are not trend commentary. They are attempts to say clearly what building in African AI actually looks like from inside the problem.