Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja 

Jafi AI Services Limited, a Nigerian firm has launched Alice, an Afrocentric platform to enhance business operations, lifestyles, among others, with over 26,000 businesses already listed in over 50 countries in Africa.

Promoters of the platform, in a briefing at the weekend in Abuja, stated that it serves as a review platform for the different businesses listed, stressing that there are several categories, ranging from banking, flights, hospitals, restaurants and many more.

“Jafi.ai was also built with an AI assistant called Alice. Alice is not just a chatbot, she’s built specifically for African minds, context and cultures. She’s embedded with diverse African languages in the whole 54 countries. She’s a personal AI that was built to understand the minds and culture and food of Africa.

“She’s built with seven different features… linked to Africa as I said earlier. She’s built with another feature for code development for our young minds. Jaff.ai is set to be able to build a website within 72 hours, giving you the blueprints for the said website,” a representative of the organisation, Mmesoma Onyebuchi, said.

Besides, she highlighted the fitness feature, the medical feature, where visitors can imput data like blood group, allergies, genotype and get answers to whatever prompts they give relating to their medical profile. 

“Our mission and vision is to make Jafi.ai a household name in Africa. We want to make it available for young minds, entrepreneurs, researchers, and make it available to them for whatever industry they fit into. So Jafi.ai is currently Africa’s leading AI. We are making it for Africa”, she stressed.

Describing Jafi.ai’s vision as revolutionary, she stated that the AI assistant speaks multiple languages, including English, French, Kiswahili, Arabic, with ambitions of understanding all African dialects, African business realities and recognise African visual culture.

“Alice is the most personal Al ever built for Africa. Through her Long Term Memory system-what we call ‘Alice Forms’, she remembers user’s identities, business contexts, preferences, and past conversations. She greets people by name with personalised messages based on their history, making every interaction feel like continuing a conversation with someone who truly knows them.

“The core multilingual business partner who answers questions, provides insights, processes documents with OCR and Al analysis, translates content across four languages, searches Africa’s largest business directory, and remembers user preferences and context from previous chats,” she added.

An entrepreneurship mentor specialising in African market dynamics, business strategy, and growth tactics, she stressed that the platform builds invoices conversationally with auto-fill from memory, creates comprehensive business plans, and leverages cross-business intelligence connecting insights from the directory, user activity, and market trends to deliver contextual advice for navigating 54+ unique business environments.

Also speaking, Ochoyi Blessing, another rep of the organisation, said the platform can be used for creating images, highlightin the capacity of the platform to adapt to any prompts imputed by users.

In his remarks, Head of Department at the organisation, Samuel Chukwunomso, stated that for now on the average, up to  1,000 users visit the platform, explaining that for now the platform is free, but will charge a premium in the nearest future.

“We have people from Ghana. We have people from Cote d’Ivoire. We have them from South Africa. At the moment, these are 35,000 users we have across these major five countries right now. And we are integrating Morocco because we are constantly creating awareness,” he stressed.

According to him, a unique advantage of the company lies not only in its understanding of regional languages, cultures, and needs, but also in the fact that it has built an Al system designed from the ground up for hyper-personalisation.

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