Education Technology for Africa

AI built in Africa,
stays in Africa.

We're building education technology for 1.5 billion people. AI that works offline, runs on basic smartphones, and keeps student data exactly where it belongs — on their devices.

Live pilot · South Africa

It's already in real classrooms.

Thandi — our private, offline maths tutor — is in a live pilot with founding teachers across South Africa. Not a demo: real learners, real lessons, Grades 10–12. They're not testing it — they're building it with us.

45Founding teachers
28Schools
10–12CAPS grades
What we're building

Technology for a new era

01

Privacy by design

Your data never leaves your phone. No cloud servers. No surveillance. Just pure on-device processing that’s POPIA compliant from the ground up. We adapt world-class open-source models for African education, putting students and teachers in control of their information.

02

Offline-first

Download once, learn forever. Our models run entirely on your device, so students can get homework help in classrooms without WiFi, and teachers can access educational resources without burning data. Internet goes down? Learning continues.

03

Built for the devices you already have

Mdali runs on phones with just 2GB of RAM. We’re not building for flagship devices. We’re building for the real Africa, where education happens on whatever phone you can get your hands on.

04

African languages, African contexts

Education in the languages students actually speak. AI that understands African cultures and contexts. Built by Africans, for Africans.

1.5BPeople
54Countries
2GBRAM
100%Offline
How your data is handled

Private by mechanism, not by promise.

The tutor runs entirely on the phone, so it works in airplane mode — there is no cloud to send a conversation to. The only thing that leaves the device is a small, anonymous stream of app-health numbers, tied to a random ID, never a name.

What leaves the phone
  • Token countsproof the on-device model did real work
  • Battery & performanceso tutoring never drains a cheap phone
  • Device model & app screenswhich phones to support, where setup drops off
× What never does
  • The conversationnot one word a learner types
  • Identityno name, email or phone number
  • Location & carrierIP-geolocation disabled; network operator stripped
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Join us

We're creating the AI infrastructure Africa deserves. Get early access and be part of building the future of education on the continent.