Makini AI

Open-source AI for Africa. Operated by Algedi Intelligence Labs, Nairobi, Kenya.

AI is already deployed across Africa, but most of it was tested, tuned, and safety-checked in English, not in the languages people actually use. Makini AI builds open evaluation tools, datasets, and language resources so AI works accurately, safely, and fairly for African communities, in their own languages.

Everything we build is free and open-source. No proprietary lock-in.

What we build

Iroh is a legal AI assistant grounded in the complete Laws of Kenya (546 Acts plus thousands of judgments). It gives accurate, source-cited answers where general models hallucinate. Try it

Kenya Law Corpus is an open corpus of the complete Laws of Kenya, structured into 63,000+ searchable chunks. It is the substrate for legal-AI research. Dataset

MAKINI Bias Detection detects social and gender bias in Swahili and African French. It is built on AfricaBias-SW-FR (35,285 sentences), the first large-scale African-language bias dataset. Model and Dataset

MAKINI Hate Speech is a hate-speech detection model for Swahili and French, documenting where models trained on European data fail on African content. Model

Our commitment

We release our work as a public good, accessible to researchers, developers, governments, and communities across Africa.

makini.tech and LinkedIn