Inclusion Engineering · Nigeria

We engineer technology for the world as it is, and the world as it could be.

Practical intelligence for African realities. Systems that keep working when the grid drops, the network slows or the data is thin.

Map of Africa drawn as a network of nodes, with Lagos and Kigali marked as places where AIT worksLAGOSKIGALI

Pilot · In start-upFood waste to gas, Lagos

Field workKigali, Rwanda

The conditions we design for

  1. 82.5%

    of firms

    Most Nigerian firms had power outages in the World Bank Enterprise Survey of 2025. We design for the grid to drop.

    Source: World Bank Enterprise Surveys, Nigeria 2025 (opens in a new tab)

  2. 4.2%

    of monthly income

    The median price of a 2 GB mobile data plan in Africa in 2024. The UN target is 2%. We design for every megabyte to count.

    Source: ITU, The State of Broadband in Africa 2025, p. 22 (opens in a new tab)

  3. 520

    living languages

    Indigenous languages spoken in Nigeria alone. We design for the person who does not read English first.

    Source: Ethnologue, Nigeria country profile (opens in a new tab)

Where the work lives

Markets, workshops, cold rooms and offices. Not a lab in another country.

Shoppers and traders crowd around fruit stalls in an open market.
Two developers look at code together on a laptop in a shared office.
A solar panel canopy on a building in a dry rural town.
A trader at her fruit stall checks her mobile phone.
A breadboard wired up with microcontroller boards and jumper cables.
What we build

Four kinds of work. One rule: design for the conditions first.

A trader arranges tomatoes and peppers at a busy Lagos street market.
Illustration: sorted food waste goes into a digester; the gas it makes runs a security light.50 TO 100 KG/DAYSORTED AT MILE 12GASSECURITY LIGHTSDIGESTER
Stage: PILOT · IN START-UP · OCT 2026

Market waste in. Light out.

A food-waste digester designed after site visits in Rwanda, fed with sorted organic waste from Mile 12 market and lighting a food and energy estate in Lagos at night.

50 to 100 kg
sorted waste a day
Every night
security lights on gas
Oct 2026
digester installed
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AIT in the field

How we work on site: from the problem, to the drawing, to the thing that runs.

How we work
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How we work

Five steps, in this order, on every engagement.

  1. Step 01

    Understand the setting

    Users, workflows, infrastructure, data, constraints, risks and what success means.

  2. Step 02

    Frame the engineering problem

    Separate symptoms from causes, then choose a response in proportion to the problem.

  3. Step 03

    Design and build

    The analysis, architecture, workflow, prototype or system the project actually needs. Nothing extra.

  4. Step 04

    Test against reality

    With the people who will run and maintain it. We write down the limits as well as the results.

  5. Step 05

    Improve or scale

    Expand only when performance, ownership and operating conditions justify it.

AIT Lab

Edge AI for places the cloud does not reach.

Sensors and small computers that decide on site, store what they see, and send it on when the network comes back. Lab work, shown at its real stage.

  • H1Energy securityStage: PROTOTYPE
  • H2Food securityStage: CONCEPT TO PROTOTYPE
  • H3CybersecurityStage: CONCEPT
Partner on a pilot
A microcontroller board and breadboard connected with coloured wires.
Edge device data flow: sensor to edge board, local storage, then uplink when a signal is availableSensorTEMP · GAS · LOADEdge boardDECIDES ON SITELocal storeKEEPS EVERY READINGUplinkWHEN SIGNAL RETURNSNo cloud needed to act
Drawing: how an AIT Lab edge device handles a weak network.

Building intelligence for an Africa that is building itself.

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