The ChengetAi Innovation Lab does applied research on the problems African infrastructure actually faces โ and we publish our findings and open our tools as the work matures.
Why institutional repositories thrive or stall across Southern Africa โ uptime, discoverability, staffing and funding models โ and the operational patterns that keep them alive.
How sensor-connected storage, spoilage-risk models and market intelligence change the economics of smallholder harvests.
Retrieval-augmented generation that answers and cites correctly when the corpus mixes English, Shona and Ndebele โ evaluation methods included.
Measuring what AI tutors aligned to a heritage-based curriculum actually do for learner outcomes in real classrooms.
Deployment patterns that keep institutional systems fast and available where connectivity and power are constraints.
OCR and metadata pipelines for African newspapers, manuscripts and records โ making national memory searchable.
ChengetAi runs on open source โ DSpace, Koha, Moodle, OJS, Docker, Prometheus, Grafana โ and we contribute fixes and improvements upstream as we operate these systems in production.
Public releases are being prepared โ get in touch to collaborate or get early access.