Kwetchi Intelligence: African data, alive.

// The throughline

From raw chaos to one living catalog.

National statistics offices, ministries, sector agencies, NGOs, universities, open data portals, datasets buried in GitHub repos, PDFs lost on government websites, each with its own schema, nomenclature, and update cycle. Kwetchi Intelligence crawls them all.

The result: a single harmonized catalog with normalized country codes, enriched metadata, and continuous change detection. You search once; we watch everything.

kwetchi · catalog index

→ national_stats_offices54 countries

→ ministriesindexed

→ NGOs & civil societyindexed

→ research & universitiesindexed

→ open data portalsindexed

→ GitHub / PDF datasetsindexed

total sources100,000+

storage.persistenceOK

// The problem

Three frictions. Always the same.

The data exists. But it's scattered, invisible, and outdated. Until these three frictions are solved together, no African analysis is reliable.

01 / Dispersion

Hundreds of thousands of sources

One national statistics office per country. Dozens of ministries. Thousands of NGOs. No unified view. You spend 80% of your time just searching.

02 / Invisibility

Impossible to discover

Keyword search, portal by portal. If you don't know a dataset exists, you'll never find it.

03 / Obsolescence

No tracking, no updates

The CSV you downloaded on Monday is already stale by Friday. No signal when a source changes. You're working on dead numbers.

// The solution

Four pillars. In this order.

Kwetchi Intelligence solves the three frictions end to end, from raw source to auditable answer.

P / 01

Defragmentation

One single catalog that brings together African data scattered across hundreds of thousands of sources: national statistics offices, ministries, sector agencies, NGOs, universities, research projects, open data portals, datasets published on GitHub, government PDFs. Harmonized schemas, normalized country nomenclatures.

// 100,000+ sources
// 1 unified catalog

P / 02

Discoverability

Semantic search in natural language across the entire catalog. You no longer need to know that a dataset exists in order to find it: describe what you're looking for, and Kwetchi Intelligence surfaces everything relevant, even from sources you'd never heard of.

// "debt + climate Sahel
// 2020-2026" → results

P / 03

Continuous tracking & updates

Continuous monitoring of every source. The moment a data point changes, is revised, or is added, Kwetchi Intelligence detects it and propagates the update into your catalog. No more manual re-downloads. No more dead numbers. Your data stays alive.

// freshness < 4 min
// 0 manual exports

P / 04

Natural language querying /receipt

Ask your question in English, French, or Wolof. Kwetchi Intelligence translates it into SQL, runs the query, and returns a complete receipt: source, timestamp, lineage. Zero hallucination, 100% auditable.

// 0 hallucinations
// 100% traceable

// The receipt

We don't just give answers.
We give proof.

Each query returns a cryptographic receipt you can verify, cite, and archive. No more trust-me numbers. No more unverifiable screenshots. Every answer carries its own evidence.

Query fingerprint. Exact sources used. Snapshot timestamp. Content-addressed hash. Anyone, anywhere, can re-verify the same answer years later, even if the original source has disappeared.

kwetchi · receipt v1

→ queryBOAD weather · 2024

→ sources3 verified

→ timestamp2026-04-11 21:08 UTC

→ content hashbafybei…9f4a3a9f

→ arweave txvK8pQmY7…WzT1

→ verifyreceipt valid

// The foundation

Anchored, not just stored.

Kwetchi runs on a hybrid architecture designed for speed and permanence. Your queries run on a fast index we operate, but every answer comes with a cryptographic receipt: source, timestamp, and content hash anchored monthly to Arweave's permanent web.

When a government portal shuts down, when an NGO website disappears, when a dataset is pulled without notice, the proof remains. You can verify what we indexed, when, and that it hasn't changed. Critical datasets are mirrored permanently; the rest is kept verifiable for 12 months, then archived on request.

No vendor lock-in: export your receipts, run your own node, or ask a partner institution to host a read-only mirror. The memory is shared, not owned.

kwetchi · permanence layer

→ indexhybrid (hot/cold)

→ anchorArweave monthly

→ receiptscryptographic

→ mirrorspartner-hosted

→ if source disappearsproof survives

// For whom

Anyone who needs an up-to-date
African ground truth.

You are	Your reality today	With Kwetchi	Savings
SMEs · UEMOA tenders	18 portals to check every morning. You miss contracts. No visibility on who won past awards.	One unified feed across all UEMOA procurement portals. Instant alerts when a tender matches your sector and country. Full awardee history so you know who you're competing against.	$149/mo vs 18 portals manually
Foundations & AI Philanthropy	Mapping who funds what in African AI takes 6 months and $80k in consulting. The report is outdated on delivery.	A live, continuously updated map of every grant, donor, and recipient in the African AI ecosystem. Query in plain language: "AI funding Senegal 2024–2026". Every figure comes with source, timestamp, and cryptographic receipt.	From $36k/yr vs $80k one-off study
NGOs & International Orgs	$150k–500k/yr in consultants for baseline studies, actor mapping, M&E. Lead time: 3 months. Proof: a Powerpoint.	Your team queries live African field data directly, in English, French or Wolof. 48-hour turnaround instead of 3 months. Every answer carries a cryptographic receipt your donors can audit. You keep the strategic analysis, we eliminate the data hunt.	From $2k/mo vs $150k–500k/yr consulting
Governments & Donors	Policy decisions based on reports that are 12–18 months old. No traceability chain for audit or parliamentary review.	Cross-reference your national statistics with neighboring countries in real time. Every indicator traced to its source, timestamped, and archived on permanent storage. Auditable proof for every figure you cite in a policy document.	From $36k/yr vs $1.5k/day consultants
AI teams & Researchers	Training and fine-tuning on stale 2019 CSVs. Hallucinations in production. No sourcing, no citation trail.	A single API to ground your models on fresh, sourced, and auditable African data. Every output includes a verifiable receipt. Zero hallucination risk on grounded queries, 100% citable in peer-reviewed publications.	$149/mo + API vs scraping 50 sites

Note: Geneva alone is home to 450 NGOs and IOs, and 80% run Africa programs. Average budget for studies, evaluations, and M&E: $200k/yr, outsourced to consultants at $1.5k/day. The same pattern repeats in Washington, London, Paris, Nairobi, and Dakar. Kwetchi replaces the collection, not the intelligence. Your teams keep the strategic analysis; we eliminate the 3-month data hunt.

// Pricing

Start for free.
Keep your data alive.

Discover

$0 / month

Full read access to the catalog
50 NL queries / month
Shared live sync

Pro

$149 / month

Unlimited NL queries
Priority sync < 1 min
Upload up to 5 private datasets
API + webhooks
Exportable auditable receipts

Institutions

Custom

Governments, donors, large NGOs
Unlimited query volume
Custom connectors
Sovereign node deployment
Dedicated SLA, support & training

Our philosophy is clear: African data should be treated as a common good. But unifying, structuring, and decentralizing that common good has a real cost: The daily work of our data engineers and architects, the compute power required to keep the catalog alive, and the decentralized hosting that guarantees its permanence. To cover that cost, we deliberately choose a sustainable, durable economic model that goes beyond the unpredictability of donations. The plans you see here are not profit: they fund, in a self-sufficient way, the work required to keep African data alive, accessible, and sovereign.

// Why Kwetchi Intelligence

The other tools force you to choose.
We refuse the trade-off.

Fresh or reliable. Fast or traceable. African or usable. With Kwetchi, you get all four.

Solution	Up to date	Unified	Proof	Price
World Bank Data / INS	Quarterly	No	Partial	Free
Bloomberg / Refinitiv	Real-time	Macro only	Black box	$24k/yr
ChatGPT / Claude / Grok	Unknown	Yes	Hallucination	$20/mo
Consultants	On delivery	Bespoke	Powerpoint	$200k / study
Kwetchi Intelligence	Continuous < 4min	100k+ sources	Arweave receipt	From $149/mo

* Continuous sync on priority sources. Full archive verifiable 12 months.

// The vision

The researcher behind the memory.

Kwetchi Intelligence is the operational continuation of nearly a decade of interdisciplinary research, public speaking and advocacy on the ethical stakes of artificial intelligence. That journey has taken its founder, Ezekiel Kwetchi Takam, from fieldwork across the African continent to research journeys in Paris, Geneva, Cambridge, Harvard, and beyond: from African universities and policy forums to international venues where the global AI conversation is shaped. The same question ran through every stop: who gets to be seen, counted, and remembered by the systems of the coming century? Kwetchi Intelligence is the answer built in code: a living, auditable, sovereign memory layer for the peoples whose data has too long been scattered, invisible, or owned by others. It is the embodiment of a personal conviction and engagement; it's a research turned into infrastructure.