Fastagger's offline AI assistant integrates with M-Pesa
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Kenyan startup Fastagger has developed Auni, an AI business intelligence assistant that runs offline and on low-power phones, and has integrated it with the enterprise app of M-Pesa, Kenya's largest mobile payment service; about 6,000 small and medium-sized businesses have signed up to use it. Some of Auni's functions—reading sales reports, analyzing data and visualizing results—can be done offline on low-cost phones without sending queries to the cloud; but more detailed analysis and asking questions about the data still require an internet connection. Fastagger was co-founded by Kariuki along with Jude Mwenda and Stephanie Njerenga, with the goal of running AI models on offline and low-power phones.
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Fastagger, a Kenyan startup founded by Mutembei Kariuki, Jude Mwenda and Stephanie Njerenga, builds AI models that run offline and on low-power cellphones; its first major product, Auni, a business-intelligence assistant launched in 2024 and integrated into M-Pesa's business app, has signed up about 6,000 businesses. Auni helps small businesses such as barbershops and restaurants analyze transaction data and get marketing recommendations, with some functions like reading sales statements and visualizing results running on-device without cloud queries. Fastagger has support from Google, Microsoft and Nvidia accelerator programs but still has just its three founders, and is working on adding agents that could automatically implement marketing actions.
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