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Mobile apps, AI systems, data science and developer tools — a selection of what we have built.

Ingia

Mobile apps

Multi-tenant event ticket scanning and verification for organisers — built to stay fast at the door, where a slow scan becomes a queue.

  • Expo
  • React Native
  • TypeScript
Private source

ibia

AI & assistants

A Windows assistant that puts local and cloud AI behind one floating chat window, so the model is available without leaving the app you are in.

  • JavaScript
  • Desktop
  • Local LLMs

VectorWatch

Data science

A malaria surveillance dashboard that maps county prevalence, detects LISA hotspot clusters and shows trend and 3D profiles for public-health teams.

  • R
  • Shiny
  • Spatial statistics

malwarefinder

Developer tools

Inspects Bank for International Settlements publications for malicious content. Every check is byte-level and runs offline, and the design is documented with a STRIDE threat model and a scored risk register.

  • Python
  • Security
  • CI

OngeaLabs

AI & assistants

A text-to-speech studio for Kiswahili, Deutsch and Français, with two voices that stay consistent across every phrase and phrasing that respects punctuation.

  • TypeScript
  • Speech synthesis

Roko

AI & assistants

A local-first AI gateway that cuts OpenAI token usage by roughly 60% and blocks prompt injection before it ever reaches the API.

  • Gateway
  • LLM security
  • Caching
Private source

Kuki

AI & assistants

A production-style AI workspace: chat with history, text extraction from PDF, DOCX, PPTX and images, and OCR that stays on your machine.

  • Python
  • Streamlit
  • Ollama
  • OCR

Baraka

AI & assistants

A multilingual support assistant for Kenyan retail banking and SACCOs — answers customer questions from a curated FAQ base and captures the requests it cannot answer.

  • Python
  • NLP
  • Multilingual

Nua

AI & assistants

An institutional research copilot that grounds every answer in page-level evidence, so a claim can always be traced back to the page it came from.

  • TypeScript
  • RAG
  • Document AI
Private source

Patikana

AI & assistants

An AI-assisted telecom fraud-intelligence platform, built as a working demonstration of how fraud signals surface across a carrier network.

  • TypeScript
  • Fraud analytics
Private source

apertus-voice

AI & assistants

An open speech-generation layer for Apertus, the Swiss open LLM — giving an open model a voice without closing the stack around it.

  • Python
  • Speech synthesis
Private source

Starfell Labs

Web platforms

A self-hosted dataset hub in the shape of HuggingFace or Kaggle, built so USIU students can discover, preview and download datasets without an account anywhere.

  • Python
  • Data platform

sdmx-data-mcp

Developer tools

An MCP server that discovers and retrieves official statistics from SDMX services, putting national statistical data directly in reach of an AI agent.

  • Python
  • MCP
  • SDMX

social-upload-mcp

Developer tools

A local MCP server for publishing video to your own YouTube channel and TikTok account, with the credentials never leaving your machine.

  • Python
  • MCP
  • Media APIs
Private source

kagua

Developer tools

Sticky notes for your localhost — leave annotations on the thing you are building, where you are building it.

  • TypeScript
  • Developer UX

CarLab

Data science

An interactive tool for comparing cars: weight your own priorities across mileage, horsepower, weight and acceleration, then filter and rank against them.

  • R
  • Shiny
  • Decision analysis

Network Traffic Forecasting

Data science

Time-series analysis of network traffic: hourly resampling, rolling averages to expose the trend, and an ARIMA model forecasting short-term demand behind a dashboard.

  • Python
  • ARIMA
  • Jupyter

EDA-IT

Data science

Exploratory data analysis without the boilerplate — upload a dataset, inspect its shape, check missing and duplicate values, and generate interactive charts.

  • Python
  • Pandas
  • Plotly

Student Attendance Trends

Data science

An analysis of student attendance against academic, demographic and lifestyle variables, surfacing which courses and behaviours track with turning up.

  • Python
  • Pandas
  • Dashboard

Titanic Survival Predictor

Data science

A logistic-regression model served as an interactive app, estimating survival probability from passenger class, gender and age group.

  • R
  • Shiny
  • Logistic regression

Project Dashboard

Data science

A tracking dashboard that answers one question cleanly: how far is each project from being finished?

  • Python
  • Dashboard