Most AI conversations are written for Silicon Valley budgets and Silicon Valley problems. But the most valuable AI use cases we see in East African businesses are refreshingly practical: answering customer questions at 2am, extracting data from piles of scanned documents, or asking 'how did the Gulu branch perform last month?' in plain English.
None of these require building your own models. They require thoughtful integration of existing AI capabilities into the systems you already run — with attention to cost, data privacy, and local infrastructure realities.