Building AI for East Africa means designing for different constraints. Here's our approach.
Design Principles
Low-bandwidth first. Core functionality delivered through Telegram (text-based). Web pages under 50KB. Local Ollama models instead of cloud APIs.
Offline-capable. PAYE Calculator runs entirely in the browser. Agreement Generator generates PDFs locally. No server dependency for core tools.
Tech stack: Ollama + Qwen2.5-Coder, python-telegram-bot, Caddy, PostgreSQL, Docker Compose. All running on a single Oracle Cloud VM.