AfrJigi AI-powered learning built for African students
AfrJigi is an education technology company. Its product, Akili, is a curriculum-aligned AI tutor that students in Côte d’Ivoire use every day on WhatsApp and the web to understand lessons, work through exercises, and prepare for the BEPC and BAC.
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Meet Akili
Akili is AfrJigi’s AI-powered educational tutor. Students ask questions in text or by voice, send a photo of their exercise, and work step by step with Akili. It covers the BEPC, the general BAC and the technical BAC, from 6e to Terminale.
Akili guides students through the reasoning instead of simply giving the answer. It relies on official curricula and annual progressions, past examination papers, and courses shared by partner teachers.
Study mode
Akili explains and lets the student choose the method.
Photo of an exercise
The student sends a photo; Akili reads it and starts with the first question.
Exam mode
The student solves alone on paper; Akili grades with the official marking scheme.
Examples showing how Akili responds. Try it yourself on WhatsApp or on the web app.
Real conversations on WhatsApp
Screenshots of Akili on WhatsApp, in French, with technical BAC students. Akili proposes an exercise from the curriculum and asks the student to take the first step.
Our products
One tutor, Akili, available where students and teachers already are.
Akili on WhatsApp
A free AI tutor from 6e to Terminale: BEPC, general BAC and technical BAC. Text, voice or a photo of the exercise, with step-by-step guidance and no app to install.
Try it on WhatsApp →Akili on the web
The same tutor on a computer or tablet, to work on longer exercises and courses.
Open the web app →Teacher space
See Akili exactly as students do, prepare lessons, exercises and graded assessments, and flag any answer that needs correcting.
Request access →My courses & offline access
Revise from your own course notes with quiz series, and reach students without mobile data through USSD/SMS (in preparation).
Built with teachers
Teachers remain at the center. Teachers of mathematics, physics, economics, French, English, Spanish, electronics and other technical subjects in general and technical high schools in Côte d’Ivoire share their curricula, progressions and courses, test Akili and report errors so the team can correct them.
Mathematics teacher
Lycée Hamed Bakayoko, Abobo PK18 (Abidjan)
Spanish teacher
Lycée Hamed Bakayoko, Abobo PK18 (Abidjan)
French teacher
Lycée Hamed Bakayoko, Abobo PK18 (Abidjan)
English teacher
Lycée Hamed Bakayoko, Abobo PK18 (Abidjan)
Mathematics and economics teacher
Lycée Sakanoko, Korhogo
Applied mechanics and industrial mechanical construction teacher
Lycée Sakanoko, Korhogo
Electronics teacher
ETIC, Korhogo
Partner teachers listed with their permission. Other teachers contribute without being named.
Partner teachers have their own teacher space in Akili: they see Akili exactly as their students do, prepare lessons, exercises and graded assessments, and flag any answer that needs correcting.
Our goal is not to replace teachers but to give every student additional support between classes, and to help teachers with the repetitive workload of large classes.
Built around local educational context
6e to Terminale: BEPC, general BAC (A, C, D) and technical BAC (B, E, F, G series).
Mathematics, physics and chemistry, life and earth sciences, French, philosophy, history and geography, English, Spanish, economics and technical subjects.
Official curricula and annual progressions, past BEPC and BAC papers, and courses shared by partner teachers.
Learning where students already communicate
Akili is available on WhatsApp because accessibility matters: students and families already use it every day, on modest phones and limited data. Akili also offers a web app for students, teachers and partners.
A structured pilot with partner schools is under way for the 2026–2027 school year.
Built with modern AI infrastructure
Akili runs on Google Cloud (Cloud Run, Firestore, Cloud Storage) and Vertex AI with Gemini models.
Supported by the Google for Startups Cloud Program · Member of NVIDIA Inception
Starting with exams. Building for the long term.
BEPC and BAC preparation are the entry point, not the final destination. AfrJigi’s long-term goal is to support African learners across every stage of education, in an ecosystem where students, teachers, educational content and AI-powered tools work together.
Company
AfrJigi LLC
Education Technology / Artificial Intelligence
United States-based company
Initial market: Côte d’Ivoire
Product: Akili
Email: contact@afrjigi.com
Website: afrjigi.com
AfrJigi on LinkedIn
Founder
Daouda Diarrassouba, Founder & CEO
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Daouda Diarrassouba is the founder of AfrJigi LLC. His background spans cybersecurity, cloud technologies, economics, and artificial intelligence. He is building AfrJigi to apply AI to practical educational challenges in Africa.
Contact AfrJigi
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