Jabali StudiosVenture studio · Nairobi

We build the networks Africa's everyday economy runs on.

The informal sector moves most of the continent's money on trust networks that already work. We turn them, amplified by AI, into national infrastructure the communities within them own.

A market vendor in an orange headscarf smiles behind her stall, phone in hand, a handwritten ledger of numbers chalked on the wall beside her.
The opportunity

The informal economy isn't the margin. It's the market.

Traders, farmers, chiefs, health workers and creators move most of the continent's money on trust networks that already work. Jabali Studios is built, deliberately, to serve that market and keep the value it creates at home.

A vendor sells tomatoes at a busy open-air market beneath a printed 'POS & DATA' umbrella.
The everyday economy at work — trusted, cash-based, already mobile.
83%
of Africa's workforce earns in the informal economy
1.5M+
trusted frontline agents reachable on one network
$0
infrastructure intentionally built for them, until now
What we do

One studio.
One pattern.
Many networks.

We call the pattern an agent network: the people a community already trusts, amplified by AI, turned into infrastructure at national scale. We build it once, then point it at the next sector.

A

Networks that already work

We start with the trusted people communities already rely on, never replacing them, only equipping them.

B

AI that scales the trust

AI agents work alongside human ones, sensing, verifying and paying, so a local network can operate at national scale.

C

Infrastructure Africa owns

The data stays with the people who create it. Each network becomes an ecosystem with its own business, cap table, and mandate.

The ecosystems

We build them,
then set them free.

Each ecosystem points the same shared foundation at a new trusted network and sector. Some are live and standalone; others are in the studio now.

Musicians and creators gathered together outdoors.
Flagship ecosystem

Studio Mtaani

Africa's first national rights registry, on the rails creators already use, turning trapped royalties into a creditworthy asset.

Enter Studio Mtaani
5M
creators across Africa
$1.7B
unpaid royalties a year
94%
WhatsApp on-ramp, zero app
$0
royalty-credit rails today

Ngao

Climate & public administration

The continent's most developed agent network, and the reference build the studio grew from.

Community Health

Maternal, child & nutrition

WhatsApp support for 100,000+ community health volunteers, riding the proven Ngao rails.

Watu

Information integrity

Humanitarian volunteers keeping people in the loop as AI responds to information disorder.

MSME Studio

Contract-to-cash credit

Turning millions of Africa's MSMEs from invisible-to-credit into bankable.

The economics

Value flows through
the network — and stays home.

When the everyday economy becomes visible and verifiable, the national balance sheet changes. Invisible earners become bankable, and value that used to leak abroad stays and compounds at home.

A wider formal economy, credit for the majority, and data infrastructure the country owns.

Build with us

The studio runs on challenges.

We don't build alone. Governments, funders, innovators and communities bring us real problems. Together we structure them into well-designed challenges, then build and scale the answers on the shared network.

Set challenges

Governments & institutions

Bring a mandate and a real problem. Anchor it in a trusted network and a path to national standards.

Fund challenges

Funders & DFIs

Back a challenge and its first-loss structure, so capital reaches the everyday economy with evidence behind it.

Build answers

Innovators & builders

Take on an open challenge and build on shared rails, with distribution and data ready from day one.

Co-design

Communities & agents

Shape the challenge from the ground, own the data it generates, and share in the value it creates.

The studio team

Builders where the decisions are made.

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Munyala Mwalo
Chief Executive Officer

Sets the studio's direction and guards the mission: infrastructure the everyday economy owns.

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Mitch Ngugi
Head of Strategy

Chooses which trusted networks the studio anchors next, and the path to national standards.

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Kanana Pauline
Head of Product

Turns each challenge into products that fit the tools communities already use.

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Noella Spitz
Head of Operations

Runs delivery across the network so builds reach the field, not just the pitch deck.

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Wayne Asava
AI Engineer

Builds the AI agents that let a local network operate at national scale.

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Eliud Munyala
Data Science Lead

Turns field signal into the ground-truth data every ecosystem runs on.

Building the infrastructure for Africa's everyday economy.

Raising and partnering to ship the next ecosystems. Investors, DFIs, institutions and builders welcome.