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Business AI agents that turn conversations into operational work across channels and systems.
Book a demoHey there, Pheneas from JuaFlow here. I share ideas and notes on building companies, local capital, and a better job market for Africa.
~1.0B
Africans are outside work and depend on the working 1/3.
72M+of them are idle youth of working age.
Nearly 1 in 2young workers live in working poverty.
That means ~1.0B others depend on the working 1/3. To change this, we need more people working, which is only possible if we have more companies able to create better incomes and lasting work.
12M/yr
young Africans enter the job market
A new generation looking for a way to earn, learn, and build.
~1.0B
people across Africa are not employed
With ~545M employed, that is about 1 worker for every 1.8 people outside employment.
~1 in 2
young workers in Sub-Saharan Africa live in poverty
A job must also pay enough to move life forward.
I began with the question of how businesses around us can become more competitive. That work has grown to more than 1M interactions.
Startup Notes extends that work further by exploring how more young people and local investors can collaborate to build more impactful and sustainable businesses.
Thoughtful conversations with founders and people backing African companies are always welcome.
Across business AI, finance, engineering, and retail.
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Business AI agents that turn conversations into operational work across channels and systems.
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Conversational financial execution through ordinary and local language.
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Retail / Nairobi
A contactless supermarket for modern shoppers.
Discuss the ventureWriting on companies, capital, and what I am learning.
We become owners by owning. And ownership costs MONEY. So how much did you put in?
The problem is so deep that it has reached the people whose actual business is supposed to be funding this risk. Many investors now want a de-risked startup, which is almost an oxymoron. They want the certainty before they fund the process that creates the certainty. It is why I have increasingly come to believe that some “startup investors” are actually post-startup investors. They want the founder to finish doing the startup work, then arrive when the company finally looks like something they already understand. You cannot demand venture returns without venture risk!
If we want more people earning better incomes, we need more businesses that have useful work to do, and enough customers to pay for that work.
A small amount of work I take on alongside building.
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Conversations about African startups, local capital, company building, and useful AI.