IQONA is where AI learns how African businesses actually work. We turn everyday business activity into usable intelligence, helping businesses understand themselves while giving SACCOs, investors, and institutions a clearer view of the markets they serve.
Tap a question or type your own in Swahili, Sheng, or English. This is a live demo of how Ask IQONA responds. Connect it to a real business and it answers from that business's own data.
Demo responses are prewritten to show how Ask IQONA reasons in context and switches language. Live use connects to a business's real IQONA Ledger data.
IQONA started with a notebook, a market stall, and a question: why does so much economic activity leave so little usable data behind?
"To make Africa's real economy visible, measurable, and accessible, from the street vendor to the institution, with privacy and dignity at the center."
Africa's real economy runs on people, trust, language, and relationships. Payments move through cash, mobile money, bank accounts, and credit. Stock, pricing, and growth decisions are often shaped by experience while valuable business data remains fragmented across transactions, conversations, and daily activity. IQONA turns those signals into intelligence without asking businesses to change how they already work.
"When you launch it, let me know."Shop owner, Kasarani. IQONA field validation, 2025
From a market stall to an online business, school, SACCO, or growing enterprise, IQONA works through familiar channels including WhatsApp, voice, and text, making business intelligence accessible without adding another complicated system.
A WhatsApp, voice, and text assistant designed to understand how people actually communicate across African business contexts, from English and Swahili to Sheng and local languages such as Kikuyu, Kamba, and Luo. Ask IQONA understands business context, local phrasing, and code switching, turning business data into clear answers about sales, cash flow, stock, pricing, and performance.
A continuously built business record created from activity the business already generates, including M-Pesa transactions, WhatsApp orders, and voice notes. Less manual entry and fewer disconnected records.
Short, personalized insights tied to a business's own numbers. Understand why sales changed, where margins may be shrinking, what needs attention, and what to consider next.
Shared intelligence for organizations managing or supporting multiple businesses or accounts, including SACCOs, business associations, schools, and other networks.
IQONA turns consented business activity into privacy preserving intelligence. Our products help institutions understand markets, help businesses build stronger records, and help AI systems better understand African business contexts.
A regularly published view of business activity across regions and sectors, designed to show what the economy is doing on the ground. The Barometer combines Business Finder insights with consented business signals, field data, market data, and other relevant sources to track changes in sales, cash flow, confidence, pricing, and business conditions over time. Public insights make the economy easier to understand, while deeper analysis supports institutions making decisions around the businesses and markets they serve.
A lightweight builder that lets SACCOs, associations, schools, and partners configure their own flows without engineering support. Create new questions Ask IQONA should answer, new nudges IQONA Coach should send, and new triggers for IQONA Circles alerts. What used to need a custom build becomes configurable.
IQONA Foundry builds evaluation datasets and data infrastructure for AI systems operating in African contexts. It focuses on multilingual business language, local reasoning, code switching, and how people actually communicate and make business decisions across languages including English, Swahili, Sheng, Kikuyu, Kamba, Luo, and other local languages as coverage expands. The goal is to help AI builders evaluate and improve model performance in contexts that generic benchmarks often miss.