Africa's most complete

telco-powered

insights

engine

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MTN-i new AI-powered, privacy first, data and knowledge intelligence business, built to help organisations see possibility earlier and act with greater confidence.

Product pillars

Three pillars. One advantage.

Built to work together, they're the engine behind everything MTN-i does.

Reach

We don't estimate where demand is. We show you.

Geospatial and behaviourally-enhanced customer segments that refine digital advertising & audience engagement via web, RCS, SMS, etc.

  • Find the right target customers for new acquisition in digital lending, PFA, & consumer banking services
  • Sharpen segmentation & targeting for cross-sell and up-sell activity
  • Facilitate digital onboarding, dormancy reactivation, etc.

Impact: Improved marketing ROI and customer satisfaction

Locate

Africa moves. We show you the pattern.

Footfall and mobility analytics to enhance Point-of-Interest insights, infrastructure optimisation, etc.

  • Combine time-series mobility patterns with location intelligence to place facilities where target customers will be
  • Enable smart field activity for agent placement and Zest merchant acquisition

Impact: Highly optimised branch, agent, and ATM network planning

Know

Bring the question. We do the rest.

Data-driven Organisation and AI operationalisation consulting based on our own lived experience.

  • Understand your data maturity
  • Deploy tested & trusted toolkits to accelerate transformation
  • Build the Change Management engine to make AI transformation real
  • Manage costs

Impact: Monetize your data and realize group-wide A.I. impact faster

Our API layer. Delivered by Chenosis

Africa's API platform

Your accelerator platform

Network APIs for identity, verification and fraud prevention

Identity matching, number authentication, SIM change signals, number activity and multilingual customer communication, all consumed as APIs. Chenosis runs its own platform, documentation and commercial terms.

Available on the platform

KYC Verify

Does the customer information match trusted subscriber information?

Number Verify

Can this customer be authenticated through the mobile number they are using?

SIM Swap Detection

Has the SIM behind this number recently changed?

Number Activity

Is this number showing recent activity?

Switchat

Did the customer understand what we were communicating?

How the work lands

Shaped around how you work.

Every business is different, so we fit each product to your requirements, industry and use case. Depending on what you need, that might mean geospatial mapping, customised dashboards, presentation-ready reports, or a direct API integration.

Maps

Geospatial mapping.

Dashboards

Customised dashboards.

Presentations

Presentation-ready reports.

Consulting

DDO & AI consulting

APIs

Direct API integration

How we work

From raw signals to insights that move your business forward.

Every engagement starts the same way, with a volume of disconnected signals. It ends with intelligence flowing into every part of the organisation, growing stronger as it goes.

01 · Discovery

01 · Discovery

Start in the noise

Millions of raw signals arrive daily: movement, transactions, network events. We sit with your teams to find the questions that turn that noise into something worth acting on.

02 · Architecture

Give the data a shape

We design the model around your decisions first. Signals get structure: what feeds what, what answers what, and what's just noise to discard.

03 · Build

Converge to one view

Telco, geospatial and third-party sources fuse into a single intelligence layer. Our DDO & AI consultants build it embedded with your teams.

04 · Ship

Flow into the business

Insight starts routing into the places decisions actually get made: marketing, risk, operations, planning, built as pathways your teams use every day.

05 · Support

Every pathway keeps growing

We stay embedded. Each stream compounds over time: more coverage, sharper models, new use cases, so every part of the business keeps gaining.

Operating principles

How we show up.

Ownership to the point of impact

We stay involved through the decisions the work informs.

Insights you can act on

We answer the questions that move markets, cities and lives, in language anyone can act on.

Embedded with your team

Our consultants build with your teams, inside your context, so capability stays behind when the project ships.

Built for African realities, responsibly

Models, coverage and ground truth, designed from the ground up for the markets we operate in, and governed the way they should be.

Open for business

Bring the question. We do the rest.

Have a demand, fraud, mobility or growth question that only scale can answer? Tell us what you’re trying to decide, and we’ll show you what the data already knows.

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PRIVACY-FIRST BY DESIGN

Aggregated. Anonymised. Auditable.

Every insight we produce is derived from aggregated, anonymised data. No individual is ever identified, exposed, or accessible. That holds true in every product and every market.

Fully Anonymised

All data is aggregated and anonymised. No individual user information is ever exposed or accessible.

Regulatory Compliant

Built to comply with GDPR, POPIA and local data protection regulation in every market we operate in.

Transparent Methods

Clear documentation of data sources, aggregation methods, and statistical techniques used in our insights.

Working through a privacy or compliance review? Our team will walk your data privacy office through sourcing, aggregation thresholds and retention