- What does AppCraft Africa do?
- AppCraft is a software and AI engineering studio working with banks, insurers, fintechs, telecom operators and government bodies in Africa. It delivers four things under one contract: custom software and core-banking integration; AI systems built inside the client’s own perimeter; cyber defence, identity and AI security; and automated compliance monitoring. AppCraft builds and operates what it sells rather than reselling another vendor’s product.
- Which countries does AppCraft Africa work in?
- AppCraft works across Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania and South Africa, and takes engagements elsewhere on the continent. It is headquartered in Tbilisi, Georgia, and has delivered for regulated institutions across the CIS, the Gulf and South-East Asia — markets with strict supervision, data-residency rules and on-premise requirements comparable to those African regulators now apply.
- Can AppCraft deploy AI inside our own perimeter, on-premise?
- Yes. AppCraft designs for sovereign deployment as the default rather than the exception: on-premise, in-country cloud or hybrid, shaped around the data-protection law of the client’s market. Anything touching personal or regulated data runs on open-weight models on the client’s own hardware. By the end of 2025, 44 of 55 African countries had data-protection laws in force and several require a regulated institution’s primary data to stay in the country.
- How does AppCraft avoid locking a client into a single AI vendor?
- AppCraft builds what it calls a vendor-agnostic router: a model-neutral layer that belongs to the client, splits each task before it leaves their network, strips identifiers, picks a provider by cost, quality and legal residency, and rejoins the answer inside the perimeter. No single AI vendor ever sees enough to reconstruct the business, and replacing one is a configuration change rather than a rebuild.
- Can we try AppCraft’s fraud-detection technology before committing?
- AppCraft’s image-forensics detector is free and public at appcraft.africa/fake-image-detector/ — it checks a photograph for AI generation, deepfake face-swaps and editing, with five checks per hour per visitor and no sign-up. The voice-clone and forged-document detectors are built and deployed but are not public sandboxes: they run inside a client’s perimeter on the client’s own material, and AppCraft demonstrates them live on a call.
- How much does an AppCraft engagement cost and how does it start?
- AppCraft quotes per engagement rather than from a price list, because scope in regulated environments varies too widely for a published figure to be honest. It starts the same way every time: a two-to-three hour working session with the people who own the process, then one small pilot on one process in the client’s own environment, then a written page within seven days stating what was agreed, what was not, and what changes next.
- What accuracy does AppCraft promise for deepfake and document detection?
- AppCraft does not promise a fixed catch rate, and treats any vendor that does as a warning sign. Its detectors are risk screeners that stack several independent forensic vectors, return an explainable score rather than a verdict, and are designed with a human who signs the decision and an easy way to overrule the machine. A determined forger can defeat any single screener, which is why AppCraft runs several layers rather than one.
- How do I contact AppCraft Africa?
- By email, at am@appcraft.pro. There is no contact form and no ticket queue: mail reaches the founder directly and is usually answered within one working day. A first email is most useful when it says who you are, which process you want to change, which systems it touches, and what constrains you — a regulator, a data-residency rule, an on-premise requirement or a date.
