Our team · Banjul, The Gambia

The people behind
the mission.

HexAI is built by Africans who understand the continent: its challenges, its potential and the urgency of the moment. We combine deep technical expertise with lived experience to build intelligence infrastructure that actually works here.

Founders & core team

Who Builds HexAI

Ebrima S Jallow

Ebrima S Jallow

Co-Founder & COO

Ebrima runs HexAI's operations and partnerships, from government and enterprise clients to the teams delivering their projects. With deep roots in Gambian civil society and a background spanning policy, technology and enterprise, he keeps every engagement moving from signed contract to software in daily use.

AI PolicyB2G StrategyWest Africa
Omar Keita

Omar Keita

Co-Founder · CTO & AI Lead

Omar leads HexAI's technology and AI engineering. He architects the systems behind our products and leads the AI work, from fine-tuning the on-device model in Bantaba AI to production APIs, data pipelines and real-time inference.

AI EngineeringFine-TuningArchitecture
Mohammed L Touray

Mohammed L Touray

Lead Frontend Engineer

Mohammed builds the interfaces that bring HexAI's systems to life. He engineers fast, accessible, carefully crafted frontends that turn complex AI infrastructure into experiences that just work.

FrontendUI EngineeringReact
Mamadou Bah

Mamadou Bah

Lead Backend Engineer

Mamadou leads HexAI's backend engineering: the APIs, databases and services that keep our products running in production, built to be reliable, secure and maintained for the long run.

BackendAPIsDatabases
What we stand for

Principles That Drive Everything

01

Sovereignty First

Every system starts with one question: does Africa own this? Data, models and infrastructure must all sit under African governance. This is non-negotiable in every engagement.

02

Context Is Everything

We don't import solutions. We build for real conditions on the ground: local languages, legacy systems, regulation and the specific dynamics of African institutions.

03

Radical Transparency

We build AI that can be explained and audited. Every model, decision pathway and data source is documented and open to scrutiny. No black boxes.

04

Capability Transfer

Our goal is to make ourselves unnecessary. Every engagement includes documentation, hands-on training and knowledge transfer, so you own the capability, not just the output.

05

Proof Over Promise

We speak in deployed systems, measured outcomes and auditable results. We show up with working infrastructure and measurable impact from day one.

06

Pan-African Ambition

We start in The Gambia and build for the continent. Every system we deploy becomes a reference architecture for the next nation, from Banjul to 54 sovereign AI ecosystems.

Join the mission

Let's build Africa's future

Whether you want to partner, join the team, or see what HexAI can do for your institution, we'd love to hear from you.