Tonative is an African AI data company. Our goal is to ethically provide high-quality datasets that teach AI to understand Africans better. This means the data we curate reflects how Africans actually speak a language, and how they interact with industry domains in ways unique to their country or region.

By closing this data gap, we enable AI models to become more reliable and serve a wider audience than it currently does. Our work is successful because we collaborate with a trained network of linguists and industry experts who live and work across the continent

Every dataset passes through a multi-stage pipeline. Our trained curators produce initial data, the quality assurance layer validates the data, the language or domain leads resolve inter-annotator disagreement before the final data is licensed. This process applies equally to both the custom and open-source datasets.