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Shonin

Stop doing it all yourself.

One AI employee.
The output of a 400-person team.

Shonin gives you an AI employee wired into the tools you already use, Gmail, WhatsApp, your CRM and sheets, and a team behind it that sets it up for you. It runs the work. You approve what matters.

A 30-minute call. You leave with the first 3 jobs to hand over.

Who it's for

Built for people doing too much.

Business owners

Clinics, logistics firms and shops that run on WhatsApp and the phone.

A call you miss is a customer you lose. And after closing, you are still the one answering messages, sending invoices and chasing payments.

Your AI employee

  • Answers calls and WhatsApp enquiries and books them in
  • Follows up every lead the same day
  • Drafts invoices, reminders and your daily report for you to approve

Agencies

Small marketing and dev agencies with more demand than hands.

You turn work away because the team is full, and every new hire eats the margin on the next project.

Your AI employee

  • Takes the repeatable delivery work: reports, content drafts, QA and client updates
  • Plugs into the tools your team already works in
  • Your people review and sign off, so quality stays yours

How to start

Three steps to your AI employee.

  1. Step 01

    Tell us your business and your biggest bottleneck.

    A 30-minute call. Missed calls, slow follow-ups, admin that eats your evenings: name the one that hurts most.

  2. Step 02

    Get your AI employee plan.

    The first 3 jobs to hand over, the tools it connects to, and exactly what you approve before anything goes out.

  3. Step 03

    Go live.

    We set it up on your tools, test it on real examples from your business, then switch it on. You keep the final say.

What we do

Three ways we take repetitive work off your hands.

01

Live

Custom AI Automation

We automate repetitive business tasks using your existing software.

  • Email, CRM, spreadsheets and the tools you already pay for
  • Read-only first, write actions added one at a time
  • A person approves anything that sends, pays or publishes

02 · Flagship

Beta

Ops Desk

An AI operations assistant that handles routine work and keeps you updated.

  • Triages enquiries, drafts replies and chases follow-ups
  • Asks you before anything that matters goes out
  • Remembers your business through Company Brain

03

Beta

AI Voice Agents

Capture enquiries, qualify leads and book appointments automatically.

  • Browser-based beta today
  • Phone numbers planned
  • Says it is an AI assistant at the start of every call

Looking for audits, APIs or programmes? Browse the full directory.

How Shonin works

Follow the pearl. It's your job.

Agents are fast, but they can be wrong. So at Shonin, agents do the work, every step is checked, and a person approves anything that matters. Four steps, every time:

Scroll to move the pearl. Or pick a step.

Where to start · paid pilot

Agent Launch Sprint. From $2,500 per agent.

Small business? Tell us what you need and we'll scope a plan that fits your budget.

Scope my plan →

One production agent, one workflow, 10 working days. Built against real examples from your business, with an approval path on every action and a runbook your team can follow.

Illustrative demo · scripted, not live data

One enquiry, start to finish.

STEP 01 OF 06

Enquiry arrives

Email from Maria at a design agency: “Can you quote for a monthly retainer starting next month?”

AI Study Group · Free · Pro cohorts $49 · Team seats

The temple school. Learn to run agents.

The firm needs people who can run agents well, so we train them in the open: free tracks, live cohorts, city chapters and certificates on Celo. Graduates join the bench that delivers our jobs.

  1. T1Open

    Agentic AI engineer roadmap

    From calling a model to agents that use tools, keep memory and can be tested.

  2. T2Open

    Ethical AI in Africa

    Build, buy and launch AI that is fair, lawful and safe, with the continent's laws and languages in view.

  3. T3Soon

    Inference engineering basics

    What happens between a prompt and a token, and how to make it fast and cheap for real users.

  4. T4Soon

    Onchain agents on Celo

    Agents that hold and move value: wallets, spend limits and pay-per-call on Celo.

  5. T5Soon

    Forward-deployed AI engineering

    Sit with a customer, find the workflow, ship the agent, prove it with evals. The job Shonin does every week.

  6. T6Soon

    AI-native services for founders

    Pick a unit, write the rulebook, build the review layer, price against the human. Start a service that runs like software.

16

city chapters planned, 5 where we have already run workshops.

  • Lagos
  • Enugu
  • Abakaliki
  • Makurdi
  • Jos
  • Port Harcourt
  • Abuja
  • Accra
  • Nairobi
  • Kigali
  • Kampala
  • Johannesburg
  • Cairo
  • London
  • Toronto
  • Houston
Join the study group

Proof of work

Shipped, live, and yours to try.

Products, platforms and client sites we have built and run. Every one is live: open it and judge the work yourself.

Product · Beta

Shonin Voice Agents

An in-browser voice agent that answers, qualifies and books, gated to approved beta testers, with every lead written to the list.

Try it →

Infrastructure

Multi-tenant voice receptionist

One config per business: the Shonin receptionist and the Upskill AI Career Coach run on the same build, each with its own facts, rules and lead capture.

See how it works →

Learning community · Website

Upskill Africa

Free AI study groups, a step-by-step curriculum and real build projects for young Africans, with a waitlist fronted by a two-minute AI career coach and a Young Builders track for ages 12 to 17.

Visit upskillafrica.tech →

Event platform · Website

SDG in Action

The home of SDG Action Lab Ghana 2026 in Accra: learn the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, turn them into local action and show the impact, with programmes, the Goals, event details and stories.

Visit the site →

Client build · Website

Kabi Company

A freemium forex signals platform, gold-led with XAU/USD: free signals plus a VIP tier.

Visit the site →

Concept demo · Fintech app

WPAY

A clickable wallet prototype for data, airtime, electricity and cable TV: fund once, then pay any bill in one tap, with a guided walkthrough. Mock data only, no real payments.

Open the demo →

AI app · Hackathon

Opportunity Graph

A personal AI that triages fellowships, grants and hackathons: it extracts and dedupes them, checks the sources and scores fit against your profile, then drafts an answer pack.

Open the app →

Creative code · WebGL

Shader Lab

Original WebGL scenes for event screens, sites and decks, from a 60,000-particle galaxy to raymarched light, each one usable fullscreen or as a drop-in section.

See the scenes →

Open source · Free

GTM Harness

Describe your product and get an ideal-customer scorecard, three reviewed first messages and a 7-day sprint your own agents keep running.

Run it free →

How we work

Agents do the work. A person seals what matters.

  1. 01

    Agents do the work

    Language models draft, research and write code. Plain code handles counts, dates, payments and records.

  2. 02

    A person seals what matters

    Anything with money, legal or reputation attached waits for a person's yes. Every tool that writes, sends or pays has an approval path and a spend limit.

  3. 03

    Every step is logged

    Shonin One, our decision brain, checks each step, records how sure it is, and stops to ask a person below its bar.

  4. 04

    Every correction becomes a rule

    When a person fixes an agent's work, the fix becomes a rule every later job follows. The work gets better each time.

Enter.

Start with one workflow. We automate it on the software you already use, a person approves what matters, and you see every decision.

Design partners: the first five businesses get a free Agent Readiness Audit or AI Visibility Audit in exchange for an honest case study. Claim one

Work with Shonin

Tell us the outcome. We'll ship it.

A 30-minute call to scope one workflow: what agents should do, what a person should approve, and what it costs. Fixed scope, priced per unit.