Company

The intelligent
connection point.

Making every African business reachable — in Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, and English.

"Ori" is Yoruba for intelligence, wisdom, and divine consciousness. "Node" is a network connection point. Together: the intelligent connection point for African business.

Mission

"To make every African business reachable, responsive, and intelligent — regardless of size, location, or the language their customers speak."

Orinode was founded on a simple observation: Nigerian businesses lose hundreds of thousands of naira every week to missed calls. A restaurant misses a Friday reservation. A clinic misses an appointment request. A logistics company misses a pickup call. Not because they don't care — but because they're busy running their business. We built the infrastructure to fix this.

Vision

"To become the default voice infrastructure for African commerce — the layer that makes every business, from market stalls to multinationals, always available."

Founding

Founded in Lagos, Nigeria in 2026. Every team member is African. Every design decision is made with African callers in mind. Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba are not afterthoughts — they are first-class citizens.

Values

What we stand for.

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Linguistic Respect
Language is identity. We don't treat Hausa, Igbo, or Yoruba as secondary options. Every language the platform supports is built with the same depth and care as English.
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Reliability First
A call centre that goes down costs businesses real money. We over-engineer uptime. 99.9% SLA is a floor, not a ceiling. When systems fail, we own it immediately.
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African-Built, African-Priced
Our infrastructure, team, and pricing are designed for African businesses — not imported from Silicon Valley and localised as an afterthought. Naira pricing, African servers, African support hours.
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Transparency
Honest pricing. No hidden fees. No dark patterns. If something breaks, you hear from us first — not after you notice. Audit logs, webhook events, and usage data are all yours to see.
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Privacy by Design
Caller data belongs to the business that collected it — not to us. NDPR compliant. Caller number masking built in. We never use customer call data to train shared models.
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Speed as Respect
A caller waiting 5 seconds for an AI to respond is a caller who hangs up. Sub-second response time is not a feature — it is the minimum viable experience. We optimise relentlessly.
Timeline

Building the future
one call at a time.

Jan 2026
Orinode founded in Lagos
Core team of 4 engineers begins building the multilingual STT pipeline. First internal Hausa model trained on Common Voice data.
Feb 2026
Bilingual code-switching breakthrough
Proprietary language detection with windowed audio analysis achieves <8% word error rate on Yoruba+English mixed audio.
Mar 2026
First 100 businesses onboarded
Private beta launches with 100 Lagos businesses across restaurants, clinics, and logistics. Answer rate across beta cohort: 96.2%.
Q2 2026
Public launch & Developer API
Open signup, four subscription tiers, PAYG billing, and the public developer API for STT/TTS/LangDetect. AWS af-south-1 fully operational.
H2 2026
5,000 businesses. Pan-African expansion.
Expansion to Nairobi and Accra markets planned. Swahili and Twi language support in development. Enterprise tier launched.

Built in Lagos, Nigeria.

We write code on Lagos time. We understand the power cut mid-call. We build for the realities of African business because we live them.

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