aLai was founded by Laura and Anja, who first met in Tanzania in 2013. What began as a friendship shaped by shared adventures across East Africa evolved into years of late-night Skype conversations about potential, poverty, and the systems that shape opportunity. As we continued traveling together passing through countless airports and different continents continents, we kept returning to the same hard questions about what we were seeing and why it persisted.
As our careers progressed across strategy, technology, media, and international development, one pattern became impossible to ignore: critical decisions in health, economics, and global markets were being made without reliable data from billions of people in underserved regions. From consulting to corporate development to responsible AI, we repeatedly witnessed the consequences of missing or non-representative data: mispriced risks, ineffective interventions, and models that failed outside high-connectivity environments.
aLai Insights LLC is our response. We combine operational execution with deep contextual experience to build a scalable, ethical infrastructure for collecting and structuring real-world data from low-connectivity regions. Our ground-truth datasets add visibility where global data systems remain incomplete, supporting research, AI development, market intelligence, and investment analysis.
Today, we are developing our MVP with local partners in Kenya, building a secure and high-integrity data pipeline designed for accuracy and long-term commercial value. Our goal is to create a new intelligence layer for organizations seeking insights that traditional datasets simply cannot provide.
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