Who we are.
A Kigali-based AI company. Here's what we're building, where the experience comes from, and what we actually believe.
Rwanda has the policy ambition, the infrastructure investment, and — increasingly — the people. What it still needs is more technical teams that treat AI as an engineering discipline, not a buzzword.
Kenshi.AI was founded by people with direct experience across AI and the healthcare sector. Every person on our team has at least 6 years of practical AI work behind them — not academic credits, but real systems built and shipped. That combination is not accidental. It's why our first serious project is in medical imaging — a domain where the gap between what AI can do and what African hospitals currently have access to is both wide and consequential.
We're registered with RDB, operating out of Kigali, and building things we'd stand behind in a clinical environment.
— Kenshi.AI, Kigali
Experience that shaped the work
The people behind Kenshi.AI don't come from one lane. Every member of our team brings a minimum of 6 years of hands-on experience in AI-related work — model development, data pipelines, production systems — and several of us come with direct background in the healthcare sector, including environments where clinical decisions depend on fast, accurate diagnostic tools.
That crossover is what makes RadAIx possible. Building AI for medical imaging isn't something you do credibly from the outside. You need to understand what a radiologist's workflow actually looks like, what "good enough" means in a clinical context, and what happens when a system makes a mistake. We've worked in environments where those questions aren't theoretical.
We're not a group of developers who decided to enter healthcare. We're people with roots in both domains, building something that reflects that depth.
Built in Kigali · Intelligence for Impact
Builders, not resellers.
There's a real difference between an agency that deploys someone else's AI tools and a team that works at the engineering level — the models, the data, the infrastructure underneath.
We sit in the second category. When we take on a project, we're building from the ground up, with the specific constraints of African institutions taken seriously from day one. Not treated as an afterthought.
See Our Services →What we keep seeing
- Organizations collecting data they never properly act on
- Good ideas stuck at concept stage for lack of a technical team
- Imported AI tools that don't fit local workflows or budgets
- Training programs that end with a certificate and no real project experience
The result: Real potential, going unrealized.
What we're doing about it
- Building AI tools designed for how African institutions actually work
- Taking innovators from idea to working prototype
- Running a training environment where people learn on real projects
- Starting with RadAIx — a concrete problem in the sector that needs it most
We work closely with every organization we take on.
What we're here to do
Build AI that solves real problems in Africa — starting with medical imaging — and develop the local talent that will keep doing this work long after us.
Where we're headed
A future where African hospitals have world-class diagnostic AI, African developers are building and maintaining it, and the knowledge stays on the continent.
Things we take seriously
Domain depth over surface breadth
We'd rather do fewer things properly than spread thin. RadAIx is our focus right now because we have the specific expertise — in AI and in healthcare — to build it credibly.
Learning by doing, not by watching
Our training program is built on the conviction that AI skills are developed on real projects. Our first cohort will work on actual engineering problems, with real stakes.
Local context baked in, not bolted on
Infrastructure realities, budget constraints, clinical workflows in Rwandan hospitals — these aren't edge cases we handle later. They're the starting point.
Priced for this market
Good AI work takes real engineering effort. We price it fairly — not at inflated import rates, and not so cheap that corners get cut.
Who we want to work alongside
We're building relationships across Rwanda's innovation and healthcare ecosystems. If you're in any of these spaces, we'd like to know you.
Want to know more? Just ask.
We're based in Kigali and happy to have a direct conversation.
