About griot
griot is a data technology company making Africa's data usable, structured, and AI-ready. We aggregate from hundreds of fragmented sources, clean and deliver it as reliable data products — and we build the tools institutions need to distribute their own data at scale.
Africa's Data Gap
Whoever builds the trusted infrastructure for Africa's data will unlock the continent's next wave of growth — for businesses, governments, and AI systems alike.
How griot solves this
We source from hundreds of institutional, government, and research sources across the continent. Raw data is normalized, cross-referenced, and quality-scored — so you know exactly what you're getting.
The foundation of everything we do
Our Infrastructure product gives governments, research bodies, and development organizations the tools to share, govern, and distribute their own data through a trusted channel — with access controls and quality scoring built in.
Infrastructure product
Our Marketplace delivers clean, structured data products — economics, health, education, demographics — ready to download, query via API, or feed into AI models. In minutes, not months.
Marketplace product
Why “griot”
In West African tradition, a griot is the storyteller who maintains the authentic narrative of a community's history. They don't just remember — they verify, contextualize, and protect what's true. Communities depend on the griot to know what happened, why it matters, and who is accountable.
Africa's data tells the story of the continent — its economies, its people, its potential. But that story is scattered across hundreds of disconnected sources, buried in incompatible formats, and eroded by inconsistency. Without a keeper, the story gets lost.
griot is that keeper. We collect, verify, and protect Africa's data truth — so that every decision-maker, builder, and AI system that depends on it can trust what they're building on.
Our vision
Africa holds some of the world's most valuable untapped data — economic activity, population dynamics, agricultural output, health systems, trade flows. But almost none of it is in a form that modern tools, models, or AI systems can use.
We believe Africa's data should be as accessible, reliable, and usable as data anywhere else in the world. griot's mission is to build the infrastructure that makes that possible — aggregating from fragmented sources, structuring to international standards, and delivering through products that builders and institutions can depend on.
Whether you need reliable data products or the infrastructure to distribute your own — we're building the tools Africa's data ecosystem needs.