About
An AI engineering and education company.
AIFormula builds AI-powered software and automations that help businesses reduce manual work and improve productivity.
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Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria
AIFormula builds AI-powered software and automations that help businesses reduce manual work and improve productivity. We combine software engineering and consulting to turn business needs into practical technology solutions. Through AIFormula Academy, we are developing hands-on learning opportunities for people and teams who want to build and apply AI.
Two sides of the same company
Solutions and Academy.
We build AI into businesses, and we teach people to do it. The two feed each other: what we learn building is what we end up teaching.
AIFormula Solutions
Software, AI automation and consulting for businesses that want to reduce manual work. Broader software engineering is part of the offering, and some engagements never involve a model at all.
AIFormula Academy
Practical AI education: cohort programmes for individuals and commissioned training for organisations. It is in development, and we describe it that way.
AIFormula Solutions and AIFormula Academy describe how we organise our work. They are not separate legal entities.
How we think about it
What we hold to.
Four working principles. They are how we approach the work, not a certification of anything.
Start with the workflow, not the model
The interesting question is rarely which model to use. It is which part of the work a person should stop doing, and what has to be true for that to be safe.
Keep a person in the loop where it matters
AI is good at drafts, extraction and classification. It is not accountable for the outcome. We design the review step in rather than adding it afterwards.
Engineering discipline, not demos
A convincing demonstration is not a working system. The difference is integration, error handling, evaluation and the ordinary software around it.
Say what is true about the work
If something is in development, we say so. If we have not measured a result, we do not claim it. That applies to this website as much as to a proposal.
Founder
Samuel Lawal
Founder & CEO
Samuel Lawal brings experience from paid roles at Quidax and PiggyVest, alongside contract software development work with Bazara. Through that engagement, his work includes enterprise intelligence and service management software.
AIFormula grew out of that work: building software for businesses that needed a process to stop being manual, and finding that the useful part was almost always the unglamorous part.
This is the founder's professional experience. These organisations are not AIFormula clients and their inclusion here is not an endorsement.