What we build
Two live AI products, one mission
AI for the frontline of Ethiopian healthcare β designed locally, in local languages, for resource-constrained health systems.

SHIFA Clinical Intelligence Platform (SCIP)
An AI clinical decision-support tool that gives frontline health workers real-time, guideline-based answers at the point of care.
Selected for the African Impact Challenge 2026 Bootcamp (Health Entrepreneurship β Builder Track) and the AI UniPod Bootcamp, Second Cohort β powered by timbuktoo with UNDP Ethiopia, the Ethiopian Artificial Intelligence Institute, and Addis Ababa University.
SCIP gives frontline health workers instant, cited answers instead of a stack of paper protocols β grounded in 109 validated Ethiopian and WHO clinical guidelines, so every answer traces back to a real source rather than a guess.
It's built for the point of care: a health worker asks a clinical question in the moment, and SCIP returns a guideline-based answer, not a generic search result.
Degdeg
AI Climate-Health Early Warning
An AI early warning platform that turns open climate forecasts into anticipated health impacts and plain-language advisories for woreda health workers β so health offices can act before disaster becomes an emergency.
100
Woredas monitored
8
WHO & national protocol sources
~2,000
Indexed protocol passages
100%
Advisories human-approved
Degdeg closes three gaps that keep strong early-warning science from reaching the people who need to act: forecasts rarely reach woreda health offices in a form they can act on; a rainfall anomaly map doesn't tell a health officer to expect a cholera risk window in flood-hit kebeles; and even when warnings arrive, nothing converts them into a protocol-based preparedness checklist.
The platform runs a four-stage AI pipeline β Interpret, Anticipate, Advise, Approve. It reads 14-day climate forecasts and disaster bulletins to produce a graded hazard assessment, checks that assessment against 15 vetted climate-to-health impact rules, drafts advisories in Somali and English (WhatsApp message, radio script, official memo) grounded only in cited risks β and publishes nothing automatically. Every advisory is reviewed and approved by a health officer before it reaches a woreda.
First deployed across 100 woredas in the Somali Region, built to scale nationally β grounded in 8 WHO and national protocol sources with ~2,000 indexed protocol passages.
