EXP_001 · PONTIFEX · LAUNCHING SOON
ACCRA · 05.56°N

An applied AI studio

Building machine intelligence for Emerging Markets.

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02The premise

A short
brief.

Argonauts is an applied AI studio in Accra. We pick problems worth solving in African markets scale globablly and go solve them, one quest at a time.

Each problem is a new quest, founded on a thesis that is a new opportunity to build something useful. Most quests will produce an artifact or a finding that benefits the public. We'll try to commercialize some so the studio can keep going.

03Expeditions log

EXP_001

Pontifex.

Enterprise systems, connected safely to AI.

How do AI agents reach the systems your business actually runs on?

Most enterprise AI projects get stuck at the same place. The AI is ready. The systems it needs to act on aren't. Pontifex is the connecting layer that gets your AI initiative out of pilot and into the parts of the business that matter, without handing your data to a third party.

A drop-in layer that fits into your stack and turns existing APIs, data stores, and internal services into governed tools any AI agent can call. Authentication, scoping, rate limits, observability, audit. Runs in your environment, on the infrastructure you already use. Open protocols throughout, so you can pair with any AI vendor and strip Pontifex out whenever you like. A managed service is on the way for teams that would rather we ran it. Get early access

◐ Launching soon
EXP_002

More to come.

Whatever the next worthwhile quest turns out to be.

Open to commissioned work too. If your team has a problem in applied AI that the off-the-shelf labs aren't going to touch, that might be an expedition worth chartering.

○ Charting

04Get in touch

Drop us a line.

Questions about Pontifex, an expedition worth chartering, or anything in between. We read everything.

Or write to us at hello@argonauts.africa.