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DaveLabs Horizon Summer ’26 · 30 July 2026
Amaka AI and Optiq Studio are live.
First principle software engineering
We build the digital and AI infrastructure for businesses — and the research that has to come first.
DaveLabs is a research company. We do not look for cool AI tools to build; we find problems worth solving and work backwards from them. Read what that changes.
Solving systemic crises
We work backwards from excruciating real-world problems — the education gap, the commercial media barrier — not forwards from whatever is easy to build.
Sovereign West African intelligence
World-class digital infrastructure engineered on West African soil, from software and AI through to feasibility research for aerospace technology in The Gambia.
Radical democratisation
Studio-grade 4K video for under five dollars. Visual learning for students who were never anyone else’s target market.
Amaka AI · amaka.app
A visual reasoning engine for how people actually learn.
Textbooks are static and language models answer a physics question with a wall of text. Neither builds intuition. Amaka AI draws, animates and explains — in fourteen languages, including Wolof, Mandinka, Fula and Jola — and it can be interrupted mid-explanation the way a real teacher can.
- Languages, including West African languages
- 14
- Launch-phase places open now
- 1,000
- Available at amaka.app
- Live
Languages, including West African languages
Launch-phase places open now
Available at amaka.app
Optiq Studio · optiq.studio
A studio-quality video ad for less than five dollars.
A broadcast commercial costs $3,000 to $20,000 — which is why most small businesses in West Africa never make one. Describe your business, describe the video, press generate. Five specialist agents handle the storyboarding, casting, sound, camera and cut.
- Per studio-quality commercial
- < $5
- Steps from idea to finished ad
- 3
- Specialist agents per generation
- 5
Per studio-quality commercial
Steps from idea to finished ad
Specialist agents per generation
As a service
Data infrastructure for better decision-making.
Every digital tool we build comes wired with a secure, private data layer — so your business stops guessing and starts deciding from the inside out.
Better Systems
Operational software that learns your business from the inside — centralized, automated, custom-fit.
AI Models, Built for Your Business
Models trained on your data, tuned for your workflow, working inside your stack.
Actionable Intelligence
Real-time dashboards and automated reports that turn raw data into strategic decisions.
Private by default·Encrypted in transit & at rest·You own the data, always
Industrial AI Era
Hand the busywork to the machines.
Workflows that used to take your team a week now finish overnight. We wire intelligent automation into the parts of your business that quietly eat hours — onboarding, ops, reporting, follow-ups — and give those hours back.
Reclaimed / mo
1,200+ hrs
Tasks automated
92%
Faster decisions
48×
The work
Software that earns the double-take.
Dashboards, marketplaces, operating tools, marketing sites — every surface engineered to feel inevitable. Interfaces your team actually wants to open. Landing pages that make people stop scrolling.
Websites·Web apps·Mobile·Internal tools·3D & spatial·Brand systems
The principle
Builtforyourbusiness.
Centralized. Automated. Customized end-to-end. A single source of truth for how your company actually runs — and the leverage to bend it in any direction you want.
