Notes on AI access, payments, and building in Africa.
Thoughts on what it actually takes to build with frontier AI from Africa, how we're building router.africa, and what's changing in the AI and payments landscape that affects builders here.
Local currency billing isn't a nice-to-have, it's the whole point
Foreign-currency billing adds card declines and FX risk on top of the latency problem. Here's how router.africa handles pricing instead.
Why latency from Lagos matters more than you think
Most inference APIs are tuned for round-trips from a US or European region. Here's what that costs a developer building from Lagos, Nairobi, or Accra.