Mapomo

Political money
is invisible.

We taught machines
to see its traces.

Mapomo MAPPING POLITICAL MONEY

Open-source AI that estimates campaign spending in African elections, from the signals campaigns can't hide.

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01 · THE PROBLEM

Campaign spending across Africa is largely undeclared, uncapped or unchecked.

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Of 51 African countries, exactly one publishes political donations online.

TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL · 2025

Laws exist. Instruments don't.

A law without an instrument is a poem.

We're building the instrument.

02 · THE INSIGHT
MONEY HIDES. ITS TRACES DON'T.
BILLBOARD₣ · rental price
RALLY₣ · cost per attendee
RADIO₣ · rate card
SPONSORED POST₣ · ad library

A billboard has a rental price. A rally has a cost per person. A radio spot has a rate card. A sponsored post sits in an ad library.

Count the traces.

Know the costs.

Estimate the money.

03 · HOW IT WORKS
01 OBSERVE

Public signals: online ads, billboards, rallies, radio.

02 DETECT

AI models count and classify, including African-language speech recognition.

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03 ESTIMATE

Counts × real unit costs, calibrated by researchers on the ground.

04 COMPARE

Estimates set against what campaigns officially declare.

ESTIMATED
DECLARED
THE GAP

The gap is the signal.

Mapomo publishes estimates with full methodology, not verdicts. Humans verify; AI counts.

04 · THE TOOLS
IN BUILD · FIRST DEPLOYMENTS 2026 TO 2027

One suite. Four ways to see the money.

IN BUILD

Ad Spend Tracker

Measures online political ad spending, platform by platform.

IN BUILD

Campaign Visibility Index

Converts ground presence (billboards, rallies, posters) into money via real unit costs.

IN BUILD

Money Flow Mapper

Maps the networks behind political financing.

IN BUILD

Local Language AI

Speech recognition and analysis for Wolof, Pulaar and Hausa radio.

05 · THE LANGUAGES

African elections happen in African languages.

On radio in Wolof. In rallies in Hausa. In songs in Pulaar. Tools that only read English miss the story.

RADIO · WOLOF · LIVE TRANSCRIPTION

« …tey ci rajo bi, ñu ngi wax ci kampaañ bi ci diiwaan bi… »

DETECTED · CAMPAIGN MENTION (ILLUSTRATIVE)

Mapomo listens in the languages democracy actually speaks.

06 · WHERE & WHEN

Six countries.
Built for a continent.

SENEGAL NIGERIA GHANA KENYA SOUTH AFRICA DR CONGO

Built in Dakar. Tested where it's hardest. Made for a continent.

SENEGAL
NIGERIA
GHANA
KENYA
SOUTH AFRICA
DR CONGO
NOV 2026 · SOUTH AFRICA
Municipal elections
Remote data run
FEB 2027 · NIGERIA
General elections
First full deployment
AUG 2027 · KENYA
General elections
2027 · SENEGAL
Field validation campaign
07 · THE LAB

25 African experts. 5 days. Dakar, September 2026.

Journalists, data scientists, election lawyers, field observers and civic technologists co-design the tools, so Mapomo is built by the people who will use it.

LAB PHOTOGRAPHY. REAL IMAGES LAND HERE AFTER DAKAR, OCT 2026

PHOTOGRAPHY ARRIVES AFTER THE LAB · THIS SPACE IS DESIGNED FOR IT

08 · OPEN SOURCE

Everything Mapomo builds is published: code, models, methodology.

Because infrastructure for democracy shouldn't have an owner. It should have a community.

GITHUB.COM/MAPOMO-AFRICA→ FOLLOW THE BUILD →
SCHEMAS · THE OUTPUT CONTRACT METHODOLOGY REFERENCE DATA GOVERNANCE
09 · WHO'S BEHIND
ANDAKIA

Mapomo is built by ANDAKIA, an African AI company based in Dakar, makers of production AI in Wolof, Pulaar and Hausa, working with major institutions across the continent.

Supported by a grant from the Open Society Foundations.

Work with us.

Experts, researchers and partners. Mapomo is built with the people who will use it. The Lab convenes in Dakar this September.

contact@mapomo.org→ FOLLOW THE BUILD