Data & AI engineering · Mentorship · Nairobi, Kenya
Learn with African business problems. Build for the realities of your organization. Work with a mentor on a Data & AI project, or with our team to move, connect, analyse, and use your data.
Work and collaborations
A look at the work and training relationships already part of Ubuntu’s story. Each engagement has its own context.
Data engineering & analytics
Built a pipeline from Irri-hub’s Zoho ERP APIs, staged the data in PostgreSQL, and developed Power BI analytics and visuals for senior leaders to review financial and customer performance over time.
Agentic AI and BI training
Helped train 100+ students in Agentic AI and 150+ students in Excel and Power BI.
Study abroad eligibility AI
Students submit their grades, budget, and interests. An n8n workflow uses data stored in Pinecone to recommend suitable partner universities.
Mtumba retail, Tanzania
Helping the team use Excel with AI and digital marketing with AI to improve stock, sales, and customer growth.
Mentorship · for individuals
Pick the tool or topic you care about. We review your goal, agree a project and support level, then confirm the sessions and price before payment.
Choose a tool
Excel · Power BI · SQL · Databricks · Fabric · n8n
Or choose a topic
Data Analysis · Agentic AI · Data Science · Business Intelligence
Practice with familiar business situations: reconcile M-Pesa and bank payments, explore SACCO reporting, or analyse retail stock and agricultural supply chains. Each brief uses sample or approved data.
Build independently with a project brief, dataset, and worked solution after your attempt.
Scope, sessions, and price confirmed after review.
Build the project, then work through it in a scheduled group session with a mentor.
Scope, sessions, and price confirmed after review.
Present your solution and receive personal feedback on your work and explanation.
Scope, sessions, and price confirmed after review.
Engineering consultancy · for organizations
Disconnected systems. Repeated manual work. Numbers that do not agree. Start with the problem your team recognises; we shape the engineering around your tools, budget, connectivity, and people.
Move from legacy databases and spreadsheets with a clear plan, checked records, and a controlled handover.
Explore the service & demoConnect files, APIs, and databases with repeatable pipelines, quality checks, and clear ownership.
Explore the service & demoTurn raw data into tested models and shared metric definitions your reports can use consistently.
Explore the service & demoBuild AI workflows around approved information, tested outputs, and human decisions where they matter.
Explore the service & demoNot sure where to start? Plan with Advisory. Want to see how the services combine? Explore Solution Patterns. For team learning, visit Academy.
Decision Lab · where our two offers meet
Organizations bring a decision they struggle to make. We turn selected problems into safe project briefs for mentored builds, then test the work with the team who will use it.
Name the decision, its owner, and what a better result looks like.
Turn the problem into an approved brief with safe or synthetic data.
Selected learners build with mentor guidance and review.
Check the workflow against the agreed decision and success measure.
With organization approval, hand over to a named owner and measure the result.
Academy · supporting learning
Courses help you build skills in Excel, Power BI, AI, SQL, and Python. Mentorship is a separate route when you want a project and human feedback.
Use Excel to structure local business problems, model decisions, and communicate insight clearly.
Start date: To be confirmed
BITurn operational data into decision-ready dashboards and reporting systems leaders can actually use.
Start date: To be confirmed
AIBuild AI Solutions with ChatGPT, Claude, Claude Code, DeepSeek & n8n
Start date: To be confirmed
DataUse Python to clean real-world data, answer business questions, and produce project-ready analysis.
Start date: To be confirmed
Unsure where to start? Take the Academy assessment.
The people
Mentors help learners reason through a problem, build an answer, and explain the decisions behind it.
Senior Data Scientist
Guides learners through Python analytics, SQL, business questions, and portfolio-ready project reviews.
Data & AI Engineer
Helps learners turn everyday data into decisions, dashboards, AI-assisted workflows, and practical portfolio projects.
The people behind the feedback
From learning a new skill to putting it to work. Hear from learners and the people we have worked with.
Swipe to read every story.
Organization
“Delivered an insightful Power BI dashboard integrated with Zoho Books and Zoho CRM APIs, providing real-time financial and customer visibility for our agricultural operations.”
Organization
“Built my supply chain inventory dashboard and trained me on Power BI Desktop and Service, enabling independent report development and management.”
Learner
“Ezra is a firm and fun tutor who provided one-on-one Excel coaching, significantly improving my confidence, efficiency, and accuracy in daily data analysis.”
Learner
“The Agentic AI sessions helped me finally understand how prompts, tools, workflows, and guardrails connect. I moved from just chatting with AI to building useful automation.”
Organization
“Ubuntu helped us automate recurring reports that used to take hours every week. The team now spends more time interpreting numbers instead of copying and cleaning them.”
Organization
“Ezra built an AI agent that checks student eligibility against our rules and flags cases for review. It made our intake process faster, clearer, and much easier to manage.”
Keep exploring
Read the people behind the work, find a current community session, or explore tools for practice.
Talk to a person
Whether you need a mentor or want to discuss an organization system, start with the work in front of you.