About Asili

We're building the infrastructure that replaces the importer.

For a century, importers captured the margin between African producers and Western consumers. Asili is the AI operations layer that lets the diaspora capture it instead — and lets producers keep more of what they earn.

Our mission

Return value to its origin.

Asili — meaning "origin" or "root" in Swahili — exists to rebuild cross-border trade so that value flows back to where it's created. We believe AI can replace extractive middlemen, not people.

47%
Producer take-rate
vs. 15-20% with traditional importers
14
Countries
Active Bridge operations
6
Languages
Producer communication
3 min
Weekly touch
Average Bridge involvement
Languages

Your producer speaks their language. So do our agents.

sw
Swahili
East Africa
yo
Yoruba
Nigeria
tw
Twi
Ghana
am
Amharic
Ethiopia
fr
French
West Africa
pt
Portuguese
Mozambique, Angola

More languages coming Q3 2026: Hausa, Igbo, Zulu, Arabic (Egyptian), Wolof.

Team

Built by the diaspora, for the diaspora.

Founder
Nairobi & Brooklyn

"We're not building another marketplace. We're building the operational backbone that makes a diaspora member an effective importer — without the margin extraction."

We're hiring

Looking for engineers who understand cross-border logistics, AI agents, and why this matters.

Storefronts

Every Bridge gets a storefront. No code required.

Your products live on a subdomain (yourbridge.asili.com) or your own custom domain. Checkout, shipping, and customer support are handled automatically.

STOREFRONT PREVIEW · MAHABA TEA

Ready to start your Bridge?

15 minutes to set up. You don't pay until your first sale.