DRAFT
AI news writing
Turn a press release, statement, or set of notes into a publish-ready first draft in your organization's voice.
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The AI operating system for African media.
African Stand helps newsrooms, governments, NGOs, universities, and businesses create, verify, translate, and distribute content across Africa and beyond — without lowering editorial standards.
Built for institutions that publish, broadcast, and communicate — not for marketers.
EN — Central Bank holds rates steady for third quarter.
SW — Benki Kuu yashikilia riba bila mabadiliko.
FR — La Banque centrale maintient ses taux inchangés.
AR — يبقي البنك المركزي على أسعار الفائدة دون تغيير.
SO — Bangiga Dhexe ayska hayay dulsaarka lacagta.
EN — Central Bank holds rates steady for third quarter.
SW — Benki Kuu yashikilia riba bila mabadiliko.
FR — La Banque centrale maintient ses taux inchangés.
AR — يبقي البنك المركزي على أسعار الفائدة دون تغيير.
SO — Bangiga Dhexe ayska hayay dulsaarka lacagta.
Mission
Help newsrooms, governments, and institutions across Africa create, verify, translate, and distribute content with AI — while maintaining editorial standards.
The problem
The newsroom is under more pressure than the newsroom was built for.
Across the continent, editorial and communications teams are being asked to do more with less: break news faster, publish across more platforms, and reach audiences in more languages — all with the same small team they had five years ago. The tools built for global newsrooms weren't built for this.
- Small editorial and communications teams carrying full publishing workloads
- Constant pressure to publish breaking news first
- High cost of producing original content, video, and audio daily
- Limited in-house SEO and analytics expertise
- Difficulty translating stories into African and international languages
- Few or no dedicated social media, video, or podcast staff
The solution
One platform. Every stage of the story.
From press release to published post to social distribution — African Stand sits inside your organization's own publishing desk, not beside it.
Create
STYLE
Editorial style rewriting
Rewrite the same story as a Reuters-style brief, an AP-style report, or a longer feature — instantly.
SEO
SEO headlines & meta
Generate search-ready headlines and meta descriptions without a dedicated SEO specialist on staff.
IMAGE
AI featured images
Create original featured images for every story, no stock library or in-house designer required.
VIDEO
AI video generation
Turn a written story into a short explainer or bulletin video, without a video production team.
PODCAST
Podcast creation
Turn an article or report into a ready-to-publish podcast episode, narrated and edited automatically.
ANCHOR
AI news anchors
Present bulletins with a virtual anchor for platforms that have a story to tell but no on-air talent.
Verify & trust
ORIGIN
Plagiarism detection
Check originality before publishing, protecting your newsroom's credibility and your writers' bylines.
VERIFY
Fact-checking
Cross-check claims in a draft against trusted sources before the story ever reaches an editor's queue.
BRIEF
Report summarizer
Condense long government, NGO, or corporate reports into clear, publishable summaries.
Translate & reach
WIRE
Multilingual translation
Publish in Swahili, French, Arabic, Somali, and other African and international languages from one draft.
TRANSCRIBE
Voice-to-text
Turn interviews, press briefings, and radio segments into accurate, searchable, publishable text.
LINK
Internal link suggestions
Surface relevant stories from your own archive to link, keeping readers on-site longer.
Distribute & monetize
DESK
Scheduled publishing
Queue a story for publication at the right moment, directly from the same screen it was written in.
SOCIAL
Automated social publishing
Produce and schedule Facebook, X, LinkedIn, and WhatsApp posts from each article, sized for each platform.
ANALYTICS
Real-time analytics
See what is being read, watched, and shared as it happens, across every channel you publish to.
LICENSE
Content licensing
Package and license stories, translations, video, and clips to other outlets and partners.
Edition one
Launching with five tools your desk will use every day.
African Stand ships first with the five capabilities newsrooms told us they needed most. Everything else on the wire above follows in later editions.
01
AI article writer
02
SEO headline generator
03
Meta description generator
04
AI image creator
05
One-click publishing
Who it's for
Every desk that publishes, broadcasts, or communicates.
Newspapers
TV stations
Radio stations
Digital publishers
Government comms offices
NGOs
Universities
Corporate comms teams
Subscriptions
Priced like software, not like an ad campaign.
Recurring monthly subscriptions, sized for the desk you run today.
Starter
$49/month
For small teams and single-title publishers
- AI article writer
- SEO headlines & meta descriptions
- AI featured images
- One-click publishing
Most newsrooms choose this
Professional
$199/month
For newsrooms publishing daily, in more than one language
- Everything in Starter
- Editorial style rewriting
- Multilingual translation
- Fact-checking & plagiarism detection
- Automated social publishing
Enterprise
$500–5,000/month
For broadcasters, governments, and multi-title groups
- Everything in Professional
- AI video generation & news anchors
- Podcast creation
- Real-time analytics
- Content licensing
- Custom seats, workflows & support
AI image, video, and voice generation, translation volume, content licensing, and API usage above plan limits are billed separately.
Roadmap
Kenya first. Then the rest of the wire.
PHASE 1 — KENYA
Launch and refine the platform with Kenyan newsrooms, our first partners.
PHASE 2 — EAST AFRICA
Expand across the region, adding language and workflow support for neighboring markets.
PHASE 3 — AFRICA
Grow into a pan-African platform serving publishers, broadcasters, governments, and institutions continent-wide.
PHASE 4 — GLOBAL
Serve global publishers who cover African news or need multilingual publishing into African markets.
For investors
Software economics, media-scale reach.
- Recurring subscription revenue, not ad-dependent income
- A large, underserved market across African media, government, and enterprise
- AI, one of the most active areas of venture investment worldwide
- High scalability — one platform, many newsroom and institutional customers
- Multiple revenue lines: subscriptions, usage add-ons, and content licensing
Funding path
Who we're building this with.
- Accelerator programs
- Angel investors
- Media innovation funds
- AI-focused venture capital firms
What we're raising
A staged path to building this at scale.
Capital raised at each stage funds the next phase of the roadmap above.
Pre-seed
US$250,000 – US$1 million
Build the MVP, launch Edition One, and prove the model with first newsroom customers in Kenya.
Seed
US$1 million – US$5 million
Add translation, verification, and distribution capabilities, and expand across East Africa.
Series A
US$10 million+
Scale continent-wide across Africa, and into global publishers covering African news.
Long-term vision