Lesedi Edge V.1 — UmkhoAI
Built for the Edge · Engineered for Africa

Lesedi
Edge V.1
the light

AI that runs entirely on your device. No data required. No connection needed. In your language.

Edge Deployed On-Device
12 SA Languages
0KB Data Required
INT4 Quantised Model
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—isiZulu —isiXhosa —Setswana —Sesotho —Sepedi —Afrikaans —Tshivenḓa —Xitsonga —isiNdebele —siSwati —English —Offline-First —On-Device LLM —Zero Data —POPIA Compliant —Built for Africa —isiZulu —isiXhosa —Setswana —Sesotho —Sepedi —Afrikaans —Tshivenḓa —Xitsonga —isiNdebele —siSwati —English —Offline-First —On-Device LLM —Zero Data —POPIA Compliant —Built for Africa
The Problem We Solve
600M

600 million people still waiting.

Across Africa, 600 million people remain offline — cut off from the AI revolution by data costs, connectivity gaps, and tools that were never built for them. Lesedi Edge V.1 is our answer.

A fully offline AI, trained on African culture and language, that runs entirely on your device. No Wi-Fi. No SIM data. No cloud. Just intelligence — in your language, on your terms.

Built for Real Life

AI for every part of your day.

Lesedi builds a personal profile as you use it — stored 100% on your device. The more you use it, the better it knows you.

01
Homework & Learning
Study support in your home language, any time, any place.
02
Job Interview Prep
Practice questions, craft your story, land the role.
03
Language Learning
Master all 12 official SA languages, offline.
04
Culture & Heritage
Explore your history, your tribe, your roots.
05
Health & Wellness
Health guidance when clinics are far and data is scarce.
06
Work & Productivity
Draft emails, manage your calendar — fully offline.
Early Access
Nationwide Launch

Coming
August 2026.

Be among the first to experience AI that speaks your language — with zero data required. Beta spots are limited.

Limited Beta  ·  South Africa  ·  August 2026
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Limited spots · August 2026

No data shared externally · POPIA compliant

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Technical Architecture
// 01 — Inference Engine
On-Device LLM Processing
Offline-First Architecture

Quantised transformer model (INT4/INT8) deployed directly to device RAM — running inference entirely within the mobile hardware stack. No packets leave the device. No API calls. No round-trip latency.

INT4 / INT8 On-Device Zero Latency
// 02 — Language Support
12 Official SA Languages
Multilingual Transformer Core

Full NLP tokenisation and generation pipelines trained across all 12 official South African languages — including Sesotho, isiZulu, Sepedi, Xitsonga, Tshivenḓa, Siswati and more.

isiZulu isiXhosa +10 Languages
// 03 — Platform Support
Native Android & iOS
CoreML · NNAPI · TFLite

Compiled via platform-native ML runtimes for optimal hardware acceleration. Supports ARMv8-A and Apple Silicon chipsets. Minimum 4GB device RAM. Built for the phones Africans already own.

CoreML NNAPI TFLite ARMv8-A
// 04 — Privacy & Security
Zero Data Exfiltration
POPIA Compliant by Design

All user data, query history, and outputs remain sandboxed within the application container. No telemetry. No logging to external servers. POPIA (Act 4 of 2013) compliant by architecture, not just policy.

POPIA 2013 Sandboxed No Telemetry
Language Support

No language left behind.

Trained on authentic African culture — Lesedi speaks the way you speak. Rotate the dial to explore all 12 official languages.

isiZulu
Zulu Nation · KwaZulu-Natal
Spoken by over 12 million people, isiZulu is South Africa's most widely spoken home language.
01 / 12 Languages
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