Building Centrigon — One Piece at a Time Shipping the first small piece of a much bigger system Every time an African developer talks about building a global tech product, the same criticism eventually appears. “Why not focus on African problems instead?” “AI startups from Africa are unrealistic.” “You’re competing with companies that have billions of dollars.” To be fair, it’s not a completely unreasonable reaction. The companies pushing the boundaries of modern AI today—like OpenAI—operate with enormous research teams, infrastructure, and funding that runs into the billions. So when someone building from Africa says they’re working on something ambitious, the default assumption is that they’re either naïve or wildly optimistic. For what it’s worth, I’ve heard those criticisms more than once. But that’s partly how Centrigon started. The Moonshot Centrigon isn’t meant to be just another app. The long-term vision is a system that is: multimodal persistent au...