3Mega.ai is an applied AI research company. We build intelligent systems at the intersection of rigorous science and real-world impact — tackling complex, consequential problems across industries and geographies where machine intelligence can make a genuine difference.
Founded in 2019, 3Mega.ai is an applied AI research company committed to one central thesis: that artificial intelligence, applied with rigour and intention, can unlock meaningful value in domains that have long been overlooked by mainstream technology.
We pursue research across a deliberately broad range of fields — from industrial and environmental systems to human language, communication, and culture. Our work is driven by the belief that the most impactful AI breakthroughs often happen not at the centre of the established frontier, but at its edges.
We are researchers, engineers, and domain specialists who share a commitment to building AI systems that are not only technically excellent but genuinely beneficial to the societies and communities they serve.
We select research problems not by their proximity to established AI benchmarks, but by the depth of their real-world consequences.
We build AI systems capable of performing complex assessments historically reserved for certified specialists — delivering greater consistency, scalability, and accessibility without sacrificing accuracy.
We invest deeply in the languages, dialects, and communicative traditions that remain invisible to mainstream NLP — building speech, understanding, and generation systems for communities the global AI ecosystem has left behind.
From environmental compliance to complex industrial process monitoring, we apply AI to domains with measurable societal consequences — where automation can reduce risk, improve compliance, and protect public health.
The most important problems are rarely the most data-rich. We develop novel training, augmentation, and evaluation strategies for settings where ground-truth data is scarce, noisy, or structurally complex.
We deliberately seek out industries and disciplines that have not yet benefited from modern machine learning — bringing state-of-the-art AI techniques to fields where transformative impact is highest.
We believe AI infrastructure should serve all of humanity. Our research is oriented toward building systems that expand access, reduce bias, and create value broadly — not merely for the most commercially attractive markets.
Two arms of the same operation — production and commerce, working in parallel toward the same mission.
Bantu language infrastructure for frontier AI
BantuNomics is 3Mega.ai’s commercial infrastructure for Bantu languages — a complete machine-readable substrate of Full Syllable Inventories, native-speaker recordings, and standards documents for the family of 752 Bantu languages spoken by 400 million people. Frontier AI labs subscribe to access the substrate the way English-language stacks adopt UTF-8: as the closed enumerable foundation that lets a multilingual model actually work in Bantu.
Read more on 3mega.aiWhere the recordings come from
amina is 3Mega.ai’s production engine — the contributor-facing recording platform where native Bantu-speaking communities contribute paid, consented audio that becomes the substrate BantuNomics delivers. Same parent. Same database. Same schema. Same speakers. The Founding Partner subscriptions that fund BantuNomics fund the next cycle of recording work on amina.
Read more on 3mega.aiProduction and commerce arm-in-arm. amina captures consented audio at the source; BantuNomics licenses the resulting substrate to AI labs. Both share one operating entity, one schema, one consent standard. Subscriptions fund recording. Recordings deepen the substrate. The flywheel turns at the speed the apparatus can sustainably turn it.
A five-person team united by the conviction that the most consequential AI work happens far from the spotlight — complementary expertise across research, engineering, operations, capital, and academia.
A PhD engineer with board certifications in both chemical engineering and control systems, and professional designation as a Certified Automation Professional from the International Society of Automation. His doctoral research focused on the application of soft computing technologies — including artificial intelligence, fuzzy logic, and genetic algorithms — to the modelling and control of complex nonlinear process systems.
With over a decade of experience leading large-scale engineering programmes at a global engineering firm, and a track record of award-winning technical innovation, he brings a rare combination of rigorous scientific training and industrial depth to 3Mega.ai’s research mission.
A PhD scientist and software engineer whose academic roots span quantum optics and computer science — a foundation that has shaped a deeply analytical, systems-first approach to building AI. He brings nearly a decade of product engineering experience from one of the world’s leading semiconductor companies, where his final years were spent as an applied AI research scientist.
A recipient of corporate recognition for the breadth and impact of his contributions, he leads 3Mega.ai’s technical vision and research agenda with equal fluency across theory and practice.
An engineer and operator with senior responsibility for site reliability at a Fortune-100 networking and security company, leading globally distributed infrastructure for security-software systems used by millions of organisations. His career spans pre-acquisition leadership at an enterprise security firm later acquired by his current employer, with formative training at a Canadian research university.
He brings to 3Mega.ai the operational discipline of running mission-critical AI infrastructure at hyperscale — uptime, observability, incident response — that turns research artefacts into reliably deployed systems.
A CFA charterholder serving as an analyst at a long-established United Kingdom private asset-management firm rooted in one of Europe’s oldest family-office traditions. His training in capital markets, risk-adjusted return analysis, and institutional-grade allocation discipline brings 3Mega.ai a commercially literate perspective on long-horizon research-to-deployment economics.
His work anchors how applied AI translates into institutional and societal value across generations — and how the research roadmap connects to disciplined commercial strategy.
A full professor of biological and environmental sciences at a United States public liberal-arts university, with a sustained peer-reviewed publication record on environmental health and remediation in southern African communities — drinking-water quality, trace-metals pollution, post-mining ecological recovery.
His academic-research methodology and his long engagement with underserved communities anchor 3Mega.ai’s commitment to applying AI in domains where rigorous science and meaningful social consequence converge.
3Mega.ai is operated by 3 Mega LLC, a Domestic Georgia LLC formed April 23, 2019 (Control Number 19059423), in active compliance with the Georgia Corporations Division and current on its 2026 annual registration. Registered in Georgia, USA, with a professional registered agent of record.
All subscription contracts and licensing arrangements counterparty 3 Mega LLC unless otherwise specified. Subsidiaries and operating brands include BantuNomics and amina.
Whether you are a prospective research partner, a potential customer, an institution, or a collaborator who shares our conviction that AI can do more — we would love to hear from you.