Our Story

We built SomaAI because we watched brilliant students disappear.

Every disengaging learner leaves a trail of signals. We built the system that reads them before it's too late.

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“The information gap between learner disengagement and institutional response costs 1 in 5 students their degree. SomaAI closes it.”
— Dr. Kwame Asante-Mensah, Co-founder & CEO
Our Values

Four principles we don't compromise on

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Evidence over intuition

We build on peer-reviewed learning science and validated datasets. Every model claim is backed by reproducible evidence — not product instinct.

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Fairness as a constraint (not an afterthought)

We treat FNR gap limits as hard engineering requirements. Demographic parity is validated before any model goes near a real student.

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Students first, always

Every feature starts with the question: does this actually help the learner? The institution is the customer; the student is who we ultimately serve.

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Open by default

Our fairness audit reports are public. We publish model performance, demographic gaps, and known limitations quarterly — accountability requires transparency.

Who We Are

The people behind SomaAI

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Ama Owusu
Co-founder & CEO

Former ML researcher at Ghana-MIT who watched too many brilliant students fall through the cracks of overcrowded institutions.

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Kofi Boateng
Co-founder & CTO

Built distributed systems at Andela and Flutterwave before turning his attention to predictive learning infrastructure.

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Nana Akua Mensah
Head of Product

Taught computer science at Ashesi University for six years — she understands the instructor’s perspective from both sides of the desk.

Our Journey

Four years from research to platform

2021
Research begins at University of Ghana

First dataset acquired: OULAD (Open University Learning Analytics Dataset). Initial GAT prototype trained on 32,000 student journeys. Dropout prediction AUC: 0.64.

2022
First cohort trial

64 learners. 3 courses. 1 instructor. EdNet and MoocCubeX datasets added. Multi-source training begins. First at-risk intervention triggered manually from model output.

2023
Platform goes live

3 institutions onboarded. 1,200 active learners. First automated at-risk alert sent to an instructor. SomaAI prevents its first documented dropout — 6 weeks after the first signal.

2024
Scale and accountability

12 institutions. 4,821 active learners. First public fairness audit report published. GAT model v3.2 achieves 78% test AUC. FNR gap holds below 5pp across all demographic strata.

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