We turn the data you already hold into decisions, systems and skills.
Talanta 10 is a data, AI and technology company in Dar es Salaam. We help NGOs prove their impact and banks understand their customers, across Africa and the Pacific, with AI that can run entirely on your own servers.
Seven services, one data value chain.
Most clients start with one service and add others as the work compounds. An assessment leads to a warehouse build. A research programme leaves behind a live dashboard. A dashboard creates demand for people trained to extend it.
Collect
Offline-first capture in the field, and integration with the systems you already run.
Store
One governed store, so reporting stops depending on who ran the export.
Model
Agreed definitions of a customer, a branch and a month, in one place.
Analyse
Dashboards, research and machine learning, on data that can be trusted.
Decide
Findings that reach the person who can act, while they can still act.
Skill
Your own team trained to run and extend all of it.
Data strategy
A maturity assessment scored across five dimensions, a target architecture, and a roadmap costed and sequenced by value. Covers data ownership, governance, Personal Data Protection Act readiness, and an honest view of which AI use cases are viable this year.
Data Science Academy
Cohort programmes in Power BI, Python, SQL, machine learning and generative AI. Participants work on live client problems with real data, are mentored one to one by our engineers, and finish with a capstone project defended before a panel.
Applied AI & machine learning
Credit scoring on mobile money and other alternative data, churn prediction, fraud and anomaly detection, revenue forecasting and document processing. Built in Python, deployed into your systems, and handed over with an evaluation harness and a retraining runbook.
Large language models on your server New
Open-weight models, fine-tuned on your policies, products and Swahili, running offline on affordable, high-performing servers inside your own premises. Knowledge assistants, contract and application review, and analysis of thousands of survey verbatims. No data leaves your perimeter and there is no per-token bill.
Data analytics & business intelligence
Data warehouse, semantic model and dashboards, built in Power BI, Tableau, Qlik, Looker or an open-source stack. We resell none of them. The model underneath is portable, so changing platform later means a new front end rather than a new project.
Customer experience research
NPS, CSAT and CES tracking, mystery shopping, and branch and agent audits, run on offline tablets and smart glasses with GPS and time stamps. Findings reach branch managers on a live dashboard while fieldwork is still running.
Results-based MEL & impact harvesting For NGOs
Results frameworks, baseline to endline evaluation, outcome harvesting and live dashboards that carry evidence from the field to the boardroom, then success stories and short films that make funders feel it.
Powerful large models on your server.
We deploy open-source large language models, and fine-tuned versions of them, on hardware you control. The same class of model behind commercial AI assistants runs inside your own environment, trained on your documents, terminology and languages.
Affordable, high-performing servers
Today’s open-source models run well on a single, well-specified server sized to your workload. No data centre, no supercomputer.
On your premises
Installed in your office or data centre, and operated by your own team with our support.
Fully offline
No internet connection is needed to run it. Model and document updates are delivered on a controlled cycle.
Try before you buy
A pilot on a ready-configured server, tested on your own documents, before you commit to any hardware.
Training on real problems, with real data.
Certificates are easy to collect and hard to trust. Our cohorts finish with something a participant has actually built, defended in front of a panel, and can show an employer.
- Real problems drawn from live client work and partner organisations, not textbook exercises.
- Real data that is messy, incomplete and occasionally contradictory, because that is what waits at work.
- One-to-one mentorship from a practising engineer for the length of the cohort.
- Weekly review of work in progress, so nobody discovers they are lost in week nine.
- A capstone project defended before a panel that includes practitioners from industry.
Built once, deployed many times.
Alongside project work we build and license platforms for financial regulators and financial institutions.
SupTech Solutions
A new generation of supervisory technology, replacing paper and spreadsheet returns with secure automated data collection and real-time analytics for regulators.
DFS Supervision Platform
Automated collection and analysis of digital financial services data, giving supervisors accuracy and speed that manual returns cannot match.
Consumer Protection Suite
Tools to identify, flag and prevent fraudulent activity, and to meet consumer protection reporting obligations.
Business Intelligence
Dashboards, KPIs and reports customised by department and role, delivered to desktop and mobile.
Six countries, and counting.
SupTech in Ethiopia
Changing how the central bank collects and analyses data from six financial institutions, replacing manual returns with an automated supervisory pipeline.
Read moreData strategy for five central banks
Data architecture, supervisory data and sequenced roadmaps for five central banks across the Pacific and Africa, delivered with UNCDF.
Read moreGender-Smart Product Design
Working with selected financial service providers to build and pilot a roadmap for products that widen access to finance for women.
Read moreTwo tools, one for each kind of organisation.
A few minutes of honest answers, and you leave with something useful to act on, whether or not you ever speak to us.
AI & data readiness assessment
Twelve questions scored across five dimensions. You get a maturity level from ad hoc to intelligent, and a roadmap for the next three, nine and eighteen months.
Start the assessment For NGOs and development partnersNGO data & technology health check
Twelve problems NGOs tell us about all the time. Say which sound familiar, and see what causes each one, what to try this month, and how to fix it.
Take the health checkA multi-disciplinary team solving important problems with data.
Researchers, engineers and trainers in one team
Not three separate businesses. That is why a survey we design can end in a dashboard we built, sitting on a warehouse we engineered, run by people we trained.
A culture of impact
Strategic information investments are useless if they do not help the organisation deliver on its promised impact. We measure ourselves against that, not against deliverables shipped.
Value for money
We are open-source first and we resell no platform, so there is no licence margin buried in our advice and nothing you cannot keep running without us.
Organisations we have delivered for.
Tell us what you are trying to get right.
Most of our work begins with a short scoping call about a decision someone is tired of guessing at. There is no charge for it, and no obligation at the end.