Trusted across Africa

Helping African organisations put AI to work

We are an AI consulting and engineering firm that helps organisations choose the right opportunities, prepare their people and put reliable AI systems into everyday use.

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One team for strategy, training and AI engineering

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API endpoints running in production on a client's own servers, across the platforms we have shipped.

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An AI consulting and engineering firm

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Meet our team

Supreme Oyewumi

Founder & AI Engineer

Builds the agents, private LLM deployments and data pipelines, and the AWS platforms behind them — Kubernetes, Terraform, full observability. MBA in Advanced AI and Automation (Nexford); PGD in digital innovation and cloud technology.

Kola Olatunde

Co-Founder and AI Cybersecurity & Governance Lead

Virtual CISO in healthcare, finance and software. Multi-cloud zero-trust; AI controls for LLMs and AML built to NIST AI RMF and the EU AI Act. PCI-DSS, SOX, HIPAA. MSc Cyber Security; SC-100, CEH.

Obruche Uwanoghor

Executive Director of People & Culture

Senior HR and operations leader; most recently COO at Garment Care Ltd, before that HR Manager at Bx-Edge Limited. Educational Psychology, University of Lagos. Owns facilitator standards and the ninety-day follow-through.

Tosin Salami

Executive Director, Product & Strategy

Director of Product Management, Transfer Solutions (EMEA) at Mastercard. Previously COO at Rabafast, and Head of Product at AZA Finance across eight African markets. Owns our product line.

Our Journey

How Cognis Group has grown

We started in Lagos with one conviction: AI should improve real work, not remain an idea in a presentation. Today, we support organisations across Africa and beyond.

Q2 2024

Founded as a strategy and AI advisory practice in Lagos, Nigeria.

Q3 2024

Conducted AI trainings in partnership with state government.

Q4 2024

Launched workforce training programmes for business and public-sector teams.

Q1 2025

Shipped agent and automation builds and deployed ML models for a SaaS martech company.

Q2 2025

Shipped an observability platform for a Nigerian federal agency, live on the agency's own servers.

Q3 2025

Launched Cognis Academy, our multi-tenant training platform, hosted in Johannesburg.

Q4 2025

Delivered AI training in Canada for the Ontario College of Management and Technology.

Q1 2026

Released Cognis Brain — private AI running on a client's own servers.

Q2 2026

Built and shipped an executive intelligence platform for a Nigerian commercial bank.

Q3 2026

Rebuilt MarketSage and moved it onto our own hosting.

Trusted by organisations across three continents

What we touch, we change

Cognis Group combines deep knowledge of African markets with global AI expertise. We help people work better with AI; we do not use it to replace them.

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