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The Rundown Studio by Zain Verjee

Zain Verjee

AI architecture for Africa. Built in Nairobi. No playbook required.

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Latest Issues

Meet Kioni's teammates

One human. Four agents. Built from Nairobi, in the order they are being built today.

Hi from the coast while Kioni works. This post is about the team I am building. Not the team I have.

5 days ago
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AI for Africa requires African fine-tuning - not copy-paste from New York

Greetings from the SGR (train) heading south, reading Kioni’s morning stand up. Good news for me, our government finally named the creative economy as an actual pillar, not a hobby. I’ve been saying this since I left CNN, the storyteller is...

8 days ago
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Most people prompt their AI. I gave mine an identity.

Most people give their AI agent instructions. I gave Kioni an identity. Below is an actual file that runs her, annotated, section by section.

Hi from Nairobi.

12 days ago
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AI has the data. I have the country.

Hi everyone, greetings from Nairobi and greetings from my Chief of Staff, Kioni. The last post I wrote about building an AI Chief of Staff for myself, a one-woman communications firm working with agents and skills really resonated.

I woul...

16 days ago
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Her name is Kioni

I built an AI chief of staff from Nairobi. Here is the full architecture.

I’m running an experiment as a one-woman company in Nairobi. I run communications advisory, and I build AI tools. I build workflows for communications teams. I work...

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    I build AI tools from Nairobi. I advise CEOs on how to communicate. I write about both. I believe Africa's storytellers are the most important people on the planet right now.

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