Student hunting a scholarship, PhD after a fellowship, founder chasing non-dilutive funding. NSAI reads your profile and pushes the matches that fit, in your language, the day they open. Full access on the web. Free access on WhatsApp, so it works from a village phone too.
Sources we already watch for you
EU funding, open to African researchers. Deadline in 38 days. Matches your profile at 94%.
12M USD, closes May 30. Non-dilutive. Match score 92% with what you do. You should apply.
Two industrial partners nearby matched for co-filing. We found them for you.
Built for two kinds of people
Master's and PhD scholarships, postdoc fellowships (Marie Curie, Fulbright, Wellcome, Chevening, DAAD, AUF), calls for papers, relevant publications, prior art for your thesis, co-author networks, surfaced the day they open, in French or English.
Non-dilutive grants, accelerator calls, startup competitions, AfDB · AFD · Digital Africa · World Bank · EU funds, active VC deals in your sector, cross-matched with your country, stage and what you actually do. Only the ones you can realistically win.
The problem
Scholarships announced on a ministry site you don't visit. Grants in English when you work in French. Deadlines buried in PDFs, shared too late on WhatsApp. Every week, an opportunity meant for you closes, and you only find out three months later, on LinkedIn, from someone who got it.
of African innovators say they miss at least one funding opportunity per quarter.
source: AfricArena Tech Ecosystem Report 2024
of the world's scientific papers come from West Africa, not for lack of research, for lack of indexing.
source: UNESCO Science Report 2021
across 54 countries, hundreds of funding sources, zero unified search.
source: ECOWAS Commission, 2023
What you get
One login. Live updates. French and English. GDPR and APDP compliant. We read every beta user message.
Master's, PhD, postdoc, mobility grants. Marie Curie, Fulbright, Wellcome, Chevening, DAAD, AUF, national ministries. Filtered by your level, field, country, with deadline reminders you can't miss.
AfDB, AFD, Digital Africa, EU, World Bank, foundations, accelerators, startup competitions. Cross-matched with your sector, stage and country, only the ones you can realistically win.
Papers, preprints, OAPI and ARIPO patents, calls for papers. Readable summaries in your language, and suggested partners if you want to co-file or co-author.
NSAI learns your level, field, country, stage and language, then scores every new opportunity against you. Only matches above your threshold reach you, with deadlines, context and a draft of why you qualify. Ask follow-up questions in FR or EN.
For everyone, even in a village
Good opportunities are useless if you can't pay for the tool that finds them. So the free tier of NSAI runs entirely on WhatsApp. You already have it. It works on any phone, on any 2G. No app to download, no bank card to enter.
Five questions, five answers. Language, level, country, field, what you are looking for.
A PDF, a scan, even a photo. We extract what matters and sharpen your matching.
Each opportunity comes with the deadline, the fit score, and a two-minute guide on how to apply well.
African-hosted infra, encrypted at rest and in transit, GDPR and APDP Benin compliant.
N-Solution, Cotonou. African engineers and researchers. Low-bandwidth friendly.
From West Africa to ERC, from OAPI to Fulbright. If the money or paper can reach you, we index it.
What you get in the beta
You're in from summer 2026, before public launch.
A 1-on-1 call where we set up your watch profile with you.
Your feedback shapes what we build each sprint. We read every message.
Whatever you pay as a beta user, you keep, forever.
Tell us what you're looking for. We pick the first 200 ourselves, no generic waitlist. You get a reply within 72 hours.
No credit card. No spam. You can leave anytime. We answer every message personally.
We'll write back within 72 hours to schedule your onboarding call. Check your spam just in case, our first email sometimes lands there.
Know someone looking for scholarships or funding? Share NSAI with them.
Questions
Private beta opens summer 2026 for the first 200 users, with guided onboarding. Public launch Q4 2026.
Free Community plan for students and individuals. Pro plan at 5,000 FCFA / €8 a month. Team plan at 25,000 FCFA / €40 for 5 seats. Institutional on request. Mobile Money works. Beta users keep the founder price for life.
NSAI is a product of N-Solution, a Digital Innovation Studio in Cotonou, Benin. Built by African engineers and researchers, guided by the Kaizen and Tankyu Practice methods.
Hosted on African infrastructure, encrypted at rest and in transit, GDPR and APDP Benin compliant, DPO and processing register in place. We never sell your data.
We go deep on Africa, every national authority, BCEAO, UEMOA, ECOWAS, OAPI, ARIPO. On top of that, we pull every international opportunity open to African researchers and founders: Horizon Europe, ERC, Marie Curie, NIH, NSF, Wellcome, Gates, Fulbright, DAAD, Chevening, OIF. If it can reach you, we index it.
Try it. Ask ChatGPT which grants open this week for a PhD in Senegal, it will hallucinate links, cite closed calls from 2023, or miss BCEAO, OAPI, CAMES entirely. NSAI watches live sources in real time, cites the original document with the correct URL, tracks deadlines before they close, and sends you alerts the day a match drops. ChatGPT answers a question once. NSAI works for you every day.
Scholarship blogs are great for discovery but they're newsfeeds, not tools. You still have to read every post, check if it applies to you, copy deadlines into a spreadsheet, and remember to come back. NSAI is a working tool: it learns your profile, matches opportunities for you, reminds you before deadlines, drafts why you qualify, goes deep on institutional sources in French (BCEAO, UEMOA, OAPI, CAMES, national ministries) that blogs rarely cover, and brings the whole thing, scholarships, grants, research, partners, into one dashboard.
Because we do real onboarding calls. 200 is what our small team can properly support while we learn with you. After that, we open to everyone, but beta users keep a permanent edge.
127 / 200 · seats still available
For investors
The paid tier funds R&D. The free WhatsApp tier is our acquisition engine and our impact story. We are raising a $40k pre-seed to cover WhatsApp Business API costs for the first 5 000 free users and to land the first 500 paying ones.
pre-seed target
runway to 5k users
African countries in scope
education, work, equality
invest@n-solution.org · Cotonou, Bénin
