N-Solution N-Solution / R&D Watch
Launching Q4 2026 · beta access open

R&D intelligence in days,
sovereignty that lasts.

N-Solution AI agents eliminate the hours wasted hunting for regulations, funding and patents. You get back the time to build, ship and raise.

Sources and institutions covered

BCEAOUEMOAECOWASOAPIARIPOAfDBAFD · Digital AfricaWorld BankEuropean UnionSèmè CityCAMESarXivHALCIRAD · IRD BCEAOUEMOAECOWASOAPIARIPOAfDBAFD · Digital AfricaWorld BankEuropean UnionSèmè CityCAMESarXivHALCIRAD · IRD
rd-watch.n-solution.org
live · 142 sources · 99.98% uptime
Regulation
BCEAO · PSAN Instruction 2026

New regime for digital asset providers. Direct impact on UEMOA fintech.

confidence 0.97
Funding
AfDB · AI for Development

USD 12M, deadline May 30. Match score 92% with your profile.

match 0.92
Patent · OAPI
Agrivoltaic PV, INSA Cotonou

2 industrial partners suggested for co-filing.

co-filing ready

The problem

African innovation moves in the dark.

Manual work. Screenshots. Spreadsheets. Watch fragmented by country and language. Meanwhile, opportunities slip away.

< 0.5%

of the world's scientific publications come from West Africa.

70%

of calls for projects missed for lack of timely information.

5 languages

official, with hundreds of regulations fragmented across countries.

The product

A stack built like a search engine, augmented by AI.

Four native modules, one experience. Real-time, multilingual, GDPR and APDP compliant.

01
Regulatory

Watch in under 60 seconds

BCEAO, UEMOA, ECOWAS and national authorities. Contextualized alerts as soon as published, in your language.

02
Funding

Automatic profile matching

AfDB, AFD, EU, foundations, accelerators. Cross-matched with your sector, stage and country.

03
Science · Patents

AI summaries in your language

Publications, preprints, OAPI, ARIPO. Automatic detection of academic partners.

04
Community

Secure collaborative lounges

Topic spaces to share watch and deliverables, the Kaizen and Tankyu Practice way.

Infrastructure

Built by engineers, to scale across the continent.

Seven-layer ingestion pipeline, vector database, semantic search, orchestrated LLMs. Hosted in Europe with a West Africa mirror, end-to-end observability.

Python · Scrapy · Playwright
FastAPI · Pydantic v2
PostgreSQL · pgvector
Meilisearch · Redis
Next.js 15 · RSC
Claude · Mistral · NLLB-200
pipeline.rd-watch.run
› ingest.start --sources=142
[fetch]     scrapy + playwright              ok
[parse]     trafilatura · docling             ok
[detect]    lingua-py → fr,en,pt,ar           ok
[translate] NLLB-200                          ok
[embed]     pgvector · 1024d                  ok
[classify]  llm.structured(json_schema)       ok
[match]     profile · sector · country        ok
[notify]    push · email · sms                ok
› 142 docs · 38s · 0 errors

Targeted impact · 36 months

Measurable, verifiable, aligned with Agenda 2063.

+40%
success rate on grant applications
×3
documented South-South collaborations
−60%
time spent on regulatory watch
10k+
innovators connected within 3 years
Private beta · limited access

Join the first builders.

Priority access from summer 2026, personalized onboarding and a founder rate locked for life.

  • Individual onboarding by our team
  • Private lounges reserved for beta users
  • Direct influence on the product roadmap
  • Founder pricing locked for life
form://beta-access
v1.0 · secure

Your data stays private. GDPR and APDP Benin compliant.

Questions

Everything you need to know.

When will the platform launch?

Public launch Q4 2026. Beta users get access from summer 2026 with guided onboarding.

How much does it cost?

A free Community plan, an Innovator plan at 5,000 FCFA / 8 € per month, a Team plan at 25,000 FCFA / 40 € for 5 users, and an Institutional plan on request. Mobile Money included.

Who is behind R&D Watch?

N-Solution, a Digital Innovation Studio based in Cotonou, Benin. A team of African engineers and researchers applying the Kaizen and Tankyu Practice methodologies.

Is my data protected?

Hosted in Europe with a West Africa mirror, encryption at rest and in transit, GDPR and APDP Benin compliant, data processing register and dedicated DPO.