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Utiva AI Product Lab

Your business problem could become your next AI product.

Bring us the friction, bottleneck or opportunity. We bring the product team to turn it into a working AI solution your organisation can test.

Start with the problemNo technical brief requiredLeave with something working
African product and business professionals collaborating around a laptop in an AI product lab session
Inside the labBusiness context and product thinking meet at the same table.
Lab applications open

Bring a challenge to the Lab

Four short steps. Plain language is perfect.

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Your information

Who should we speak with about the challenge?

About your organisation

A little context helps us understand the environment.

Tell us what is not working

Describe the problem as you experience it today.

What would better look like?

Help us understand the impact and urgency.

✓

Your Lab brief is ready.

Thank you for bringing your challenge to the Lab. The Utiva team will review your brief and contact you at the email you provided.

Problem-firstWe choose the technology after we understand the challenge.
Built visiblyYou review the product as it takes shape—not at the end.
Evidence-ledYou leave with a working first version and a clearer next move.
A product lab, not a consulting deck

Useful AI begins with a real problem.

You do not need to arrive with a model, a technical specification or a finished product idea. Bring the process that is too slow, the knowledge your team cannot access, the customer friction or the opportunity you want to test.

The Lab turns business context into a product your team can see, use and learn from.
An African business leader and product specialist reviewing a real workflow together
Discovery in contextWe study the work with the people who know it best.
Not thisAI for AI’s sake
Not thisA strategy report
Not thisA long hiring cycle
What enters. What leaves.

The challenge shapes the product.

The Lab is a bridge between the problem you understand and the product your organisation needs to test.

Challenges entering the Lab
A process that depends on manual work
Knowledge trapped across people and documents
Customer friction that keeps repeating
Data that does not support decisions
An AI product opportunity to test
Utiva AI Product LabDiagnose.
Build.
Prove.

A multidisciplinary team shaped around one business challenge.

Products leaving the Lab
AI assistants and knowledge copilots
Workflow automations
Internal business tools
Data and intelligence products
Working AI product prototypes
The Lab method

One challenge. Five visible stages.

You stay close to the work. Every stage turns uncertainty into something clearer, more useful and easier to test.

01
BRIEF

Submit the challenge

Share what is happening today, who it affects and what better should look like.

02
MAP

Diagnose the problem

We study the workflow, users, constraints and opportunity before proposing technology.

03
SHAPE

Shape the product

We define the smallest useful product and assemble the right multidisciplinary team.

04
BUILD

Build with your team

Design, prototyping, engineering, testing and feedback happen in visible cycles.

05
PROVE

Prove the next move

You see a working first version and decide what to launch, improve or scale next.

An African product team presenting a working AI product prototype to a business client
Built in the openProgress becomes visible early, so feedback shapes the product before assumptions become expensive.
What the Lab can build

AI products that fit the way work actually happens.

The technology changes with the problem. The goal stays the same: build something useful enough to test in the real world.

01

AI Assistants

Internal or customer-facing assistants that retrieve knowledge, answer questions and support decisions.

02

Workflow Automation

Connected systems that reduce repetitive work, handoffs and avoidable operating time.

03

Internal Business Tools

Purpose-built products for operations, sales, HR, finance and service teams.

04

Data & Intelligence Products

Insight systems and decision tools that make scattered business data useful.

05

AI Product Prototypes

Working first versions that help founders and innovation teams test a product opportunity.

06

Customer Experience Products

Tools that help customers find answers, complete tasks and access services faster.

What you leave with

A product—and evidence for what comes next.

The Lab does not end at a recommendation. It gives your organisation a concrete first version, learning from the build and a clearer path to implementation or scale.

01

A working first version

A prototype or product demonstration your team can see and test.

02

Real feedback

Learning from users, stakeholders and the process itself—not assumptions alone.

03

A product roadmap

A practical view of what to improve, integrate, launch or scale next.

04

Clear documentation

Product, technical and implementation context your organisation can build on.

One challenge. One lab team.

Clear ownership from context to product.

Your team brings the business knowledge. Utiva brings the product leadership and specialists needed to build.

YOU

Company Representative

Provides context, validates the workflow and gives timely feedback.

LEAD

Utiva Product Lead

Owns problem understanding, product direction, communication and delivery quality.

LAB

Product Delivery Team

Product, design, AI, software and data specialists selected around the challenge.

Bring it to the Lab

Tell us what is not working.

Complex problem. Manual process. Customer friction. New AI product idea. If a better product could change the outcome, we want to understand it.

Four short stepsNo technical brief requiredReviewed by the Utiva team
Submit a Challenge