We exist for the new kind of ideas that feel ahead of their time but must exist in people's hands today
Tecmie is an applied research lab and design studio led by Andrew Miracle. A team of researchers, engineers, and designers exploring the balance between human ambition and emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and Robotics.
As a team of researchers, engineers, and designers, we don't separate thinking from building.
Every project begins with research as we seek to understand what's possible, what's needed, and where those two things meet. Then we build, with attention to both the architecture underneath and the experience on top.
What we’re exploring
Beyond client work, we run ongoing research and initiatives that push what's possible.
Afrikathon
The pan-African hackathon community we started in 2020. Our first virtual edition drew 1,600 sign-ups from 21 countries for a five-day remote design sprint.
Build Africa
Our open source civic-tech network on GitHub, 2017–2020: a missing persons archive for Nigeria, a Ghana hospitals directory, and an open database of political manifestos.
Candy
A specification language for stateful backends: describe actors, flows and policies once in a .candy file, and generate idiomatic Go, Rust, TypeScript or Python.
ChatKJV
A GPT-powered chatbot that answers how you feel with a King James Bible verse. We built it in 24 hours in January 2023, and it reached 10k users in five days.
Daccred
Our on-chain credentials and trust company, registered as Immutable Labs. We started with NFT credentials in 2022 and now build Attest Protocol.
Fundraise AI
A RAG chatbot over an investor dataset we curated, built and open-sourced in two days in September 2023 to help founders find VCs, micro VCs and angels.
Lab AI
Our 2023 research preview that read lab reports and turned values, units and reference ranges into plain language for patients, with an open-source React SDK.
OpenBeam
Real-time Bible verse detection for live sermons, in the browser: four merged detection strategies over a live transcript, with an OBS overlay for broadcast.
Polls Market
Our 2022 prediction-market experiment on Polygon, where people traded MATIC and poll NFTs on outcomes of the Big Brother Naija show; later shipped as BBN Polls.
Rettiwt
Our open-source Twitter simulation from 2023, where GPT-driven personas post, reply and react to one another, built to test how opinions form and spread online.
Tecmie Venture Studio
We are the venture lab behind Daccred, ChatKJV and Afrikathon: how we pick founders, build Web3 and AI products, and what has shipped.
TensorKit
Our AI kits company: small, focused tools for voice, chat and agentic workflows, built to find out what real-time AI takes inside a real product.
TETA (Tech Entrepreneur Training Academy)
Our coding bootcamp, launched in Nigeria in September 2018: a 16-week, project-led programme training CTO-level full-stack engineers. Applications closed.
Wootiv
Our AI operations platform, incorporated as Wootiv Corporation in November 2023. Workflows, pipelines and a self-managing mailbox for small business teams.
Workforce
Our 2023 product that scoped software work with AI and handed tasks to vetted engineers across Africa. Won first place at a Soonami hackathon; now parked.
Wyre
Open-source payroll and expense infrastructure we built in 2022–23 to pay employees, contractors and vendors across borders in fiat, crypto or mobile money.
Every great product starts with someone who refuses to accept what exists today.
If that's you, we should
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