Ona Insights helps organisations working in complex environments understand their data, build AI-enabled systems that fit their reality, and make decisions that stick.
What we do
We are a Nairobi-based data and AI partner — Helping organisations see their data clearly, understand reality deeply, and decide with confidence.
We start by making sense of your data, your systems, and your goals, so you have clarity on what matters and what's missing before anything is built.
We map out the technology and process options to support your operations and decisions, bringing structure to complexity and defining a system that fits your context.
We combine best-in-class tools with custom development to create systems tailored to your workflows, teams, and environment—practical, resilient, sustainable.
We create dashboards, analytics, and AI agents that help you understand what's happening and make confident, timely decisions.
We work alongside your team to build internal capacity so your systems can be owned, maintained, and evolved long after implementation.
Sectors
Constrained infrastructure, limited connectivity, varied data literacy—we design for the conditions our clients actually face.
Health programmes can only deliver what their data can see. We help health teams build the systems to collect, trust, and act on the information that saves lives — from community health worker apps to national surveillance dashboards.
Land restoration, disaster response, and agricultural programmes generate complex data across vast geographies. We help climate organisations bring that data together into systems that track what's changing and guide what to do next.
Last-mile supply chains lose visibility at exactly the point where it matters most. We build the monitoring and reporting systems that give programme managers real-time sight of stock, cold chain, and delivery performance in the field.
Learning outcomes are rarely measured with the same rigour as enrollment. We help ed-tech programmes build the data collection and analysis systems that reveal what students are actually learning — and where interventions will have the most impact.
Getting the right support to the right people depends on data that most programmes don't have in one place. We build beneficiary tracking, case management, and feedback systems that make large-scale social programmes manageable and accountable.
Feedback from communities is only valuable if someone can hear and act on it. We build the feedback, complaints, and CRM systems that turn citizen voices into programme intelligence — at scale, across channels, and in the field.
Adding value with AI
We deploy and configure proven AI tools where they add real value — speeding up collection, sharpening analysis, strengthening governance, and growing your team's capacity.
Reach respondents and sources we previously couldn't — through the channels they already use.
How we help
We bring together best-in-class AI and data tools (often open source) with deep sector expertise. Whether you're building a data foundation from scratch or optimizing an existing system, we work with you as a strategic partner.
Pinpoint what's working, what's missing, and where to focus first. Honest diagnostics before any build.
Senior team members collaborating with your leadership to shape data strategy, governance, and decision frameworks.
Fit-for-purpose platforms, pipelines, AI agents, and visualizations for end-to-end analytics that hold up in the field.
Capacity building that meets your team where they are—from analysts to programme leads.
Long-horizon partnership: maintenance, evolution, and on-call expertise as your needs change.
Why Ona Insights
A decade-plus of field deployments across health, climate, and humanitarian programmes—our patterns are earned, not theorised.
Diagnosis comes first. We map decisions, data flows, and incentives so the right system gets built—not just any system.
Low-bandwidth, offline-tolerant, multilingual, role-aware. Designed for the people who'll actually use it.
Open source where it serves you. Proprietary when it's right. Always documented, always handover-ready.
Strategy through stewardship. We're with you upstream of the brief and downstream of the launch.
About us
We help organizations see their data more clearly, understand their realities more deeply, and make better decisions as a result.
Ona Insights combines strategic advisory and tailored technology to build systems that work in the conditions our clients face: constrained infrastructure, limited connectivity, and varying degrees of data literacy.
Our work starts upstream—helping clients identify the decisions and metrics that actually matter. Not just what's measurable, but what's worth measuring. And we don't just deliver and move on: we embed knowledge transfer into every engagement, leaving your team more capable and ready to build on what we've created.
Our name reflects what we do. Ona means "to see" in Swahili—because at our core, we help organisations see their data more clearly, understand their realities more deeply, and make better decisions as a result.
Ona Insights builds on a strong foundation as a strategic spin-off from the Data & Analytics division at Ona. Our team brings together experienced data scientists, engineers, and development practitioners with a proven track record of delivering high-impact systems across sectors and geographies.
Team
Data scientists, engineers, and development practitioners with shared field experience across health, climate, and humanitarian programmes.
Managing Director
Solutions Lead
AI Engineering Lead
IT Lead
Finance Manager
Analytics Engineer
Data Analyst
Data Consultant
Software Engineer
Data Analyst
Data Consultant
Business Development Manager
Testimonials
Ona Insights brings deep institutional knowledge of our data systems and the commitment to go the extra mile when it counts, truly a reliable partner for any organisation working to deliver impact at scale in challenging environments.
Ona Insights has proven to be an exceptional and highly professional data partner, and I wholeheartedly recommend them for organizations seeking expertise in data architecture, technology strategy, and infrastructure improvement.
Their professionalism and innovative solutions make them an asset to any organization seeking to leverage their data for evidence-based decision making.
Blog
At Ona Insights, we believe that the future of data in Africa is only as strong as the pipeline of talent we invest in today. That belief took shape recently when our team had the privilege of sitting down with a room full of bright, inquisitive students at AkiraChix.
In the world of Community Feedback Mechanisms (CFM), data isn't just information, it's a trust exercise. We're excited to share the results of our recent, multi-phase security pentesting conducted in partnership with the United Nations International Computing Centre (UNICC) Redunit team.
How Ona and UNICEF built NDCs for Every Child: A Digital Platform for Climate Accountability. Today, nearly half of the world's children live in extremely high-risk countries, exposed to severe climate and environmental hazards, shocks, and stresses.
