Njia designs AI-first platforms that connect neighbours, local experts and businesses around the things people own — so fewer things go to waste, and nobody is left alone with them.
Bikes in cellars, tools in drawers, gear bought for one weekend. Nobody nearby knows they exist, so the neighbour buys another.
Nothing says what was done to them, so buying new feels safer than buying second-hand — or than repairing.
The person who could fix it often lives two streets away. Nobody knows who they are, and few people are comfortable asking a stranger.
Forums are generic, and AI answers with the same confidence whether it knows or not.
Off-the-shelf software rarely fits a workshop or a shop floor, and custom software takes months.
Njia means “the path” in Swahili. A path is never built in one go: it takes shape where people keep walking. Once it exists, it makes the way easier for everyone.
That is how we work. We start from one concrete need, walk it with the people who have it, and turn what works into building blocks the next community — or the next business — can reuse.
Vision
A world where things are used for as long as they can be, know-how moves freely between people, and the help anyone needs is a neighbour away.
Mission
Build the paths between people, the things they own and what they know — one concrete need at a time, each path reusable for the next.
We design every platform AI-first: AI that builds knowledge and reconnects people — never AI that replaces them.
It extracts, structures and links what people know and notice. Every fact keeps its source, and a person validates it before it counts.
It prepares the right question, with the right context, for whoever can answer it — a neighbour, a volunteer, a professional. It connects; it does not replace.
Our platforms can be used from the AI assistant you already use, with your permission.
We build for communities first, then reuse what works for businesses and teams on the ground.
Community platforms
For neighbours, local experts and the groups that bring them together.
Solutions for businesses and towns
For shops, repairers, workshops, towns and associations that serve a community.
A custom tool in two weeks
For any team whose real-world work runs on paper, spreadsheets or habit.
Our first path
Our first community platform is in private beta in France. It helps neighbours keep each other’s bikes on the road.
Why bikes? A bike is owned, loved, neglected and in need of help — the whole problem in one object, small enough to start with.
Each platform leaves blocks the next one reuses. These already work in our first one.
Accounts, groups and invitations. Each person chooses who sees what. A town, never an address. Report and block.
What it is, everything done to it since, and what is still unknown — reachable from a QR tag on the object itself.
Lend, give, sell or rent between people, with spare parts visible from your own shelf to your street.
Declared skills, and work recorded then confirmed by the person helped — from a neighbour up to a professional.
Facts with their source. AI proposes, a person decides, and “unknown” is an answer.
Discussions attached to what they are about, and notifications on the web, iPhone and Android, in four languages.
We begin with a specific problem, faced by real people in a real place. We build with them, then develop what has proven itself.
When we do not know, we say so rather than guess. Every piece of information shows its source, and a person validates what the AI proposes. A wrong answer given with confidence would be the worst mistake we could make.
Your things, their history and your information belong to you. You choose who can see them, and nothing is shared without your consent.
We look first for the help closest to you, a neighbour’s; an association or a professional takes over when the situation calls for it. New things are not the enemy; waste is.
What we build for one community or business serves the next. That is how we can offer a first tool in weeks rather than months.
Njia is at an early stage. If you know a community, a trade or a shop floor that would benefit from better tools — or you would like to build them with us — please write to us.
contact@njia.ai