01Assess
AI Opportunity Blueprint
Decide where AI is worth applying in your business, and in what order.
- Readiness summary
- Opportunity inventory
- Prioritization matrix
- Implementation roadmap
Mohamed Sheriff · Pan-African Technologist
I helped connect West Africa to the world. Now I build the AI and data systems that run on it.
Two decades across submarine cables, telecom operations, enterprise data and AI, from Freetown to the U.S., Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
Former CEO, Sierra Leone Cable Limited (SALCAB) · Chair, ACE Assignment, Routing & Restoration Subcommittee · Founder, Anunnaki Technology Solutions LLC
Why trust the work
Built and ran the infrastructure before building on it.
CEO and Managing Director, Sierra Leone Cable Limited (SALCAB)
2013 to 2018. Led the national cable landing organization that connects Sierra Leone to the Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) submarine cable.
Chairman, ACE Assignment, Routing & Restoration Subcommittee
More than five years coordinating capacity and outage restoration on a submarine cable system serving 24 countries, from Europe down Africa's west coast to South Africa. Earlier, from 2009 to 2012, co-chaired the ACE Technical Working Group while the cable was being built.
National pension data migration, 50 million+ records
Lead data consultant on the FutureCom project team that cleansed and migrated the data of Sierra Leone's National Social Security and Insurance Trust (NASSIT) into production.
Enterprise data career, including Accenture
Business intelligence consultant at Accenture, including the 2010 U.S. Census field-data application built with Northrop Grumman, after telecom billing and customer systems work at DST Innovis and Amdocs.
MIT Professional Certificate in Data Science and Analytics
Awarded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT xPRO) in August 2024, carrying 36 Continuing Education Units.
Capability
Founder, Anunnaki Technology Solutions LLC
Established 2023. The operating foundation for the advisory practice, the speaking work and the product ventures, including Africa Future Nexus.
Prior employment and consulting engagements, listed as professional history. These organizations are not clients of Anunnaki Technology Solutions LLC and do not endorse this practice.
Three ways in
Hire me, book me, or watch the series.
Companies, governments and NGOs
Hire
AI and data systems that actually work, designed by someone who has run critical infrastructure.
See services →Conference and event organisers
Book
Talks on Africa's connectivity, data sovereignty and practical AI, from someone who helped build the cables.
See speaking topics →Everyone
Watch
Africa's digital future, explained. New Africa Future Nexus episodes every two weeks.
Explore the media page →
Africa Future Nexus
How Technology Affects Africa.
My YouTube series explaining the infrastructure, data and policy that decide how Africa connects, told by someone who chaired the restoration committee of a 24-country submarine cable.
Advisory services
AI and data systems that actually work.
Designed by someone who has run critical infrastructure. Three starting points below; eight services in total.
04Decide
Data and Decision Intelligence
Turn scattered operational data into reporting your team trusts enough to act on.
- Data assessment
- Agreed metric definitions
- Reporting requirements
- Dashboard plan
07Produce
AI Media and Digital Identity Studio
Build a consistent visual and voice identity for professional media, with governance over how it is used.
- Identity specification
- Reference asset set
- Production workflow
- Asset governance
Portfolio ecosystem
The consulting practice and the product work feed each other.
The ventures are where the methods get tested before they are recommended to anyone. Six domains, one connected body of work — the same disciplines a client engagement draws on.
strategy
Strategy and governance
Opportunity assessment, requirements, architecture decisions, agent roles, review standards and documentation governance.
automation
Automation
Workflow orchestration, intake and routing, notifications and scheduled pipelines built on n8n and Python.
data
Data and intelligence
Collection, normalization, classification, deduplication, storage and reporting across operational and editorial sources.
software
Software platforms
Multi-tenant SaaS built with Next.js, TypeScript, Supabase and PostgreSQL, with authentication, tenancy and admin workflows.
media
Media and production
AI-assisted production pipelines covering character and identity continuity, asset governance, editing and frame-by-frame quality control.
community
Community and education
Directory, publishing and curriculum platforms serving diaspora organizations, editorial audiences and structured learning.
Start a conversation
Book a talk, start an engagement, or simply ask.
Tell me about your event, your organisation or the problem you are trying to solve. I reply within two business days.