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Program Terms

African Women in AI Offer

BWENDI is committing a one-year donation of 2 000 000 API credits to approved female entrepreneurs building AI products for Africa. This page sets out the eligibility rules, credit terms, permitted use boundaries, and program conditions for that offer.

Effective Date: March 2026 · Program administered by OSIH, operating as Bwendi, Wynigen, Bern, Switzerland

Program Summary

A one-year infrastructure donation for women building AI for the continent.

The offer is designed to remove infrastructure cost as a blocker for serious builders. Approved founders get access to BWENDI credits for spatial context, address resolution, verification, and AI-grounding workflows across a 12-month period.

  • 2 000 000 donated API credits over a 12-month term.
  • Reserved for female entrepreneurs building AI products for African realities.
  • Subject to BWENDI Terms, Privacy Policy, and Acceptable Use Policy.
  • Application review is discretionary and capacity-aware.
Donation

2 000 000 credits over 12 months

Approved founders receive a one-year BWENDI credit donation worth 2 000 000 API credits. The allocation is designed to fund real product development, testing, and early production use across the first year.

Who It Is For

Female founders and entrepreneurs building AI for Africa

The offer is for women-led ventures building practical AI products, agents, or data systems that serve African markets, users, or operational realities.

What It Covers

Production-grade location context credits

Credits may be used across eligible BWENDI API endpoints for prototyping, evaluation, internal tooling, pilot deployments, and live customer workflows, subject to the core Terms and Acceptable Use Policy.

Linked Policies

This offer sits on top of the standard BWENDI legal framework

Terms of Service

The baseline contract for all BWENDI accounts, platform access, and service use.

Acceptable Use Policy

The operating rules that define prohibited conduct, anti-replication boundaries, and platform integrity requirements.

Program Terms

This page explains who qualifies for the donation, how credits are allocated, and when they can be withdrawn.

Commercial Upgrades

If a participating startup later purchases additional credits or enterprise support, standard pricing and signed order forms apply.

See Terms of Service, Acceptable Use Policy, and Pricing for the wider BWENDI legal and commercial framework.

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What this offer is

The African Women in AI Offer is a BWENDI credit-donation program created to support female entrepreneurs building artificial intelligence products for the African continent. Approved participants receive up to 2 000 000 BWENDI API credits over a 12-month program term.

The purpose of the offer is to lower the infrastructure cost of building serious AI systems that require grounded spatial intelligence, addressability, local context, or device-location verification in African markets.

  • This is a donation of usage credits, not a cash grant.
  • The donation is limited to BWENDI services and cannot be redeemed for money, transferred, or resold.
  • The standard BWENDI Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and Acceptable Use Policy continue to apply.
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Who may apply

This offer is intended for women founders, co-founders, or principal operators of startups and entrepreneurial ventures working on AI products relevant to African markets. Applicants may be based on the continent or abroad, but the product itself must materially serve African users, institutions, or economic systems.

BWENDI may request reasonable evidence of founder identity, company or project ownership, product maturity, and African market relevance before granting access.

  • Applicants must be at least 18 years old and legally able to accept these terms.
  • The applying founder must have authority to use the credits on behalf of the startup or project.
  • BWENDI may limit approval where demand materially exceeds available program capacity.
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How the 2 000 000 credits work

Approved participants receive a one-year credit donation with a total program value of 2 000 000 BWENDI API credits. Unless BWENDI confirms a different schedule in writing, the grant may be released either upfront or in staged tranches across the 12-month term.

Credits may only be consumed by the approved account, project, or startup. They may not be pooled with third-party accounts, assigned to customers, or used as consideration in a resale arrangement.

  • Unused donated credits expire at the end of the 12-month term unless BWENDI agrees otherwise in writing.
  • Any paid credits separately purchased by the participant remain governed by the commercial terms of the applicable plan or top-up.
  • BWENDI reserves the right to meter, throttle, or stage credit release to protect platform integrity and fair program access.
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How donated credits may be used

Donated credits are intended to support real product development and responsible deployment. This includes prototype building, model grounding, customer pilots, internal tooling, workflow automation, field operations, and other legitimate uses of BWENDI spatial intelligence within the participant’s own product or organization.

Use of the credits must remain consistent with BWENDI platform rules, including restrictions on scraping, competitive replication, prohibited surveillance uses, unlawful activity, and unauthorized AI training beyond the scope allowed by BWENDI policy.

  • Use for internal products, customer-facing applications, pilots, and research workflows is permitted.
  • Bulk resale, sublicensing, or brokerage of raw BWENDI outputs is not permitted.
  • Credits may not be used to build a substitute database or directly competing context engine from returned payloads.
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How approval works

To request access, applicants should contact BWENDI with a concise description of the founding team, the AI product being built, the African use case or market being served, and the expected need for BWENDI infrastructure. BWENDI may request follow-up details, a product deck, technical notes, or a short call before final approval.

Approval is discretionary. BWENDI may prioritize applicants based on product seriousness, demonstrated execution, expected social or economic usefulness, and clear alignment with African market realities.

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When BWENDI may suspend or withdraw the donation

BWENDI may suspend, limit, or revoke donated credits if the participant breaches these terms, violates the BWENDI Acceptable Use Policy, misrepresents eligibility, uses the platform in a way that creates legal or operational risk, or materially departs from the represented use case without notice.

BWENDI may also modify, pause, or close the program prospectively if needed for platform capacity, policy, compliance, or strategic reasons. Already-approved participants will be treated in good faith, but BWENDI does not guarantee the perpetual continuation of the program.

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How BWENDI may reference the program

BWENDI may publicly refer to the existence of the African Women in AI Offer as part of its ecosystem strategy. BWENDI will not identify an individual participant, company name, product, or usage metrics as a case study or endorsement without permission, except where such disclosure is already public or legally required.

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Governing law and relationship to other terms

This offer is governed by the laws of Switzerland, specifically the Canton of Bern, unless mandatory law requires otherwise. It supplements, and does not replace, the BWENDI Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, pricing rules, and Acceptable Use Policy.

If there is a conflict between these offer terms and a separately signed written agreement between BWENDI and an approved participant, the signed agreement controls to the extent of the conflict.