# Naija AI Team

- **Event:** [Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon)
- **When:** Oct 26, 12:00 PM – Nov 4, 9:00 PM (EST)
- **Where:** Online
- **Team:** [Yohanna Musa](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/Demperor)
- **GitHub:** https://github.com/Demperor20/naija-ai-team
- **Demo video:** https://youtu.be/p9KI179Rpsg
- **Gallery:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery
- **Page:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/444

Naija AI Team: a business team for Nigeria’s small traders, inside the WhatsApp they already use

My wife sells on WhatsApp from home, with our 18-month-old baby. Every day her sales depend on work she does by hand, between feeds and naps. She shoots product videos, edits them in CapCut, designs flyers in Canva and posts to WhatsApp Status. She answers “How much?” again and again, and keeps track of sales in her head or a notebook. A Status disappears after 24 hours, so if she stops posting, sales stop.

When I went to Farin Gada Market in Jos, I found the same thing on a bigger scale. Traders sell tomatoes by the basket and the crate to buyers from other states. Many of those buyers decide from a WhatsApp post before they ever see the goods. Prices change almost daily as fuel and transport costs move, so every trader has to keep rewriting and reposting their price list at the end of long, tiring days.

They can get business advice, compliance documentation and registrations.

Every trader I spoke to said they can’t stop doing this work, because their sales depend on it. They were glad at the idea of help, but they all had the same fear: “We hope this is not another app we have to download.”

That sentence shaped everything. Naija AI Team has no app to install and nothing new to learn. The owner chats with a team of AI helpers on WhatsApp, the way they already talk to customers.

Send a hello and the team asks a few short questions (your name, business, what you sell, your goal), then proposes a plan for the week.
Send product photos and get Status-ready flyers back. The team checks today’s market prices online and shows its sources. If a price hasn’t been confirmed, the flyer says so instead of guessing.
Send a shop video and the team watches it. It names the products on the shelves, picks the best moments and proposes a Status clip and catalogue items.
Send a voice note in Pidgin and it’s heard word for word, then acted on.
Each owner gets a simple dashboard with sales, who owes them, and proposals waiting for approval.

Nothing goes out without the owner’s OK. Every flyer, price and plan arrives as a proposal they approve, change or reject with a short reply such as “yes all”. The approval rule is built into the code, not left to the AI. Text read from photos, voice notes and videos is treated as information, never as instructions.

We tested it with two very different businesses: a tomato seller at Farin Gada Market and my own online shoe shop. The same team adapted to both.

Built with Meta’s models:

Muse Spark runs the lead agent and the specialist helpers, using function calling and structured proposals.
Muse Wonder understands shop videos.
Muse Voice Transcribe turns voice notes into text.
Muse Image creates the flyer artwork.

Our own code then places the exact prices and words on each flyer, so they’re never misspelled. The connection is built for WhatsApp’s Cloud API; during the hackathon we tested through Twilio’s WhatsApp Sandbox while our Meta business account was under review.

The goal is to free up hours every day for the millions of Nigerians who run their businesses on WhatsApp, so they can spend that time selling and with their families.

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