About Magana AI
We're building the infrastructure for conversations that don't get missed
Magana AI exists because most businesses lose revenue to conversations nobody got to in time — a missed call, a slow follow-up, a question left unanswered. We built the infrastructure to fix that, starting with the hardest network conditions and toughest compliance landscape we could find, so it would work everywhere else too.
Why we built this
Most businesses lose revenue to a problem that's invisible on any dashboard: the call that rang out, the enquiry that sat too long, the follow-up nobody made. It doesn't show up as churn. It shows up as growth that should have happened and didn't.
We started by solving this in one of the toughest environments for it: low-bandwidth mobile networks, strict compliance requirements, and a market underserved by voice AI tools built for US broadband and American accents. If a voice agent can answer instantly on a 3G line and hold a real conversation in Nigerian English, it can do it anywhere.
That's still how we build. Dedicated local phone numbers, transparent per-minute pricing, and compliance handled as a default, not an afterthought — wherever a business operates.
The name "Magana" means "speech" or "conversation" in Hausa. That felt right.
By the numbers
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Perceived response on Nigerian calls
6
Industry playbooks built in
4
Languages on the roadmap
2026
Year we launched
What we believe
Our values
Built for hard conditions first
We didn't take a product built for US broadband and adapt it later. We designed the architecture around the toughest network conditions and compliance landscape we could find — so it holds up wherever you run it.
Latency is a product decision, not a technical one
A slow response feels broken on a phone call. Everything in our stack, from media routing to persistent voice sessions, exists because we measure every stage of every turn and drive the response floor down release after release.
We eat our own cooking
Every feature we ship is one we've tested on real calls in the toughest network conditions we could find. We don't ship features we wouldn't use ourselves.
Transparent by default
Straightforward pricing in your currency, not hidden fees. Per-minute billing, not per-seat. Call transcripts you own. No black boxes.
Team
The people behind Magana
David Shemang
Founder & CEO
Built the voice pipeline from scratch. Obsessed with the latency problem on African mobile networks.
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Whether you're evaluating Magana, looking to partner, or just want to ask about the product, we'd love to hear from you.