BANTUNOMICS
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The catalogue

Everything we offer, and how to reach it.

The BantuNomics substrate is one program of 11 products across the Bantu-language AI stack. This is what each is, why it matters, what you can use right now versus what a license unlocks, and the access ladder that governs it.

11 products 5 access tiers 459 FSIs released One token · every subdomain

How the platform is built — the living foundation →

The access ladder
One substrate. You choose how much of it you hold.

Every tier is the same living platform, not a different product. Public proves the gap for free. Evaluation scores your model against the foundational layer — free, self-serve, and your agent can run it. A Validation Pilot opens all eight domains on three languages you choose, and is fully creditable. A Full Annual Subscription opens the whole program, including everything added while you're subscribed.

TierPriceLanguagesAudioCuration
Public
Prove the gap before you talk to us. The Alphabet Test on the public languages, the public L26 leaderboard, the coverage atlas across all 459 released inventories, the proof-set articles, and full agent discovery — llms.txt, MCP and the ecosystem index, so your agent can find and read everything here on its own. No login, no key.
$0 coverage & provenance, all 459 released public samples the published standard
Evaluation
Benchmark your own model against the foundational layer, free, in minutes, with no approval step. You get the scored Alphabet Test and the full L26 Lite suite — run closed-book and open-book so you can see your model's tool-lift, against English and Pinyin control tracks as well as Bantu ones. Your agent can run the whole battery itself over MCP or plain HTTP. Every run is scored and kept, so you can retest after training and show the improvement over time, and share results with your team. Scores only — the inventories, the audio and the exports begin at Pilot.
$0 · self-serve assigned test languages scored against the certified standard
Validation Pilot
The conversion bridge, and 100% creditable against a subscription. Choose three languages and hold everything we have for them across all eight domains — syllable inventory, tone, nouns, verbs, numbers, health, grammar and stories — with consented native audio in both modes, clean Bantu and the Bantu-English code-switch a speaker actually uses, plus the same English stories read by speakers of different Bantu first languages for accent robustness. Full APIs, MCP, exports and benchmark kits, L26 Lite widened to ten Bantu languages, and measurement on your own held-out data.
Talk to us · 75 days 3 you choose consented native, both modes ✓ full moat
Full Annual Subscription
Not a dataset — the whole living program. Every domain and every product line across every released language, the complete consented audio corpus, all APIs, MCP and bulk export. The platform is continuously curated and always growing in both width — more languages — and depth — more domains and more audio — and everything added while you are subscribed is yours at no extra cost. You steer what gets built next. This is a subscription to infrastructure that compounds, not a file that ages.
Talk to us every released language the full corpus, uncapped ✓ continuous
Funder Showroom
A non-commercial, invite-only view for mission-aligned funders — the breadth of the ecosystem their support makes possible, across every released language.
By invitation every released language sampled
The economics of the bundle
Every recording is six datasets.

One consented, time-segmented Bantu→English recording is not a single labelled example. It is the ground truth for six things frontier labs otherwise buy from six vendors — so a Full Annual Subscription licenses the whole substrate, not a file.

01

Code-switch ASR

Natural Bantu→English switching with a known switch point — pre-labelled train + eval data.

02

Bantu-accented English

The English half, spoken by native Bantu speakers — accent-robustness and fairness data.

03

FSI alignment target

Each word decomposes into its language's Full Syllable Inventory — the tone-bearing units an aligner needs.

04

Pronunciation & TTS

Consented native pronunciations keyed to meaning — a clean, tone-aware basis for synthesis.

05

Self-grading benchmark

A turnkey accent-robustness eval with a frontier baseline — the segmentation is already structured, so no labelling vendor and no drift.

06

Domain & homograph truth

Clinical terms, spoken numerals, tonal minimal pairs — the meaning flat text can't encode.

The products
What's in the catalogue.

Ordered by maturity. Each card separates what is open to use now from what a license unlocks.

Full Syllable Inventories (FSIs)

Syllabic Alignment Matrices
Production · licensing core
BTS-S100 / BTS-API-100

The operating alphabet of a Bantu language — the complete, closed set of syllables it uses. Infrastructure, not a dataset.

Why it matters — No frontier model can produce even one unaided; it stops BPE tokenizers from fracturing syllable boundaries and gives aligners the tone-bearing units.

Use now

  • Alphabet Test (/alphabet-test)
  • Operating-alphabet benchmark
  • coverage.json
  • why-fsi essay
  • llms.txt + MCP descriptor

Licensed

  • Full FSI matrices per language (/api/v1/fsi/<iso>)
  • Consented 48kHz audio (NSI+ASI) recordings
  • Bulk export (/api/v1/export)
  • Full Atlas
Public proves the gap; evaluation is SCORES ONLY — the Alphabet Test and the L26 Lite suite on the assigned languages, never the inventory itself; pilot gives FULL DEPTH on the selected languages across all eight domains (FSI, Tone, Nouns, Verbs, Numbers, Health, Grammar/UCM, Stories — auto-included by coverage); a Full Annual Subscription licenses all 459 released.
Open Full Syllable Inventories (FSIs) →

BTS Standards

Governed Bantu standards
Released · versioned
BTS-S100 · BTS-API-100 · BTS-E100 · BTS-UCM100

The auditable, versioned standards the whole ecosystem is built to — syllables, API, equations, concord.

Why it matters — Enterprise adoption needs a governed, citable specification, not a moving target.

Use now

  • Standards hub
  • 4 standard overviews (scope, versions, section maps)
  • 2 reference abstracts

Licensed

  • Full downloads / exports
  • Governed change data
  • Admin
Overviews are public; the governed artefacts and change history are gated.
Open BTS Standards →

Equations

Formal language equations
Developed · registry live
BTS-E100

A formal equation registry for syllable, morphology, numeral and syntax construction across the family.

Why it matters — Turns linguistic rules into executable, testable equations a model can be graded against.

Use now

  • Teaser home
  • /try/lab (Bemba, 4 noun classes)
  • /api/try/compose-noun
  • 3 sample equations

Licensed

  • Full registry (/sets, /equations)
  • Full /api/equations (+ csv / jsonl)
  • Full lab
A live Bemba sample + 3 equations are public; the full registry and exports are gated.
Open Equations →

Tone and Flat Text

A12 codec and tone lab
Developed · demo + corpus
A12 codec

Tone as meaning: the flat-text problem, the ulebomba demonstration, and the A12 tone codec path.

Why it matters — Flat text drops the tone that carries meaning; the corpus proves the homograph gap models can't self-certify.

Use now

  • ulebomba demonstration audio (the public demo)
  • why-it-matters (6-in-1)
  • llms.txt + MCP

Licensed

  • The 81-homograph / 158-take consented corpus audio
  • Proof set
  • ASR benchmark clips
Only the ulebomba demo audio is public; the homograph corpus is licensed.
Open Tone and Flat Text →

Universal Concord Matrix

Agreement engine
Developed · matrices live
BTS-UCM100

A Universal Concord Matrix maps a Bantu language's entire agreement system — the noun class that governs the verb (subject + object markers), the adjective, the pronoun, the demonstrative, the possessive and the relative — across 31 fixed dimensions, certified cell by cell.

Why it matters — In Bantu, one noun class silently controls the whole sentence; text-only models memorize words but miss the class system and produce fluent-but-wrong agreement. The matrix is the ground-truth answer key — the control surface for grammar-aware generation, translation QA, and evals.

Use now

  • /welcome (concept + 31 dimensions + coverage)
  • /sample (Bemba, 6 of 31 dimensions × 8 classes)

Licensed

  • Full 31-column matrices
  • /compare, /evidence
  • All /api/ucm/* exports (json/csv/xlsx)
A Bemba slice is public; full matrices, comparison and exports are gated.
Open Universal Concord Matrix →

Nouns

The Bantu noun, aligned across the family
Integrated · English-anchored matrix live across the family
ABS-400-000

The Bantu noun as a class-driven equation — NOUN = AUG(cl) + PREFIX(cl) + STEM — with the full class + concord system, an interactive builder, and the English-anchored aligned matrix: one concept mapped 1:1 to each language's noun (singular and plural), 352 languages, 127 complete.

Why it matters — The ref_id concept spine gives labs an aligned multilingual noun matrix — not a bag of words — and the class system + consented 6-in-1 code-switch recordings encode the noun-class grammar (concord, sg/pl pairing) flat text can't. It's about the whole family; Bemba leads the trail.

Use now

  • Noun-class equation + interactive builder (/equation)
  • The concept spine (83 anchors) + the aligned-matrix teaser across the family (/matrix)
  • Class + concord system (/classes)
  • Per-language coverage (/languages)
  • llms.txt + MCP

Licensed

  • The full aligned matrix across all languages
  • The generative engine batch + /api/v1/nouns
  • The consented audio corpus + bulk export
Public gets the equation, builder, class system, concept spine, and a cross-family matrix teaser; the full aligned matrix, uncapped engine, audio corpus, and bulk export are licensed.
Open Nouns →

Numbers

Bantu calculator studio + native voice
Integrated · calculator live
BTS-S100

The Bantu numeral substrate + calculator studio, plus two-mode native numeral audio (clean Bantu AND the real Bantu→English code-switch).

Why it matters — Spoken numerals are where code-switch and ASR break; the calculator API is a no-key wedge, the audio is the scarce layer.

Use now

  • Calculator + corpus API (/api/bantu-calc/*, no key)
  • why-it-matters (6-in-1)
  • llms.txt + MCP

Licensed

  • Two-mode audio clips (bantu_only + bantu_english)
  • Studio
  • Bulk corpus
Public gets the full no-key calculator + coverage/consent; the audio clips need a key.
Open Numbers →

Stories

The connected-speech corpus
Integrated · Bemba + Luganda narration live
ABS-1400-000 / ABS-1400-100

The connected-speech domain — the only category with page-length natural speech. Every language is presented on the same three modes: Bantu only (gold-aligned native narration), Bantu & English (interleaved code-switch with a labeled switch point in every take), and English only (the same neutral text read by Bantu L1 speakers).

Why it matters — The labeled switch point is the part nobody else has: one consented take yields the Bantu half, the English half (Bantu-accented English), and the boundary between them — code-switch ASR, accent-robustness and fairness data from a single recording. Page-length speech also carries the prosody and discourse structure isolated words can't, and frontier ASR trips on the accented mode at a measurable word-error rate.

Use now

  • The story method + switch-point structure
  • Per-language coverage (live)
  • llms.txt + MCP

Licensed

  • The consented narration corpus (both arms)
  • Switch-point segmentation + per-half word counts
  • Bulk export
Public gets the method and live coverage; the consented corpus, switch-point segmentation and export are licensed. Audio depth here is the build frontier — full annual subscribers steer which languages get widened and how deep.
Open Stories →

Verbs

The Bantu verb equation
Integrated · Bemba paradigm live
BTS-V100 / BTS-E100-115

The Bantu verb as a 9-slot generative equation — one root expands into its whole paradigm (53 verb types) through the slots — with the full morpheme inventory, an interactive builder, and a 37-chapter tutorial.

Why it matters — Verbs carry most of a Bantu sentence's grammar; the generative engine + consented 6-in-1 code-switch recordings give models the paradigm flat text can't encode and monolingual corpora lack.

Use now

  • 9-slot equation + interactive verb builder (/equation)
  • Tutorial preview (/tutorial)
  • Per-language VT structure + live coverage (/languages)
  • 6-in-1 recordings demo (/why-it-matters)
  • llms.txt + MCP

Licensed

  • The full 37-chapter interactive course
  • The generative engine + /api/v1/verbs (build/decompose)
  • The consented audio corpus
Public gets the equation, builder, structure, and a preview; the full course, engine API, and audio corpus are licensed.
Open Verbs →

Body and Health

Health language packs
Active collection · Bemba deepest
BTS-BH100

A consent-backed clinical-language substrate: body parts + health phrases across 20+ Bantu languages, each concept with two consented native takes.

Why it matters — Clinically-scoped, consented, aligned code-switch audio is the layer monolingual corpora lack — and mistranslation in care is dangerous.

Use now

  • Clinical prove-it (/clinical-test)
  • Body-figure preview (/explore, Bemba demo, audio locked)
  • why-it-matters (6-in-1)
  • Coverage counts (audio-summary)
  • llms.txt + MCP

Licensed

  • Consented audio clips (both modes)
  • Full recordings + /body figure
  • All languages beyond the demo
A prove-it + a Bemba, audio-free body preview are public; the clips and full figure are licensed.
Open Body and Health →

BantuOS

Operating system layer
Vision shell · runtime pending

The governance/vision shell that frames the ecosystem architecture, layer stack and cartridge plan.

Why it matters — It names where the substrate is heading — the symbolic runtime that will compose the primitives.

Use now

  • 9 declarative vision/architecture pages
  • 5 read-only /api/os/* status endpoints

Licensed

Fully public — declarative only; no licensed data behind it yet.
Open BantuOS →
Diligence
Two data rooms.

Diligence data room

Public (buyers / funders)

The public diligence room: what the substrate is, the tiers, the economics, and how to evaluate — no login.

Open Diligence data room →

Engagement data room

Pilot + Full Annual Subscription

The per-engagement room: an org-scoped, encrypted GCS bucket with the agreed deliverables, sample sets and reports.

Open Engagement data room →

Start where you are.

01 · USE NOW

Prove the gap, free

Run the Alphabet Test, the clinical prove-it, or the calculator API — no login, no key.

See the mission →
02 · EVALUATE

Get an evaluation token

Self-serve sign-up opens the scored Alphabet Test and the L26 Lite suite on the assigned languages (Bemba + Nyanja) — rates + L26, saved history, runnable by your agent. No inventory or audio; the data begins at pilot.

API & MCP by tier →
03 · LICENSE

Pilot, then subscribe

A pilot licenses an agreed set with curation; a Full Annual Subscription licenses the whole program.

Access ladder & pricing →

Where this is going next — the domains, languages, and pipeline we're building — is set out in a published product roadmap, available to evaluation customers and above.