Fosura

Why Africa

Built for the estate you actually have. On the infrastructure you're allowed to use.

On-premises deployment. Optional external AI. Local financial rails, mobile money, USSD, agent banking, ISO 8583 and ISO 20022 as first-class product knowledge. Nothing about that is cosmetic.

Why Africa

Africa-native is architectural, not cosmetic.

The product is designed for the region's heterogeneous infrastructure: on-premises deployment, optional external AI, local financial rails, mobile money, USSD, agent banking, and environments where hyperscaler dependence may be undesirable or commercially impractical.

Cloud-compatible/ not cloud-dependent

Runs on-premises, private cloud, VMs, Kubernetes, OpenShift — or on hyperscaler infrastructure when institutions choose it.

AI-enhanced/ not AI-dependent

Deterministic discovery works without any external LLM. Bank-approved models used only when permitted.

Bank-controlled data plane/ sovereignty by default

Source code, schemas and sensitive metadata remain inside the institution. The discovery node runs where you deploy it.

Heterogeneous infrastructure/ built for African rails

Mobile money, USSD, agent banking, ISO 8583, ISO 20022 are first-class product knowledge, not adapters.

Regional context

Financial hubs where local rails, standards and mobile-money ecosystems shape the estate in ways generic modernization tooling doesn't model.

  • LagosMobile money · NIBSS
  • NairobiM-Pesa · Pesalink
  • JohannesburgBIAN · SARB
  • CairoISO 20022 · InstaPay
  • AccraGhIPSS
  • CasablancaSWIFT · CMI
  • DakarBCEAO · UEMOA
  • Addis AbabaTelebirr · EthSwitch
Positioning

Complement your existing platforms.
Amplify their value.

Existing products are good at their jobs. No single one is designed to continuously reconcile all of them into a bank-semantic model of actual implementation reality — especially with Africa-first deployment constraints.

Integration & ESB platforms
Integration and API implementation and runtime
Do not replace. Ingest catalogs and flows; help teams decide what capability exists and whether an existing interface is semantically reusable.
Enterprise architecture repositories
Application portfolio and capability modeling
Do not replace by default. Reconcile modeled architecture with discovered technical evidence; bootstrap and continuously update mappings.
CMDB / ITSM platforms
Configuration, ownership, service relationships
Treat as an authoritative operational source; add business semantics and cross-source reconciliation across the estate.
BIAN
Banking semantic and reference architecture and APIs
Use as a standard foundation. Map actual systems to BIAN rather than build a competing banking ontology.
Hyperscaler modernization tools
Legacy analysis, code and dependency understanding
Acknowledge strong technical discovery. Differentiate on bank-local deployment, cross-source reconciliation, banking semantics and Africa-specific ecosystem knowledge.
Consulting / systems integrators
Transformation discovery, architecture, migration
Make their experts faster and preserve the knowledge they create. Expert implementation does not disappear — it compounds in the graph.

Next step

Complement the platforms you already run.

No existing platform is displaced. Each becomes a source of evidence or a consumer of intelligence.

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