Everything a journalist, partner or platform needs to write about Afrilingua, Aura, Padi and Gist accurately: descriptions of every length, naming rules, founder bio, assets, and a contact.
Taiwo Raji, Founder — [email protected]
Afrilingua, Aura, Padi and Gist all refer to different things. Please don't collapse them.
| Name | What it is | Use it for |
|---|---|---|
| Afrilingua | The app and platform. The thing the user installs. | App Store listing, home-screen icon, permission prompts, company name (Afrilingua AI). |
| Aura | The AI assistant inside Afrilingua. The product brand for everything intelligent. | Product copy ("Aura just drafted that"), the desktop nervous system, the browser extension (Aura Companion), the VS Code participant (@aura), the sandbox (Aura Code). |
| Padi | The persona and wake-word for Aura. West African Pidgin for friend. | "Hey Padi", "Ask Padi", warm conversational copy. Never a separate product name. |
| Gist | The social network inside Afrilingua. Federated on the AT Protocol. | "Posted on Gist", "their Gist profile", "Gist DMs", handles like @you.afrilingua.ai. |
Afrilingua is the app you install once and live inside. Beneath that single brand sit two products that share the same identity, the same personal knowledge graph and the same memory of you.
Aura is the assistant. It runs on mobile, web, desktop, your browser, your IDE and a hosted sandbox — eight surfaces, one mind. It speaks to your calendar, email, SMS, GitHub, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Spotify, Plaid, Flutterwave, Home Assistant, smart-home devices, your contacts, your files and your code. The voice and personality of Aura is Padi — West African Pidgin for friend.
Gist is the social half — a federated network on the AT Protocol, the same open protocol that powers Bluesky. Your handle is @you.afrilingua.ai, your posts and follows are portable, and the network you live on is the open one.
Taiwo Raji is the founder of Afrilingua AI. He started Afrilingua to build the personal AI he wanted to use: one assistant across every device, with memory you control, on a social network you own. African-rooted, globally built.
Contact: [email protected]
Need vector files, dark/light variants, or per-product (Aura / Gist) marks? Email the press contact above — we'll send them direct.
Inter for UI and body. JetBrains Mono for code and handles.
| Do | Don't |
|---|---|
| "Afrilingua, the app, with Aura inside." | "The Aura app." Aura is inside Afrilingua, not the app itself. |
| "Aura — your padi." | "Aura Padi." There is no compound name. |
| "Hey Padi…" | "The Padi app." There is no app called Padi. |
| "Posted on Gist." | "Posted on Aura." Posts live on Gist; Aura helps draft. |
| "Built by Afrilingua AI." | "Built by Jarvis." Jarvis is an internal codename and is not user-facing. |
@you.afrilingua.ai