RAG development · Nigeria

RAG development services in Nigeria

Mobile-first, low-bandwidth products with mobile money built in, from a senior team on overlapping hours.

Clarigo Infotech builds retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems: AI search and assistants that find the right information in your documents, databases and knowledge base, then answer with sources. RAG keeps answers accurate and current without retraining a model, and respects who is allowed to see what.

Nigerian companies most often hire us for fintech, e-commerce and AI products.

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Years of delivery

600+

Projects delivered

20+

Countries served

25-30

Days to a live MVP

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What matters to Nigeria teams

Mobile-first and built for real conditions

African businesses need products that work on any phone and any connection, with mobile money and local payments built in.

01

Works on any connection

Lightweight apps and sites that stay fast on slow networks and older phones.

02

Mobile money and local payments

M-Pesa, Flutterwave, Paystack and card payments integrated.

03

Overlapping hours

Two and a half to four and a half hours from India, so most of the day overlaps.

04

Cost-effective delivery

Senior engineers at offshore rates with full code ownership.

What we do

What we build with RAG

Chat with your documents

Ask questions across PDFs, policies, manuals and contracts and get answers with citations.

Enterprise knowledge assistants

One place for staff to find answers across Google Drive, SharePoint, Confluence and more.

Customer support answers

Grounded answers for support teams and chatbots, drawn from your help centre and product data.

Search over structured data

Combine document search with SQL and APIs so answers include live numbers.

Permission-aware retrieval

Users only get answers from content they are allowed to see.

Evaluation and tuning

Test sets that measure retrieval and answer quality, and tuning until they pass.

In depth

How we approach RAG development

Why RAG instead of fine-tuning

Fine-tuning changes how a model writes; RAG changes what it knows at the moment it answers. For most business questions RAG is cheaper, easier to update and easier to audit, because every answer points to its source.

Getting retrieval right

Quality depends on how documents are cleaned, split, embedded and searched. We use hybrid search (keyword plus vector), re-ranking and metadata filters, and test retrieval separately from the final answer.

Keeping it current and secure

Connectors keep the index in sync as documents change, and access rules from your source systems are applied at query time so nobody sees what they shouldn't.

Measured, not guessed

We build a test set of real questions with expected answers and track accuracy, citation quality and 'I don't know' rates, so you can see improvement and catch regressions.

Working with us from Nigeria

Built for Nigerian teams

Time-zone overlap

Nigeria is four and a half hours behind India, so our working days overlap for most of your morning and early afternoon.

The Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 (NDPA)

We design to the NDPA: lawful basis, consent, security controls and data-subject rights, and we sign NDAs before work starts.

Billing

Invoices in Nigerian naira (NGN) or US dollars. Typical senior rates are $25 to $49 (USD) per hour, or a fixed price for a defined scope.

Sectors · Nigeria

Industries we work with in Nigeria

Nigerian fintech, e-commerce and services companies work with us on platforms, payment integrations and AI products, designed to the NDPA.

Fintech and payments

Lagos fintechs build payments for a fast-growing digital market. We build AI agents, assistants and automation around these workflows.

Oil and gas

Energy firms digitise field operations and compliance. AI here usually means faster reporting, fewer manual steps and better customer replies.

Entertainment (Nollywood, Afrobeats)

Creators and studios monetise global audiences online. We start with one costly process and automate it end to end.

Telecoms

Mobile operators drive data, payments and USSD services. We build AI agents, assistants and automation around these workflows.

Nigerian time · Lagos

Meetings in your time zone

Our team's hours, in Nigerian time

05:30–15:00

Monday to Friday

Overlap with your working day

09:00–15:00

About 6 hours every day

Daily stand-up

09:30

Nigerian time, plus written updates every evening

Local setup

Built for how Nigeria works

Messaging channels

WhatsAppInstagramX (Twitter)

Languages

EnglishYorubaHausaIgbo

Local payments

PaystackFlutterwaveOpay

Data hosting

Nearest: AWS Africa (Cape Town) or Google Cloud africa-south1 (Johannesburg), in your own cloud account, so data stays where your rules require.

Process

How it works

Week 1: discovery and design

We agree the use case, success measures and data, and show you a clickable design.

Weeks 2-3: build and integrate

We build, connect it to your systems and data, and demo working software every week.

Week 4: test and launch

We test with real cases, add monitoring and guardrails, then go live.

After launch: improve and scale

The same engineers keep tuning quality, cost and features as usage grows.

FAQ

RAG development services: questions from Nigeria

Do you work with companies in Nigeria?+

Yes. Clarigo Infotech works with companies across Nigeria, including Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, as part of clients in 20+ countries. Nigerian companies most often hire us for fintech, e-commerce and AI products. We work remotely from India with one in-house team.

What time-zone overlap do we get from Nigeria?+

Nigeria is four and a half hours behind India, so our working days overlap for most of your morning and early afternoon.

How do you handle the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 (NDPA)?+

We design to the NDPA: lawful basis, consent, security controls and data-subject rights, and we sign NDAs before work starts.

Which currency do you bill in, and what does it cost?+

We bill in Nigerian naira (NGN) or US dollars. Senior engineers typically cost $25 to $49 (USD) per hour, and fixed-scope projects such as an MVP in 25 to 30 days are quoted after a free consultation.

Do you support WhatsApp?+

Yes. Customers in Nigeria often prefer WhatsApp and Instagram and X (Twitter), so we connect chatbots, notifications and support flows to them.

Do you work with fintech and payments companies?+

Yes. Fintech and payments is one of Nigeria's key sectors, and aI here usually means faster reporting, fewer manual steps and better customer replies.

What time are your meetings in Nigerian time?+

Our team works 05:30–15:00 Nigerian time, so we overlap with your day from 09:00–15:00. Daily stand-ups are usually at 09:30 your time.

Will people see documents they shouldn't?+

No. We apply the same permissions as your source systems at query time, so each user only gets answers from content they can access.

How long does a RAG project take?+

A focused RAG assistant over one set of sources typically goes live in 25 to 30 days, including a test set to measure quality.