Sabi AI v4 — Backed by Microsoft for Startups

We Built This
Because of Students Like You.

Sabi AI didn't start as a product. It started as a response to real Nigerian student struggles — students with no scholarship guidance, no exam structure, no one to explain a concept at midnight, and study materials they couldn't even open. We built the AI we wish existed.

100,000+

Opportunities & Materials

10

Specialised AI Models

Microsoft

For Startups Backed

93,000+

Digitized Study Materials

The AbS Story

From Handwritten Notes in Lagos to an AI Platform Backed by Microsoft

AbS was founded with one question: why do brilliant Nigerian students keep failing systems that were never designed for them? The average Nigerian student deals with unreliable power, expensive data, photocopied materials from 2008, WAEC results that don't reflect their intelligence, and scholarship applications they fill out in the dark — sometimes literally. We decided to build the platform that changes that.

The Problem

Nigerian students — some of the most motivated learners in the world — were failing not from lack of effort, but from lack of infrastructure. Bad materials. No exam guidance. No scholarship support. No one to ask at 11pm.

The Build

AbS began building Sabi AI as a response — not a product feature. We started with OCR: a way to turn physical, handwritten, and photocopied Nigerian study materials into searchable, AI-readable documents. Over 93,000 materials digitized.

Microsoft Support

Microsoft recognized AbS's mission and backed the platform through Microsoft for Startups — providing the infrastructure and AI compute that powers Sabi AI today. This support made it possible to offer advanced AI tools to students at accessible pricing.

100,000+ Opportunities

Sabi Scholar now hosts over 100,000 scholarship and opportunity listings — the largest verified database for Nigerian students anywhere on the internet. Updated daily. Matched by AI to each student's real eligibility.

Microsoft for Startups — Founders Hub

AbS is a verified Microsoft for Startups portfolio company. Sabi AI runs on Azure AI infrastructure.

How We Built the OCR Engine

93,000+ Nigerian Study Materials — Digitized

One of the biggest problems Nigerian students face is that their study materials are physical — handwritten, photocopied, scanned badly, locked in PDFs that can't be searched. AbS built a custom OCR (Optical Character Recognition) pipeline specifically tuned for Nigerian academic materials: messy prints, local fonts, handwriting from student notes, and even blurry WhatsApp-forwarded lecture slides.

Photo-to-text conversion

Any physical note or printed textbook can be photographed, uploaded, and converted into AI-readable, searchable text.

Tuned for Nigerian materials

Our OCR was trained and fine-tuned on Nigerian academic content — the formatting, shorthand, and subject styles unique to our curriculum.

AI-ready output

Once digitized, every material becomes searchable, readable by Sabi Notebook, and usable for practice tests inside Sabi Examiner.

Why We Exist

The Students Who Made Sabi AI Necessary

These are not edge cases. These are the stories of millions of Nigerian students — different names, same obstacles. Every Sabi AI tool was built in response to one of these realities.

Finding funding for her Masters

Chiamaka, 300L — University of Lagos

“Chiamaka spent 7 months applying to scholarships she never heard back from. She didn't know she was sending applications to programs she didn't qualify for — her degree class, her field, her nationality. No one told her. She almost gave up.”

Sabi Scholar now matches students to scholarships by actual eligibility before they apply. Chiamaka got into 2 shortlists in her first month.

JAMB preparation without structure

Emeka, SS3 — Federal Government College

“Emeka had the textbooks. He had the past questions printed on loose sheets. But he had no way to know which topics he was weak in, no timer telling him he was spending 4 minutes on a question that should take 45 seconds. He went into his first JAMB attempt unprepared — not because he didn't study, but because he didn't know how to practice.”

Sabi Examiner was built specifically for this — timed CBT sessions that mirror real exam conditions, with immediate feedback on every mistake.

Writing a final-year project with zero guidance

Ngozi, Final Year — Obafemi Awolowo University

“Ngozi's supervisor would see her once a month — for 15 minutes. She had 5 chapters to write, hundreds of papers to read, a methodology she had never used, and a December deadline. She borrowed laptops from 3 different friends just to access her journals online. There was no one to tell her what a literature review was supposed to look like.”

Sabi Research helps students plan, structure, and execute research — chapter by chapter — with AI guidance that is available every hour of the day.

Studying with materials she couldn't open

Tobiloba, 200L — Covenant University

“Tobiloba had a stack of photocopied lecture notes — blurry, densely printed, impossible to search. She had PDFs she couldn't open because the campus Wi-Fi throttled file downloads. She had a textbook she bought at the start of the semester that she never finished because she couldn't understand half of it without someone to explain it. Every difficult concept required a trip to the library, a long queue, and maybe — maybe — a librarian who had time.”

AbS built OCR technology to digitize physical materials and Sabi Notebook to put AI explanations directly inside every document — so no student is stopped by a page they can't understand.

The Platform

10 AI Models. Each One Answers a Real Problem.

Sabi AI is not a general chatbot wrapped in a student theme. Every tool was built because a specific problem needed a specific answer. Here's the full suite.

Scholarship AI

AI-powered scholarship discovery, essay review, SOP generation, and deadline tracking.

Study & Learning

4 tools — exam practice on all AbS materials, notebook reading, read-along AI, YouTube lecture summaries.

Research & Analysis

Document analysis, final-year project support, and deep concept explanations for serious academic work.

Power Tools

Code assistant, live web search, and open Q&A — the utility belt for any student workflow.

What Powers Sabi AI

Microsoft Azure AI

Enterprise-grade AI infrastructure

GPT-4 Turbo + Claude 3.5

Best-in-class reasoning and language models

Custom OCR Pipeline

Built for Nigerian academic materials

Live Web Access

Real-time data for scholarship and web search

24/7 AI Availability

No office hours — Sabi is always on

Nigerian Context Layer

Trained on local curriculum, exams, and context

By the Numbers

100,000+

Scholarship & career opportunities

Verified and updated daily

93,000+

Digitized study materials

OCR-processed and AI-ready

10

Specialised AI models

Each solving a specific student problem

4

AI tool categories

Scholar, Learning, Research, Power

AbS Plus

All 10 Sabi AI Models.
One Subscription.

AbS Plus gives you full access to every Sabi AI tool — Scholar, Examiner, Research, DeepThink, Code, WebSearch, and more. Built for the student who is serious about their future.

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