Get paid to build real AI. From week one.
AMALI places you inside a live AI company as a paid builder from your very first week. No classroom. No internship. Real product work, real users, and a real salary — while you train with Africa's most experienced venture builders.
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Not a course. Not an internship. A fellowship with teeth.
F2 AMALI — the African Model for AI Livelihood & Innovation — is a 12-month paid fellowship and part of FirstFounders' human capital engine — training the builders who run the companies we build and back. From your very first week, you are embedded inside a live AI company as a real team member with real deliverables. “Africa doesn't have a talent problem. It has a bridge problem. AMALI is that bridge — and it pays you to cross it.”
Learn
12 weeks of curriculum — taught inside a live venture.
Build
Embedded on a real product, full-time.
Earn
Stipend, placement, equity moments.
Launch
Permanent role, founding, or your own venture path.
Three paths. One destination.
AI Engineering
Build the technical infrastructure of Africa's next generation technology products. You will write code, integrate AI models, and deploy real features to real users.
AI Product Management
Shape the direction of AI products from the inside. You will run user research, write specs, own roadmaps, and bridge the gap between users and builders.
AI Growth & GTM
Take AI products to market. You will design and run the acquisition, community and commercial strategies that bring early users and revenue to our portfolio companies.
We're looking for ability, not just credentials.
What makes a strong applicant
Any field. We want people who have tried to build something — even if it didn't work out.
Online courses, side projects, GitHub repos, community involvement, writing — anything that shows you start on your own.
We will see you clearly: what is the hardest thing you've navigated? How did you handle it?
Not AI for hype — AI for Africa. We want people who care about the ecosystem they are building inside.