Episode 172: Actnable AI's Dharmendra Jain & Josiah Kimanzi Make African Research Faster, Smarter, & Actionable
About this episode
Dharmendra Jain and Josiah Kimanzi discuss how Actnable AI is revolutionizing market research in Africa through innovative AI tools.
Dharmendra Jain (Founder & CEO) and Josiah Kimanzi (Client Service Director) reveal how Actnable AI is transforming market research across Africa—from emotional response analysis to qualitative automation. Given their 30+ years running operations for Kantar/TNS across India, Nigeria, Kenya and beyond, they're now building Nairobi-rooted AI tools that fix slow fieldwork, manual analysis, and generic global platforms.What you'll discover in this 50-minute deep dive:1/ How Neuro AI measured identical telecom ads triggering radically different emotions across African cities (Lagos rational, Kinshasa needed full rewrite)2/ Qual AI's "chat with data" magic—turning raw transcripts into instant themes, sentiments, and action recommendations3/ DIA platform unifying structured surveys + unstructured social/media for holistic consumer insights4/ Real client wins: massive data projects delivered under impossible deadlines5/ Why African research lags AI adoption (skills gaps, infrastructure) and how to fix it6/ Future vision: affordable enterprise-grade insights for African SMEsTheir origin stories are pure gold:a) Dharmendra's "falling in love" moment: processing…
People in this episode
Host: Moses Kemibaro
Guests: Dharmendra Jain, Josiah Kimanzi
Topics covered
- AI in market research
- emotional response analysis
- qualitative automation
- consumer insights
- African SMEs
- data analysis
Keywords
- Actnable AI
- market research
- AI tools
- emotional analysis
- qualitative research
- consumer insights
- Africa
- data automation
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Actnable AI, Kantar, TNS
Products: DIA platform, Qual AI
Places: Africa, Nairobi, Lagos, Kinshasa, India, Nigeria, Kenya
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