Communications, Payments, and AI Infrastructure
AfriRoute helps telecoms, banks, enterprises, partners, and developers build trusted customer engagement across SMS, WhatsApp, email, voice, USSD, payments, and AI-powered workflows from one unified platform.
// Send an SMS to Kenya
const response = await client.messaging.send({
to: '+254712345678',
from: 'AfriRoute',
body: 'Your verification code is 4829. Expires in 5 mins.',
region: 'ke' // Optimized routing
});
console.log(response.status);Platform scope
Sandbox now. Production by approval.
Immediate
API sandbox, docs, test keys
Gated
Live routes, telecom, SSO, AI
One platform, your path
Start with what you need today
Choose your role and explore a common workflow.
Try an outcome
See AfriRoute in action
Pick a workflow and see how policy, channels, and AI work together.
Live workflow preview
Send an OTP
Verify a customer in seconds with policy-based routing and delivery receipts.
Built for mission-critical use cases
Keep the trusted industry story up front: regulated teams need communications that are resilient, auditable, and ready for real operational workflows.
Banking & Financial Services
USSD reliability designed for unbanked populations in low-connectivity regions. Session persistence, offline resilience, and regulator-aligned audit trails.
Logistics & Delivery
Unified API for SMS and WhatsApp notifications. Launch delivery tracking across multiple countries with a single integration.
Healthcare & Government
Sensitive data handling with strict governance. Role-based access, audit logging, and AI decision traceability for regulated environments.
AfriRoute is built in layers, not as a generic message sender.
Traditional CPaaS moves messages. AfriRoute helps organizations achieve business outcomes through communications, automation, and trust controls.
Communications infrastructure
Messaging, voice, USSD, email, verification, payments, airtime, routing, and contact center rails through one platform.
Trust and governance
Consent, DND, approvals, audit trails, evidence packs, policy enforcement, data residency, and human review controls.
AI and workflow automation
AI agents, conversational automation, human escalation, and multi-channel journeys built on governed infrastructure.
Industry copilots
Outcome-focused workflows for collections, support, KYC, onboarding, and future regulated operations.
Signup creates identity and sandbox access. Trust is earned through approval.
Every account starts with one user, one organization, a membership, a tenant, and a sandbox project. Production access is gated by the account type, verification status, and approval workflow.
Business
Immediate sandbox
Start with test messages, verification, campaigns, and customer communications. Production access requires basic review.
Telecom operator
KYC and commercial approval
Request operator, interconnect, carrier-route, or wholesale access. Production network access stays gated until approved.
Technology partner
Sandbox now, rights later
Build integrations, reseller motions, or white-label services. Commercial rights require partner approval.
Enterprise
Compliance track
Use sandbox and demo workflows first. SSO, compliance controls, admin expansion, and production access require approval.
Local OTP delivery for Microsoft, Google, Meta, AWS, Salesforce, and African enterprises.
One compliance-gated verification platform for SMS, WhatsApp, Voice, and partner identity flows. Every send is checked against country licences before routing, then measured with delivery telemetry and evidence reporting.
Verifiable production gate: database, migrations, partner credentials, approved licences, and observability must pass before launch.
Platform Pillars
Four foundations. Zero compromises.
BUILT FOR THE WORLD'S MOST DEMANDING INDUSTRIES
Infrastructure powering reliable delivery
across regions
From fintech to logistics and public services, teams build on AfriRoute's programmable infrastructure to scale communications and payments with governance and operational visibility.
Secure OTPs, transaction alerts, and payment orchestration.
Order updates, delivery tracking, and marketing automation.
Appointment reminders, telemedicine links, and patient alerts.
Driver coordination, shipment status, and proof of delivery.
Choose Your Path
The website now centers on the journeys teams actually use to evaluate AfriRoute: countries, telecom, products, enterprise rollout, developers, and AI.
Countries
Browse market-by-market rollout context, carrier coverage, and launch guidance.
Telecom
Operator-grade routing, interconnect, and commercial rollout for telecom teams.
Products
Explore messaging, voice, USSD, payments, and contact center APIs.
Enterprise
Start from regulated-industry playbooks for banks, governments, and support teams.
Developers
Get SDKs, quickstarts, webhooks, and implementation guides.
AI Platform
Review governed AI agents, automation controls, and audit-ready execution.
Trust Center
Review security posture, compliance controls, audit evidence, and data residency commitments.
Built for telecom realities,
shipped globally.
AfriRoute started by solving hard delivery, governance, and AI automation problems in complex, regulated markets — then scaled the same operator-grade approach worldwide with regional routing, intelligent agents, compliance posture, and audit-ready telemetry.
Global Carrier Coverage
Expanding direct carrier integrations across Africa, Middle East, and Europe — no aggregator chains.
USSD Excellence
Offline-resilient sessions and feature phone optimization for mass-market reach.
Regulator-Ready
Audit trails, data residency controls, and compliance features built for central banks.
Infrastructure & AI APIs
Carrier-grade APIs with intelligent routing, AI automation, and governance built in — not bolted on. One unified surface for messaging, voice, payments, and contact centers.
Messaging API
Programmable SMS, WhatsApp, Telegram, and Email with intelligent routing, delivery receipts, and sender management.
Voice API
Carrier-grade voice infrastructure: SIP trunking, programmable IVR, call recording, and real-time transcription.
Contact Center API
Build or embed contact center capabilities: queuing, routing, agent SDKs, and quality monitoring.
USSD Gateway
Session-based USSD infrastructure for feature phones, with offline resilience and operator-level integration.
Payments API
Mobile money rails, card processing, collections, and disbursements with reconciliation webhooks.
Airtime API
Programmatic airtime and data bundle distribution across mobile networks in Africa and beyond.
Conversational AI
Deploy AI agents across channels with human handoff, context persistence, and governance controls.
Built for Real-World Deployments
Regulated industries need more than just API keys. They need governance, auditability, and local compliance built-in.
Telecoms
Carrier-aware routing, governance controls, and operational visibility across messaging, voice, and USSD.
- Policy-based routing & failover
- Regulator-friendly audit trails
- USSD resilience for low-connectivity journeys
Banks & Fintech
Secure customer communications and payment orchestration with traceability across channels.
- OTP and transactional alerts
- Collections & payment status events
- RBAC, approvals, and audit evidence
Government services
Citizen communications at scale with controlled templates, reporting, and inclusive channel coverage.
- USSD-first and SMS fallback patterns
- Controlled messaging templates
- Operational reporting and exports
1// Initialize the AfriRoute SDK2const afriroute = new AfriRoute({3 key: process.env.AFRIROUTE_KEY4});56// Trigger a payment request7const payment = await afriroute.payments.charge({8 amount: 5000,9 currency: 'NGN',10 channel: 'mobile_money',11 customer: {12 phone: '+2348012345678',13 email: '[email protected]'14 }15});1617console.log('Payment initialized:', payment.id);Designed for Developers.
Built for Scale.
One SDK, consistent auth, real-time webhooks, and AI-ready primitives. Integrate messaging, voice, payments, and AI agents without wrestling with telco protocols.
Start fast with docs and predictable primitives: auth, webhooks, sandbox patterns, and SDKs.
Bank-Grade Security · AI Governance · Compliance
Ready to build AI-powered communications
infrastructure that scales?
Start free with 100 SMS/month. Upgrade for enterprise volume, AI agents, governance controls, and committed SLAs.
No credit card required · Governance-first · GDPR Ready · AI Decision Traceability
Intelligent Agents Built Into the Platform
AfriRoute treats AI as a first-class infrastructure layer — not a bolt-on. Deploy governed AI agents across every channel with explainability, human override, and kill switches.
AI Chatbot Agent
Omnichannel support automation across SMS, WhatsApp, email, web chat, and voice—built with escalation and auditability.
Voice AI Agent
Speech-to-text, dynamic IVR routing, call summaries, and sentiment analysis with consent-aware governance.
Routing Optimization Agent
Latency/cost/QoS-aware routing across messaging, voice, payments, and USSD with deterministic fallback paths.
Fraud & Abuse Detection Agent
Spam/fraud detection, rate anomaly detection, and policy enforcement with explainable decisions and manual override.
Analytics Insight Agent
Traffic insights, anomaly detection, forecasting, and read-only aggregated analytics under strict tenant isolation.
Trusted AI-led infrastructure—built for regulators and enterprises
AfriRoute treats AI as a first-class infrastructure plane: identity, permissions, SLAs, audit logs, confidence thresholds, human override, and kill switches. Every decision can be traced and exported as evidence.