Badu is an AI assistant that answers your email, chases payments and runs your shop. Just text it on WhatsApp or Telegram.
Set up for you. Pay with mobile money or card.
No new app to learn. Badu lives where you already chat, and does the work inside the tools you already use.
Badu reads your email, tells you what matters and writes replies in your voice for you to send.
Payment links, mobile money and supplier payments, with a message the moment money lands.
Orders, stock and customer questions on Shopify or WooCommerce, with a heads-up before you run out.
Hand it research or a pile of work and carry on with your day. It reports back when it's done.
Switch on a ready-made team (Sales, Accounts and Customer care) or add your own Bots. They pass work to each other and keep going after you log off.
Sending, paying, posting and deleting always wait for your OK, and a second check reads them against your rules.
The paperwork that eats your evenings. Send it a message, a photo or a statement and it's done.
"Invoice Kofi 2,500 cedis for the logo." Badu makes the invoice or quote, adds a pay link and chases it when it's late. Bill in cedis, naira, dollars or pounds, with the right bank details on each.
Snap a receipt on WhatsApp. Badu reads it, files the expense and gives you a monthly report for your accountant.
Send your MoMo or bank statement. Badu matches the payments to your invoices, marks them paid and tells you who still owes.
Badu sends the task to your staff on WhatsApp, text or email, catches their replies and follows up if they go quiet.
Reminders before PAYE, SSNIT, VAT and other GRA or FIRS deadlines, plus your own renewals and licences.
Who bought what, who owes and who has gone quiet, with a list of who to call today.
Paste any shop link. Badu watches the price and stock and messages you when it's time to buy.
Badu can sign in and pay for you without the AI ever seeing your password or card number. It asks you every time.
Badu checks on itself every minute. When something breaks, it fixes it and writes down what it did, in plain words. It only bothers you when it really needs you.
Badu keeps growing. Here's what it can do for you now.
Badu knows a lot about your business. So it's built to keep it to itself.
Keep logins and cards in Badu's Vault. When it signs in or pays for you, Badu types them in itself, so the AI never sees them. Cards show only the last 4 digits, and every use waits for your OK.
Your data isn't the product. We don't sell it, share it or use it to advertise to you.
Every customer gets a separate copy of Badu on its own server and domain. Nothing is pooled with other customers.
Chats, documents, passwords and keys are locked with AES-256 using a key only your copy holds. Backups are locked with a password you choose.
Download a full backup of everything any time, move it to another server, or delete it for good.
Put Badu on your website as a chat box for customer service or sales. Copy one line of code and it starts answering.
Muse, Grok Bot, Dots and Claude Duet are impressive. Here's what Badu does differently, based on what each company had published by October 2026.
| Badu | Muse (Meta) | Grok Bot (xAI) | Dots (OpenAI) | Claude Duet (Anthropic) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Where it runs | Your own private server and domain | Meta's cloud | xAI's cloud | OpenAI's cloud | Anthropic's cloud |
| AI model | Your choice, switch any time | Meta's only | Grok only | OpenAI's only | Claude only |
| Chat apps | WhatsApp, Telegram, text messages, Slack, Discord, web | WhatsApp and Meta apps | Its own apps | ChatGPT, Slack, Teams; texting coming | Its own app and the web |
| Payments | Mobile money, Paystack, Flutterwave, Stripe, PayPal | No mobile money | Not built in | Not built in | Through add-on apps; no mobile money |
| Where you can buy it | Across Africa, priced in cedis, naira and more | US only at launch | Where Grok is sold | ChatGPT Pro and Business Premium only | US waitlist, Claude Pro and Max only |
| Website chat | A live chat box for your own site, answering customers | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered |
| Your team | Up to 15 people, each with their own assistant | One person | Shared bots in group chats | Teams of agents for one account | One person; team plans not yet |
| Setup | Done for you, handed over ready | Do it yourself | Do it yourself | Do it yourself | Do it yourself |
| Limits | A clear number of messages a day, or no limit on your own AI key | Weekly token allowance | Not clearly stated | Not clearly stated | Shares your Claude plan's limits |
Every plan includes the AI, your own private server, a domain, full setup, updates and support. Don't need a server? Use Badu on ours from $7 a month.
For one person running their work and life
For founders running one or more businesses
For growing teams that share one assistant
Pay by card or mobile money in cedis, naira, shillings and more at the day's rate. Need more messages? Add a top-up pack any time. Already have an AI key? Use your own and save $20 a month, with no daily message limit.
Get your own private Badu for a week and see what it can do before you pick a plan.
The same Badu, running in your own private space on our server. No setup fee, ready in a minute. Sign up, pay with mobile money or card, and start chatting. Move to a server of your own whenever you're ready, and everything comes with you.
Everyday help: reminders, email, research
Up to 30 messages a dayYour full assistant for life and work
Up to 100 messages a dayFor a small business
Up to 300 messages a day eachFor a growing team
Up to 1,000 messages a day eachPrices show in cedis, naira, shillings, rand, CFA and more on the sign-up page, at the day's rate. Pay with Paystack, Flutterwave, pawaPay mobile money, Stripe or PayPal. When you reach a daily limit, Badu pauses until it resets, or you can buy extra messages. Some features that need a machine of your own, like using a web browser for you or joining calls, come with your own server.
7 days, no card. Keep everything when you pick a plan.
No technical setup on your side. We do it and hand it over ready.
Pay securely by card or mobile money through lisensetech.com.
We register your domain, set up your private server and install Badu.
Connect your email and apps from simple screens, or just ask Badu to help.
On your own server, Badu runs on a machine that's yours alone, with your own domain, and every feature, including using a web browser for you and joining calls. On ours, you get your own private space on our server for less, with no setup fee, ready in a minute. Your chats are kept apart from everyone else's either way. You can move from ours to your own server any time and keep everything.
Go to usebaduai.com/join, pick a plan and pay with mobile money or card, or start the free 7-day trial with no card. You choose a password and you're in.
No. We set up your server, domain and Badu for you, then hand it over. Everything after that is done in the app or by chatting.
Only you. Your Badu runs on its own server that nobody else shares. Your chats, documents and keys are encrypted before they are saved, and we never sell, share or read your data.
Yes. Get the Badu app for Windows, Mac or Linux, or add Badu to your phone's home screen straight from the browser. Either way it opens in its own window, like any other app.
No. Anything that sends, pays, posts, deletes or orders waits for your OK. You can let it reply to people you've already emailed if you want to.
Yes, if you put them in the Vault. They are locked with AES-256 on your own server, and the AI never reads them: Badu fills them in on the website itself. You see only the last 4 digits of a card, and Badu asks you every time before it uses one.
Badu tells you plainly. Your allowance resets at midnight, or you can add a top-up pack. If you use your own AI key, there's no daily limit.
Yes. Pay in cedis, naira, shillings and more by mobile money or card.
The AI is included in your plan. You can switch between Claude, OpenAI, Gemini and others from Settings, or bring your own key.
Yes. Tell it who to bill and for what, in a chat or on WhatsApp, and it makes the invoice or quote, sends it when you say so and reminds the customer if they're late. Each invoice can be in its own currency, like cedis, naira, dollars or pounds, and Badu adds everything up for you.
Yes. Send the statement as a file, a PDF or a photo. Badu matches each payment to an invoice, marks it paid with your OK and lists who still owes you.
Yes. Pick Ghana or Nigeria in Settings and Badu reminds you before PAYE, pension, VAT and other filing dates. You can add your own deadlines, like licence renewals, too.
Yes. Create a chat box in the app, choose its job, copy one line of code into your site and it answers visitors. It only uses the information you've marked as shareable, can't see your private messages or money, and can't take actions for you. You can read every chat and switch it off any time.
Yes. Open talk mode in the app, or say "Hey Badu" if you've switched that on. It understands many languages, including several African ones, and you can also ask it from a Google Home, Nest or Echo speaker.
Yes, once a phone number is connected. It can call a business for you, wait on hold, and answer calls when you're busy. It asks you before it places a call.
It can. Give Badu a mailbox of its own, then forward emails to it or copy it in, and it handles them as they arrive.
Badu fixes most problems by itself. If your AI provider is down, it answers with another AI and switches back later. It reconnects WhatsApp, Telegram, email and your other apps when they drop, runs failed routines again, makes a backup if one is missed and restarts itself after a crash. You can see everything it fixed in the app. When only you can fix something, like a changed password, it tells you once and says exactly what to do.
If you set up a local AI on your own machine, Badu switches to it automatically and keeps working.
Badu is named after our founder George Lamptey's dad, Badu. In Ghana, Badu is the name for the tenth-born child, among both the Ga and the Akan, and he is a tenth born. He is also a workhorse who never once took leave in all his years of service before he retired. That's what Badu is built to be: always on, always working for you.
Made in Accra for busy founders and small teams, by George Lamptey (Gasby).