Ground truth for physical-world AI

AI has read the internet. We're showing it the real world.

People earn rewards to check real places. AI verifies every answer. Buyers get ground truth on demand.

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  • 4M young people in partner reach
  • +524% weekly sign-up growth
  • ~7× use-case revenue, 2025 vs 2024
Concept illustration: a phone lies on its side and a neighbourhood of shops, billboards and streets rises out of the screen, with location pins marking what players have checked.
  • Billboard live? Cape Town · Photo · GPS · AI check
  • Shelf price Soweto · Photo · time · AI check
  • Campaign up? Abidjan · Verified on the ground

Backers, clients and partners

  • Backed by
  • Kaleo VC
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Exxaro
  • Ninety One
  • Clients
  • Primedia Outdoor
  • Old Mutual
  • Sanlam
  • Glovo
  • Altron
  • Virgin Active
  • Rewoven
  • Programmes
  • Endeavor
  • PostHog for Startups
  • MongoDB for Startups
  • Partners
  • AWS Partner Network
  • Xoxoday
  • Distribution
  • Cloud On Demand
  • SA Youth partner network
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Clients and pilots

  • Primedia Outdoor
  • Old Mutual
  • Sanlam
  • Glovo
  • Altron
  • Virgin Active
  • Rewoven

Backed by

  • Kaleo VC
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Exxaro
  • Ninety One

Programmes and accelerators

  • Endeavor
  • PostHog for Startups
  • MongoDB for Startups

Partners

  • AWS Partner Network
  • Xoxoday

Distribution

  • Cloud On Demand
  • SA Youth partner network

Rewards players redeem

  • Shoprite vouchers
  • Checkers vouchers
  • Pick n Pay vouchers
  • Bolt vouchers

New sign-ups grew 524% in a week inside our partner network.

Accounts · log scale · scenarios to 11 Dec 100 1k 10k 100k 1M 10M Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 16 Oct Actual +524% weekly new sign-ups If the trend holds: 1M ~10 Nov 4.3M trend holds 1M goal 241k without spike 149k flat pace
1k 10k 100k 1M 10M Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec +524% weekly sign-ups 4.3M 1M goal 149k–241k

Actual If the trend holds Without the spike Flat pace Path to goal

Scenarios, and how wrong the model has been

The model is the 2Klip operations dashboard's own damped trend, fitted to the last 30 complete days. Its date assumes the trend holds. Replace only the 16 October spike with the six days before it, and the same model reaches about 241k by 11 Dec; holding last week's pace flat reaches about 149k. The spike case is a sensitivity, not a replacement actual.

Tested on 10–16 October, the model predicted 4,916 new accounts against 16,130 actual. Accounts are registrations, not retained players.

  • +51% weekly sign-up growth reaches 1M accounts by 11 December
  • ~10 Nov 1M accounts, if the 30-day trend holds
  • 39% of 11–17 October sign-ups came via a player referral

Next proof: cohorts, completed tasks, accepted output, cost and repeat play.

See the full forecast →

A real-world incentivised network: brands fund it, AI checks it.

  1. The 2Klip game in Langa asking a local question with Yes and No answers

    2Klip People play and earn for useful answers

  2. FOONA contributors verifying observed conditions in Cape Town

    FOONA The field verifies the places that matter

  3. The Pikaboo dashboard: billboard sites with audience results

    Pikaboo AI-checked evidence buyers act on

Each paid action funds the next answers

  • Media owner Why should a buyer pick these sites?
  • Agency Did the campaign actually run?
  • Brand Where should the next rand go?
See a buyer-facing example ↗

Media owner, agency, brand: three budgets, one network.

  1. Pikaboo planning view with Cape Town areas and a site shortlist

    01 · Media owners

    “Why should a buyer pick these sites?”

    Pikaboo platform licence

    Audience reach, VAC and frequency for every site, verified on the ground.

    Primedia Outdoor Primedia Outdoor has licensed Pikaboo since August 2025 across 4,138 sites.

    Explore Pikaboo ↗ Precision Marketing →

  2. A Timbuk2 contributor checks a roadside billboard in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire

    02 · Agencies

    “Did the campaign actually run?”

    Campaign Proof

    Verified delivery per face, per wave: photo, GPS and time on every record.

    Glovo 76 billboards checked in Abidjan in under a day; now a campaign-verification pilot for Glovo.

    Book a Campaign Proof Field Execution →

  3. Concept illustration of a busy township retail street with shoppers and shopfronts

    03 · Brands

    “Where should the next rand go?”

    Game signals + field evidence

    Ask the market through play, verify on the ground, decide where to stock, open and advertise.

    Old Mutual Old Mutual bought field evidence in the Western Cape; Virgin Active used our location work in South Africa and France.

    Bring us a question Retail Media & Activation →

A fourth budget: AI and data teams. Fresh, specified ground truth from places models cannot see. How a record is built →

Physical-world AI needs ground truth the internet doesn't have.

A Timbuk2 contributor photographs a roadside billboard in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
One record, Abidjan

Models learned the world from the web. Streets, shelves and billboards in emerging markets barely appear there, so our network goes and looks, on demand.

  1. Proof A photo on every record
  2. Place GPS-fixed to the site
  3. Time Stamped at capture
  4. Consent Opt-in and pseudonymous
  5. AI check Scored before it counts
  • Checks AI reviews every answer before it counts
  • Answers Models turn field evidence into decisions
  • Routes The next task goes where the gap is
  1. Name the place, the question and the cadence
  2. Set your acceptance rule
  3. We scope a small paid sample first

Scope a sampleGround Truth on Demand

Clients already pay for these use cases. Funding makes them recurring.

  • Primedia Outdoor Out-of-home audience measurement licence 2025–26
  • Old Mutual Field evidence, Western Cape 2026
  • Altron Measurement platform licence 2025
  • Sanlam Sales-intelligence pilot 2025
  • Virgin Active Location intelligence, SA and France 2024
  • Rewoven Market research 2024
  • Glovo Campaign verification pilot, Abidjan Oct–Nov 2026
  • ~7× use-case revenue, 2025 over 2024
  • 2.4× growth targeted for FY2026
  • $1M ARR plan by December 2027

A browser game travels. The evidence gets local.

Playable areas in nine countries, India live in ten regions, field proof in Abidjan and test games in the United States and Mexico. The same engine can recruit local knowledge wherever a buyer needs an answer.

Cape Town · live Gaborone · live Windhoek · live Harare · live Maputo · live Maseru · live Mbabane · live Abidjan · proof Los Angeles · test San Francisco · test New York · test Mexico City · test Tijuana · test Johannesburg · proposed Lima · proposed Lagos, Nigeria · proposed Nairobi, Kenya · proposed São Paulo, Brazil · proposed Jakarta, Indonesia · proposed Manila, Philippines · proposed Accra, Ghana · proposed Delhi, India · live Maharashtra, India · live Karnataka, India · live Tamil Nadu, India · live Telangana, India · live Kerala, India · live West Bengal, India · live Rajasthan, India · live Uttar Pradesh, India · live Gujarat, India · live
Local gamesTest gamesField proofNext
  • Local games Southern Africa + India: ten regions, 50 boards
  • Test games United States and Mexico
  • Field proof Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
  • Proposed next Brazil, Indonesia, Philippines, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana
Map basis and dates

South Africa and six neighbouring countries have local game content. India: 10 regions, 50 boards and 500 seeded locations verified in production on 6 October 2026 (release PRs 549 and 551). Content supply is not player adoption or verified observation coverage. US and Mexico have test games. Abidjan: completed field proof, March 2026. Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia and Philippines are first-wave rewards candidates; Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana follow. Xoxoday agreement executed and USD100 wallet funded on 6 October; catalogue/authentication integration in progress on 7 October, no real rewards issued through it. Provider catalogue reach is not Timbuk2 operations. No XOX mobile relationship is claimed. Xoxoday catalogue source ↗

The game grows the network. People verify the places that matter.

  • 76 Abidjan billboards checked in under a day
  • 7 Cape Town communities mapped for Ninety One
  • Photo + GPS on every verified record

Seven Cape Town communities, already mapped.

The map marks locality centres, not individual homes or submissions.

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Locality-centre markers only. Basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors, CARTO. Place centres: OpenStreetMap Nominatim, checked 1 October 2026.
A FOONA contributor walks past a roadside billboard in Abidjan during field collection
Field proof · Abidjan
The FOONA field crew in Langa, Cape Town, in Timbuk2 shirts in front of a painted mural
FOONA crew · Langa

Explore the field evidence →

Field evidence basis

FOONA 2026 job export through September, including 362 approved flood-response records; Abidjan field test, 31 March 2026 (219 approved observations across 76 unique billboards in under a day). The seven communities cleared the Ninety One ESD count by 28 September. Field submissions and 2Klip answers are separate datasets.

Why now: phones, play and AI make local evidence affordable.

  • $54.2bn spent on out-of-home advertising in 2025, still planned on estimates
  • ~R0.04 in rewards per accepted game answer
  • 9 countries with playable areas, from Cape Town to ten Indian regions

Built by people who deliver for enterprise.

  • Matimba Nkuna, Founder & CEO Matimba Nkuna Founder & CEO
  • Takalani Malivha, VP Business Operations Takalani Malivha VP Business Operations
  • Kouame Kouassi, Technical Lead Kouame Kouassi Technical Lead
  • Kunta-Kinte Ngcobo, Product Kunta-Kinte Ngcobo Product
  • Phelelani Mkhize, Growth Phelelani Mkhize Growth
  • Robyn Khoury, Chief of Staff Robyn Khoury Chief of Staff
  • Nyimpini Mabunda, Executive Chairman Nyimpini Mabunda Executive Chairman
  • Andrew Firman, CFA, Strategic Advisor Andrew Firman, CFA Strategic Advisor
  • Tim Henshall, Legal & IP Tim Henshall Legal & IP

Backed by

  • Kaleo VC
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Exxaro
  • Ninety One

Programmes and accelerators

  • Endeavor
  • PostHog for Startups
  • MongoDB for Startups
Ninety One and Endeavor South Africa 2026 Accelerator Program announcement featuring Matimba J. Nkuna of Timbuk2.AI alongside the founders of Ask Mandla and Gobuddy
Selected for the Ninety One × Endeavor South Africa 2026 Accelerator

For investors

Our seed round is open. Fund the recurring network.

Paid use cases, a 4M partner network and a game that is compounding. The investor brief has the plan, the model and the ask.

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