A platform of AICTEM

From data to decisions.

EDIS connects economic models, sector planning systems, GIS, public finance and AI agents to help governments and institutions make better development decisions.

21 model services 28 registered agents 16 sectors 52 African economies in scope
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What EDIS does

One question, four capabilities, one traceable answer

EDIS is the intelligent user-facing layer over AICTEM’s modelling, data, GIS, optimization, simulation, forecasting, budgeting and policy-analysis infrastructure. A question entered once is routed across all of it.

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AI agents

Twenty-eight registered agents interpret a policy question, select the models that can answer it, and assemble the workflow. Agents orchestrate; they do not guess numbers.

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Model

Models and simulation

FINEX, MTEF, CDCGE, UCSN, PIAS and fifteen sector and cross-cutting model services produce every quantitative estimate, forecast, optimization and appraisal.

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Map

GIS and spatial planning

Population, settlements, roads, facilities, grids, hazard and projects. EDIS answers not only what is needed but where it is needed, and who it reaches.

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Report

Reports and provenance

Executive summaries, policy briefs, technical reports and investment appraisals, each carrying the model used, the data used, the scenario, the assumptions and a run ID.

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Model services
28
Registered agents
16
Sectors covered
9
Report formats
52
African economies in scope
How EDIS works

A question becomes a routed workflow

EDIS never sends a policy question straight to a language model and returns the reply. The question is classified, the country and sector identified, the agents selected, the models determined, the data and permissions checked, and only then is a workflow executed.

01QuestionA policy question in ordinary language, with country, region, horizon and currency.
02OrchestratorIntent classification, country and sector identification, scenario detection.
03Agent selectionThe registered agents that accept this class of question are assembled.
04Data and modelsRequired model services are resolved; data availability and permissions are checked.
05SimulationThe workflow is queued and executed by model workers, with live status.
06ValidationConvergence, plausibility and consistency checks before anything is shown.
07Policy intelligenceResults assembled into summary, charts, maps, budget and distributional views.
08ReportA downloadable brief or technical report with full provenance and a run ID.

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Questions EDIS answers

The questions governments actually ask

EDIS holds a registered question library. Every question is linked to an agent, a workflow, a set of models, its data requirements, its outputs and its validation status — so users can see in advance what can be answered, how, and how reliably.

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QuestionSectorAccess
Cross-model workflow

You can see what EDIS is doing

A single question can run eight models in sequence. EDIS shows the chain as it executes, marks each model complete, running, waiting or failed, and stops rather than guessing when a model does not converge or a dataset is missing.

FINEXMTEFSector modelUCSNBudget Output EnginePIASCDCGEPovertyMEL → back to FINEX

How the chain is built

Coverage

Sixteen sectors, one framework

Sector models share a costing spine, a spatial layer and an economy-wide closure, so a health question and an energy question can be compared on the same basis.

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Who uses EDIS

Built for the institutions that allocate resources

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Design principle

EDIS is not a chatbot with a policy opinion

The AI layer and the analytical layer are separated by design and the separation is enforced in the architecture, not merely described in the marketing.

The AI layer

  • Understands the question
  • Routes it to registered agents
  • Orchestrates the model workflow
  • Explains what the results mean
  • Writes the report around them

The AICTEM analytical layer

  • Calculates and forecasts
  • Simulates scenarios
  • Optimizes allocations
  • Maps and analyses space
  • Validates every result
Provenance

No number without a source

Every result carries a complete provenance record. If a figure cannot be traced to a model version, a dataset and a run, EDIS does not display it.

Data source
Utopia National Household Survey
Data year
2019/20
Country
Utopia
Model
CDCGE
Model version
5.1
Scenario
AGR-CAPEX-1T
Run ID
EDIS-DEMO-2026-0413
Validation
Validated

Ready Partial Data missing Running Queued Non-converged

Model status badges appear on every result, so a user can tell whether an answer is reliable before acting on it.

How data provenance works →

EDIS Academy

The platform teaches the models it runs

Fourteen courses, one for each school of the Academy — from macroeconomics and public finance, economic modelling and public investment to climate, the sector models, microsimulation and MEL. Each runs five to ten days, in person in Nairobi and Accra and live virtual on East and West Africa time, with certification and laboratory access to training datasets and models.

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Access

Eight levels of access, one platform

Public, registered, professional, institutional, government, enterprise, Academy and API. Access is controlled by licence, not by page: what a user can ask, which models they can run, which countries they can see and how many runs they have are all set by the subscription.

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Training calendar

The next cohorts

Fourteen courses, each run four times between 15 January 2027 and 25 January 2028 — in person in Nairobi and Accra, and live virtual on East Africa and West Africa time. Select a course to read it in full, or take a place.

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Pricing

From individual analysis to national decision infrastructure

Individual plans are paid online. Institutional and government deployments are contracted, because what is licensed is a configured national estate rather than a number of logins.

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See EDIS answer a real policy question

Run the public demonstration, or ask us to walk your team through the platform against your own country and sector.

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