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CYST is a software innovation company the company specializes in artificial intelligence to create simple and easy to use technology solutions which are relevant to local markets while adhering to international standards. The company was founded in 2013 by Nii Osae Osae Dade and Kofi Genfi. The co-founders were listed for Forbes Africa 30 under 30, 2018 technology category.

CYST also has a research arm called CRI (CYST Research Institute), which focuses on artificial intelligence based research and development such as natural language processing and satellite image processing. In partnership with the telecommunications companies, CYST has access to over 15 million subscribers through its platforms.

Mazzuma
Mazzuma, the flagship product of CYST, is a mobile money payment system that utilizes a distributed secure infrastructure and cryptocurrency to enable instant seamless payments. The Mazzuma platform enables instantaneous transactions using an application layer transaction processing protocol which solves the scalability issues that has plagued a lot of cryptocurrencies. Also, transactions on Mazzuma are free of transaction fees. Mazzuma sets out to enable underserved consumers to get access to world class payments services using a truly distributed payments infrastructure with a multi-channel approach through the mobile app, Mazzuma Keyboard, e-commerce plugins, developer APIs and Artificial Intelligence bots on Telegram and Facebook Messenger. The driving philosophy behind the Mazzuma ecosystem is to develop a strong and robust payment ecosystem which is available to the masses and provides the freedom for users to use their funds in a convenient and stress-free manner. Mazzuma has gained a lot of traction and been recognized for its efforts in driving financial inclusion by the Vice President of Ghana. The MAZ token, is Ghana’s first built crypto currency coin.

Mazzuma started as a web application which provided a secure, simple and fast payment gateway through mobile money for the ever growing online shopping landscape in Africa. After successfully partnering with the major telecommunication network providers in Ghana (MTN, Vodafone, Airtel and Tigo) and successful integrations with several online merchants, Mazzuma evolved into a mobile money app in 2017. It was the first of its kind to utilize the power of artificial intelligence to process payments on Facebook Messenger and Telegram. Mazzuma’s services enabled their users to purchase airtime, pay their bills, send and receive money across mobile networks for free.

CYST Research Institute
CYST Research Institute (CRI) is essentially the birthplace of the company's highly sophisticated technologies. At CRI, the company aims to improve existing technology through research and development in Artificial Intelligence, Medical Research and Nanotechnology. The main projects CRI is currently working on is sentiment analysis, insights and Artificial Cognitive Engine which all focus on artificial intelligence. Sentiment Analysis Using Artificial Intelligence techniques, CRI has built an artificial cognitive system that is capable of understanding the emotion or sentiment behind texts and speeches. Currently, the system derives insights from social media and news articles using natural language processing to determine opinions and attitudes towards a company, product etc.

Insights by CYST Insights is a business intelligence tools that is powered by Artificial Intelligence which offers predictive analysis. Artificial Cognitive Engine The Artificial Cognitive Engine uses Deep Learning to build a general purpose artificial intelligence system that can solve a wide variety of complex tasks without training it explicitly.