Built to connect 240 million people to their records, their doctors, and an AI that knows their language, their food, and their history — one system, built in Lagos for the continent.
Most health questions don't start at a hospital. They start with a neighbour, a pharmacist, or a search bar. Alma answers in your language, tells you where the answer came from, and tells you when it's time to see someone.
Health answers in 5 Nigerian languages. Free, forever.
The doctor talks to the patient. Alma writes the note.
Built for 40-patient days on paper records.
Antenatal care arrives in fragments: a clinic visit every few weeks, a WhatsApp group in between. Someone tracking a pregnancy can ask Alma what a given week brings, in Yorùbá, Hausa, Igbo or Pidgin, and get a plain-language answer with the source it came from. When a symptom needs a midwife and not a chat, Alma says so. A companion that follows the full term week by week is in active development.
Hypertension is managed in the gaps between appointments: a new dose nobody explained, a doubt about whether ogbono soup is fine with the salt in it. Alma answers both in plain language, and reasons about local food and locally stocked drugs rather than a foreign formulary. It also draws the line between readings that can wait for the next visit and readings that mean being seen today. Logged readings and reminders that carry the trend between visits are in active development.
A doctor seeing patients back to back writes the day's notes long after the consultations ended, from memory and a few lines on a card. Alma is being built to transcribe the consultation as it happens, structure it into a clinical note, and draft the billing code before the patient leaves the room, leaving the doctor to review and sign. The finished note will land in the patient's file rather than a paper stack.
A clinic seeing 40 patients in a day runs on paper: a card that has to be found, a queue with no visible end, claims reconciled after closing. Alma is building the platform underneath that day, so that records, scheduling, queue and billing sit in one dashboard and the file is on screen before the patient sits down. Connected facilities will be able to read a patient's record, with their consent, instead of starting the history from scratch.
Alma isn't another health app — it's foundational infrastructure: a localised, interoperable architecture for patients, clinicians, facilities, and eventually national health systems.
The clinical knowledge layer: 5 languages, a cited corpus, clinician-governed.
UHID, consent-controlled records, FHIR-compatible APIs.
Nigeria has 350+ single-point health apps1 and no infrastructure beneath them, so Alma puts records, care and payments on one data plane.
Alma speaks 5 Nigerian languages and reasons about local food, local drugs and local disease priorities, with a safety screen before every answer.
NDPA-aligned privacy, encrypted records you own, and an interface that loads in under 20KB so it keeps working when the network doesn't.
Alma provides health information, not medical diagnosis.
