About Us
African insight. Media innovation. AI.
OneLensMedia is an African media innovation and AI company building influence around ideas that matter.
We help institutions make knowledge useful, leaders turn expertise into valuable offerings, and partners organise around shared priorities.
Our work connects strategic thinking with practical delivery—from locally relevant learning and original media platforms to institutional narratives, commercial products and partnerships.
Our perspective
The distance between an idea and its impact is where we work.
Research needs a route into practice. Expertise needs an audience and a useful offering. Institutions need a compelling case for support. Partnerships need a shared purpose and a way to follow through.
We work across these connections, bringing together an understanding of evidence, people, technology and the decisions that shape what happens next.
Every engagement starts with the outcome you need and the people who matter to achieving it.
The expertise we bring
Understand the subject. Understand the context. Build something useful.
- Subject understanding
- Our foundations span health, science, media and development. We work with specialist knowledge and institutional priorities, translating complexity into practical opportunities for learning, engagement and action.
- Local relevance
- Language, culture, access and everyday experience shape how people understand and use knowledge. We design with those realities in view, involving relevant expertise and local review.
- Commercial thinking
- We help identify where expertise and ideas can create value—through products, courses, platforms, advisory offerings and partnerships—with attention to audiences, demand and sustainable delivery.
- Technology and creative application
- We combine AI, learning design and media expertise to develop useful experiences and reusable products. Technology choices serve the audience, the brief and the required standard of delivery.
One company, connected capabilities
Media. AI Localisation. Influence.
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Media
We bring evidence, ideas and lived experience into public conversation through journalism, documentaries, podcasts and original media platforms.
Explore our platforms - 02
AI Localisation
We make knowledge accessible and useful across languages and contexts. Through OLRA, our AI product, we transform approved research, policy and training materials into culturally relevant multimedia courses in local languages.
Discover OLRA - 03
Influence
We help leaders and organisations define what they stand for, build credibility and turn expertise into products, platforms and partnerships that engage the people who matter.
Build with us
Fixing Health
Our owned flagship health media and knowledge platform, connecting evidence, lived experience and public conversation.
Explore our platforms →OLRA — One Lens Research Action
Our AI product, designed to turn research, policy and training materials into culturally relevant multimedia courses in local languages.
Discover OLRA →Work that makes the approach tangible
See what these connections can produce.
Evidence into public conversation
Fixing Health brings health evidence, experience and decision-making into conversation through its editorial brands and formats.
Explore Fixing Health →What you can expect
Clear responsibilities. Considered delivery. Follow-through.
- A defined brief
- We agree the purpose, audience, scope and deliverables before work begins, with responsibilities and milestones made clear.
- Expertise matched to the assignment
- We identify the subject, language, creative and technical contributions the work requires, and agree how they come together.
- Review at the right moments
- Technical accuracy, cultural relevance and client approval are considered within the delivery plan, with review points agreed from the outset.
- Clarity on ownership and use
- We agree how source materials, project outputs, credits and usage rights will be handled within the engagement.
- Progress you can assess
- We define what progress should look like, report against agreed milestones and distinguish completed outputs from outcomes still being assessed.
- Follow-through
- We revisit commitments, capture feedback and identify what needs to happen next. Where continuing support is needed, it forms part of the agreed scope.
Working together
Built to contribute where you need us.
We can work directly with your organisation or as a specialist partner within a wider programme, consortium or consulting assignment.
An engagement may involve a defined project, an integrated programme or an ongoing relationship. We establish our contribution, the interfaces with other partners and how delivery will be coordinated.
Tell us what you need to achieve.
We’ll respond with questions, not a sales pitch.
Discuss a project