Findra 2.0: from verified registry to the intelligence layer for African digital infrastructure

Findra started with a simple promise: every resource listed is actually checked. Documentation opened, licensing confirmed, live status verified. Today the registry holds 240 verified resources across five categories: 87 APIs, 32 MCP servers, 35 datasets, 53 developer tools and 33 AI resources, spanning 16 African countries.

That registry is not the product. It is the foundation.

What Findra 2.0 means

Google indexes websites. GitHub indexes code. Hugging Face indexes AI models. Findra indexes African digital infrastructure.

The plan has nine pillars: discover, understand, connect, compare, integrate, monitor, verify, analyze, publish. Several are already live today:

Discover and compare. Search the registry, filter by country and category, and use side-by-side comparisons like Paystack vs Flutterwave or the verified category-in-country pages.

Built for AI agents, not just humans. Findra ships a CORS-open JSON API, an MCP server so agent runtimes can query the registry as tools, an OpenAPI 3.1 contract, and llms.txt for AI crawlers. If you are building an agent that needs African payment rails, identity checks or datasets, your agent can ask Findra directly.

Continuous verification. Status checks now run on a schedule and build a public history. When a provider's docs go dark or a service shuts down, the registry reflects it. African infrastructure changes fast, and silent deaths cost builders real integration time. Findra tracks liveness so you find out before you integrate, not after.

The knowledge graph, starting with companies. Every resource now connects to the organization behind it. Browse the companies that operate African infrastructure, and from any company see every API, SDK and MCP server it runs. The public API returns this link too, so agents can reason about who operates what. This is the trunk; SDKs, agents and deeper relationships grow from it.

Findra Intelligence. The first index is live: the African MCP Adoption Index, generated from the registry, mapping every verified Model Context Protocol server for African infrastructure by country and domain. It is the largest labelled collection anywhere.

What ships next

New categories. AI agents, SDKs and open-source projects join the registry, each held to the same verification standard before it opens.

More intelligence. Infrastructure reliability and country coverage indexes, built on the verification history now accumulating.

Publications. Annual, data-generated reports on the state of African digital infrastructure, free to read.

The standard does not change

Growth never outruns verification. A resource enters the registry when its documentation, licensing and live status have actually been checked, and stays only while that remains true. That is the whole point.

Start at findra.dev. If you build African infrastructure and you are not listed, submit your resource. If you are building with AI, point your agent at the API and build.