Real tools, really checked.
ELI is built to point you to things that actually exist and actually help. This is a living directory of Black-owned AI companies and community resources, and ELI knows every one of them by name. The rule is the same one ELI lives by: if it has not been verified, it does not go on the list.
Community AI & information integrity
Onyx Impact
A nonprofit fighting disinformation aimed at Black communities. The team behind Aisha, the Digital Green Book, and the Information Integrity Lab. Founder and CEO Esosa Osa.
onyximpact.org ↗Aisha
Onyx Impact's culturally rooted AI chatbot, the "Black ChatGPT." It fact-checks, helps with digital safety, and connects people to Black-owned media and businesses. Comes in versions for Entrepreneurs, Families, and Everyone.
onyximpact.org/aisha ↗The Digital Green Book
An AI fact-checker trained on Black-focused news, paired with the Information Integrity Lab. Launch press partners include the Washington Informer, Baltimore AFRO, Dallas Weekly, Sacramento Observer, and Houston Defender.
digitalgreenbook.org ↗BlackEverything.com
A Black-owned search engine and directory for the diaspora to find Black-owned businesses, resources, news, and community. Business owners can add themselves through its Get Listed flow.
blackeverything.com ↗Black-owned & culturally rooted tech
Myavana
A Black-owned, women-led beauty tech company. Its HairAI analyzes your actual hair strand to give personalized product and care recommendations for textured and multicultural hair. Founded by Candace Mitchell Harris.
myavana.com ↗CDIAL AI / Indigenius AI
Builds voice and language AI for African languages so businesses can run chatbots, voice agents, translation, and support in those languages. Now rebranded as Indigenius AI.
indigenius.ai ↗Noctal
Uses machine learning to place and sync sound effects in film and video, streamlining sound design from a library of 200,000-plus human-recorded sounds. Useful for creators in post-production. CEO Isaiah Chavous.
noctal.xyz ↗Robin AI
Speeds up contract review, drafting, and management for legal teams. Its contract copilot runs on Anthropic's Claude, the same family of models behind ELI, layered with its own legal dataset.
robinai.com ↗Rwazi
A Decision AI platform that trains on data people choose to share, giving global brands real-time consumer and market insight. Clients include Pepsi, Visa, Nestle, and Coca-Cola.
rwazi.com ↗World Wide Technology
A multibillion-dollar global technology and AI integrator for large organizations, covering AI and machine learning, cloud, data, cybersecurity, and IT infrastructure. One of the largest Black-owned companies in the country.
wwt.com ↗Where ELI checks the news
When something needs verifying, these are the kinds of Black community sources ELI leans on, alongside the open web: BlackPressUSA and the NNPA (the Black Press of America, founded 1940), Black Enterprise for Black business news, the Black Information Network for 24/7 news, and the Pew Research Center for data. Naming the source is part of the answer, so you can always check it yourself.
Know a Black-owned tool we should add?
This list grows with the community. If you build something, or you know a Black-owned AI or tech company we should verify and add, send it to contact@jfhgrp.com. We check every submission before it goes on the list, the same way ELI does.