We Believe Work Can
Change the World

WorkForYourWorld was founded on a simple conviction: that the combined capacity of humanity's working hours is the largest untapped force for global impact — and AI is the key to unlocking it.

Our Mission

Align Every Hour of Work
With What the World Needs Most

Enterprises collectively employ billions of people. Their workforce — its skills, its creativity, its capacity — is already the most powerful resource on earth. The problem is that almost none of it is pointed at the problems that matter most.


WorkForYourWorld exists to fix this misalignment at scale. We built an AI platform that continuously maps what your people can do against what the world urgently needs — then connects the two, automatically, in real time.


The result is an organization that doesn't just talk about impact — it generates measurable, attributable, auditable proof of it. Every quarter. Automatically.

4.3M+
Tasks matched
381+
Orgs onboarded
98.3%
AI accuracy
62%
Avg uplift
Our Values

What We Stand For

🧠

Intelligence First

We build AI systems that are genuinely smarter — not wrapped in AI aesthetics. Every feature starts from a deep learning foundation, not a dashboard with a label.

🌍

Impact as Infrastructure

Impact shouldn't be a PR campaign. It should be embedded in how organizations operate, measured like a financial metric, and reported with the same rigor.

🔒

Privacy by Design

Individual employee data stays within your walls. Our federated architecture was built this way from day one — not retrofitted to satisfy a compliance checkbox.

Speed Matters

The world's problems don't wait. Sub-50ms inference latency isn't a benchmark to brag about — it's a design commitment to making impact happen in real time.

📊

Proof, Not Promise

We generate audit-grade evidence of impact, not feel-good dashboards. Every report is aligned to ISSB, GRI, or CSRD — and exportable in seconds.

🤝

Radical Transparency

Every AI match comes with a reasoning trace. Every impact score has a confidence interval. We believe you should always be able to see why the model decided what it decided.

The Team

Built by People Who Believe
in Both

Our team brings together expertise in deep learning, enterprise software, sustainability science, and organizational design.

AO

Adaeze Okafor

Chief Executive Officer
Former ML Research Lead at DeepMind. PhD, Computer Science, Cambridge. Obsessed with the intersection of AI and social systems.
KM

Kofi Mensah

Chief Technology Officer
Previously Staff Engineer at Palantir. Architected distributed inference systems serving 10M+ users daily.
SR

Sofia Russo

Chief Product Officer
Former VP Product at Workday. 12 years building enterprise HR technology trusted by Fortune 500 organizations.
JL

James Lim

Head of AI Research
PhD, NLP, Stanford. Ex-OpenAI. Leads the transformer architecture and continuous learning research programs.
FB

Fatima Bouaziz

Head of Sustainability Science
Former ESG Analyst at UN Environment Programme. Designed the SDG attribution methodology at the core of our analytics engine.
DK

Daniel Kovacs

VP Engineering
Former Principal Engineer at Stripe. Leads the GPU inference infrastructure and real-time data pipeline teams.
NW

Nina Walsh

Head of Enterprise Sales
15 years closing enterprise SaaS deals at Salesforce and SAP. Passionate about matching the right solution to the right problem.
TA

Taiwo Adeyemi

Head of Partnerships
Previously Director of Partnerships at UN Global Compact. Connects WorkForYourWorld to the global impact ecosystem.
Company Timeline

How We Got Here

Q1 2022

Founded in Lagos, Nigeria

WorkForYourWorld incorporated by Adaeze Okafor and Kofi Mensah after two years of independent AI research into workforce-impact alignment.

Q3 2022

Seed Round: $3.2M

Led by Partech Africa with participation from Seedstars and three prominent impact-focused family offices. Used to build the core transformer model and first inference pipeline.

Q1 2023

Private Beta Launch

Onboarded 12 pilot organizations across 6 countries. First AI match executed in 47ms. Early NPS: 82.

Q4 2023

Series A: $14M

Led by Accel with participation from GreenPrint Capital. Expanded the team to 40 and launched the Command Center and automated reporting features.

Q2 2024

100 Organizations Milestone

Reached 100 enterprise organizations. Launched CSRD-aligned reporting suite and Workday integration. Expanded to 28 countries.

Q1 2025

381 Organizations · 4.3M+ Matches

Reached 381 enterprise organizations. Inference volume crossed 2.4M per hour. Launched federated multi-org architecture for Global tier customers.

Join Us

We're Just Getting Started

We're building the infrastructure for a world where every hour of work creates measurable good. If that excites you, we'd love to talk.

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