Imbila.AI is the research and intellectual property partner behind the 2nth.ai platform. We develop AI methodology, agent architecture, and education — then 2nth.ai turns it into skills, agents, and infrastructure that partners build on.
Imbila.AI researches. 2nth.ai implements. Partners build. Customers benefit.
Research, methodology, IP
Platform, skills, agents, billing
Domain skills, branded hubs
AI-powered products & services
How should agents compose skills? How do you version AI capabilities? What's the right abstraction for domain expertise? We research, test, and publish the patterns.
Imbila's research becomes the SKILL.md open format — 134 skills, 12 domains, token billing, revenue sharing. The thinking made executable.
Proximity Green manages shared spaces. AgileX runs recruitment. DroneScan scans warehouses. Each built on methodology that started at Imbila.
Our research informs every skill, agent, and platform decision at 2nth.ai.
How autonomous agents should compose, communicate, and hand off work. Multi-agent collaboration with human-in-the-loop approval gates. The thinking behind Penny and the 15 domain agents at 2nth.ai.
Inspired by the claude.skills movement. A standardised way to package AI domain expertise as versioned, composable, dependency-resolving units. YAML frontmatter, structured markdown, automatic skill tree resolution.
Running AI at the edge on Cloudflare Workers — not in centralised clouds. D1 for data, KV for sessions, Workers AI for inference, R2 for storage. The architecture that makes 2nth.ai fast, affordable, and globally distributed.
How to price AI capabilities in ZAR, not USD. Token-based billing that works for South African businesses. POPIA-compliant data residency. Revenue sharing that makes AI accessible, not extractive.
We believe AI capability should be distributed, not concentrated. Our education initiatives make AI skills accessible.
Free AI education for every African student. From first prompt to production agent. Named for the tree that gives shade to everyone.
Structured training on Claude — from prompting to Claude Code to building production AI agents. Used to train 2nth.ai partners and developers.
Deep-dive articles on AI methodology, agent patterns, skill architecture, and the decisions behind the 2nth.ai platform.
Everything Imbila researches gets built on the 2nth.ai platform.
AI agent platform with 134 skills, 12 domains, token billing, partner hubs. The commercial execution of Imbila's research.
Browse 134 AI skills across tech, business, marketing, data, IoT, health, legal, finance, property, and collaboration.
Partner onboarding, skill contributions, revenue sharing, and the vision for how developers, business, and designers build with AI.
Multi-tenant operations for coworking, student accommodation, corporate campuses. SA, Rwanda, Mauritius.
5 autonomous AI recruitment agents. CV parsing, AI interviews, EE compliance, scheduling, onboarding.
Drone-powered warehouse inventory management with AI anomaly detection. Featured by CNN, Forbes.
Warehouse management software building AI skills for stock accuracy, shelf life, and pick optimisation.
Imbila.AI is a South African AI research company. We develop methodology, architecture, and education for AI agent systems. Our work powers the 2nth.ai platform and its partner ecosystem.
Founded by Craig Leppan. Based in South Africa. Building for the world.
Imbila is a Zulu word meaning "rock hyrax" — a small, unassuming animal found across Southern Africa. Despite its size, it's the closest living relative of the elephant. Intelligence doesn't need to be large to be powerful.
That's our philosophy: small, focused AI capabilities that compose into something much larger than the sum of their parts.
Start with 50,000 free tokens on the 2nth.ai platform. Or read our research first.