received all components of quality postnatal care in the first two days.
KDHS 2022 · a strict quality compositeAlgoCracked · maternal & reproductive health equity · Nairobi
The gap between care is where mothers are left alone.
MediQuest AI is the companion that stays with a mother through the long weeks between clinic visits — in the app, with optional WhatsApp reminders, and in the language that feels like home.
Pitch brief · 2026Nairobi, KenyaBy AlgoCracked
MMediQuest AIyour private health companion
TUESDAY · 08:41
Good morning, Amina. How is your recovery feeling today?
A little sore, but better than yesterday.
Let's keep today gentle. I've made a 7-minute routine and a sukuma wiki bowl.
Today's gentle planMove · Eat · Rest
English · Kiswahili
Education, not diagnosis
Postnatal care is a continuity problem.
A mother can be medically “seen” and still be completely unsupported.
Kenya's postnatal schedule calls for four contacts through the first six months. Between them, recovery, nutrition, movement, and mental wellbeing still depend on support a mother can reach — while time, money, language, and cultural expectations make the right help hard to access.
postnatal contacts recommended from the first 48 hours through six months.
Kenyan guideline schedule · continuity between contacts matterspostnatal-depression prevalence reported across Nairobi study settings.
Different settings and instruments · figures roundedOne companion. Four small interventions.
Useful every week, careful every step.
MediQuest AI is not trying to replace a clinician. It keeps the everyday decisions visible, catches red flags earlier, and makes the next safe action easier to take.
01
Move safely
An adaptive pregnancy and postpartum routine that changes with how a mother feels each week.
recovery, not performance02
Eat locally
Video-guided meals turn affordable, familiar foods into practical nutrition for a new family.
local food, less friction03
Ask quietly
A reproductive-health assistant gives clear, research-informed education in English or Kiswahili.
private questions, answered04
Know when to go
Red-flag triage makes the next step explicit: keep watching, contact a provider, or go now.
complements the health systemResearch-informed education, clear escalation, and an explicit boundary: AI does not diagnose or prescribe.
Designed for the day after download.
The product earns its place by making one next step feel possible.
The app is the companion. Optional WhatsApp reminders help the next step arrive on time. English and Kiswahili make the system feel closer to the mother's real life, not like another institution asking her to learn a new one.
App WhatsApp reminders English + Kiswahili
01
Check inHow are you feeling today?
02
Get a planA small, safe next step.
03
Keep goingA reminder that arrives on time.
04
Escalate earlyA clear signal when care matters.
Built, but not finished.
The need is evidenced. Retention is not.
Honest by design
What exists
A working multilingual prototype.
- Reproductive-health assistant
- Adaptive exercise routines
- Food recognition + meal planning
- Visit and immunisation reminders
- App + optional WhatsApp reminders
The risk
Will an exhausted mother come back next week?
Kenyan maternal-messaging programmes show that two-way support can engage women. They also show the fragile part: usage drops when services become paid, replies slow down, or the human context disappears.
“We need to prove durable retention through the right channel.”
Our learning posture
We are holding back the next feature until we know what makes the second week happen.
Start with a high-frequency moment.
The wedge is maternal. The platform compounds.
A focused maternal use case gives the broader MediQuest platform a human reason to return: a recovery plan, a local meal, a private answer, an earlier referral.
Earn trust through usefulness
Small wins in a mother's week are more persuasive than a long feature list.
Complement, don't compete
Keep the clinic in the loop and make escalation visible when it matters.
Learn before scaling
Field insight shapes the channel, language, and partnerships before expansion.
What AfyaVentures unlocks.
Help us prove the weekly return.
We have built from conviction. The next version should be built with mothers, midwives, and community health volunteers — close enough to reality to be useful.
Listen in Nairobi
Interview mothers, community health volunteers, and midwives across the places care already happens.
Prove the return
Test whether an AI-led, low-cost companion earns a second week — and a third — through the right channel.
Refine with evidence
Use what we learn to focus the product, the language, and the care partnerships before scaling.
Maternal health · Nairobi · AlgoCracked