Proto and Encrypted Co. Ltd partner to bring AI agent workflows to Rwanda

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Proto and Encrypted Co. Ltd partner to bring AI agent workflows to Rwanda

Proto and Encrypted Co. Ltd have agreed a partnership to bring AI agent infrastructure to government and enterprise clients across Rwanda.

Encrypted Co. Ltd is a Kigali-based IT infrastructure and cybersecurity firm, working with corporate, government, and multi-country organisations across East Africa. The partnership brings that technical credibility and client reach together with Proto’s AI agent platform.

Rwanda at the centre of the partnership

Rwanda is already an established market for Proto, with an existing AI agent deployment supporting the National Bank of Rwanda’s Intumwa platform. That local track record and language readiness – including Kinyarwanda – is now available to the wider range of corporate, government, and multi-country clients that Encrypted Co. Ltd serves.

Daniela Odette, Business Development Director of Encrypted Co. Ltd, said: “We work with government and enterprise clients across East Africa who are under growing pressure to modernise how they handle customer engagement and complaints. This partnership lets us bring them a solution that’s already proven in Rwanda, rather than something untested.”

Where the AI agents will be deployed

The deployment focus spans the workflows where Proto has the deepest track record in the region. For enterprise and government clients, this includes AI agents for frontline customer engagement across WhatsApp, SMS, and USSD – reaching customers whether they’re on a smartphone or a basic feature phone – as well as structured complaints intake, case routing, and resolution tracking that helps organisations meet service and regulatory obligations without scaling headcount proportionally. For supervisory and public bodies, it includes consumer protection infrastructure: complaints triage, dispute escalation, and the real-time visibility into incoming cases that institutions need to act on patterns rather than individual complaints.

These workflows are built to operate in the languages Rwandan users actually speak, including Kinyarwanda, so the AI agent capability is accessible rather than restricted to English or French speakers.

Curtis Matlock, CEO of Proto, said: “Rwanda has already shown what AI agent infrastructure can do inside a live regulatory environment – Intumwa’s results speak for themselves. Encrypted Co. Ltd brings the technical and cybersecurity credibility to extend that same capability to more of the country’s government and enterprise clients, without asking them to start from zero.”

About Encrypted Co. Ltd

Encrypted Co. Ltd is a Kigali-based technology and cybersecurity firm headquartered at Norrsken House Kigali. The company provides IT managed services, cybersecurity solutions, IT project services, global IT engineering, hardware and backup infrastructure, and product training to corporate, government, and multi-country clients across East Africa.

About Proto

Proto deploys inclusive AI workflows in emerging markets. The company is trusted by governments and enterprises to automate workflows for anti-scam centres, patient experience, and other mission-critical usecases. Proto's clients include central banks, remittance services, and hospitals protected with the company's SOC2, ISO27001, GDPR, and HIPAA compliance. Proto's text and voice AI datasets power high performance for local languages beyond the limits of large language models. Headquartered in Canada, Proto operates from regional offices in the Philippines and Rwanda.