THE GENIUS PROJECT

Founded in Jamaica. Built for the Caribbean.

Everyone is a Genius,
in Their Way.

The Genius Project uses AI to give every Caribbean citizen access to their government, their data, and their future.

We started in Jamaica. We are building for 15 nations. By training young people to build AI tools that their governments actually use, we are closing the gap between the decisions that shape Caribbean life and the citizens those decisions affect.

In partnership with:   StarApple AI  |  UWI Mona IMPACT AI Lab  |  Orbital Brand Science  |  Maestros AI Lab

The Caribbean produces more talent per capita than almost anywhere on earth. Most of it leaves. Most of what stays cannot access the tools to compete.

We are fixing the access problem. Not by importing solutions. By building them here, with the people who live here.

200+
Young people trained in AI to date
15
CARICOM nations in the deployment plan
18M
Caribbean citizens this platform is built to reach

Caribbean governments produce millions of pages of decisions every year.

Almost none of it reaches the people it affects.

Laws are written in language most citizens cannot parse. Budget documents run to hundreds of pages. Policy decisions that affect jobs, schools, and communities get announced in government gazettes that almost nobody reads.

When citizens cannot understand what their government is doing, two things happen. First, they stop engaging. Second, bad decisions go unchallenged for longer than they should.

Across CARICOM's 15 member states, this plays out in parallel. Each country produces its own disconnected stream of policy. There is no easy way for a farmer in Guyana to know what a trade decision in Kingston means for his market. There is no tool that shows a student in Barbados how their education budget compares to Trinidad's.

This is not a technology problem. Technology exists. It is a design problem. Nobody built the tools with Caribbean citizens in mind.

"Only 14% of Caribbean citizens with access to open government data can interpret it without professional help." Statistical Institute of Jamaica, 2023

We do not deliver AI to communities.
We build it with them.

Every Genius Project tool is co-designed with a government partner, built by young Caribbean people trained through our programme, and evaluated against bias and cultural accuracy before it touches a single citizen.

01
Train first, build second.

We bring young people from the communities a tool will serve into the build team before we write a line of code. They know things no outside consultant does. That knowledge goes into the product.

02
Government as a co-creator, not a client.

Every project has a named government co-lead who participates in design sprints from Month 1. We do not deliver systems to ministries. We build systems inside them.

03
Open everything we learn.

Every model we fine-tune, every bias we document, every policy corpus we build gets published openly. The Caribbean AI Adoption Playbook we are writing belongs to every CARICOM state, not just Jamaica.

04
Start in Jamaica. Finish with the region.

Jamaica is where we have the deepest partnerships, the strongest track record, and the most active government relationships. Every system we build here is designed from day one to be adapted and deployed across all 15 CARICOM nations.

Eight projects. One platform.
Fifteen nations.

Each project targets a specific gap between Caribbean citizens and their government. Together, they form the Genius Platform: the region's first AI-powered civic intelligence system.

Education
Project 01
GenGenius
Every Jamaican student deserves a world-class tutor.

Forty percent of Caribbean students fail their core regional exams. Not for lack of ability. For lack of access. GenGenius is an AI tutoring platform that delivers personalised, curriculum-aligned preparation for every CXC and CSEC subject. It runs on any phone. It works in English and Patois. It adapts to how each student learns, not to how a textbook was written. GenGenius does not replace teachers. It extends what a good teacher can do, to students who cannot afford a private tutor or a school with small class sizes.

Built with: Ministry of Education Jamaica  |  Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC)
Economy
Project 02
CivicAI
Your government, in plain language.

Most Jamaicans and Caribbean citizens do not fail to engage with their government because they do not care. They fail because the language of government was never designed for them. Acts of Parliament. Budget estimates. Gazette notices. Procurement decisions. All of it sits behind walls of formal language that take years of professional training to navigate. CivicAI ingests Jamaica's full body of legislation, policy documents, and government decisions. Any citizen can ask a question in plain English, or in Patois, and get a plain-language answer with a direct source citation. No lawyer required. Just a phone and a question.

Built with: Ministry of Justice Jamaica  |  Office of the Parliamentary Counsel
Economy
Project 03
CARICOM PolicyLens
See what your neighbours are deciding, and why it matters to you.

CARICOM produces policy across 15 nations that directly affects regional trade, migration, education, climate response, and economic development. None of it is cross-referenced. A customs officer in Belize, a student in Grenada, a market trader in Trinidad cannot easily understand how a decision in Kingston changes their situation. CARICOM PolicyLens is a cross-border policy intelligence tool built on a corpus of all 15 member states' legislation, budgets, Hansards, and gazette documents. Citizens, journalists, researchers, and civil society groups can query it in natural language and get answers that span the region.

Built with: CARICOM Secretariat  |  National Statistical Offices across 15 member states
Economy
Project 04
DataPulse Caribbean
Government data belongs to citizens. Now they can use it.

The statistical offices of CARICOM's 15 member states hold extraordinary data about healthcare access, infrastructure spending, school performance, agricultural yields, and economic trends. Most of it sits unused because it requires professional data skills to interpret. DataPulse Caribbean puts a conversational AI layer over the region's open government data. A citizen can ask: which parishes in Jamaica have the highest student-to-teacher ratios? A journalist can ask: show me infrastructure spending trends in the Eastern Caribbean over five years. DataPulse answers in plain language, with source citations, in real time.

Built with: Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN)  |  Caribbean Development Bank Open Data  |  CARICOM Secretariat
Economy
Project 05
SpeakAI
The first AI that speaks like a Caribbean person.

Roughly 40% of Jamaicans communicate primarily in Patois. Saint Lucians speak Kweyol. Belizeans speak Kriol. No major AI assistant in the world handles any of these languages in production. SpeakAI is a voice-first AI assistant built on language models fine-tuned for Caribbean vernacular languages. Citizens can access government services, check information, and get plain-language explanations of policies in the language they actually speak. We are starting with Jamaican Patois, working with UWI Mona's linguistics team to build the first verified Patois NLP dataset, and extending to Kweyol and Kriol in Year 2.

Built with: Office of the Prime Minister Jamaica (Digital Transformation)  |  Ministry of Health  |  UWI Mona Linguistics
Resilience
Project 06
BiasCheck Caribbean
The AI watching the AI.

The dominant AI systems deployed across the Caribbean were built on data from the United States and Europe. They do not understand Caribbean faces, Caribbean names, Caribbean dialects, or Caribbean legal contexts. This produces bias that is not always visible and not always malicious. BiasCheck Caribbean documents, measures, and publishes AI model bias as it appears in Caribbean multilingual and multicultural contexts. We maintain a public Caribbean AI Bias Registry, updated quarterly, and submit annual bias reports to Jamaica's National AI Task Force and the CARICOM Secretariat.

Built with: IMPACT AI Lab UWI Mona  |  Jamaica National AI Task Force
Resilience
Project 07
ResilienceAI
No Caribbean community should be surprised by a crisis it could have seen coming.

Jamaica and every CARICOM nation face intensifying climate risk. Hurricanes, flooding, drought, and sea-level rise require government emergency managers to make faster decisions with less time and often incomplete information. ResilienceAI integrates satellite data, weather models, historical disaster records, and real-time sensor feeds to give Caribbean government emergency managers actionable intelligence before, during, and after a crisis. It is designed from the architecture up to be shared across CARICOM member states.

Built with: Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM)  |  UWI Climate Studies Group
Economy
Project 08
GeniusWork
We do not just train young people. We employ them.

Every AI system in the Genius Platform is built, maintained, and improved by young Caribbean people trained through our programme. GeniusWork is the workforce development engine that makes this possible. Young people aged 18 to 25 go through a structured 6-month apprenticeship: prompt engineering, data annotation, community AI training, product testing, and government liaison work. At the end of it, they are employed. Not promised employment. Employed, on the Genius Project build team or placed with a partner government or organisation.

Built with: HEART/NSTA Trust Jamaica  |  Ministry of Labour and Social Security  |  CARICOM Secretariat
Culture
Project 09
JamAIca Roots
Jamaica's story, told in Jamaica's voice, preserved for the world.

Jamaica is one of the most culturally influential nations per capita on earth. Its music, language, oral histories, and folk traditions have shaped global culture across a hundred years. Much of it lives in fragile archives, scattered collections, and the memories of people who are growing older. JamAIca Roots is a generative AI platform that digitises, indexes, and makes Jamaica's cultural heritage interactively accessible. Citizens can explore cultural archives through conversation. Educators can generate culturally grounded lesson plans. The diaspora can reconnect with heritage.

Built with: Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC)  |  National Library of Jamaica

Starting in Jamaica.
Scaling to 15 nations.

The Genius Platform is built as a replication template. Every component is documented. Every government partnership model is designed to be adapted. Jamaica is the proof of concept. The Caribbean is the destination.

Year 1
2025-2026
Jamaica LIVE
Platform foundation, 5 projects live, 300 students enrolled
Year 2
2026-2027
Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados, Guyana
Platform adapted and deployed, national AI fellows placed
Year 3
2027-2028
Belize, Saint Lucia, Grenada, Antigua & Barbuda, Saint Kitts & Nevis, Saint Vincent, Dominica, Montserrat, The Bahamas, Suriname, Haiti
Full CARICOM deployment
Jamaica: LIVE Deploying next: Trinidad & Tobago Barbados Guyana + 11 more nations

You built Jamaica.
You should build its future.

GeniusWork is a six-month paid apprenticeship for young Caribbean people aged 18 to 25 who want to work in AI. No computer science degree required. No prior coding experience required. Required: curiosity, reliability, and care about the communities you come from.

  • Build AI tools that real citizens use to access their government
  • Learn prompt engineering, data annotation, and AI product testing
  • Work directly alongside government teams in Jamaica and across the region
  • Receive a salary during your apprenticeship, not a stipend
  • Leave with a certification recognised by HEART/NSTA Trust and partner employers
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Who We Are Looking For

We have trained young people from Trench Town, from rural St. Elizabeth, from Montego Bay, from Georgetown, and from Bridgetown. The one thing every person who has come through GeniusWork has in common is that they saw a problem in their community and wanted to do something about it. That instinct is the qualification.

GeniusWork apprentices working together
Adrian Dunkley - Founder of The Genius Project

Built here.
For here.

The Genius Project is a nonprofit initiative founded to close the gap between what Caribbean governments know and what Caribbean citizens can access. We believe that information asymmetry is one of the most consequential and most solvable problems facing the region. AI is the tool. Trained young Caribbean people are the workforce. Government partnerships are the delivery mechanism.

Adrian Dunkley founded the Genius Project after 15 years building AI systems in Jamaica and across the Caribbean. He is the founder of StarApple AI, the Caribbean's first AI company. In 2024, he was named EY Entrepreneur of the Year (Start-Up) in Jamaica. In 2025, CEO Monthly recognised him as the Caribbean's top AI innovator. He sits on Jamaica's National AI Task Force and serves as President of the Jamaica Technology and Digital Alliance.

We are currently applying for the Google.org Impact Challenge: AI for Government Innovation to fund the full Caribbean rollout of the Genius Platform. If you represent a government, a foundation, or an organisation that wants to partner on any of our projects, we want to hear from you.

EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2024 Caribbean AI Innovator of the Year 2025 Jamaica Observer Loop Jamaica UWI Mona Research Partner

The Caribbean doesn't need permission to lead.

We need the infrastructure, the opportunity, and the belief that we can.

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