00 — ABOUT LUCIDUS LABS

Your AI team, without having to build one.

Lucidus helps businesses turn AI ambition into working systems. Our experience has been built working with businesses across Africa, identifying where AI can create meaningful value, implementing it across existing systems and processes, and staying responsible for it in production.

01FOUNDERS
Portrait of Afolabi Ayoola

Afolabi is a data scientist and engineer with a background in machine learning, experimentation and data systems. Before Lucidus, he worked at Foursquare, Nike and Codecademy (YC W11), building data and ML systems used across consumer products. He holds a BEng in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from Newcastle University and an MPS in Applied Statistics from Cornell University.

Portrait of Paddy Mark

Paddy Mark on LinkedIn

CO-FOUNDER & CTO

Paddy is a data scientist and machine learning engineer who previously led Data Science at Prolific (YC S16). His work spans applied ML, AI detection, dynamic pricing and large-scale data systems, including open-source datasets for training language models. He holds a BA in Philosophy & Economics from UCL and an MA in Quantitative Methods, with a focus on Data Science, from Columbia University.