About

I’m a builder first. I believe everyone deserves to be on the map.

Where someone lives should not determine whether they can access the products, services and opportunities they need to build a better life. Yet across many underserved markets, businesses struggle to reach customers, communities remain disconnected from essential services, and opportunities go unrealised.

I founded Interface Africa to work on this problem. Today we’re building The Interface, a Market Access Platform that uses data, agent networks and payment infrastructure to help businesses reach underserved communities.

The work has made me interested in a broader question: what is the infrastructure that makes markets accessible, and how can we build it for the people and businesses conventional systems overlook? I call this Market Access Infrastructure.

I’m exploring it through practice, research and conversations. The Papers document my thinking. The Podcast is where I learn from people working on similar challenges. As an MBA student and Skoll Scholar at Oxford Saïd, I’m also learning from people approaching these questions through business, entrepreneurship and social change.

I see this as a long-term body of work, shaped by what we build, what the evidence tells us, what other people teach us and what we still need to understand. My ambition is to help make markets more accessible, and to share what we learn so others can build on it.

— Al-Amin