HelpMe AI Solutions has exhibited the minimum viable product (MVP) of its still-unlaunched platform at the GITEX AI Exhibition 2026 in Lagos, using the event to publicly unveil work that had remained in development and to test live reaction from visitors and investors.
The company, founded by Nwaeke Ezekiel Abure, has not opened the product to the public. Commercial launch is scheduled for November 24, 2026.
Ezekiel said the decision to attend was deliberate. GITEX was chosen because of its scale in the local AI calendar, and because the team wanted first-hand comments on the MVP rather than another closed-door preview.
‘We went there mainly for exhibition, to showcase our MVP and see the comments we get from people, and also to unveil what we have been working on all this while. We also chose GITEX because it is one of the biggest AI exhibition events in Lagos.’
HelpMe AI Solutions is building two products for the Nigerian market: HelpMe AI, an all-in-one lifestyle and business assistant covering payments, airtime, bills, food ordering, dispatch and SME automation; and HelpMe AI Home Automation, a smart-home and security system designed around local realities.
What Ezekiel described as the real opportunity for African and Nigerian AI was not only that the product can operate commercially at home, but that it is being built to understand basic Nigerian languages and complete tasks in those languages.
‘The fact that our AI product works commercially locally, and also understands all basic Nigerian languages and can complete tasks with these Nigerian languages, stood out as the real opportunity.’
That local-language and local-use pitch, he said, produced the strongest reaction on the exhibition floor. Visitors who were taken through the MVP did not respond with mild interest. They questioned whether a product of that scope could already exist.
‘Most people were amazed about the product. Their reaction was like our product is too good to be true.’
The exhibition was not treated as a victory lap. Ezekiel said the trip also exposed gaps in the product and gave the team a practical way to measure how the MVP lands with a live audience. That reading, he added, has not changed the launch calendar. It has sharpened the company’s confidence in the direction of the 2026 plan.
‘It has made us see our lacks and has also helped us measure the success rate of our product. Currently, we are very sure we are heading in the right direction.’
Between now and November 24, HelpMe AI Solutions is expected to close those gaps, refine the MVP using comments gathered in Lagos, and continue conversations opened with investors and other attendees.
The company remains pre-launch. What GITEX provided, Ezekiel said, was a public first look and a clearer measure of whether the product belongs in the market it was built for.