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AI for the world's 2.6 billion offline phones.

SkyDew turns any SMS- or USSD-capable phone into an AI terminal. No app, no data plan, no smartphone — just text or dial.

No internet required Any AI model 100+ languages
A smallholder farmer reading an AI reply on a basic phone in her tomato field
Kisumu, Kenya
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She'ba AI● Online · SMS assistant
10:24
Today
She'ba
Hi! I'm She'ba, your AI assistant. Ask me anything — health, farming, education or finance.
10:24
Live nodes
2.6B+
People with a phone but no internet
190+
Countries reachable today
100+
Languages the AI answers in
<1.2s
Typical AI reply over SMS
Connectivity partner Africa's Talking
Core infrastructure

Everything between a basic phone and any AI model.

SMS compression, a USSD session engine, Android edge relays and a model-agnostic AI layer — one platform, zero data required on the handset.

SMS Gateway

Transform standard SMS into intelligent query pipelines. AI requests are compressed to fit 160-character constraints, delivering complex answers to any basic device.

$ curl -X POST https://skydew.org/api/send/sms \
  -d "secret=•••••&phone=+2547…&message=…"
→ {"status":200,"message":"queued"}

USSD Shortcodes

Interactive menu sessions engineered for deep AI interactions. Navigate complex data models from a feature phone — no data connection at all.

*247#
1. Ask AI
2. Health
3. Farming
4. Exam help
Reply: 1
0 MB
data used by the caller
*123#
works on every handset

Android Relay

Any Android + SIM becomes a live SMS/USSD relay and edge cache. Deploy a node anywhere in hours.

Edge nodes online worldwideRuns on mid-tier Android

Any AI model

GPT-4o, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek, Grok or Llama via Groq — swap models without changing your number, gateway or flows.

OpenAIGeminiClaudeGroqDeepSeek

Developer API & flows

Full REST API with webhooks, plus no-code conversation flows. Ship a live AI bot in under an hour.

How it works

Just text or dial. That's it.

No app to download. No internet. No setup. If you have a basic phone and a signal, you already have everything you need.

01

Find a SkyDew number

Get the SMS number or USSD shortcode from a health worker, school, NGO or business in your area — or ask someone who already uses it.

02

Text your question

Send an SMS in your own language — Hindi, Swahili, Spanish, Arabic or any of 100+ languages. Or dial the USSD shortcode from any basic handset. Zero data required.

03

Get an AI reply instantly

Real AI intelligence — health guidance, farming advice, exam help, financial tips — delivered back to your phone in seconds.

Where SkyDew delivers AI

Around the world, in the sectors that matter most.

Already reaching communities that broadband will never serve — through the phones they already have.

A community health worker texting guidance outside a rural clinic

Healthcare

Symptom checking, maternal care guidance and medication reminders over basic text — reaching patients with no smartphone or internet.

"Our SMS health bot answers 200+ questions daily in Swahili. Communities we serve don't have smartphones — but they all have phones."Community Health NGO · Kisumu, Kenya
A farmer reading crop advice on a feature phone

Agriculture

Farmers text their crop problems and get instant AI advice on disease, weather, market prices and best practices — in their local language.

"I text the number and ask about my tomato leaves in Bambara. I get the right answer in seconds. My phone has no internet."Smallholder Farmer · Ségou, Mali
A student dialling a USSD code for maths help

Education

Students dial USSD shortcodes or send SMS for AI tutoring, homework help and exam prep — without a data plan or a smartphone.

"I dial *247# and ask my maths questions. The AI explains step by step. Data costs too much — but USSD is free on my network."Secondary School Student · Enugu, Nigeria
A market trader checking an SMS on a basic phone

Financial services

Microfinance operators and fintechs deliver AI-powered loan assessments, savings advice and account queries over SMS to the unbanked.

"I built an SMS loan calculator for unbanked customers in two days. It processes 400+ queries a week — no app, just SMS."Fintech Founder · Accra, Ghana
Platform capabilities

Built for planet-scale, low-bandwidth deployment.

Every feature designed for low-bandwidth, high-impact environments — from rural India to the Sahel.

Two-way SMS

The AI keeps context through the thread — all over basic SMS, zero data required.

USSD shortcodes

Menu-driven AI via *123# codes — reachable on every basic handset.

Android gateway

Any Android + SIM becomes a live SMS/USSD relay. Deploy anywhere, instantly.

Developer API

REST API with webhooks. Integrate with your apps, CRMs and pipelines in hours.

Multi-AI support

Swap models instantly without changing your number, gateway or behaviour.

100+ languages

Hindi, Swahili, Spanish, Arabic, Hausa, Portuguese and 94+ more — AI responds in the language it receives.

Automation flows

No-code conversation flows for health, agriculture, finance and education. Live bot in under an hour.

Real-time analytics

Delivery rates, AI response accuracy and volume — tracked live across all channels and gateways.

Text SkyDew now

Pick your country & start texting

Tap a flag to see the number you can SMS directly — no internet, no app needed.

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Proven in the field

What builders shipping on SkyDew say

"We deployed an SMS health bot serving 40,000 farmers in rural Kenya within a week. SkyDew handled the gateway, the AI, the language — all of it. Setup was shockingly simple."

Health NGO, NairobiCommunity Health Programme · Kenya

"Our customers in Kano speak Hausa and don't have smartphones. SkyDew gave them an AI loan assistant over USSD. First-month adoption exceeded all projections by 3×."

Microfinance Operator, KanoFinancial Inclusion Platform · Nigeria

"A spare Android phone and a local SIM. Three hours later we had a live AI tutoring service texting students across three provinces. Extraordinary."

EdTech Startup, KampalaRemote Learning Platform · Uganda
The offline world is waiting

Start bringing AI to the world's 2.6 billion offline phones today.

No complex infrastructure. No expensive hardware. Connect your AI, add an Android gateway, and go live in hours — reaching communities that broadband will never serve.

Languages our AI speaks100+
HindiSpanishArabicPortugueseBengaliIndonesianFrenchSwahiliHausaAmharicYorubaZuluUrduTagalogVietnamese+85 more