Hyperlocal infrastructure, powered by local organisations, for local people
Nyata is the local network that connects people with the help and services around them, and it's live today. Here's what's built, how it earns, and where it goes next. Current figures and the full roadmap are shared in meetings.
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| Company | Nyata Ltd, registered in England and Wales, company number 16286344, incorporated 3 March 2025 |
| Registered office | 1F23 Student Venture, UWE Bristol, BS16 1QY |
| Data protection | ICO registration ZC042900; ICO Data Protection Essentials 2026 (certificate ICO-ASSESS-2026-F8941542, valid until 11 September 2027) |
| Ecosystem | Listed in the Innovate UK Business Connect Talent & Skills Connect partner directory; client organisation on UWE Bristol's CAKE student consultancy scheme 2026/27; exhibited at UNLEASH, Hannover (September 2026) |
| Coverage | Started in Bristol and rolling out city by city, each city built with local organisations and people on the ground |
What Nyata is
A local network with an AI front door
Powered by local organisations, for local people
Charities, councils and local businesses list their services on Nyata. Residents find them by asking in plain words, typed or spoken, in their own language. Nyata answers from verified listings in the person's own area, and lets them book local providers in the chat.
- Verified listings: Nyata checks each organisation before it goes live and can set listings up on its behalf
- Service sessions with type, day, times, address and capacity
- Voice input, read-aloud replies and multilingual questions
- Bookings and payments for local businesses through Stripe, with Apple Pay and Google Pay
- Reached through the app (iOS, Android, Mac), the website, a public API, an embeddable widget, and AI assistants such as Claude and ChatGPT
Product status
| Capability | Status |
|---|---|
| Nyata app on iOS, Android and Mac, with voice and read-aloud | Live |
| Verified charity and community service listings | Live |
| Self-service sign-up for charities, barbers, beauty, cleaning and drivers | Live |
| Public API with live listings, and an MCP connector for Claude, ChatGPT and other AI assistants | Live |
| In-chat appointment reminders with push notifications | Live |
| Bookings and payments for barbers, beauty and cleaning | Built and tested |
| Service Portal insights for charities | Built, being introduced |
| Taxi booking with fixed fares and live tracking | In testing |
| WhatsApp access | Partner organisations only |
| Area demand reporting for councils | In development |
| Route to trained professionals | Waitlist |
Why Nyata wins
Anyone can call an AI model. Nobody else has Nyata's verified local listings, the organisations behind them, or the trust of the people who need them. Every city we add deepens it.
Nyata routes each job to the model that does it best, including one tuned on local service questions. As models get smarter and cheaper, Nyata does too, with no rebuild.
One local network powers the Nyata app, the website, the API, partners' own sites and AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT. Organisations list once and are found everywhere.
Every question shows what people need, where and when. That builds the picture councils and charities need to plan services, and it grows with every conversation.
How Nyata earns
Charities list free; businesses and organisations pay for results and services
| Revenue stream | Model | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Local business bookings | Commission on bookings Nyata brings a business, agreed before it goes live | Built, switching on |
| Taxi bookings | £2 booking fee paid by the passenger; the fare goes to the driver or operator | In testing |
| API access | Free trial, then £10 or £50 a month; enterprise on request | On sale |
| Message top-ups | Optional credits for heavy users, from 50p | Built, switching on |
| Councils and organisations | Pilots, website integrations and area demand reporting, priced per project | First pilot running (free) |
| White-label delivery | Custom builds for organisations, delivered with a development partner | Agreement in preparation |
Nyata is at an early stage. Revenue to date and the switch-on plan for each stream are shared in investor meetings.
Growing city by city
Bristol is where Nyata started and where the model is being proven. Each new city follows the same playbook: verify local organisations, list their services, bring local businesses on, and grow with people on the ground who know the area. Nyata only ever answers from the user's own area, so a new city starts honest, saying what isn't covered yet rather than guessing.
Early traction
Nyata's own analytics; we'll walk through the underlying data on request
Active users are from Google Analytics for the Nyata app and website combined, for the 30 days to 15 September 2026, and count unique devices and browsers. The other figures are totals since launch from Nyata's own analytics, as at September 2026. We won't inflate vanity metrics: ask us for the definitions behind each number.
Team
The people behind Nyata
Ibrahim Maina
Founder & CEO
UWE Bristol graduate (BSc Information Technology Management for Business). The idea for Nyata came from his frontline welfare support work in Bristol, where he saw how hard it can be for people to find food, showers, housing advice and other support that already exists. He built the core Nyata platform himself, and previously founded Mottatracking SARL, a GPS fleet-tracking business in Cameroon.
Ibrahim is supported by a remote team of associates working across operations, business development, content, data and developer partnerships, and by a UWE Bristol CAKE student team for 2026/27.
Get in touch
Investors, programmes, universities and public-sector partners
We're open to conversations with investors and partners who want to help local organisations reach the people they exist for. We'll share current figures, the roadmap and our risk register.
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