Handles every inquiry, follows up every lead, and runs your campaigns — 24/7, for any business, on the WhatsApp number you already use.
Every African business using WhatsApp faces the same problems — no matter what industry you're in. Ugene solves all of them.
Someone messages at 11pm asking about your service. You see it at 7am. They've already moved on.
Copy-paste replies. Same questions asked daily. You're a ₦50,000 typist when you should be running your business.
They said "I'll think about it." You meant to follow up in 3 days. It's been 3 weeks and they've forgotten you exist.
How many people messaged this week? How many are hot? How many campaigns actually got replies? You have no idea.
ManyChat, WATI, Respond.io — all USD pricing, official API fees, no Nigerian context, no Naira payment support.
Customers hate menu-based chatbots. They ask something real and get "Please select option 1, 2, or 3."
We run five completely different businesses on Ugene — bioinformatics education, natural health retail, precision medicine, certification, and consulting. One platform handles all our WhatsApp marketing across every subsidiary. It’s the closest thing we have to a full-time marketing team that never sleeps.
Ugene is a complete WhatsApp AI marketing platform — not just a chatbot. Every feature was built for real African business use cases, across every industry.
Powered by Anthropic Claude — not buttons or menus. Your agent holds real conversations, answers complex questions, handles objections, and remembers every past interaction. You name it, set its personality, and brief it on your business.
Live ✓Send bulk WhatsApp messages to any contact segment — all contacts, new leads, warm prospects, specific categories, or a hand-picked list. Human-like delays between sends protect your number. Pause and resume campaigns anytime.
Live ✓Every contact automatically gets a 21-day AI-written nurture sequence. Day 1 welcome, Day 3 soft nudge, Day 7 free value, Day 14 re-engagement, Day 21 final push. The AI skips stages if they reply and writes each message from your real conversation history.
Live ✓Create WhatsApp click-to-chat links for specific programmes or campaigns. Each link sets the AI's focus for that contact so someone from your "Real Estate" flyer gets a real estate-focused agent, not a generic one. Short links included.
Live ✓The AI automatically detects when a contact is ready to buy, wants pricing, is interested, can't afford it, wants a human, or wants to opt out — and flags them in your dashboard in real time. Know exactly who to call today.
Live ✓Chat directly with your AI agent in the Ugene Console to brief it on new promotions, objection-handling strategies, pricing changes, or seasonal campaigns. Multiple briefings active simultaneously — the AI picks the right one per conversation.
Live ✓When a customer sends an image, PDF, or voice note — the AI reads it using Claude Vision and responds intelligently. When they paste a website link, the AI fetches and reads the page content to give a contextual response. No other WhatsApp tool does this.
Live ✓Extract all members from any WhatsApp group as contacts — instantly builds a segmented list from any community you're in. Then blast all groups at once with your campaign message. The fastest way to reach your existing WhatsApp communities.
Live ✓Add all your offerings — courses, services, packages, free resources — with descriptions, prices, durations, and flyer images. The AI knows your full catalogue and pitches the right product for each conversation. Flyers auto-sent when interest is detected.
Live ✓Real-time visibility on every conversation, hot lead, campaign progress, and signal. Daily automated reports sent to your team at 8am. Full contact management with status tracking from new to warm to hot to enrolled. Know your numbers, always.
Live ✓When a prospect goes quiet after the AI replies, Ugene sends a gentle follow-up 8–12 minutes later. Human-written, natural, non-pushy. Keeps conversations alive without being annoying. Smart cooldowns prevent over-messaging.
Live ✓Connect any WhatsApp number via QR scan — no new number needed. No per-message API fees. All data stored on your own server, not locked in a foreign SaaS. Fully self-hosted on your DigitalOcean or Railway instance.
Live ✓Most WhatsApp tools are just button-menu chatbots dressed up. Ugene is powered by Anthropic Claude — the same AI that runs in top enterprise products. Your agent actually reads, understands, and responds like a knowledgeable marketing professional would.
Reads the entire conversation history before every reply. Never re-introduces itself, never re-asks answered questions.
Name your agent anything. Brief it with your brand voice, your tone, your selling style. It becomes yours.
Sends a course page link? AI reads it. Sends a question via image? AI reads that too. Sends a brochure PDF? Understood.
AI waits for the user to finish typing before replying. Simulates real typing time based on message length. Feels human.
When a contact requests a human or is clearly ready to pay, the AI flags them instantly with a generated summary and hands over cleanly.
Every contact gets a 21-day AI-written nurture sequence automatically. AI writes each message based on your conversation history and active programmes — not generic templates.
Introduce the programme, answer initial questions, set expectations
Gentle check-in, address common objections, reiterate key value
Share something genuinely useful — builds trust and keeps you relevant
Fresh angle, new value prop, urgency if there's a deadline or cohort
Last chance message, FOMO if relevant, clear next step to enrol
No complex integrations. No tech team needed. Connect, brief, and go.
Scan a QR code with any WhatsApp number you already own. No new number needed, no Meta business account required.
Enter your products, services, or programmes. The AI reads everything and knows exactly what to sell and how to answer questions about it.
Chat with Ugene's onboarding AI. Tell it what your business does and it configures your agent's name, personality, and briefing automatically. No technical setup needed.
Import contacts, launch your first campaign, and watch leads and replies come in. Your AI handles every conversation while you focus on the ones that matter most.
WhatsApp is the primary customer channel for African businesses. If your customers message you there, Ugene turns those conversations into results — automatically.
Enrol students, answer curriculum questions, follow up with applicants automatically
Qualify leads, share property details, book site visits, follow up with buyers
Handle orders, answer product questions, send tracking, win back abandoned carts
Book discovery calls, share service packages, convert enquiries into paying clients
Book appointments, answer patient questions, send reminders and follow-ups
Sell tickets, answer event FAQs, send reminders, capture attendee data
Qualify loan applicants, explain products, collect documents, schedule calls
If your customers are on WhatsApp, Ugene gives you an AI agent who handles them brilliantly
Western tools charge per conversation in USD and weren't built for how African businesses operate. Ugene is different at every level.
| Feature | Ugene 🇳🇬 Nigeria | ManyChat 🇺🇸 USD | WATI 🇺🇸 USD | Respond.io 🇺🇸 USD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly price | ₦7K–₦150K | $15–$299 (₦25K–₦500K) | $49–$299 (₦82K–₦500K) | $79–$299 (₦132K–₦500K) |
| Per-message API fees | ✓ Zero — unlimited | ✗ Yes — per conversation | ✗ Yes — per conversation | ✗ Yes — per conversation |
| Real AI conversations | ✓ Claude AI — fully conversational | ✗ Basic flow builder | ✗ Limited AI | ✗ Basic AI |
| Reads images & PDFs | ✓ Claude Vision | ✗ No | ✗ No | ✗ No |
| Reads website URLs | ✓ Full page content | ✗ No | ✗ No | ✗ No |
| 5-stage follow-up pipeline | ✓ AI-written, automatic | ✗ Manual sequences only | ✗ Basic sequences | Partial |
| Buying signal detection | ✓ 8 signals, real-time | ✗ No | ✗ No | ✗ No |
| WhatsApp group extraction | ✓ Full group blast | ✗ No | ✗ No | ✗ No |
| Naira pricing & payments | ✓ Built for Nigeria | ✗ USD only | ✗ USD only | ✗ USD only |
| Self-hosted — your data | ✓ Your server, your control | ✗ Their cloud | ✗ Their cloud | ✗ Their cloud |
The gap is real and the window is now. In 12–18 months this market will have competition. The businesses that start using AI marketing automation on WhatsApp today will have an insurmountable advantage over those who wait.
No hidden API fees. No per-message charges. Pay once, send unlimited messages.
14-day free trial on Starter and Growth — no card required
Annual plan available on all tiers — pay annually, get 2 months free (17% saving)
We're just getting started. Here's what's on the roadmap — and founding clients get early access to everything.
Every day you manage WhatsApp manually, you're losing leads to businesses with AI working for them around the clock. Start your free trial today — any business, any industry.
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