About TAIM54

Africa's Trade & Marketplace for 54 Nations — connecting buyers and suppliers across the entire continent through AI-powered procurement.

Our Mission

TAIM54 exists to unlock intra-African trade. Across all 54 nations, billions of dollars of commerce happen every year — but too much of it is friction-filled, opaque, or dependent on relationships rather than transparent markets. We're changing that with a modern B2B marketplace backed by AI-driven sourcing, procurement automation, and a supplier network spanning the continent.

Our Founders

Gloria Owusu

Director of Operations & Co-Founder

A Ghanaian native educated in the UK and US, Gloria is a serial entrepreneur who founded a successful business consulting company. She brings deep expertise in African business operations and cross-border commerce to TAIM54.

Justin James

Director of Digital & Co-Founder

A serial entrepreneur and management consultant specializing in IT and AI, Justin brings technical leadership and digital innovation expertise to TAIM54's platform development and AI-powered procurement systems.

54
African Countries

Every AU member state is represented in our supplier and buyer network

AI-First
Procurement Platform

From RFQ generation to proposal evaluation — powered by AI at every step

End-to-End
Trade Lifecycle

Sourcing → RFQ → PO → Fulfillment, all in one platform

What We Do

TAIM54 is a B2B marketplace and AI-powered procurement platform built specifically for African trade. Buyers can source verified products and services from across the continent, submit RFQs and RFPs, and manage their entire procurement lifecycle — from requisition to purchase order to delivery tracking — through a single platform.

Suppliers gain access to a continent-wide buyer network, an intelligent RFQ response system, and tools to manage their product listings, orders, and documentation — all without complex ERP integrations.

Behind the scenes, our AI procurement workflow engine handles specification extraction, RFQ document generation, proposal evaluation, and PO drafting — dramatically reducing the time from sourcing need to awarded contract.

Built for Africa

Africa's trade ecosystem has unique needs: multi-currency transactions, complex cross-border logistics, diverse regulatory environments, and the importance of supplier relationships built on trust. TAIM54 is designed from the ground up to serve these realities, not to impose a Western marketplace model onto African business culture.