Cencori

The Cloudflare for AI production — security, observability, and cost control for every AI request

Cencori is a Nigerian AI cloud infrastructure company positioning itself as 'the Cloudflare for AI production.' Built in June 2025 by Bola Roy Banjo (CEO) and Daniel Oreofe (COO), it emerged from their frustration watching developers at startups like Eden Life and Mytherapist.ng plug LLM APIs into production code with zero visibility — sending user emails and phone numbers into prompts with no guardrails. Cencori sits between AI applications and the models they call, handling security (PII protection, jailbreak detection, prompt injection prevention), observability (real-time logging, analytics, audit trails), and cost control (smart routing, semantic caching, failover across providers). Works with every major AI provider: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, AWS, Mistral, Meta, Cohere, DeepSeek, Ollama. Bootstrapped with personal savings, grown past 200 users without paid marketing. Named Connecting Africa's Hot Startup of the Month for May 2026.