About Mayele Works
Knowledge is only the beginning.
Mayele Works builds products that help people understand, use and pass on meaningful knowledge. We started with language, because it carries so much of who people are.
Our name
Mayele
For Mayele Works, the name represents more than having knowledge. It points to what knowledge enables: understanding something, putting it to use and carrying it forward.
Mayele is not what you know. It is what knowing enables you to do.
Why language
Why we started with language.
Language carries knowledge that is hard to find in a textbook: how people greet each other, who they are speaking to, what matters in the moment. Many teachers, families, communities and creators already pass it on. We want to add to that work, not replace it.
What we build
One product first. Room for more.
Our first product is Mayele Learn, a learning experience that starts with Lingala. Mayele Works is intentionally broader than one product. Anything else we build has to earn its place by solving a real problem and helping knowledge travel between people.
Where we are today
Early, and honest about it.
Mayele Works is at an early stage, and Mayele Learn is still in development. We would rather earn trust through what we build than claim to be further ahead than we are.
Build with us
Good products are built with the right expertise around them.
If you teach, research or speak Lingala, or work on language and learning, we would like to hear from you.
See how we work.
Our approach explains the choices behind everything we build.