DesMind
AI and software engineering

We build intelligent software that organisations rely on.

DesMind designs, builds and runs AI applications, digital platforms and cloud systems for healthcare, education, property, research and engineering.

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  • Reply within two business days
  • You own the code and models
  • Peer-reviewed research team
One team, every layerIn production
ExperienceWeb, mobile and conversational interfaces
UI/UX
IntelligenceLLMs, RAG, machine learning and computer vision
AI
PlatformAPIs, data pipelines, payments and integrations
Backend
InfrastructureAWS, Azure, CI/CD and observability
Cloud
32Projects across software, AI and research
10Systems live in production
5Peer-reviewed papers and preprints
8+Years across engineering and IT

Clients and organisations our team has worked with

  • Glorious & Praises
  • Bunnatex Associates
  • Dr.-Ing. Godwin Okwuibe
  • JutaLab
  • Study Cairns
  • Risk 2 Solution Group
  • Globacom
  • James Cook University
What we do

Six capabilities, one accountable team

From the model to the interface to the cloud it runs on, we design and deliver the whole system.

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AI and LLM applications

Assistants, copilots and agents grounded in your own data, with citations and guardrails.

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Machine learning and data science

Forecasting, risk scoring and computer vision, deployed and monitored in production.

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Privacy-preserving and responsible AI

Federated learning, secure analytics and governance for sensitive and regulated data.

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Software and product engineering

Web platforms, mobile apps and APIs, from UI/UX design to production.

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Cloud, DevOps and MLOps

Infrastructure, pipelines and monitoring that keep software and models running reliably.

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Data, automation and Microsoft 365

Dashboards, workflow automation and Microsoft 365 solutions that remove manual work.

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Selected work

Systems in production, not prototypes

Client platforms, our own products and research turned into working software.

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Glorious & Praises student hostel website homepage
LiveClient · Student housing2026

Glorious & Praises: student hostel management system

An end-to-end tenancy platform for two student lodges: a public site, a tenant portal and an admin approval centre that replaced paper-based intake and rent tracking.

  • Tenant portal for applications, tenancy agreements, rent status and payment history with downloadable PDF receipts
  • Admin Approval Centre with live counts, a room occupancy map and two-step caretaker → landlord payment verification
  • Paystack checkout with webhook verification, automatic numbered receipts and a daily rent-reminder scheduler
  • Email-verified sign-up, httpOnly JWT sessions, rate limiting, staff MFA and Playwright end-to-end tests
  • Next.js
  • Express
  • MongoDB
  • Paystack
  • Playwright
  • Railway
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Lodge Platform LodgesApplicationsTenanciesPaymentsAudit log Block A · rooms ● occupied ○ held Receipt 2026-00042 Rent · 12 months Statusconfirmed Split at source Reminders −30d −14d −7d −1d due +3d +7d +14d +30d next: 7 days before due · sent once
In developmentDesMind product · PropTech2026

Lodge Platform: multi-landlord student housing SaaS

Our own product: landlords list lodges and manage tenancies; students discover rooms and apply. Designed so money and records are always correct.

  • Next.js
  • Fastify
  • PostgreSQL
  • Drizzle ORM
  • Zod
  • Paystack
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Mother Father privacylayer identity DB wellbeing DB kept apart no raw transcripts stored · insights only
MVPDesMind Labs · Digital health2026

PeriParen: privacy-preserving perinatal mental health support

A dyadic support app for mothers and fathers that puts our PhD research on privacy-preserving conversational AI into practice.

  • FastAPI
  • Python
  • React
  • PostgreSQL
  • Docker
  • LLMs
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Recent and ongoing engagements

EngagementSectorServiceStatus
Glorious & PraisesStudent hostel management system Student housing Platform engineering, payments Live
Lodge PlatformMulti-landlord housing SaaS, a DesMind product PropTech Product development In development
PeriParenPerinatal mental health support Digital health AI and privacy engineering MVP
Bunnatex AssociatesAudit and tax firm website Professional services Web engineering, SEO Live
Dr.-Ing. Godwin OkwuibeResearch portfolio Academia and energy Web engineering Live
JutaLabProduction RAG and ML systems (founder, pre-DesMind) Technology AI engineering, MLOps Delivered
Why DesMind

Research discipline, production engineering

We combine peer-reviewed research with years of shipping real systems. That shows up in how we work.

Measured, not assumed

Success criteria and evaluation sets are agreed before we build, so progress is visible in numbers.

End-to-end ownership

One team designs the interface, trains the model, builds the API and runs the infrastructure.

Private by design

Data minimisation, access control and privacy-preserving methods from the first architecture sketch.

Yours to keep

You own the code, models and documentation, with training so your team can run it without us.

How we work

A clear path from idea to production

Six steps, each ending in something concrete you can review, keep and decide on.

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  1. Discovery call

    A conversation about the problem, the people it affects and what success would look like.

    You getAn honest view of fit within two business days

  2. Scope and proposal

    We agree goals, constraints, data access and success metrics in writing.

    You getA written scope, milestones and estimate

  3. Architecture and design

    System design, interface design and an evaluation plan, with risks called out early.

    You getArchitecture, designs and an evaluation plan

  4. Build in iterations

    Short cycles with working demos, automated tests and a staging environment you can use.

    You getWorking software to try at every milestone

  5. Launch

    Production deployment with monitoring, runbooks and a rollback plan in place.

    You getA live system, documentation and handover training

  6. Support and improve

    A defined support period after go-live, then ongoing improvement if you want it.

    You getCode, models and docs that are yours to keep

DesMind Labs

Research you can try

Our lab explores privacy-preserving AI, federated learning and conversational systems. Much of it runs in public.

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Desmond Obe, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of DesMind
Leadership

Desmond Obe

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Desmond is an AI engineer and researcher with more than eight years across the engineering and IT sectors. He founded DesMind to turn advanced technology into secure, dependable systems.

He builds production machine-learning and retrieval-augmented generation systems as a Machine Learning Engineer at JutaLab, and has delivered cloud applications, Microsoft 365 operations and telecommunications network improvements across Australia and Nigeria. He is a PhD candidate in Artificial Intelligence and a Casual Academic at James Cook University, with research published in IET Power Electronics, the Journal of Power Electronics and Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.

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