Unstoppable Africa
View case studyThe machines are learning about Africa. I make sure they get it right.
AI communications strategy, tools, and training for leaders in Africa and the Gulf.
Workshops
Workshops and Workflows with AI
Half-day and full day sessions for communications leaders and their teams. Practical, not academic. Built around your organisation, your markets, your constraints. Teams leave with a clear picture of where AI changes their workflow and what to do about it first. Designed for corporate affairs and comms functions in Africa and the Gulf.
Consulting
AI-First Communications Infrastructure
For organizations that want ongoing strategic support. How to position your organisation in an AI-first communications environment. Narrative strategy, executive content, earned media — the communications infrastructure that determines how your story travels.
Bespoke product builds
Custom AI Tools
For organizations that need a custom tool. A verification system for a newsroom. An AI-assisted workflow for a communications team. Built on your sources, your context, your editorial standards. Signal HQ which I built live during the Iran conflict is an example of what this looks like.
Work
This is my strategic communications advisory. We work with corporate affairs leaders and communications chiefs across African and Gulf markets on the specific, urgent problem of how you tell your story in an AI driven environment.
A global event online and on-stage highlighting opportunities on the African Continent.
The center of gravity for Africa during UNGA with a cutting-edge agenda, spectacular location and layout, and dynamic conversations.
The African Narrative
A creative talent accelerator that served as a talent discovery and creative lab for Africa’s story makers. Over 100 creatives from 20 countries were part of 4 Amplify cohorts. With the support of the MasterCard Foundation, each fellow received $500 per month for the duration of the program.
Positioning Qatar as a gateway to Africa.
Nimble, responsive and on-message.
A digital and content play tackling misinformation.
Approach
I spent fourteen years at CNN covering the world's biggest stories — State Department, geopolitics, conflict, Africa. I learned how stories travel, who controls them, and what it costs when the machine gets them wrong. Then I left and built what I wished existed.
The Rundown Studio is where the expertise becomes tools. A ten-command AI Comms Stack that runs a complete campaign workflow. A Newsroom CoPilot built on BBC and CNN editorial standards, taking a lean team from story selection to verification to production. An Africa journalism prompt carrying 25 years of context that no Western model has.
If any of this is relevant to where you are, reach me directly: zain@thezvg.com
Services
AI Workshops
Prompt Engineering
Bespoke AI Tool Builds
Executive Positioning
AI Communications Strategy
AI Driven Marketing
Senior team
Zain Verjee. Founder & CEO. AI communications strategist. Former CNN International anchor. Executive Fellow, Harvard Digital, Data Design Institute (D3). Named one of the 100 Most Influential Africans by New African Magazine, 2024..
Zain Verjee
Founder & CEO