I dispose of my waste properly. I get paid.
PayGroup invents the first AI-powered sanitation infrastructure. Every civic gesture becomes instant income — by mobile money, with no intermediary, in Kinshasa and beyond.
Pilot 2026Kiosque BPO · Kinshasa
Sachet BPO · 30LKiosque BPOSachet BPO · 30LAddressable city
17M Kinois
Direct to citizens
100% of funds
To pilot
180 days
Designed and operated at
Silikin Kinshasa
The rest ends up in storm drains, rivers, and wildcat dumps. With every rainfall, waste clogs the water collectors and triggers deadly floods. With no rewarding alternative, the wild gesture becomes rational — Kinois call it « meteorological disposal ».
« Waste is treated as a burden to be disposed of clandestinely. BPO turns it into a digital asset. »
Volume produced in Kinshasa, one of Africa's fastest-growing megacities.
Currently collected and routed to a treatment site.
Inhabitants concerned. A mobile-money-native economy, ready to be incentivised.
Buaka Poubelle Ofutama — Lingala for « dispose of your waste, get paid » — is an exclusive PayGroup invention. It binds photographic capture, computer vision, and instant payment into a single digital trust loop. No human intervention between the gesture and the payment.
Waste becomes a financial asset through a digital proof of service.
BPO guarantees the integrity of every transaction through a closed technological chain. The algorithm is the sole arbiter of service rendered. No human hand touches the money.
The user photographs their transparent BPO bag through the app. Geolocation and timestamp certified at source.
A second photo at the Community Deposit Point or Kiosk. The GPS route becomes traceable — anti-fraud by design.
The model (YOLOv8 / EfficientNet computer vision) certifies the nature of the waste, the coherence of the route, the absence of weight-falsifying objects.
On validation, the PayGroup platform transfers funds to the user's M-Pesa / Orange Money / Airtel Money account. No delay. No intermediary.
The scoring is strict: valid photos (40 pts) + position within the PDC radius (30 pts) + coherent route (30 pts). No payment without a passing score.
The entire chain rests on two physical objects — a smart bag and a solar kiosk. Engineered for Kinshasa: tropicalised, locally manufactured, mechanically robust, integrity of the flow from the source.
The BPO bagThe first data vector. 60-micron polyethylene, transparent for AI analysis. Tamper-proof serialised QR code, source-segregation colour coding.
The BPO kioskThe technological showcase of the system. HD camera with AI validation, anti-fraud rotating drum, IoT fill sensors, LED ad screen to fund maintenance — powered by integrated solar panels, autonomous 24/7.
BPO is not an app — it is a platform. Five interdependent modules cover the entire chain, from the citizen gesture to industrial valorisation. Each module deploys independently; together they close the circuit.
No pre-trained model recognises the diversity of Kinois waste. PayGroup builds the image corpus, trains the model, and embeds it on entry-level smartphones — so AI validation works even on the most modest terminals.
Three senior engineers to European standards relocate to Kinshasa. Ten Congolese and international experts — engineering, data science, security — operate from Silikin Village, the capital's technology hub.
For the AI to recognise any waste type in Kinshasa's complex environment, two hundred field agents are deployed across the city for two months. Refuse, bag types, varied urban contexts — the corpus is specific to the African context, not imported.
Alongside the software, PayGroup defines the technical specifications of BPO bags engineered for AI recognition, solar kiosks with anti-fraud rotating drums, and the infrastructure of the sorting and recovery centres (CTV).
An event-driven serverless architecture, deployed on a hybrid cloud with edge computing for local processing. Compliant with BCC (Central Bank of Congo) and DRC law n°20/017 on telecoms.
iOS + Android, camera, real-time GPS, encrypted local storage, offline mode.
Automatic horizontal scaling, PostgreSQL + Redis, immutable ledger for auditability.
YOLOv8 / EfficientNet computer vision, anti-recycle perceptual hashing, anomaly detection.
Mobile Money aggregator — M-Pesa, Orange Money, Airtel Money. OAuth2 / OpenID. TLS 1.3.
50m geofencing, Haversine formula, real-time dashboard for the authorities.
Urban cleanliness is the new terrain of soft-power diplomacy.
— BPO Executive Summary, February 2026
While certain states aggressing the DRC use the image of their clean cities to court the international community and obscure their own conduct, the DRC responds with a global innovation — no longer imported, but invented in Kinshasa.
A presidential instruction dated 16 February 2026 makes BPO a national priority. By financing this invention, the Presidency anchors a tangible legacy: a cleaner city, a youth paid for a measurable civic service, and a reaffirmed digital sovereignty.
BPO is designed to be replicated. What works in Kinshasa will work in Lubumbashi, in Goma, and across borders — Lagos, Abidjan, Douala. The DRC becomes an exporter of method, not solely a recipient of aid.
The schedule is held by design, not by hope. Software, hardware, AI, operations, and field deployment start simultaneously in month one.
Software & R&D
App, back-office and cloud infrastructure development. Bag and kiosk technical specifications.
Software infrastructure finalised. Load testing of the PayGroup payment system.
Final AI / app integration. Validation of the digital trust loop.
AI & Field
Recruitment and training of the 200 data-collection agents.
Big Data collection — millions of photos. Intensive training of the specialised AI model.
Final model validation (target success rate > 95%). Pilot deployment preparation.
Hardware & Operations
Experts installed at Silikin Village. Production of the first 300,000 bags. Local manufacturer audits.
Installation of the 50 PDCs. Assembly of the 10 solar kiosks. Tier-2 SME recruitment.
Pilot launch — initial fund activated. First month of cash-out to households and collectors.
Software & R&D
Months 1–2
App, back-office and cloud infrastructure development. Bag and kiosk technical specifications.
Months 3–5
Software infrastructure finalised. Load testing of the PayGroup payment system.
Month 6
Final AI / app integration. Validation of the digital trust loop.
AI & Field
Months 1–2
Recruitment and training of the 200 data-collection agents.
Months 3–5
Big Data collection — millions of photos. Intensive training of the specialised AI model.
Month 6
Final model validation (target success rate > 95%). Pilot deployment preparation.
Hardware & Operations
Months 1–2
Experts installed at Silikin Village. Production of the first 300,000 bags. Local manufacturer audits.
Months 3–5
Installation of the 50 PDCs. Assembly of the 10 solar kiosks. Tier-2 SME recruitment.
Month 6
Pilot launch — initial fund activated. First month of cash-out to households and collectors.
Pilot launch — month 6
BPO is not a bottomless pit. Revenue generated by industrial transformation and carbon credits replenishes the fund that pays citizens. It is a self-sustaining economic model, designed to become independent of the initial subsidy.
Guarantees instant payment for every validated bag. The engine of popular motivation.
Technical team salaries, cloud hosting, kiosk upkeep, consumables.
Paid to City Hall. A portion earmarked for social works under the high patronage of the First Lady.
Purchase of new kiosks to extend the project to other communes without new CAPEX.
A PayGroup platform where industrials (Coca-Cola, Bracongo, cement plants) buy their BPO-certified recycled inputs directly. Volume and purity validated by AI in real time. Total traceability for Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and Verra / Gold Standard carbon credits.
The $2.7M investment funds the seven interdependent launch categories. The closed circuit becomes self-sustaining from year 2 — BPO is not a recurring expense but a structural investment with measurable returns.
CAPEX
$2.7M
Over 180 days, R&D + infrastructure + pilot
Year 1 Revenue
$9.6M
Subscriptions + transactions + OOH advertising
Year 3 Revenue
$22M
With ramp-up of all five modules
IRR
34%
Projected internal rate of return
DSCR
1.8
Debt service coverage ratio
Payback
22 months
Investment recovery period
3 senior engineers at European standards + 10 Congolese and international experts installed at Silikin Village. The largest CAPEX line.
200 field agents mobilised for 2 months. Logistics, cloud hosting of millions of images, processing infrastructure.
Design of smart bags, solar kiosks, PDC containers, and treatment centre specifications.
Guarantees immediate payment for the first users at pilot launch — proof through remuneration.
Mass adoption campaign so the BPO gesture becomes reflex within the first week.
Technical unknowns and rapid adjustments of the AI model in the face of field reality.
Full financial model, guarantees dispositif, bankability analysis — request the complete dossier
PayGroup designs and operates mobile-payment infrastructure for Central Africa. BPO is its breakthrough invention for urban sanitation: an end-to-end system, under single accountability, designed and held in Kinshasa.
PayGroup SARL
Operator of the BPO project
PayGroup designs and operates mobile-payment infrastructure — B2C solutions, group payments, inter-operator transfers.
Multilateral lenders, development banks, private investors, institutional partners — we respond within forty-eight hours. The full financial dossier and detailed technical architecture are available on request.
