The announcement was made during a media briefing in Lagos, according to recent reports.

At the centre of the rollout is “Omnis”, an in-app banking assistant that integrates with mobile banking apps to deliver a mix of personalized services, support and analytics.

Omnis can analyse user behaviour and engagement data to recommend tailored financial products, resembling a “digital salesperson” embedded inside the app, while also handling customer enquiries and support tasks.

According to Lanre Adelanwa Basamta, co-founder/CEO, Optimus AI Labs, the platform aligns with recent regulatory directives from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on consumer protection and fraud prevention.

The company says the AI tools are built to prioritise transparency, consent, and compliance, while offering banks a scalable way to deliver smarter, safer services.

Beyond customer-facing features, Optimus said the new suite will provide banks with data-driven analytics to inform product development, pricing and engagement strategies, a potential catalyst for improving efficiency and competitive positioning.

Speaking on the launch, Optimus AI LABS executives stressed that Nigeria’s financial ecosystem represents a major opportunity for AI-enabled transformation.

What began as a fintech startup targeting small businesses has now expanded its focus to supporting large banks, fintech firms and microfinance institutions.

As Nigerian banks and fintechs respond to rising demand for digital-first services, along with heightened regulatory pressure to curb fraud and improve compliance, tools like Omnis may prove pivotal.

Still, experts are calling for clear governance, data-protection guarantees and user consent frameworks to ensure AI adoption builds trust rather than erode it.

With this launch, Optimus AI LABS signals confidence in homegrown innovation’s ability to deliver scalable, context-aware AI solutions, offering both users and financial institutions a path toward smarter banking in Nigeria.

More about Optimus AI LABS

Optimus AI Labs began life in 2023 as Pacer Labs, a Canada-based software development and resource outsourcing firm.

In its first months, the team focused on delivering reliable engineering and product work for clients across sectors, building a foundation of technical discipline and client-first delivery. That practical beginning established processes and relationships that would define the company’s next phase.

Midway through 2023, the AI startup responded to growing inbound demand from startup clients, driven in part by cost advantages that allowed the team to serve partners in both Africa and North America.

This period of concentrated client work exposed Pacer’s engineers to the specific problems founders were solving with data and automation, and prompted a strategic shift toward AI-led product work.

Between 2023 and 2024, the business rebranded as Optimus AI Labs and invested in AI-native product development. The team launched an education-technology product built around generative models and also began offering AI product engineering services to organizations that needed practical, production-ready solutions.

That work moved the company from project delivery into product development and platform thinking.

From 2024 into 2025, the startup sharpened its focus on large language models and generative AI services.

Today, Optimus AI Labs supports regional and international clients with end-to-end AI development, from model fine-tuning and integration to deployment and maintenance. Optimus AI Labs combines hands-on engineering with sector knowledge and an ambition to position African technical talent and products in global markets, while delivering measurable value for partners and investors.

Their involvements help to build safe and secure mobile application. The experts were speaking at a webinar organized by CED Technologies in partnership with AppKnox, meant to bring Mobile App Security awareness to organizations in Africa.

The speakers are; Harrison Nnaji, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at FirstBank; Lanre Adelanwa Basamta, Group Head, Mobile Financial Services at Interswitch Group; Harshit Agarwal, Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer at Appknox, and Chukwuebuka Ume-Ezeoke, Chief Technology Officer at CED Technologies.

The speakers unanimously agreed that more African organisations should make a cultural shift from DevOps to DevSecOps by using best-in-class Technology.

Harrison Nnaji, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at FirstBank who is an Appknox user for more than two years advised organizations to add Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT) to their IT polices before and after rolling out mobile apps into the market. 

Lanre Adelanwa Basamta, Group Head, Mobile Financial Services at Interswitch Group advised that organizations can have more than one VAPT tool to ensure end to end assessment is absolutely covered.

Surge in mobile breaches? 

Despite some rays of light emerging, the bad news still seems to outweigh the good. In 2021, “South Africa had 230 million threat detections in total, while Kenya had 72 million and Morocco 71 million,” according to AFRIPOL.

“As an organization big or small, it is important that everyone practices a healthy cyber environment as they provide best-in-class mobile apps for their users”, the webinar agreed.

How CED Technologies partners with Appknox

“At CED Technologies we understand the pain points of businesses and help address them bringing superior technology to businesses at an affordable rate while placing the importance on the personal touch in servicing our clients.

“We strive to be the most trusted technology advisor for our clients as we stand behind our work and our clients in their needs. In the aera of Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT) for Mobile App Security we provide Appknox to our clients. 

“Our commitment remains to connect businesses with the highest-rated and vetted software solutions in Africa,” the CEO said.