README.md

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# Baobab Tech 

**🌍 AI for social impact**

We build frugal, practical AI solutions for organizations working in humanitarian and development contexts. Our focus lies in creating efficient models and tools that deliver real impact without excessive computational costs.

## 🎯 Our Approach

We specialize in cost-effective and environmentally concious AI engineering that transforms research-grade techniques into production-ready tools. We use the latest technology in NLP, multimodal models, VLMs, and Agentic AI.

## 🤗 Our Models & Datasets

**💧💥 Water Conflict Classifier**  
A rapid, resource-efficient classifier for identifying and categorizing water conflict events in news and social media data. Built to support a wide range of use cases including the expansion of [The Pacific Instutes Water Conflict Chronology](https://www.worldwater.org/conflict/map/). See [our collection of models, datasets and evals](https://huggingface.co/collections/baobabtech/water-conflict-classifier)

More models, datasets, codebases and workflows coming soon.

## 🌍 Impact Areas

We develop AI tools for organizations working across humanitarian response, human rights, environmental justice, and international development. Our solutions address challenges in water security, public health, conflict monitoring, and community resilience.

## 🔓 Open Source

We're committed to democratizing AI for social good.

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**Learn more:** [baobabtech.ai](https://baobabtech.ai)