# Shamwari

> Shamwari is an AI companion built in Zimbabwe. Personal data never reaches a third-party model; only open-weight output trains Shamwari Mind — both enforced in code, not just claimed on a page.

- [An AI companion that refuses to send your data away](https://docs.shamwari.ai/index.md): Shamwari is built in Zimbabwe, answers in Shona, Ndebele and English, and cites the actual provision of the actual statute. These pages explain how it works, including the parts that are deliberately impossible.
- [Two rules that must not be broken](https://docs.shamwari.ai/rules.md): Everything else in Shamwari is a preference. These two are constraints, enforced in more than one place, because each is the kind of claim that is worthless the first time it turns out not to be true.
- [Three data scopes, not three tiers](https://docs.shamwari.ai/scopes.md): The distinction that matters in Shamwari is not how much you pay. It is whose data a question is about.
- [Architecture](https://docs.shamwari.ai/architecture.md): Two services, drawn along one line: the edge holds no database credentials, and the service that holds them does not run on the edge.
- [Routing and models](https://docs.shamwari.ai/routing.md): Shamwari Cloud routes; it is not a model. Most questions go to a fast, inexpensive model, and only the ones that need more get more.
- [Ground, and why citation is the whole point](https://docs.shamwari.ai/ground.md): Zimbabwean law, tax rates and policy change often, and a confident wrong answer about a statutory instrument is worse than no answer.
- [How we describe it](https://docs.shamwari.ai/language.md): Precision in describing this system is a technical requirement, not a style guide. Each of these is the difference between a claim that holds under scrutiny and one that does not.
- [What concurrent traffic looks like](https://docs.shamwari.ai/traffic.md): Six people asking six different things through one gateway, and the three different places their requests stop.