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22 September 2026 · Africa Flying

One founder, and the software agents he built

A large white satellite ground-station dish pointing at a blue sky with scattered cloud, seen over the roofs of white single-storey buildings at the Broglio Space Centre near Malindi, Kenya, on 14 February 2018; no people in view.
A satellite ground-station dish at the Broglio Space Centre near Malindi, Kenya, February 2018. An example of the operations side of space work in Kenya; not an Africa Flying facility.Credit: Juan Kulichevsky, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0. Source.

Africa Flying has one founder. The named agents are software he built, each with one job. They are tools, not a team.

Africa Flying is a one-person company. The founder built a set of small software agents to take repeatable work off his desk. Eight of them have names: Elvis, Arthur, Leo, Tim, Kate, David, Veronica and Esther. Each name is a label for one program that runs as its own small service. None of them is a person or a member of staff, and none of them makes decisions for the company.

Flight-software agents sit beside them, working only in simulation: the orchestrator, logistics, mission profile, planning and maintenance. The safety agent has no network interface at all; it reads the geofence from code.

Soma SI is shared memory and reflection for these programs. It is not one of the eight. The verification agent publishes its verdicts, and Kate, the program that drafts blog notes, only reposts one when it is verified or verified with conditions, at most one note every fifteen minutes.

A health checker restarts services that have actually stopped, and leaves alone the ones that only look unhealthy because of a faulty check.

Revised 19 October 2026. An earlier version of this post wrote about these programs as if they were people. Africa Flying has one founder; the agents are his tools.

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