Decide Targets Workplace AI Adoption With Enterprise Rollout Through CafeOne

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Nigerian artificial intelligence startup Decide is expanding its focus from individual users to organisations with the launch of Decide for Work, an enterprise deployment arm designed to bring its spreadsheet AI agent into workplaces, universities, co-working spaces, and professional communities.

The move marks a shift in how AI startups are approaching adoption across Africa. Rather than focusing only on building powerful AI tools, companies are increasingly looking at how these technologies can become part of the daily systems where people already work, analyse information, and make decisions.

As part of the launch, Decide has announced its first major deployment partnership with CafeOne, a co-working network with more than 30 locations across Nigeria. Through the partnership, CafeOne members with active subscriptions will receive premium access to Decide, allowing founders, freelancers, analysts, and professionals within its community to use AI-powered tools for spreadsheet analysis, research, and business data interpretation.

The partnership comes at a time when businesses across Africa are moving beyond AI experimentation and beginning to explore practical applications that improve everyday operations. A PwC survey found that 64% of African workers reported using AI at work within the previous year, higher than the global average of 54%. A separate KPMG report also noted that 65% of West African CEOs expect AI to contribute to efficiency improvements in 2026.

For Decide, the opportunity is not simply about introducing another AI product into the market but about embedding intelligence into the environments where professionals already operate.

“AI agents are improving rapidly, but their adoption and integration into everyday work have not caught up,” Abiodun Adetona, founder of Decide AI, said in a public post. “We want Decide to be embedded wherever work happens online, inside spreadsheets, inboxes, and existing business tools, and physically, through the companies, co-working spaces, universities, and communities where people work and learn every day.”

Founded in 2025 by Adetona, a former software engineer at Flutterwave, Decide helps users analyse spreadsheets and business data using natural language prompts instead of traditional formulas. The startup was built around the idea that data analysis should not be limited to users with advanced spreadsheet skills or technical backgrounds.

With Decide for Work, the company will offer organisations a structured way to deploy its AI agent across teams. Instead of requiring employees to individually sign up and adopt the tool, Decide will work directly with companies and institutions to provide access, support onboarding, and integrate the platform into existing workflows. Pricing will vary based on factors including deployment size, number of users, support requirements, and custom integrations.

The startup said it has completed more than 41,000 analysis runs and helped users create and analyse over 21,000 spreadsheets since launch. It also said its platform is used by professionals across more than 10 countries and has achieved 82.5% verified accuracy on SpreadsheetBench, a benchmark used to evaluate AI spreadsheet agents alongside systems developed by leading AI companies.

The decision to target workplaces is built around one of the biggest opportunities in enterprise AI: improving the tools professionals already depend on. Despite advances in artificial intelligence, spreadsheets remain central to business operations, powering financial reports, research, forecasting, and decision-making across organisations of all sizes.

By bringing AI directly into spreadsheet workflows, Decide is betting that adoption will happen faster when users do not need to completely change how they work. Instead, AI becomes an additional layer of intelligence within familiar tools.

CafeOne will serve as the first major rollout under Decide for Work. Eligible members across CafeOne’s subscription tiers will receive premium credits that unlock access to Decide’s products, with availability continuing based on individual usage and credit allocation.

“CafeOne has built a nationwide community of professionals, founders, freelancers, operators, analysts, and growing teams,” Adetona said. “Many of them work with spreadsheets, reports, research, and business data every day. It was a natural fit because their members closely match the people Decide was built for.”

CafeOne members will receive instructions on how to activate their Decide access, while users can also request activation directly through CafeOne locations.

The startup said the CafeOne partnership is only the beginning of its enterprise expansion, with discussions already underway with additional co-working spaces, universities, professional communities, and companies interested in deploying AI tools across their teams.