uhai · Swahili for “life”
Your best photos and videos, findable in plain English
Uhai is an AI media library for African tourism. It reads the photo and video archive already sitting on your Google Drive, identifies the wildlife, tracks usage rights, and makes all of it searchable — for your team and your agencies.
All imagery on this page is live from the Naibor Camp library, Maasai Mara — searchable, species-tagged and rights-clean in Uhai.
How it works
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Connect your Drive
Point Uhai at the shared folder your photos and videos already live in. Read-only, revocable, nothing moves.
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The library builds itself
Every photo and video gets a caption, species identification with scientific names, location, and a rights record — reviewed and correctable by your team.
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Search, curate, share
Find the exact shot in seconds, group assets into collections, and hand agencies a clean portal link with rights-safe downloads.
Photos find their own way in
No uploads portal to police. Photos flow in from wherever your team already is.
Drop into Drive
Anyone adds photos to the Google Drive folder you already use — Uhai watches it and new files are captioned, species-tagged and rights-filed within minutes.
WhatsApp from the field
Guides and rangers send photos to your library’s WhatsApp Business number straight from the drive. Each one is identified, credited to the sender, and queued for a quick rights review.
Bulk archive import
Starting out, your whole back catalogue is ingested in one pass — years of photos become a searchable library overnight.
Field tip: in WhatsApp, share photos as a file — that keeps the camera’s capture time and GPS, so shots land on your map automatically. Ordinary photo sends arrive without them (WhatsApp strips that data), and Uhai then files the shot under the moment it was sent instead.
What you get
Plain-English search
“Male lion, golden hour” or “reef manta, Mnemba” — no folder digging, no filename guessing.
Species identification
Wildlife tagged with common and scientific names, filtered to your habitat so a savannah lodge never sees reef species.
Rights and consent, tracked
Every asset is Ready, Needs review, or Do not use — photographer credit and guest consent recorded where it matters.
Client-ready collections
Curate a press kit or agency handover and share one link. Recipients only ever see rights-clean assets.
Your Drive stays yours
Uhai reads from your Google Drive and stores metadata only. Originals never move; revoke access at any time.
Map and monitoring
See where photos and videos were captured, and extend the same library into camera-trap and sightings monitoring.
Search like you'd say it
Real queries, real results from the Naibor Camp library. Every result carries its rights status and species identification.
ReadyThree African bush elephants graze in tall grass
African bush elephant · Loxodonta africana
ReadyAfrican bush elephant eating foliage in a grassy field
African bush elephant · Loxodonta africana
ReadyAfrican bush elephant grazing in tall grass
African bush elephant · Loxodonta africana
ReadyBush breakfast served from a safari vehicle
dining
ReadyBush breakfast setup with safari vehicle and staff
dining
ReadyBush breakfast setup with chairs and table
diningQuestions, answered
Where do our photos and videos actually live?
On your own Google Drive, exactly where they are today. Uhai indexes them and stores metadata only — captions, species, rights, locations. Originals are never copied to our servers, and you can revoke Drive access at any time.
Are we tied to Google Drive?
Google Drive is what's live today, because that's where our pilot properties keep their archives. Uhai's ingest is built on storage connectors, so Dropbox, OneDrive or S3-style buckets can be added — tell us what you use and we'll factor it into the pilot.
Can guides and rangers contribute from the field?
Yes — each library can have a dedicated WhatsApp Business number. Photos sent to it are automatically captioned, species-tagged, credited to the sender and queued for rights review. Tip: sharing a photo as a file (rather than a normal photo send) preserves the camera's capture time and GPS, so the shot places itself on your map; WhatsApp strips that data from ordinary sends.
How accurate is the AI tagging?
Captions and species suggestions are AI-assisted and clearly marked as unverified until a person confirms them. Birds and marine species in particular get flagged for human review. You can correct anything, and your corrections always win over the AI.
What does “rights-clean” mean?
Each asset carries a usage status — Ready, Needs review, or Do not use — based on the photographer agreement and guest consent you record. Shared collections and the client portal only ever expose assets marked Ready.
How do agencies and press get media?
You curate a collection and share a single link. It opens a clean, branded portal — no login needed — with captions, credits and downloads for rights-clean assets only.
What does it cost?
Uhai is in pilot with a small number of properties, priced per property with a free library health check to start. Get in touch and we'll walk you through it.
Who is behind Uhai?
Uhai is built by Nova Insight, working with safari lodges, coastal properties and conservation teams in East Africa. The same library that powers your marketing can power your conservation monitoring.
Put your archive to work
A pilot starts with a free library health check on the folder you already have — no migration, no lock-in.
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