Predicting a dangerous labor, weeks before it happens.
EsidAI runs on the ultrasound machines antenatal clinics already use. In the weeks before labor starts, it flags mothers whose baby may not fit through the pelvis at birth — so they deliver on a plan, not in an emergency.
The danger is visible weeks before it happens — almost no one can see it in time.
Obstructed labor — when a baby cannot pass through the mother's pelvis — is one of the leading direct causes of maternal death in sub-Saharan Africa, and a major cause of stillbirth, birth asphyxia, uterine rupture, and obstetric fistula.
Almost all of that harm is preventable when the risk is known before labor starts — the mother simply delivers by a planned C-section at a facility that can do one.
Today, doctors judge whether a baby will fit by subjective pelvimetry — a hands-on estimate, not a measurement. So mothers labor until obstruction is confirmed the hard way, often at night, over bad roads, far from an operating theatre.
One scan you're already doing. One answer you didn't have before.
EsidAI is software, not a device — it runs on the ultrasound machines and low-cost handheld probes clinics already use for antenatal care.
Scan
During a routine antenatal visit around week 34–37, a nurse or midwife performs the ultrasound scan they already do.
Analyze
EsidAI reads the images in about five minutes and flags mothers at high risk of obstructed labor — no specialist required on site.
Plan
Flagged mothers leave with a delivery plan: booked at a surgically capable facility, with a scheduled C-section where indicated.
Every mother deserves to hold her baby's feet like this — because the delivery went as planned.
A mission specific enough to measure, ambitious enough to matter.
Prevent obstructed-labor deaths among African mothers and newborns.
A world where every mother's delivery is planned — not left to chance.
Diagnosed by hand, in the moment
Whether a baby will fit is judged by subjective pelvimetry during labor itself — so the emergency is discovered, not predicted, often at night and far from an operating theatre.
Predicted weeks ahead, from a scan already done
The same ultrasound already used in antenatal care becomes an early-warning system, giving mothers and clinicians time to plan the safest delivery instead of racing to react to one.
Give every ultrasound the power to see it coming.
We're working with clinical, research, and health-system partners in Kenya and around the world. If you can help us validate, scale, or fund this work, we'd like to hear from you.