UniBeta AI: Two Former UNILAG Students Build an Exam-Preparation Tool for Nigerian Universities
For many Nigerian university students, preparing for exams often means searching through old question papers, lecture notes, PDFs and scattered study materials.
Two ex-students of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) have built UniBeta AI, an exam-preparation platform shaped around how Nigerian universities actually work, in a bid to simplify that experience.
Dare Adeola and Olamide Onigbanjo founded UniBeta in 2023, though it did not begin life as an AI study tool.
The founders originally envisioned a broader student platform that combined academic support, timetables, peer tutoring, career resources, campus media and a marketplace for student businesses. That approach, however, proved somewhat difficult to sustain.
How UniBeta AI Found Its Focus
The founders experimented with several ideas before discovering where students needed the most consistent value. One of their early academic initiatives involved connecting junior students with high-performing students for targeted tutorials.
They also explored campus media through Inside Uni and created opportunities for student entrepreneurs to promote their businesses. The team eventually encountered a familiar challenge in education technology: demand tends to rise sharply around examination periods and fall once exams are over.
Rather than continuing to build an all-purpose student app, the founders decided to focus on a specific problem, which is helping students prepare more effectively for examinations. That shift eventually led to UniBeta AI, launched in October 2025.
Turning Past Questions into Smarter Revision
UniBeta AI allows students to upload course materials and previous examination papers.
Its AI system analyses those materials to identify recurring topics and patterns, then turns the information into study resources such as:
- summaries
- flashcards
- multiple-choice quizzes
The idea is based on an observation from the founders, that university examination questions may not always be repeated word for word, but important topics and concepts often reappear.
Instead of simply giving students a database of past questions, UniBeta attempts to identify what those questions reveal about the topics students should pay attention to.
From all indications, this gives the platform a distinctly Nigerian focus. While students can already use general-purpose AI tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude for studying, UniBeta's founders believe a tool designed specifically around Nigerian university courses and examination patterns can provide much more relevant support.
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The platform currently operates with a free tier, while its paid plans reportedly range from ₦2,000 to ₦6,000. UniBeta AI also generates revenue through events, campus promotions and advertising, with the company having secured an undisclosed angel investment in September 2025.
UniBeta's plans reach well past UNILAG: the team has talked to the National Universities Commission (NUC) about building one shared data structure covering Nigeria's accredited universities, which could make it simpler to roll the platform out to other institutions.
Further features are also under consideration, among them the generation of slides and spoken tutorials, and these might transform the materials students upload into more interactive ways of learning.
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What UniBeta's Journey Says About Nigerian Edtech
The story of UniBeta is less about creating another AI chatbot and more about finding a specific problem worth solving. Safe to say that the founders started with a much larger vision, tested different ideas, encountered setbacks and eventually narrowed their focus to a problem that affects students every examination season.
As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly common in education, the bigger opportunity may not be building tools that try to do everything. Instead, it might also tilt to creating specialised systems that understand the curriculum, study habits, as well the academic realities of specific communities.
UniBeta AI is wagering that such specifics count for Nigerian undergraduates and other students in higher education. Should the approach succeed, preparing for exams might involve far less rummaging through stacks of PDFs and far more certainty about precisely what to study.
