Three opinionated use cases for Ghana

GeraLens ships with three vision modules pre-tuned for Ghana: (1) Retail shelf recognitionfor supermarket chains and kiosk trade tracking SKU availability across Accra and Kumasi; (2)Produce grading for cocoa beans, pineapple, and horticulture, matched with MoFA / COCOBOD grade standards; (3) Clinic intake — scan paper prescriptions, patient cards, and insurance documents into structured data for GeraClinic / NHIS records.

Regulation: DPA, FDA (medical), COCOBOD (cocoa), DPC

Image data featuring people is personal data under the Data Protection Act 2012 (Act 843) — GeraLens is registered with the Data Protection Commission (DPC) as a data controller. Medical document recognition interacts with Ministry of Health / FDA guidelines; cocoa grading references COCOBOD's annual quality grading guide; retail SKU data respects the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) and Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) product databases. Cyber Security Act 2020 incident rules apply.

Pricing in ₵

Pay-per-call — ₵0.20 / image for standard recognition.
Business — ₵900 / month for 25k calls + SLA.
Enterprise — custom, including on-prem inference for FDA-regulated clinic data.
Billing via MTN MoMo, Vodafone Cash, AirtelTigo Money, GhQR, or GhIPSS bank transfer.

Retail shelf recognition

Field reps of FMCG brands walk Accra, Kumasi, and Takoradi routes weekly. Point a phone at the shelf, GeraLens counts SKUs, flags out-of-stock items, and reports share-of-shelf vs. the competitor set. One visit produces an automatic report pushed to the brand's sales-ops dashboard. Supports Melcom, Shoprite, Palace, and independent shops.

Cocoa and horticulture grading

Cocoa bean grading at the cooperative level used to depend on a handful of trained inspectors. GeraLens can give an assistive grade — moisture proxy, bean size variance, mould risk — to help cooperatives before the Quality Control Company (QCC) inspection. Pineapple (MD2, Smooth Cayenne) and tomato grading work on the same model.

Clinic intake and NHIS cards

GeraClinic partner clinics in Ghana use GeraLens to digitise paper notes and NHIS cards. Structured output includes the patient's NHIS number, card expiry, and clinician scribbles OCRed into structured problem/plan fields. Data is DPA-scoped and encrypted; no cloud storage of identifiable images without consent.

ECOWAS rollout

The same models transfer to Nigerian and Ivorian cocoa, Kenyan coffee, and Ugandan matoke with country-specific fine-tuning. A retailer in Lagos can share shelf data with a brand in Accra via the same GeraLens project.

Related Gera products for Ghana

GeraFarm in Ghana — cocoa / horticulture sellers use GeraLens pre-grading.
GeraClinic in Ghana — clinic partners digitise NHIS intake.
GeraMarket in Ghana — SKU and shelf-of-share feeds for seller dashboards.