Wycord 2.0: from verified registry to the intelligence layer for African digital infrastructure

Wycord started with a simple promise: every resource listed is actually checked. Documentation opened, licensing confirmed, live status verified. Today the registry holds over 360 verified resources across nine categories, from APIs, MCP servers and datasets to SDKs, AI agents, open source and research, spanning more than 20 African countries.

That registry is not the product. It is the foundation.

What Wycord 2.0 means

Google indexes websites. GitHub indexes code. Hugging Face indexes AI models. Wycord indexes African digital infrastructure.

The plan has nine pillars: discover, understand, connect, compare, integrate, monitor, verify, analyze, publish. Several are already live today:

Discover and compare. Search the registry, filter by country and category, and use side-by-side comparisons like Paystack vs Flutterwave or the verified category-in-country pages.

Built for AI agents, not just humans. Wycord ships a CORS-open JSON API, an MCP server so agent runtimes can query the registry as tools, an OpenAPI 3.1 contract, and llms.txt for AI crawlers. If you are building an agent that needs African payment rails, identity checks or datasets, your agent can ask Wycord directly.

Continuous verification. Status checks run on a schedule and build a public history: every resource page shows its recent verification results, and the status changes feed records every transition the checks detect. African infrastructure changes fast, and silent deaths cost builders real integration time. Wycord tracks liveness so you find out before you integrate, not after.

The knowledge graph, starting with companies. Every resource now connects to the organization behind it. Browse the companies that operate African infrastructure, and from any company see every API, SDK and MCP server it runs. The public API returns this link too, so agents can reason about who operates what. This is the trunk; SDKs, agents and deeper relationships grow from it.

Wycord Intelligence. The first index is live: the African MCP Adoption Index, generated from the registry, mapping every verified Model Context Protocol server for African infrastructure by country and domain. It is the largest labelled collection anywhere.

New categories, live. AI agents, SDKs, open source and research have joined the registry as browsable categories, each entry held to the same verification standard as the original five.

What ships next

More intelligence. Infrastructure reliability and country readiness indexes, built on the verification history now accumulating.

Publications. Annual, data-generated reports on the state of African digital infrastructure, free to read.

The standard does not change

Growth never outruns verification. A resource enters the registry when its documentation, licensing and live status have actually been checked, and stays only while that remains true. That is the whole point.

Start at wycord.com. If you build African infrastructure and you are not listed, submit your resource. If you are building with AI, point your agent at the API and build.