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How to add AI to your app in Nigeria

In short: Call an AI model from your server with the OpenAI SDK, keep the key out of your app, and handle the few errors that matter. With Bridge by Wekoya you pay for it in naira by bank transfer, and one key reaches GPT, Claude, Gemini and 90+ other models.

Updated 8 November 2026

The steps

1. Get a key: create an account, top up by bank transfer and create a key.
2. Keep the key on your server, in an environment variable. Never put it in browser or mobile code.
3. Call Bridge from a server route with the OpenAI SDK, as below.
4. Handle errors: a 402 means out of money or over a limit, so show a friendly message; retry 429 and 5xx with a short wait.
5. Stream the reply so people see it being written.
6. Give each of your users a budget if they can trigger AI calls.

import OpenAI from "openai"

const bridge = new OpenAI({
  apiKey: process.env.WEKOYA_API_KEY,
  baseURL: "https://wekoya-api.wekoya.tech/v1",
})

export async function answer(question) {
  const reply = await bridge.chat.completions.create({
    model: "gpt-6-luna",
    messages: [{ role: "user", content: question }],
  })
  return reply.choices[0].message.content
}

Let your coding agent do it

Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and other coding agents can add Bridge for you: give them the Bridge skill and ask for the feature. It tells the agent where the key goes, how to call Bridge and how to handle every error.

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