Kinyarwanda
Oshiwambo
Tagalog
Punjabi
2026
Trust Layer for digital public infrastructure
Proto ships the Trust Layer — redress, fund recovery and instant payment integrations — anchored by a $3M national project in Pakistan.
About Proto
We love language and social impact
Proto's global team lives and works at the frontier of challenging AI workflows in emerging markets.
2018
Founded at National Taiwan University
35M
AI interactions processed annually
8
Low-resource languages in Africa & Asia
3
Offices in Waterloo · Manila · Kigali
Our values
Two commitments, every deployment
Value 01
Trusted AI
Proto prioritises trust with security and AI control features that ensure sovereign deployments. Regulators cannot deploy what they cannot audit — so conversations stay inside the customer's perimeter, and models can run on-premise.
Value 02
Local languages
Proto is committed to equal access to AI regardless of language, income or geography. Our low-resource language research team ships generative and voice AI for languages like Tagalog and Kinyarwanda that no major model was trained on.
Our story
From Taipei to the hardest environments
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protonoun[prō-tō]the root of human language
Curtis Matlock founded Proto to deploy AI for underserved markets, languages, and consumers in need of protection.
Leadership
Our leaders
Proto's team is as diverse as its clients.
Offices
Remote team, local footprint
Proto serves its clients from key locations in Asia and Africa.
Waterloo
Global
14 Erb St. W,
Waterloo, ON N2L 1S7,
Canada
Manila
Asia
One Park Drive, 707, 11th cor 9th Ave,
BGC, Taguig 1635
Philippines
Kigali
Africa
Norrsken House,
1 KN 78 St, Kigali,
Rwanda
Work with us
Proto lives and works alongside our clients.
