Draft:Breni

Breni
Type	Private
Industry	Education
Founded	August 24, 2025; 13 months ago in Kano, Nigeria
Founder	Abubakar Sadiq Umar and Bilal Abdullahi
Headquarters	United Kingdom
Key people	Abubakar Sadiq Umar - CEO Bilal Abdullahi - CTO

Submission declined on 22 May 2026 by MSK (talk).

This draft's references do not show that the subject meets Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion for organizations and companies. The draft requires multiple published secondary sources that:

provide significant coverage: discuss the subject in detail, excluding routine coverage like product launches, staff appointments, or financial reports and listings in databases or listicles;
are reliable: from reputable outlets with editorial oversight;
are independent: not connected to the subject, such as press releases, the subject's own website, or sponsored content.

Please add references that meet all three of these criteria. If none exist, the subject is not yet suitable for Wikipedia.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you have not resolved the issues listed above, your draft will be declined again and potentially deleted.
If you need extra help, please ask us a question at the AfC Help Desk or get live help from experienced editors.
Please do not remove reviewer comments or this notice until the submission is accepted.

Where to get help

If you need help editing or submitting your draft, please ask us a question at the AfC Help Desk or get live help from experienced editors. These venues are only for help with editing and the submission process, not to get reviews.
If you need feedback on your draft, or if the review is taking a lot of time, you can try asking for help on the talk page of a relevant WikiProject. Some WikiProjects are more active than others so a speedy reply is not guaranteed.

How to improve a draft

Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia – a basic overview on how to edit Wikipedia.
Help:Wikitext – how to use the markup
Help:Referencing for beginners – how to include references
Wikipedia:Article development – how to develop your article
Wikipedia:Writing better articles – how to improve your article
Wikipedia:Verifiability – make sure your article includes reliable third-party sources

You can also browse Wikipedia:Featured articles and Wikipedia:Good articles to find examples of Wikipedia's best writing on topics similar to your proposed article.

Improving your odds of a speedy review

To improve your odds of a faster review, tag your draft with relevant WikiProject tags using the button below. This will let reviewers know a new draft has been submitted in their area of interest. For instance, if you wrote about a female astronomer, you would want to add the Biography, Astronomy, and Women scientists tags.

Add tags to your draft

Editor resources

Easy tools: Citation bot (help) | Advanced: Fix bare URLs

Declined by MSK 4 months ago. Last edited by Iamasadeeq 3 months ago. Reviewer: Inform author.

Resubmit

Please note that if the issues are not fixed, the draft will be declined again.

Submission declined on 19 May 2026 by Commandant Quacks-a-lot (talk).

This draft reads like an advertisement. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a platform for promotion or marketing. Drafts that are exclusively promotional may be deleted without notice.

Wikipedia articles must be written neutrally in a formal, impersonal, and dispassionate way. They should not read like a blog post, advertisement, or fan page. Rewrite the draft to remove:

promotional language: see Words to watch;
personal commentary: opinions or direct addresses to the reader;
informal language.

Instead, only summarize in your own words a range of independent, reliable, published sources that discuss the subject.

If you have a conflict of interest (e.g. you are the subject, an employee, or a relative) or are being paid to edit, you must disclose this to comply with Wikipedia's Terms of Use.

Declined by Commandant Quacks-a-lot 4 months ago.

Comment: ...especially the last section. Commandant Quacks-a-lot (talk) 15:45, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

Breni

Breni is an artificial intelligence-based personalized learning application built on principles from cognitive science, motivational psychology, and gamification.^[1]. It was founded in 2025 by Abubakar Sadiq Umar and Bilal Abdullahi^[2] in Kano, Nigeria.

History

Abubakar Sadiq Umar and Bilal Abdullahi previously worked at Kayi, a Nigerian financial technology company, where Umar served as a senior business analyst and Abdullahi worked as a software and artificial intelligence engineer. During their time at the company, they developed an interest in the application of artificial intelligence and technology to education^[3].

References

↑ "Breni Says It Has Cracked the Code on How the World Should Learn". TechDigest. Retrieved 2026-06-09.
↑ Sunny, Delight (2025-10-03). "These Nigerians are building a startup in Northern Nigeria, but blowing up in Asia". Techpoint. Retrieved 2025-10-03.
↑ Badmus, Abbas (2026-04-20). "12 Startups Powering Northern Nigeria's New Economy". TechDigest. Retrieved 2026-04-20.

[1] "Breni Says It Has Cracked the Code on How the World Should Learn". TechDigest. Retrieved 2026-06-09.

[2] Sunny, Delight (2025-10-03). "These Nigerians are building a startup in Northern Nigeria, but blowing up in Asia". Techpoint. Retrieved 2025-10-03.

[3] Badmus, Abbas (2026-04-20). "12 Startups Powering Northern Nigeria's New Economy". TechDigest. Retrieved 2026-04-20.

[1]

[2]

[3]

This page was redesigned at the edge.

Breni

History

References