Help build a trust rail Africa can own.
We’re a small team in Lagos building the escrow, identity and verification rails between AI agents and verified people across Africa. Formal listings will land here as we grow — until then, introduce yourself.
Why this, why now.
Two of the biggest shifts of the decade are colliding: AI agents that can think but can’t act in the physical world, and a continent of capable people locked out of global work by country-level distrust.
Hannu sits exactly in the gap. The work is hard in the most interesting way — real money, real identity, real people — and the constraints (never custody funds, never expose PII, never ship unproven) are the point, not the obstacle. If that’s the kind of problem you want, this is the place.
How we work.
Six principles, drawn straight from how we build — a few of them are constraints we’ve made impossible to violate in code.
Camel, not unicorn.
We build to last, not to burn — profitable discipline over growth theatre. The pilot proves the machine before we raise to accelerate it.
Distribution beats innovation.
In Africa, getting the thing to people is the hard part. We obsess over reach — WhatsApp-first, low-end-Android-first — not just features.
Compliance is a weapon.
Custody separation, identity protection, due process — we treat doing it right as our edge, not our cost. It’s the moat and the sales pitch.
Ship it proven.
We gate on metrics, not dates. A capability opens when the numbers hold, per zone. We’d rather ship late than ship unproven.
Truthful, always.
About money, timing and mistakes — internally and out. No hype, no vanity metrics, no false scarcity. Trust is the product.
Own the outcome.
A small team against a big surface. Everyone owns a problem end-to-end and is trusted to make the call and live with it.
Where we need help.
We hire for these domains. There are no formal listings yet — if one of them is unmistakably you, reach out and we’ll make room.
Engineering & AI
The verification intelligence, the escrow-native platform, the agent API and the data flywheel — TypeScript, top to bottom.
Operations & workforce
The Operator experience: onboarding, trust and support, the WhatsApp and PWA surfaces, and the people doing real work.
Business & growth
Demand and partnerships with lenders, fintechs and marketplaces; brand, community and the first verified work.
Design & brand
The product surfaces and the public brand — engineered warmth, made legible to developers, operators and regulators alike.
Don’t see your role? Tell us anyway.
The best people rarely fit a listing. Send us what you’d own and why — a paragraph beats a CV here.