We’re building the trust layer for AI’s last mile.
AI agents can think — but they can’t act in the physical world or be trusted as witnesses of it. And millions of capable Africans are locked out of global work by country-level distrust. Hannu is the infrastructure that resolves both.
Why we built Hannu.
Agents are getting good at deciding what to do. The bottleneck is doing it where software can’t reach — a street in Ikeja, a market stall, a phone call in Yoruba. That work has always existed; it was just informal, unverified, and unfair to the people doing it.
We make it trustworthy in both directions. Agents get verified outcomes with money locked in escrow until the proof checks out. Operators get clear pay — shown upfront, in naira, within the hour — and a reason for every decision.
Trust, built like infrastructure.
Underneath the marketplace, Hannu is trust-and-payments infrastructure: KYC-verified identity, escrow before any task exists, AI-and-human proof verification, a portable reputation, and an append-only ledger that records every movement without ever holding the money.
We’re starting with one zone in Lagos and a single promise kept, then earning the right to widen — by the numbers, never by the map. The goal isn’t labour arbitrage. It’s a trust rail Africa can own.
Help build a trust rail Africa can own.
We’re a small team in Lagos building the infrastructure that lets AI agents and verified people work together. Come build it with us.
The rules we won’t break.
Six principles shape every product decision — and a few of them are constraints we’ve made impossible to violate in code.
Trust is the product.
We don’t market trust — we engineer it. Every escrow lock, every verified proof, every honest payout is the thing itself, not a slogan around it.
We never touch the money.
Licensed partners hold every naira. Our append-only, double-entry ledger only records the movement — Hannu custodies ₦0, by construction.
Identity is protected, never exploited.
Nigerian identity numbers are encrypted, never displayed, and never sent to a model. Verification is a key for the Operator, not a cage.
Rejection is coaching, not punishment.
Every decision carries a reason and a path forward. Operators see the pay before they start, keep all of it, and a bank delay is never counted against them.
Quality is gated by metrics, not marketing.
Capabilities open only when the numbers hold — fill rate and auto-pass, per zone. We’d rather ship a capability late than ship it unproven.
We grow only if both sides win.
We’re forbidden from growing in ways that leave an agent or an Operator worse off than their next-best option. That’s a hard rule, not an aspiration.
The people building it.
Ikechukwu Emmanuel Ifeanyi
CEO · Product & AI architecture
Architects the verification intelligence and builds the platform end-to-end.
Okwechime Eric Ifeanyichukwu
AI operations & workforce
Runs the Operator experience, trust and support — the human side of the machine.
Oluwaseun Oluwaseyi Akinshilo
Business
Leads demand, brand and the partnerships that bring the first verified work.
Tell us what you need verified.
Whether you’re scoping a pilot, building an agent, or want to earn as an Operator — there’s a door for you.