A Nigerian product studio building software across business, public life, and applied AI.
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Independent software studio · Nigeria

We build software for how people live and work.

Mpaukwu Trading is a Nigerian product studio building software across healthcare, retail, education, hospitality, food, property, marketplaces, and applied AI—from public-facing products to the operational systems behind them.

What does Mpaukwu Trading do?

Mpaukwu Trading designs and builds software products and digital systems across multiple fields. Its work includes hospital and pharmacy workflows, shop and school management, hotel operations, estate access, food technology, marketplaces, property platforms, computer vision, and AI-assisted systems. The studio also builds custom software, automations, and internal tools for organisations.

Entity proof: Mpaukwu Trading is a CAC-registered business name and sole proprietorship (BN 7294223), active since 10 January 2024 and registered in Ohafia, Abia State, Nigeria. Its 2025 annual return was accepted by CAC on 8 April 2026. Verification uses CAC registration and annual return records, portfolio case studies, founder credentials, and public policy pages. Review the verification details.

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SortAm MediSeen OurProfit Klas StoreBase Prism Global Savour Africa Connect
Many fields

One product studio

Healthcare, shops, schools, hotels, pharmacies, food, property, marketplaces, and applied AI.

Build · run · learn

Products and experiments

Live products sit alongside active builds, prototypes, and research. Each is labelled by what it is today.

NG

Nigeria-first, global-standard

Built for local payment, trust, admin, support, and field realities without accepting fragile engineering as normal.

One studio, open every layer

Business process, software engineering, automation, and operational discipline in one loop.

Mpaukwu is the company vehicle for practical digital systems: workflows, databases, APIs, dashboards, payments, admin controls, deployment, and post-launch readiness.

Product strategy Data and workflows Frontend systems Backend and APIs Infrastructure

Delivery engine

Useful after the demo is over.

We care about tools people can actually use every day: clear roles, clean actions, traceable money, visible status, fallback paths, admin controls, and a deployment story that can survive real users.

Multi-role SaaS Marketplace flows Operational dashboards Payment logic AI-assisted workflows Coolify/VPS deployment

Selected portfolio

Software for real work, across more than one industry.

From a supermarket till to a hospital ward, hotel floor, recipe idea, or computer-vision pipeline, each build starts with the context it needs to serve.

Marketplace
Live production

SortAm

On-demand artisan marketplace for Nigeria with verified pros, customer booking, quote flows, protected payment logic, wallet operations, an admin control room, and a completed move to self-hosted infrastructure. Paystack is live and eTranzact integration is in progress.

ArtisansProtected paymentsPaystack + eTranzactSelf-hosted
Visit sortam.com
Healthcare

MediSeen HMS

Hospital management system for patient registration, triage, consultation, billing, pharmacy, lab, IPD, maternity, and facility operations.

HMSBillingClinical workflows
Visit mediseenhms.com
Retail Ops

OurProfit

Retail operations suite with POS, inventory, staff PIN access, tenant approvals, CRM, offline sync, receipts, and owner controls.

POSInventorySME
Estate Ops

MyEstate

Visitor access control for residential estates: QR/OTP gate passes, an offline-capable guard app, resident SOS alerts, announcements, and estate chat, on a free-to-join, pay-per-token model.

Access ControlOffline Guard AppSOS
Visit mynaijaestate.com
Store Ops

StoreBase

Offline-first POS and inventory for Nigerian shops: multi-branch staff roles, "carry small small" debt tracking, a CCTV camera view for owners, and two flat pricing tiers with a 14-day free trial.

Offline POSMulti-branchDebt Tracking
Visit storebaseng.store
Salon Ops · Live
Walkthrough

OnsiteBoss

Offline-capable salon operations and revenue-control SaaS for Nigerian beauty businesses: online booking and a live walk-in floor, service sessions with multi-worker bills, cashier drawer reconciliation, inventory with service recipes, customer growth, and multi-branch control.

Bookings & floorCashier reconcileOffline-firstMulti-branch
Module walkthrough · Visit onsiteboss.com
Real Estate

Prism Global

Luxury real estate marketing site for a Lugbe Extension, Abuja development: property listings, unit galleries, and direct enquiry flows for buyers.

Property ListingsMarketing Site
Visit prismglobalservicesltd.com
Real Estate · Test build
Walkthrough

PlotForce

Real estate operations platform: property inventory, agents and commissions, land sales and allocations, a leads-to-deals pipeline, payments with approvals, and a compliance audit trail. Multi-branch and API-ready, on Django.

InventoryLand salesCommissionsDjango
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Food Tech

Savour

Every culture, every kitchen, one app: an AI-powered cooking companion for Nigerian, Latvian, and global recipes, with budget-smart meals in your language.

AI RecipesMeal Planning
Visit savour.mpaukwu.tech
AI Trust Layer

Africa Connect

Enterprise-grade AI discovery, trust, and transaction layer for African businesses: an MCP gateway letting AI agents find, verify, and transact with Nigerian businesses.

MCP GatewayTrust ScoreBusiness Directory
Visit connectafrica.mpaukwu.tech
Edge AI · Vision
Walkthrough

VIGIL

Edge-AI surveillance platform: multi-camera detection, AI threat scoring, a live situational map, SMS alerts, and PDF reports. Detection models are trained for farms and critical infrastructure, with a hotel leakage-reconciliation deployment. Runs on solar and LTE at the edge.

Object detectionThreat scoringEdge / solarFarms & hotels
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Portfolio Ops · In build
Walkthrough

Helm

A portfolio operations and growth tracker for a multi-product studio: every app and its status, campaigns and metrics, outreach targets and engagement, tasks, email, and feedback in one operating picture. In development, not yet deployed.

Apps & statusCampaignsOutreachIn development
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Fleet SaaS · Concept
Open to investment

FleetOS

A fleet-management SaaS concept for Nigerian transport - car rental, corporate shuttles, haulage, and ride-hail owners: vehicle status board, drivers and documents, bookings and payments, maintenance, tracking, and profit-per-vehicle. Working mockup; backend in development.

Fleet statusBookingsProfit per vehicleConcept
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Hardware · Concept
Open to investment

SidScan

An OBD-II car diagnostic scanner for Nigeria - a Bluetooth scan device plus app that reads fault codes and live data, does deep ABS/airbag/transmission diagnostics, and adds a Tokunbo auction quick-check, Naira repair estimates, Pidgin/Yoruba/Hausa, and WhatsApp reports. Mpaukwu's first move into hardware. Research & design stage.

OBD-IITokunbo checkHardwareConcept
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Verification · Open-source
Walkthrough

OpenKYB

An open-source business-verification and risk-intelligence platform: global registry connectors (US, UK, EU, sanctions, LEI), entity resolution, an immutable evidence store, a six-dimension risk engine, a knowledge graph, and continuous monitoring - with a roadmap into agent identity (KYA) for the HTTP 402 era.

KYBRisk engineAgent identityOpen-source
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Hospitality · Hotel ops
Walkthrough

NaijaStay

Offline-first hotel operations: a live front-desk room board, room-night records, bar and restaurant posting to guest folios, stock, and a nightly reconciliation that ties sales to the physical count. A computer-vision evidence pipeline is in development.

Front deskRoom-nightsReconciliationOffline-first
Module walkthrough · Visit naijastay.com
Pharmacy · Provider-ready
Walkthrough

Oasis Spring Pharmacy

A Nigerian pharmacy storefront and installable PWA: product discovery in naira, a prescription workflow with pharmacist review, pickup or interstate delivery, and order tracking, over a provider-ready architecture. Currently in safe demo mode - no live card charges or stored prescriptions.

Storefront + PWAPrescription workflowProvider-readyDemo mode
Module walkthrough · Visit oasisspringpharmacy.com
Applied AI · Research

Vision models & Nigerian training data

Computer-vision engineering for hotel occupancy and bar-service evidence, alongside research into Nigerian traffic data and locally relevant classes such as keke, okada, danfo, and road-market activity. The data plan is active; no dataset size or model-accuracy result is claimed here.

Computer visionModel evaluationDataset research
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This is a selected portfolio, not a claim that every project is at the same stage. Browse products, prototypes, and applied-AI work with status notes.

Performance, readiness, and simplicity

Built for operators who need systems to hold together.

Fast builds fail when they meet real payments, real admin mistakes, real users, and real abuse. Mpaukwu treats readiness as part of the product, not a cleanup step.

Admin surfaces that explain the business.

Dashboards, queues, audit logs, role permissions, approval paths, and control rooms that let operators see what is happening before users complain.

Revenue and trust logic you can inspect.

Payments, wallets, subscriptions, escrow, refunds, commissions, and ledgers are designed as flows with evidence, not loose one-off buttons.

Production readiness before the stakes rise.

The SaaS readiness audit maps attack surface, tenant/role risks, payment leakage, deployment gaps, fix tickets, and a Go or No-Go score.

Deployment that fits the operator.

Coolify, VPS, Vercel, managed cloud, PostgreSQL, Redis, object storage, backups, and migration plans are chosen around ownership and reliability.

Security boundariesRoles and tenant accessPayments and dataReliability and recoveryOperations and audit trail See audit scope and sample report

Selected work paths

Ways teams usually enter the Mpaukwu system.

Whether you are starting from an idea, a broken workflow, or a product already in production, the work becomes clearer when the operating problem is named.

Build

Custom SaaS and internal tools

For teams that need a product, portal, marketplace, dashboard, or workflow system designed around actual day-to-day operations.

Explore services
Compare

Buyer comparison pages

Direct answers for founders comparing SortAm, StoreBase, MyEstate, MediSeen, Mpaukwu, spreadsheets, paper systems, and freelance builds.

Compare build options
Trust

Proof and due diligence

Entity details, product links, policy pages, readiness posture, and the questions serious buyers should ask before trusting a build partner.

Review trust signals
Harden

SaaS production readiness audit

For founders and agencies shipping fast-built apps who need a defensive read on security, abuse, payments, roles, and deployment.

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Study

Product lab and ventures

SortAm, MediSeen, Klas, StoreBase, MyEstate, and other product experiments show the practical patterns behind the studio.

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Read

Engineering Journal

Short essays on trust, adoption, language, resilience, interface design, and production thinking from the Mpaukwu build process.

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Common questions

What founders usually ask before starting.

Straight answers on cost, timeline, support, and how the readiness audit fits in.

How much does it cost to build a custom SaaS product in Nigeria?

It depends on scope, but most founder-led MVPs land in the low-to-mid millions of Naira, priced against the actual workflows involved (roles, payments, admin surfaces) rather than a flat package rate. Share the operating problem and a straight quote follows.

How long does it take to build an MVP?

A focused MVP with one or two core workflows typically takes 4 to 8 weeks. Multi-role platforms with payments, admin controls, and integrations run longer. The timeline is set after mapping the actual workflow, not guessed upfront.

Do you offer support after launch?

Yes. Every build ships with a deployment and handoff plan, and ongoing support arrangements are available for bug fixes, feature additions, and infrastructure monitoring.

What is a SaaS production readiness audit?

A defensive review of a product you already own or have permission to test: attack surface, role and tenant isolation, payment leakage, deployment posture, and abuse cases, ending in fix tickets and a Go or No-Go readiness score.

Can you take over a product built by another developer?

Yes. This usually starts with a readiness audit of the existing codebase so the real state of the product, and its risks, is clear before committing to a handover.

Do you work with clients outside Nigeria?

Yes, remotely across Africa and globally. The studio is Nigeria-based and Nigeria-first in its thinking about payments, trust, and field realities, but the engineering itself travels.

Start building today

Bring a business process, product idea, or SaaS risk.

We will help turn it into a system with a clear workflow, admin surface, deployment path, and readiness plan.

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