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Abuja, Nigeria  ·  RC 9904194  ·  Est. 2026

We lay the groundwork.

Groundwork Tech builds the software Nigerian businesses run on — payments that clear, records that reconcile, and systems that hold up at month-end. Not a moonshot. The foundation under the thing you already do.

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Built for how business works here

PaystackFlutterwave InterswitchNIBSS transfers & reconciliation USSD fallbackNIN / BVN verification Android-firstOffline-first sync Low-bandwidth buildsNDPR-aware data handling

Services

Four things, done properly.

We stay narrow on purpose. Every engagement below starts with a paid scoping week, so you know the number before you commit to the build.

Internal systems

Custom business software

Most companies outgrow spreadsheets long before they replace them. This is the system that replaces them — built around how your team already works.

  • Inventory, POS and multi-branch stock
  • School and clinic records
  • Logistics dispatch and fleet tracking
  • HR, payroll and approvals
Customer-facing

Web & mobile apps

Android-first, because that is what your customers are holding. Built light enough to work on a 3G connection in Kano.

  • Customer portals and booking
  • Android and iOS apps
  • Marketing sites that load fast
  • Admin dashboards for your team
Money movement

Payments & integrations

Collections, payouts and reconciliation wired correctly the first time — including the failure cases that only show up in production.

  • Paystack, Flutterwave, Interswitch
  • Virtual accounts and bulk payouts
  • Automated daily reconciliation
  • Invoicing, receipts and audit trails
After launch

Care & maintenance

Software needs an owner after launch. If that person is not on your payroll yet, we can be that owner for as long as you need.

  • Monitoring, backups and uptime
  • A fixed pool of changes each month
  • Hosting managed and billed at cost
  • Training for your staff

How we work

Foundation before screens.

Projects go wrong in the wrong order — screens first, then the data model bends to fit them. We invert it.

  1. 01 / WEEK 1

    Scope

    A paid discovery week. We sit with your team, map what you actually do, and hand you a written scope with a fixed price — yours to keep, even if you walk.

  2. 02 / WEEK 2

    Foundation

    Data model, accounts, permissions, payments and the deploy pipeline — all standing before a single screen gets designed.

  3. 03 / ONGOING

    Build

    Two-week cycles. At the end of every cycle you get a working link, not a status report. You steer what comes next.

  4. 04 / HANDOVER

    Hand over

    Your code, your hosting, your accounts — in your name from day one, documented. Keep us on retainer or don't. No lock-in.

Pricing

Published, in naira.

You should not have to sit through a call to find out whether you can afford us. These are starting figures; the scoping week confirms the real number in writing.

Scoping week
₦250,000ONE OFF · DEDUCTED FROM THE BUILD
  • Five working days with your team
  • Written scope and data model
  • Fixed quote for the full build
  • Yours to take elsewhere
Book a week
Build
from ₦3.5mTYPICAL PROJECT · 6–12 WEEKS
  • Everything in scoping
  • Full build, tested and deployed
  • Payments and integrations wired
  • Staff training and documentation
  • 30 days of free fixes after launch
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Care
₦450,000PER MONTH · 30 DAYS' NOTICE TO CANCEL
  • Monitoring, backups, uptime
  • 20 hours of changes monthly
  • Hosting managed and billed at cost
  • Same-day response on outages
Ask about care

Payment in two or three tranches by bank transfer. Invoices carry our RC number and TIN.
Clients outside Nigeria billed in USD on request.

Groundwork Labs — our own products

PadiLearn

A marketplace where Nigerian teachers sell their video courses, and students buy permanent access to them. One payment, no subscription.

A teacher records a course, sets a price in naira, and publishes it. A student pays once through Paystack and keeps that course for good. Eighty-five percent of the list price settles to the teacher, and the card fee is itemised at checkout rather than quietly taken out of what they earn.

It is Android-first, because the students it is built for are paying for their own data. Flutter on the phone, Supabase and row-level security behind it, and every payment confirmed server-side before access is granted.

Why it is on this page. It is the shortest way to show you what we do. The things we sell — payments that reconcile, mobile that survives a bad connection, permissions you can actually trust — we run in production on our own money first.

StatusClosed beta
PlatformAndroid, iOS to follow
Built withFlutter · Supabase
PaymentsPaystack, naira
ModelOne-off purchase
Teacher share85% of list price
Webpadilearn.com

Contact

Tell us what is breaking.

A message describing the problem in your own words is enough to start — you do not need a spec. We will tell you honestly whether it is something we should build, something you should buy off the shelf, or something you do not need yet.

We are based in Abuja and work remote-first across Nigeria, on WAT hours.

WhatsApp+234 912 070 2590 Email[email protected] Phone+234 912 070 2590
HoursMon–Fri · 9:00–18:00 WAT
Based inAbuja, Nigeria