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The operating system for Nigeria's estates.

EstateOps is the operating system for residential estates: one platform plus a managed service that runs maintenance, finances and vendors, and tells managers what to fix before it breaks.

180
Asset templates, pre-built
14
Estate systems mapped
1
Estate partner signed
Live
Built & running today
Raising
$150,000 · ₦240M
Instrument
SAFE (post-money) · full terms on request
Status
Built, live, first partner signed
One system, the whole estate

Assets, preventive maintenance, dues, vendors and residents, all in one platform, on web and mobile.

AI that's already shipped

Triage, a daily agent and a copilot that propose the next move. A human approves it, and it never moves money.

Transparent, non-custodial money

Dues against spend, in the open. Funds stay in the estate's own account, and EstateOps never holds them.

A moat that compounds

180 templates on day one, then a fault library that gets sharper with every job an estate closes.

In plain terms

What EstateOps actually does

An estate has assets to maintain, dues to collect, vendors to manage and residents to keep happy. Today that is done on WhatsApp, paper and memory. EstateOps replaces all of it with one system, and adds a managed service so the estate is not left to run it alone. Here is how it works.

Onboard the estate in a day
Pick the estate type and EstateOps imports its assets, maintenance schedules, zones and a compliance register in one click.
Run everything in one place
Work orders, preventive maintenance, dues and spend, vendors and residents, all on web and mobile apps.
Act on what it recommends
The platform reads each estate's assets and history and tells the manager what to service, replace and budget for next.
The market, in numbers

A large market with the wind behind it

This is not a niche. Estates are multiplying, money is flowing into property, and almost none of it is managed with proper software. Every figure below is sourced.

$20.9B
sent home by Nigerians abroad in 2024, about four times the country's foreign direct investment
Source: Central Bank of Nigeria
28M
unit national housing deficit, driving record estate construction across major cities
Source: Nigeria housing data committee, 2024
$27.8B
Nigeria facilities-management market, growing about 12% a year
Source: Mordor Intelligence, 2025
220M+
population, growing over 2.5% a year, concentrated in fast-growing urban estates
Source: World Bank
Timing

Why now

A company like this could not have worked five years ago and will be hard to start in five years, once someone owns the category. The window is open now.

New estates are being built at record pace
A 28 million unit housing deficit means developers are building gated estates faster than anyone can manage them well.
No incumbent owns this category
Estates run on WhatsApp, paper and spreadsheets. There is no default operating system. The first to set the standard wins.
Diaspora money is looking for control
Over twenty billion dollars a year flows home with no proper way for owners abroad to see how it is spent. EstateOps gives them that control.
The problem

What we are fixing

Most estates run on WhatsApp groups and paper. Maintenance is reactive, so generators and pumps fail when they are needed most. Dues and spending are not transparent, so residents stop trusting management. When a manager leaves, the history of every asset leaves too, and vendors are picked on guesswork. EstateOps puts all of it in one place and keeps the knowledge with the estate, not the person who left.

The product

One platform, everything an estate needs

The full system is built and live today. It is in use with our first partner, Golden Acres Estate, where we are planning operations as the estate is built.

Asset intelligence
180 pre-configured asset templates with schedules, checks and failure modes.
Preventive maintenance
Recurring work with completion proof and full equipment history.
AI triage and daily agent
Every report prioritised in seconds; a morning briefing with one-tap approvals.
Transparent finance
Dues against spend and clear monthly reports. We never hold estate funds.
Resident and partner apps
Installable mobile apps, plus WhatsApp intake that turns messages into work orders.
Multi-tenant and secure
Database-enforced isolation per estate, four roles, full audit trails.
The difference

It tells you what to do next

This is what sets EstateOps apart. It does not just record work. It reads each estate’s assets, history and spending, then recommends what to service next, what to plan to replace, and where money is being wasted. Managers act on a clear plan instead of guessing, and owners can see the reasoning behind every decision.

What to service now
Priorities by asset condition and criticality.
What to budget for
Replacements forecast before things fail.
Where spend is high
Costs compared against benchmarks across estates.
Built and live

The AI layer is shipped, not a roadmap slide

Most companies at this stage pitch AI as a future feature. Ours is in the product today, grounded in the asset library and each estate’s own fault history.

AI triage on every report
Every resident report is classified in seconds: priority, likely cause, trade and checklist. Emergencies are never buried as routine.
A daily agent with an action inbox
Each morning it scans assets, compliance and dues, then hands the manager a short briefing with recommended actions. One tap approves; the agent does the paperwork.
A copilot that acts, with rails
Managers ask their estate anything in plain language. When action is needed the copilot proposes it and the manager confirms with one tap, fully audited.
WhatsApp in, work order out
A resident's WhatsApp message becomes a triaged work order with a confirmation reply. No app download, no training, no behaviour change.

The rail on all of it: AI suggests, humans confirm, and it never moves money. Every recommendation is grounded in the estate's own assets and history, and every approval is logged.

The moat

Why this compounds

The product ships with 180 pre-configured asset templates, and every day of operation adds to a structured record of how estate infrastructure actually fails and what it costs to fix. That dataset is the long-term asset.

A complete brain on day one
Estates start with pre-configured asset templates carrying schedules, checklists, failure modes and compliance. Competitors start from an empty database.
A fault library that compounds
Every AI-triaged report and every closed job records symptom, cause, fix and cost. Each estate's history makes the next diagnosis smarter, across the whole network.
Data nobody else has
Reliability and cost benchmarks for Nigerian estate infrastructure. Screens can be copied in a quarter; years of structured operating data cannot.
Traction

What we can show today

Platform built and live
The full product is built and running, not a prototype or mockup.
First estate partner signed
Golden Acres Estate, where we are planning operations as it is built.
Shipping every week
A three-person team releasing new capability continuously.
The landscape

Why we win

Nothing on the market was built for how a Nigerian estate actually runs. The alternatives fall into three buckets, each with the same gap.

WhatsApp, paper and spreadsheets
How most estates run today. No asset history, no accountability, and the knowledge leaves with the manager.
Generic property management tools
Built for rent collection and tenant admin. They do not know what a borehole pump is, or when it will fail.
Enterprise CMMS platforms
Built for factories and corporate facilities teams. Too heavy, too costly and not made for residential estates or their residents.
Only EstateOps combines
  • Estate-native asset intelligence, pre-built for Nigerian infrastructure
  • An AI layer that triages, briefs and proposes, with humans always in control
  • Non-custodial finance: full transparency while funds stay in the estate's own account
  • Software plus a managed service, so estates without a strong team can still run well
The upside

A second market: owners abroad

Millions of Nigerians overseas own homes and land back home and cannot manage them well from a distance. They send money and hope it is used properly. EstateOps lets a diaspora owner see, instruct and pay for the upkeep of their property remotely, with full transparency. Nigerians abroad sent home 20.9 billion dollars in 2024 alone, about four times the country’s foreign direct investment. No product serves this need properly, and our platform is already built to deliver it.

Business model

Simple, recurring revenue

Professional
₦75,000 per estate, per month
The core platform, recurring.
Partner Network
₦50,000 per month
Access to vetted engineers.
Starter Pack
₦150,000 one-time
Done-for-you setup, high margin.
₦85k
Blended revenue per estate, per month
82%
Software gross margin
Managed service
Adds a second revenue line
Diaspora
A third line to come
The numbers

Five-year plan

Targets based on our pricing and pipeline. Revenue shown in naira.

₦15M
₦56M
₦163M
₦367M
₦714M
Yr 1
15 estates
Yr 2
55 estates
Yr 3
160 estates
Yr 4
360 estates
Yr 5
700 estates
₦714M
Year-5 annual revenue target
700
Year-5 estates
82%
At software margins
The ask

We are raising $150,000

$150k
pre-seed
Product & engineering40%
Go-to-market & sales30%
Partner network & ops20%
Compliance & runway10%

What this round delivers

  • Reach 100+ paying estates across Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt
  • Grow to ₦100M+ ARR with strong net revenue retention
  • Launch the vetted Service Partner Network in three cities
  • Open the diaspora product for owners managing property from abroad
  • Key hires: a go-to-market lead and two more engineers
Who is building this

The team

Afis Adewumi
Afis Adewumi, Founder
Founder. Operations Lead at PepsiCo. Runs an engineering design firm in the UK.

Afis studied Engineering and Product Design, works in operations at PepsiCo, and runs an engineering design firm in the UK. He started EstateOps to bring engineering discipline to how estates are run, and leads the product and the team.

A team of three: Afis plus two software engineers building the platform.

Pre-seed open now. Closing once filled.

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