Every Nigerian business that sells to other businesses has the same Friday afternoon. Someone matching bank transfers to invoices, manually. Yele Oyekola built @duplo_ng because this problem was everywhere, and nobody was solving it. 🎯 Automated invoice matching 🎯 Real-time collections and reconciliation 🎯 Built for Nigerian banking infrastructure 🎯 $4.3M seed, Tiger Global · Y Combinator W22 Consumer fintech got the attention. B2B payments was where the operational pain was sitting, quietly, every Friday, in every finance department. #Duplo #NigeriaTech #B2BPayments #DevonTechnologies

BUILD DIFFERENT 🟢 Devon's weekly AI read for Nigerian lawyers and business owners. This week: 1️⃣ @AnthropicAI launched Claude Fable 5, the most powerful AI ever made public. Access is no longer the question. Knowing what to do with it is. 2️⃣ $35B infrastructure platform launched to power AI through 2028. The roads AI will run on are being built right now. 3️⃣ @OpenAI filed for IPO at $850B valuation, days after Anthropic did the same. Nigerian lawyers in capital markets and tech need to understand what these companies do. 4️⃣ Miasma worm hit 73 Microsoft repos in 105 seconds, firing through AI coding tools. Your codebase is now an attack surface. 5️⃣ The Pentagon fired Anthropic for being "too safe for war". Who decides what AI is allowed to do in courts, hospitals, and finance? That question has no answer yet in Nigerian law. Build Different — every Friday. #BuildDifferent #NigeriaTech #LegalTech #AIWeekly #DevonTechnologies

June 12. A day that reminds us what it costs to build something worth having and what it means to refuse to accept that things cannot change. Happy Democracy Day, Nigeria. 🇳🇬 #DemocracyDay #June12 #Nigeria #DevonTechnologies

Present beta update: 10 business owners. 15 businesses. 87 staff enrolled. Here's the pattern from every demo we've seen. It's not about features. It's about trust. "Can I depend on this?" That is the question every product has to answer. Want early access? Reach out directly. #Present #ProductDevelopment #NigeriaTech #DevonTechnologies

The real test of a Nigerian business is not what happens when the founder is in the office. It's what happens the week the founder travels. Some run without missing a beat. Others discover what they called a process was actually just the founder #present, paying attention, catching things before they became problems. One has a system. The other has a person. Only one is scalable. #NigeriaBusiness #DevonTechnologies

There is a specific Nigerian business owner who built something real and then moved abroad. They didn't close the business. They left someone in charge. And every month since, they've been managing on faith. She's always telling A today, B tomorrow... "She just takes advantage of the fact that I'm not on ground." - business owner Present gives you GPS-confirmed check-ins, real-time task tracking, and visibility across every location, with or without needing a trusted person in the middle. Accountability becomes a system #Present #NigeriaBusiness #DevonTechnologies

Nigeria has 40 million informal micro-retailers. Every #FMCG company needed to reach them. Nobody had built reliable infrastructure to do it. @Sabi_Official built it: ✅ B2B platform connecting informal retailers to suppliers ✅ Digital ordering (no cash-in-advance) ✅ Embedded credit for small retailers ✅ Data that made the informal retailer visible for the first time $38M raised. 500,000 retailers. The largest markets in Nigeria are the ones formal #business decided were too difficult to serve. #Sabi #NigeriaTech #InformalEconomy #DevonTechnologies

The best tailor in Yaba. The best chef on the island. The most skilled developer in the room. Same story every time: Exceptional at the thing the business is built on. The business around the thing, invoicing, scheduling, staff, and follow-ups are held together with goodwill and good memory. Craft scales when the system around it scales. Not before. Which part of your business is still running on goodwill? #NigeriaBusiness #DevonTechnologies

In Nigeria, the best product rarely wins. The best-distributed product does. Three examples: 1️⃣ The better pharmacist loses to the one with motorcycle delivery 2️⃣ The better software loses to the one that works on every network 3️⃣ The better service loses to the one that answers WhatsApp first Quality gets you in the room. Distribution determines whether you stay. For Nigerian software, distribution is a product design decision, not a sales decision. #NigeriaTech #ProductDesign #DevonTechnologies

5 signs your Nigerian business process has become your biggest operational risk: 1. One person knows how everything works (and they haven't documented it) 2. Errors only get caught after they cost money 3. You can't onboard someone new without the founder 4. Weekly reporting = someone manually compiling data for 3 hours 5. Your busiest period is also your most chaotic All five say the same thing: the business is running on people, not systems. Save this. #NigeriaBusiness #BusinessOperations #DevonTechnologies

Nigerian freight logistics before @kobo_360 followed this process You would call around, wait, and hope the truck shows up. There was no tracking, no accountability, no platform. Even @DangoteGroup, @DHLGlobal, and @Unilever operated in this system. @ObiKobo and Ife Oyedele built the infrastructure Nigerian trucking never had: The result 🎯 Digital marketplace: cargo owners to verified trucks 🎯 Real-time tracking 🎯 10,000 drivers 🎯 Funding from @GoldmanSachs Series A, @ycombinator @IFC_org The most analogue industries have the highest software upside. Not because they resist technology. Because nobody built the right technology for how they actually work. Every week, we share case studies of companies that have excelled regardless of the challenges. #Kobo360 #NigeriaTech #AfricanLogistics #DevonTechnologies

Most software built for "Africa" is built for nobody in particular. We build for the specific constraints of Nigerian environments. ✅ #JudicAI: Offline-first because courts lose power ✅ #Present: Outcomes not just attendance, because managers need both answers ✅ #DocketMaster: High Court & Magistrate courts because that's where 70% of Nigerians encounter justice ✅ #MeetSession: built for how Nigerian teams actually work Constraint is not a problem to solve. It is a design brief. #DevonTechnologies #NigeriaTech #BuildingInAfrica

June 1st, 2026 May taught you something. Use it. Happy new month. 💚 #NewMonth #DevonTechnologies

Yes, it's the #weekend, but that doesn't mean #restaurant and #pharmacy chain #businesses didn't open. "What stops one person from scanning in for the whole team?" Two business owners asked this independently in our first #Present demos. Not to abuse it. Because they were already imagining relying on it. We built same-device detection and shipped it. Both prospects were told. The feature a user tests for trust isn't always the feature you built for value. 8 owners. 11 businesses. 40 staff, already onboard, we are now accepting businesses for priority list 2: Signup here usepresent.devontech.io #Present #ProductDevelopment #NigeriaTech #DevonTechnologies

Again, our CEO always says: Solve the problem, then build a tech solution that sustains and scales your solution. So there is a specific type of Nigerian entrepreneur who builds the second location before fixing what broke in the first one. By the third location, they have three versions of the same problem. The system does not come before the growth. It comes after the pain. Which stage are you at? #NigeriaBusiness #Entrepreneurship #DevonTechnologies

Our CEO spent two weeks talking to business owners about managing staff they can't always see. These things stood out: ➡️ I only know who came in when the money arrives. ➡️ It has happened more times than I want to count - She steps in personally every time something goes wrong. ➡️ "Staff just takes advantage of the fact that I'm not on ground." - Managing from abroad. No system. No proof. For all three, the problem is visibility. #Present is built for this. We're currently accepting businesses for Priority 2 list. Use this link to sign up: usepresent.devontech.io #Present #NigeriaBusiness #DevonTechnologies

Nigerian hospitals had access to foreign EMR software. But they were still using paper instead. Not because they preferred paper. Because the software wasn't built for them. @HeliumHealth asked, 'What does this look like when it's built for African healthcare from the ground up?' The result: HeliumOS HeliumCredit. $42.2M raised. $30M Series B. Widest EMR platform in West Africa. Products built for your market beat, adapted for your market. Every time. What problem in your industry is still being solved with paper? #HeliumHealth #NigeriaTech #DevonTechnologies

Virtual court proceedings: Before JudicAI, this was the traditional approach to virtual court proceedings: Call IT ➡️ wait ➡️ setup ➡️ test ➡️ generate link ➡️ share link (45 minutes minimum) With JudicAI: Open ➡️ select case ➡️ start proceeding ➡️ add participant emails. The platform sends links automatically. Court starts. After seating: Your transcript, audio, and video are all together with your case records. Result: 120 virtual hearings. 61 courts. The 45-minute setup didn't get faster. It disappeared. #JudicAI #LegalTech #NigeriaTech #DevonTechnologies

There is a specific type of Nigerian founder who knows exactly what's broken in their business. Can describe it precisely. Has been describing it for two years. Gets animated when you ask but still has not fixed it. When asked, you get: - We've been too busy. - We're waiting for the right time. - We tried once, and it didn't work. The right time has been two years away for two years. Which version are you? #NigeriaBusiness #DevonTechnologies

WhatsApp was built for personal messaging. But most businesses use it for communication, and frankly, that's okay, depending on the size of the business. Here are 5 signs your business has outgrown WhatsApp as an operations tool: 1️⃣ 3 business groups, nobody knows which has the latest version 2️⃣ Client messages get buried, nobody follows up 3️⃣ Team member leaves, they takes the entire conversation history with them 4️⃣ Can't find what was agreed without scrolling through weeks of messages 5️⃣ Client data in WhatsApp is an NDPA compliance exposure WhatsApp is a communication tool. Not a CRM. Not a project manager. Not a document store. Save this, and share with a business friend. #NigeriaBusiness #BusinessAutomation #NDPA #DevonTechnologies