WORKQRAFT

V-04 · Priority sectorLagos, Nigeria

Listings, tenants and maintenance without the thread.

Every property has a file, every tenant has a WhatsApp chat, and every maintenance request lives wherever it was reported. Nothing is lost, exactly. It is just not anywhere in particular.

The questions we’d open with

Before any software is discussed

A first meeting is not a demo. It is these four questions and a notebook.

If you can answer them off the top of your head, you probably don’t need us yet. If answering them means asking three people and opening two files, that gap is the thing we build against.

  1. How do you manage property listings, tenant communications and maintenance requests today?
  2. Where does a maintenance request go after a tenant reports it?
  3. How do you know which units are occupied, vacant or in arrears this month?
  4. What does a service-charge reconciliation take you?

What it usually looks like first

You’ll recognise some of this
01

Maintenance requests reported in a chat and tracked in someone's head

02

Occupancy and arrears assembled from a spreadsheet each month

03

Service-charge statements built by hand, then disputed

04

No record of what was fixed, when, or what it cost

None of this means the operation is badly run. It means the operation outgrew the tools that were right for it three years ago. That is a different problem, and a cheaper one to fix.

Where we start

The first slice

Usually the maintenance queue: raised, assigned, closed, with a cost against the unit — because it is the one people feel every week.

We ship in slices rather than in one release. Something useful reaches real users within weeks of the design being agreed, and grows from there. You see whether it works before the bill gets large.

01

Map

02

Design

03

Build

04

Adopt

05

Run

What we usually build for real estate

Three of eight practices

Who we talk to

Property developers, estate management firms

Where we meet

  • Real estate associations
  • Property expos
  • Developer networks

Start with the walkthrough, not the demo.

An hour on site, the four questions above, and an honest answer about whether a build is warranted. It costs nothing.