The builders
Temitope Akinsunmade
Coordinator · Project Lead — Computer EngineeringKeeps five people aligned, on scope, and on deadline. Owns delivery: the timeline, the task split, and the submission itself.
Treasure Uvietobore
Storyteller · Pitch & Design + Platform — Computer Science with EconomicsBuilds the OPay payment rails and the SIP voice infrastructure, then tells the story on stage. GitHub · treasureuvietobore.com
Idowu Enoch
Builder · Product & Tech + AI — Computer EngineeringOwns the engine: the Gemini identity pipeline that reads voice notes and notebook photos, the matching model, and the standing score. GitHub
Adisa Naheem
Strategist · Business + Frontend — Computer EngineeringShapes the business model and builds the frontend every worker, trader, and employer touches. GitHub
Ogechukwu Okoli
Researcher · Insight & Data — Computer Science with MathematicsOwns the field research and the data layer behind the standing score. The rule: if we cannot prove it, we do not say it. GitHub
Where we come from
Talent is everywhere in Nigeria. The infrastructure that makes it visible is not. We know, because we grew up on the wrong side of that gap.Treasure — the boy who carried block
At ten, he carried block on his head at the site, beside his father, to add to what the family made that week. He fell in love with computers before he owned one, and taught himself to code on a ₦512MB Itel phone bought with the prize from a school debate. The boy who carried the blocks grew up to build the system that finally sees the man who lays them.
Ogechukwu — built back from zero
Her father reached Lagos as a young man, had his savings stolen, and slept under a bridge — walking to the Seme border each dawn to carry loads for strangers, building a life back from nothing all the way to public office. She wrote her first lines of code on a Tecno Pop 3, rationing data by the megabyte.
Sunmade — the cooperative run by hand
His father ran a savings cooperative for unbanked traders out of a filling station in Akure — marking paper cards by hand, late into the night, carrying the losses himself when the arithmetic went wrong. Guild is that cooperative, rebuilt to reach millions instead of one street.
Naheem — one act of belief
His mother took out a loan to buy him his first laptop. Most people never get that one act of belief — never meet the person willing to vouch for them. Guild is built so they no longer have to wait for one.
Enoch — a screen too small to practise on
He borrowed his father’s phone to learn to code on a screen too small to practise on, and traded cybercafé errands for internet hours. He builds for the people blocked by lack of access — because he was one of them.
Guild is built with OPay — the rails money moves on — Google Gemini, the intelligence that reads a voice note and a notebook photo, and Canva, the design that tells the story.