The platform that turns West Africa's $80B+ construction market from an Excel-and-WhatsApp economy into something contractors can run a business on. Marketplace. Escrow. Project management. Verified artisans. AI architect. One platform, eight weeks, one production launch — and a Year 1 revenue target of $2M from the day it ships.
GPROJECTS pitched it. Black & Yellow builds it.
Nigerian urbanisation is the largest formal housing-deficit market in West Africa — 28 million units short, +80% cement inflation, and a construction sector still running on WhatsApp threads and paper receipts. The deck identifies $80B+ of potential and a Year 1 revenue target of $2M. The lane GPROJECTS has pitched is real. It's open today. It won't be in eighteen months.
Procore charges $375/month and ignores Africa. Houzz lives in American renovations. Alibaba ships materials with no opinion on construction. None of them have built what GPROJECTS has already imagined — and none of them are paying attention to Lagos. This engagement turns the pitch into the platform. Eight modules. Eight weeks. One production launch. The platform stops being a pitch and starts being a business.
GPROJECTS pitched the future. Now we build it.
Procore runs project management for the West. Houzz Pro lists artisans for American renovations. Alibaba ships materials globally with no opinion on construction. Each is a giant in its lane — none of them stitch the three together for African construction. That's the unoccupied lane GPROJECTS owns today. This build claims it before anyone else does.
| Procore | End-to-end PM & CRM for the West. No marketplace, no escrow, no artisan network. $375/month minimum — pricing built for US general contractors, not Lagos developers. | Active · West |
| Houzz Pro | Artisan directory plus invoicing — built for US and UK home renovation. No materials trading, no real project management, no presence in African markets. | Renovation Only |
| Alibaba | Global B2B materials trading at industrial scale. No verified artisans, no project management, no escrow tuned for construction. Generic friction for African buyers. | Huge · Generic |
| BUILD IT | Marketplace, escrow, project management, verified artisans and REIT-ready — all under one roof. Nigerian-first compliance. Co-op pricing that beats every wholesaler in Lagos. | You |
Three giants. Three silos.
One platform stitches them. It's either you, or someone else, inside 12 months.
Multi-vendor catalog with verified KYC, real ratings, and a held-funds escrow tuned to Nigerian payment rails. Every transaction takes 0.5% to the platform. Buyers ship. Vendors trust. The recurring revenue line starts on day one of launch.
Buyers join pool-funding groups to hit factory minimum order quantities and unlock the 15%+ wholesale discount previously reserved for industrial giants. Co-op pricing beats every wholesaler in Lagos — and the platform takes a margin on every fulfilled pool.
Gantt timelines, BIM file storage, budget-vs-actual analytics and live shipment tracking from factory floor to building site. This is the daily-use surface — what makes contractors stay subscribed month after month. Tier-based pricing, recurring revenue, low churn.
Post a brief. Get bids from verified artisans. Hire with confidence. Pay through escrow. Every milestone payout flows through your ledger. The artisan economy, finally formalised — and finally yours.
Gemini-powered assistant generates a Bill of Quantities from blueprint inputs, explains zoning in plain language, and pushes insights straight into the active project workspace. Pro-tier feature, premium margin — the moat against Procore the day it launches.
From the GPROJECTS roadmap — the same projections in your deck. The V1 build doesn't just deliver Year 1; it's architected as the spine for Year 2 expansion and Year 3 global corridors. No rewrite required.
Two-week sprints. Weekly Friday demos on a single staging URL. Real progress every seven days — with a hard deliverable signed off at the end of each sprint. No long stretches of silence. No surprises in month three.
The Year 1 target is $2M. The market is open. The platform is eight weeks away. The clock starts when you sign.