Week One: Building in Public
What a week.
One of the things I have realised this week is what becomes possible when you have clean, fast internet and the focus to actually build. I have been able to transform ideas that have lived in my head for months into real, working products — and ship them.
This is the first entry in our lab journal. A record of what we are building, why we are building it, and what is coming next.
We launched WorksiApps
We built the Lab — the environment you are reading this on right now. WorksiApps.com is Data Druid Tech's open workshop. It is where we share our products, our lessons, and the stories behind the software we ship. Think of it as our version of Google Labs — a public-facing window into the engineering we do.
Alongside the site, we have started building Ákotí, our in-house design token system and component library. Ákotí encodes our cultural identity — Yoruba textile patterns, the mud-brick aesthetic, Nigerian colour language — into a reusable design system that will run across every product we build. It is not decoration. It is identity.
The Products
Training Management App
This started as a simple tool for validating email addresses and bank accounts in real time. It grew into a full role-based training management system — one that allows organisations to bring participants together, collect their details, manage communications through email trails, and maintain a granular financial overview of what is being spent.
Where it is going next:
- Vendor tracking — which vendors were attached to each training event
- Travel claims collection and processing
- Full event management with integrated payments
- International travel logistics for participants
- Built-in payment channels for direct disbursement — no more manual CSV exports
- Exportable reports in CSV, Excel, and eventually our own Ákotí Sheets format
The vision: a tool that anyone can access, anyone can work with, with role-based URLs and permissions baked in.
CoopEase
CoopEase is an operating system for cooperatives in Nigeria. As the country moves deeper into the digital age, cooperative societies need proper software — not WhatsApp groups and Excel sheets. We built that. We already have a growing state chapter of the National Population Commission exploring adoption. These are the kinds of institutional partnerships we are pursuing.
Kontracts
Kontracts is a management system for freelancers, solo entrepreneurs, and small teams. It handles contracts, invoicing, payments — with AI working in the background to reduce friction.
We recently introduced a concept called Curated News: based on your preferences and settings, the AI pulls relevant industry records and research for you in real time. You go to sleep, and you wake up to a curated intelligence report. Deep research on autopilot. That is the kind of tool Kontracts is becoming.
EQUA One
Unlike the tools above that serve solopreneurs and small teams, EQUA One is our enterprise play. It is designed to be a full-fledged business operating system — on par with SAP, Sage, and Odoo. Finance, HR, procurement, operations — all in one platform. We will share more about EQUA One as the architecture matures.
Agrovisus
Agrovisus is our agricultural management platform. It supports geospatial technologies, real-time data capture, and financial management — everything a farming operation needs in one system. Our first client is a palm plantation company that is already running on the platform.
What is next
Everything you have read about here is in active development. Some products are live, some are in beta, and some are still being architected. The point of this lab journal is transparency — we are building in public, and you are welcome to watch, follow, and eventually use what we ship.
Stay tuned. We are just getting started.