Software studio · Lagos, Nigeria

From idea to working prototype in 30 days.

Software built to deliver results, for innovators, market leaders, disruptors and growing businesses alike.

See how we work

Every working system began as a rough draft. A sketch. A spreadsheet. A phone call that happened one time too many. Something that should be software, but isn’t yet. Somewhere between a founder’s first prototype, a bank’s payment rails and a company’s daily operations, that’s where our best work happens.

Lab rules

Four rules we don’t bend.

  1. Rule 01

    Reconcile everything.

    Payments are the spine of a business. We build the ledger and the audit trail first, so the numbers can be trusted by morning.

  2. Rule 02

    Test on the people who’ll use it.

    Adoption is a design problem. We put a working version in front of your team early and let their confusion guide us.

  3. Rule 03

    Design for the bad day.

    Retries, patchy networks, the customer who closes the tab mid-payment. A product is judged on its worst hour.

  4. Rule 04

    Build for change.

    Prices, plans and processes will move. We write software that bends without breaking, and we write down why.

Our benches

Different stations in our lab.

  1. 01

    The Business Engine.

    Custom software for companies

    Software · Companies

    We turn tangled processes into software your team actually uses, and your customers never have to explain themselves to.

    From customer portals and staff consoles to renewals, alerts and reporting: designed around how your people work, and built to carry how you sell.

  2. 02

    The Money Layer.

    Payment and banking systems

    Payments · Banking

    We build the logic that moves money correctly: collections, wallets, ledgers, reconciliation and the provider and bank integrations underneath them.

    Security and a clean audit trail go in from the first commit, so finance teams stop chasing and start trusting the numbers.

  3. 03

    The Launchpad.

    Idea to launch for founders

    Products · Founders

    We take a rough idea to a working product in weeks, not quarters: design, engineering and a launch plan under one roof.

    Then we stay, carrying it from first user to first thousand without a rewrite in between.

What we do

Everything between the idea and the uptime.

  • Clarity is a feature.

    Product design & research

    We study the people who’ll use it, then design flows that need no manual.

  • Decide the hard things early.

    Strategy & architecture

    We map the roadmap, pick a stack you can afford to keep, and write down why.

  • Every screen, every connection.

    Web & mobile apps

    Responsive apps that stay quick on a patchy network and feel right on a small phone.

  • Money has rules.

    Payments & integrations

    Collections, wallets, ledgers, KYC and provider or bank links, wired so confirmation triggers the next step.

  • Ship safely, repeatedly.

    Cloud, security & DevOps

    Environments, automated releases, access control and monitoring, so launch day is boring.

  • Launch is day one.

    Support & evolution

    We watch performance, fix what breaks before users notice, and keep shipping.

The people at the bench

Pay for the build, not the overhead.

We sit down with you, agree the smallest version of your product that proves its worth, then bring in only the engineers that version needs. You fund what moves it forward, and nothing sits idle.

Engineering lead · Payments and ledgers

Adaeze Okonkwo

Adaeze leads engineering at the lab. They have spent their career on the parts of software that move money, and care most about systems whose numbers can be trusted by morning.

They have built scalable products on their own and with this team, and keep every build honest about its worst day.

Previously builtPayments and ledger systems for financial products.

A demo is a first draft. We prototype quickly, put it in front of the people who will use it, then harden it for scale and security. When a payment just works and nobody calls support, that is the finished product.

Start a conversation

Tell us what you’re building.

A company, a bank or a first-time founder: send us the problem and we’ll show you how we’d prototype it.

Reach the lab

info@theproductlabhq.com

+234 916 044 7280

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Intake · new specimen

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