About us

Removing the trust deficit from property.

Property is the largest store of household wealth and the most consequential transaction most people make. It is also the most opaque. TitleGard exists to change that.

Vision

To make property ownership in emerging markets transparent, verifiable, and trustworthy — at the speed of a WhatsApp message and the cost of a lookup, not a lawyer.

Mission

We aggregate fragmented government, geospatial, judicial, and market data into a single source of intelligence that any buyer, owner, lender, or lawyer can query through the channel they already use — web, WhatsApp, or mobile app.

The problem

Land records are scattered across federal, state, and local bodies, much of it still on paper and large portions never digitised. Even careful buyers cannot reliably verify what they are told. The result is double-selling, government-acquisition surprises, forged documents, verification latency, boundary disputes, and rental fraud — each costing real money and years of litigation.

Why now

Three shifts make this viable today and not a decade ago: government registries have crossed a digitisation threshold; the WhatsApp Business API reached production-readiness with workable pricing, making conversational verification a first-class channel; and open plus affordable commercial satellite imagery makes structure detection and change monitoring practical for the first time.

How we're different

Against manual title-search agents we win on speed, transparency, and an auditable trail. Against listing portals we are the verification layer they lack. We sit on top of government portals, not against them. And we are built for emerging-market reality — informal addresses, missing data, low-bandwidth phones — from day one.

Coverage

Nigeria first. Emerging markets next.

Built adapter-first, so adding a country is a data exercise, not a rebuild. Each phase de-risks the next.

Now · POC

First city

Web & WhatsApp on a curated dataset.

Next · MVP

Second city

Mobile apps and real-time watch join.

Then

Regional

Neighbouring markets, bilingual UX.

Beyond

Pan-African

Country by country, via adapters.

Help us close the trust gap.

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