Local-first by design
Institutional records, identity, and workflow live inside the institution. The internet is an enhancement, not a dependency.
About Datab
Building the infrastructure African institutions can own.
Data Laboratory & Systems Limited is a Nigerian institutional infrastructure company. We build the local compute, software, identity, intelligence, protection, communication, and storage layer that lets an institution keep running — online or offline, day-to-day, year over year.
Mission
Build local institutional infrastructure for African organizations.
The institutions that hold a community together — cooperatives, schools, clinics, SMEs, worship centers, and the public agencies around them — should run on infrastructure they own.
Vision
Every significant African institution operating on infrastructure it owns.
Owned, operated, and recoverable on a timeline the institution controls.
Why local-first
When connectivity breaks, the work shouldn't.
Across Nigeria and the wider continent, institutions run critical workflows on cloud services they don't own. We keep the software, data, and recovery path close to the institution so the work stays steady when conditions change.
Audit-linked everything
Every cross-product action carries an audit reference. Identity verification, intelligence recommendations, and operator decisions are all traceable.
Consent at the surface
Sensitive lookups, identity sharing, and cross-node sync are consent-gated. Raw personal identifiers stay out of payloads.
Approval over autonomy
Intelligence advises. Humans approve. Disruptive actions stay in operator hands — never in the agent's hands.
What we build
One stack, from appliance to ecosystem.
Datab Node
The appliance. Compute, database, storage, and runtime inside the institution.
Datab OS
The Ubuntu Core runtime — strict snap confinement, recovery-aware updates, offline-capable.
DatabStudio
The institutional operating layer. Finance, School, and Health workloads on one engine.
Atlas
Identity verification infrastructure for people, institutions, devices, documents, and actions.
Orula
Local institutional intelligence — search, summaries, drafts, and recommendations under approval gates.
Gu
Protection infrastructure for the whole stack: service health, security events, backups, audit trace.
DDSN
Decentralized cloud infrastructure for storage, vault, media, compute, and AI workloads.
Datab CRM
Communication platform — standalone or bundled into the Node runtime.
The team
Engineers, operators, designers, and field deployment specialists.
Datab is built by a team that knows what runs and what breaks inside African institutions — and what it takes to deploy hardware and software so it survives the field.
Engineering
Backend, mobile, desktop, OS runtime, hardware integration, and security.
Deployment & operations
Field installation, training, support, lifecycle, and operator coordination.
Design & research
Brand, product, content, and the institutional discovery work that makes the stack fit.
We're hiring across every pillar.
Engineering, deployment, operator support, design, and research. If you want to build infrastructure that an institution can own — talk to us.