Work — Equiterrain

The true value of a piece of land. In two minutes.

An independent land valuation platform for African markets. Drop in your title deed, confirm the location, and receive a valuation backed by economic-gravity modeling and real local market data — the same analysis your professional broker would run, in less than two minutes.

Role
Concept, product, engineering
Year
2026
Form
Web tool, marketplace, lender service
Find it at
equiterrain.com →

The problem

Across much of Africa, land is the largest asset most families ever own — and the one they have the least information about. Sellers undersell parcels passed down for generations. First-time buyers overpay because they have no benchmark. Lenders cannot extend credit against land they cannot reliably value. Speculation, manipulation, and missing data fill the gap.

Hundreds of thousands of families transact at the wrong price every year. The valuation expertise that would protect them has historically lived only inside professional firms.

The build

Three steps for the user: upload the title deed (French or English formats supported), confirm the parcel location, receive a full Equiterrain valuation with key drivers, a confidence score, and the underlying analysis.

Under the hood, the engine applies established economic-gravity models — Reilly's Law of Retail Gravitation and the Huff Probability Model — to quantify how proximity to urban centers, infrastructure, and economic activity shapes land value at any given coordinate. Equiterrain runs on top of Bwendi for location context, then layers title analysis and market benchmarks to produce a reproducible, auditable estimate.

The shape of it

The ambition is straightforward: become the reference land valuation platform for the African continent — one honest estimate at a time. Starting in Cameroon, expanding from there.

Related work

Equiterrain shares an underlying location layer with the rest of the OSIH portfolio: Bwendi powers its location intelligence, the CamerDeals · ShayaShaya · NGDeals marketplaces use the same engine for local search, and Hungry But Not Stupid applies the same anchor logic to consumer recommendations. Read more about how we build.

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