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Astivon  Global Limited

Software that orbits people, not the other way around.

Astivon designs, builds and operates its own software products — platforms made to benefit the organizations and communities that use them. Two are in orbit today. More are on the way.

Explore our products About Astivon
Headquarters
Global · remote-first
Products
2 in orbit · more coming
Model
We build & own them
TalyncLive
NEDSLive

Our products

A growing family,
built in-house.

Astivon doesn't take outside builds. We watch a problem long enough to know it's worth solving — then design, engineer and operate the product ourselves, end to end. This is what's in orbit today.

Talync
Work & Learning · Africa

Africa's platform for work and learning — a freelance marketplace and a course marketplace in one. Recruiters hire vetted talent through milestone-based, escrow-protected projects; anyone can learn job-ready skills from expert tutors.

Freelance marketplace Course marketplace Escrow payments Project workspaces Verified talent
Explore Talync
12,000+Freelancers
₦1.2B+Paid out
Talync escrow project workspace — budget, released and in-escrow milestones
NEDS
National Academic Registry · Nigeria

Nigeria's national academic registry — a digital twin of every tertiary institution's records. NEDS captures the full student lifecycle from enrolment to graduation, and is the tamper-evident source of truth that JAMB, NYSC, employers and embassies verify against.

National Student ID Credential verification Regulator dashboards Hash-chained ledger Document designer
Explore NEDS
All 6Institution types
4Regulators
NEDS public verification — a verified Nigerian certificate with tamper-check passed

The list isn't fixed. We add a product to orbit only after watching a problem long enough to know it's worth building — there's a long backlog behind these two.

Inside Talync

One platform,
two journeys.

Whether you're building a team or building yourself, Talync covers both sides of growth — hire and get hired, teach and learn — with payments protected end to end.

Freelance marketplace

Post jobs, hire vetted talent, and pay safely per milestone.

  • Milestone-based escrow payments
  • Dedicated project workspace & chat
  • Applicant shortlisting & ratings
  • Disputes and reviews built in

Learn from experts

Buy quality courses from top tutors and grow your career.

  • Hundreds of expert-led courses
  • Lifetime access & certificates
  • Message your tutor directly
  • Learn at your own pace

How hiring works

Safe, transparent, and built around milestones.

01

Post a job

Describe the project, set milestones and a budget, then publish in minutes.

02

Hire the best

Review applicants, compare ratings and bids, and select your freelancer.

03

Fund securely

Money sits safely in escrow and releases per milestone — protected for both sides.

04

Approve & pay

Approve delivered work and the exact amount lands in the freelancer's wallet.

12,000+Freelancers
3,400+Jobs posted
850+Expert courses
₦1.2B+Paid out in escrow

Inside NEDS

The registry,
not an integration.

NEDS isn't a layer that talks to other systems on their terms — it is the academic registry. NYSC, JAMB, employers and embassies read from it. One lifetime student ID, one source of truth, for every recognised Nigerian tertiary institution.

The national source of truth

The full student lifecycle, captured digitally and kept honest.

  • Grading chain: lecturer → HOD → Dean → Senate
  • Lifetime NEDS Student ID, anchored on NIN
  • SIWES, projects, graduation & NYSC mobilisation
  • Inter-institution transfers, with full audit trail

Verify in seconds

A public portal anyone can use — no account, no phone calls.

  • QR on every certificate, transcript & result
  • Per-school SHA-256 hash chain detects tampering
  • Verifier audit log — who checked what, and when
  • Documents render in the issuing school's own brand

One registry, four regulators

Each regulator sees only the institutions they accredit.

NUC

Universities

National Universities Commission — degrees on the 5.0 GPA scale.

NBTE

Polytechnics

Technical education — polytechnics, monotechnics and IEIs, on the 4.0 scale.

NCCE

Colleges of Education

NCE programmes, with Teaching Practice in place of SIWES.

NMCN

Health & Nursing

Colleges of health technology and nursing, with clinical posting and licensure.

All 6Tertiary institution types
LifetimeOne NEDS ID per student
Tamper-proofHash-chained & QR-verifiable
One URLEmbassies & employers verify

How we build

We don't take briefs.
We watch, then build.

We pay attention to what organizations and communities are actually working around — then decide, slowly, whether it's a problem worth building a product for.

01

Observe

We watch the workarounds — the spreadsheet that's secretly the system of record, the group chat doing the job no software does. That's where products start.

02

Decide slowly

We add a product to orbit only after watching a problem long enough to know it's worth solving. No features for the deck.

03

Build for trust

We engineer it properly — identity, payments, audit, observability. Built to hold money and reputation, not just to demo.

04

Ship & orbit

Launch is the start, not the end. We keep listening, measuring and shipping — the product stays in motion as long as people use it.

Observing

What we're
watching next.

Not every problem becomes a product. These are the areas we're paying attention to — workarounds we've noticed — long before we decide whether they're worth building for.

Early signal

Cooperative finance

The spreadsheets and group chats quietly running savings groups, cooperatives and community funds across the continent.

Watching

Informal logistics

How goods actually move — coordinated over calls and WhatsApp, with no system of record anyone fully trusts.

Watching

Skilled trades

Verification, reputation and payment for artisans and trades that live almost entirely offline today.

Company

What every Astivon
product has in common.

Astivon Global Limited is a product company. We hold the products we build, run them for the long term, and judge ourselves on whether the people using them are genuinely better off.

01 / Useful

Solve a real problem.

Every product has a measurable job to do for the person on the other side of the screen. If it doesn't remove friction, it doesn't ship.

02 / Trusted

Built to hold trust.

Identity, payments and audit are engineered in from day one. Our products carry money and reputation, so they're built to be dependable.

03 / Owned

Ours to keep running.

We don't build for hire and walk away. We own what we make and stay responsible for it long after launch.

Okoh Caleb Brian, Founder of Astivon Global Limited

“We don't chase briefs. We watch a problem until we're sure it's worth building for — then we build it properly and run it for the long term.”

Okoh Caleb Brian · Founder, Astivon Global Limited

Journal

Notes from
inside the orbit.

All posts
Get the journal in your inbox.  Occasional notes on what we're building and observing — no spam.

Voices

What people
say so far.

Sourced from the products themselves — each quote comes from the people actually using Talync or NEDS. We don't invent these.

FAQ

Questions,
answered.

The things people ask us most about Astivon and the products in orbit.

No. Astivon designs, builds and operates its own products end to end. We don't take build-for-hire or outside briefs — we ship the ones we believe in and run them for the long term.

Two are live today: Talync, Africa's platform for work and learning, and NEDS, Nigeria's national academic registry. More are in orbit — we add one only after watching a problem long enough to know it's worth building for.

Astivon Global Limited is based in Lagos, Nigeria, building for African markets first — with the architecture, payments and language flexibility to extend anywhere.

Each product has its own home: visit talync.com or getneds.com to sign up directly.

Identity, payments and audit are engineered into every product from day one. NEDS records are tamper-evident via a per-school SHA-256 hash chain. See our Privacy Policy for how data is handled.

We watch the workarounds — the spreadsheet that's secretly the system of record, the group chat doing the job no software does — then validate with real users before committing. See How we build.

Get in touch

Let's build something
useful together.

Early access to a product, a press question, or a complaint about something we shipped — we read every message. We don't take build-for-hire requests.

Location
Lagos · Nigeria
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