DatabStudio product story

The infrastructure layer for African financial institutions, starting with cooperative operations.

DatabStudio is Datab's offline-first institutional operating platform for member registration, loans, savings, payroll deductions, and daily servicing. It is already live in one institution serving 3,000+ users and sits inside a broader Datab stack that includes Node Lite, Atlas Core, and the early-stage DDSN direction.

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DatabStudio in motion

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Offline-first by design

DatabStudio keeps the operational core dependable at institution level, then layers member-facing channels and network services on top.

Built for real finance workflows

Members, loans, savings, payroll deductions, withdrawals, requests, and servicing activity live inside one operational shell.

Atlas-ready intelligence path

The platform can grow from internal operations into Atlas Core and the early-stage DDSN path for privacy-preserving financial coordination.

Why DatabStudio exists

Built for institutions that have outgrown spreadsheets, scattered approvals, and disconnected servicing.

Datab's founding story is not just about digitization. It is about giving cooperative lenders and community finance teams a more serious operating core, stronger controls, and a credible path toward shared intelligence over time across Lagos, Ibadan, and a 25,000+ cooperative market opportunity.

What teams are leaving behind

Member servicing split across files, messages, and improvised manual follow-up.
Lending operations that lose context between application, approval, repayment, and reporting.
Weak visibility around balances, withdrawals, requests, and audit-sensitive activity.

What DatabStudio changes

One command center for members, lending, savings, servicing, reporting, and admin health.
A member-service layer that can start in WhatsApp and grow into a branded mobile app when the institution is ready.
A product foundation that can grow into Atlas-backed credit intelligence and stronger infrastructure control.

Member-facing experience

Two member-facing channels, matched to institution tier.

DatabStudio supports member service through WhatsApp across all plans, while the Datab mobile app is reserved for Enterprise institutions that want a dedicated customer-branded experience.

WhatsApp module

All plans

Node Lite, Standard, and Enterprise all include member-facing WhatsApp servicing.

Datab mobile app

Enterprise

Reserved for Enterprise institutions that want a branded mobile member app.

Included in all pricing

WhatsApp member servicing that feels immediate and familiar.

Keep routine member questions out of ad hoc phone calls and manual staff back-and-forth. DatabStudio can push the highest-frequency requests into a guided WhatsApp layer that stays connected to the operational system underneath.

Balance, statement, and loan prompts happen in the channel members already open every day.

Institutions can cut down front-desk and back-office follow-up by moving routine requests into guided message flows.

The channel is included across Node Lite, Standard, and Enterprise, so member servicing starts on day one.

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Enterprise only

A customer-branded mobile app for institutions that want their own front-end.

Availability

Enterprise plan

The strongest Enterprise story mirrors what great vertical software companies do well: let the institution own the customer brand while Datab continues to power the operational and data infrastructure underneath.

Institution brand

Your cooperative app

Balances, requests, and updates in one branded member experience.

Savings

NGN 184,500

Loan status

On track

Statements

Instant delivery

Requests

Live tracking

Launch a customer-branded member app without rebuilding the DatabStudio operating core from scratch.

Use the institution's own name, logo, and service posture while Datab continues to power balances, requests, and member visibility underneath.

Reserve the mobile app for Enterprise institutions that want a dedicated customer-branded member experience.

Current live modules

The platform story is stronger because the module set is already concrete.

DatabStudio is not marketed as an abstract operating system. The public story can point to the live modules that already shape daily institution work.

Member management

NIN-hashed registration, contact management, and mandate tracking in one member record of truth.

Loan management

Creation, disbursement, repayment, guarantors, and overdue tracking across the full loan lifecycle.

Savings management

Savings accounts, transactions, withdrawals, and withdrawal requests for everyday servicing work.

Payroll pipeline

Oracle CSV deduction upload, batch processing, ledger posting, and reconciliation for payroll-linked institutions.

WhatsApp module

BAL, STMT, and LOAN flows through WhatsApp Business API for a smoother member-facing service layer.

Risk dashboard

Guarantor graph analysis, credit band display, and delinquency monitoring for stronger lending visibility.

Marketplace module

Commodity accounts, inventory, and member requests managed close to the institution's core workflows.

Audit and Atlas sync

Every write action is logged, while Atlas Sync keeps the path open for node-to-HQ credit data sharing.

The Datab architecture

DatabStudio is the software wedge inside a larger infrastructure company story.

The company narrative is stronger when prospects understand how DatabStudio, Node Lite, Atlas Core, and the early-stage DDSN direction relate to each other.

Software division

DatabStudio

The flagship institutional management platform for the full operational lifecycle of cooperative and community finance work.

Network division

Atlas Core

A privacy-preserving cross-institution data network designed to improve lending decisions without exposing raw identity.

DDSN prototype cue: exploratory edge federation around Atlas

Deployment layer

Node Lite

Private on-premise deployment hardware that keeps the offline-first promise credible for institutions that need infrastructure control.

DDSN remains early-stage. The current public story is simple: DatabStudio runs the institution today, Node Lite keeps it dependable on site, and Atlas Core is the active path into broader network value.

Pricing snapshot

Plans that align with the way institutions scale.

Node Lite starts at NGN 17,000 per month, Standard at NGN 45,000, and Enterprise at NGN 250,000. WhatsApp is included across all plans, Atlas Credit Sync is full from the start, and the Datab mobile app becomes available as an optional enterprise rollout.

Node Lite

NGN 17,000 / mo

Up to 500 members

Self-serve support SLA

Standard

NGN 45,000 / mo

Up to 2,000 members

Standard support SLA

Enterprise

NGN 250,000 / mo

Unlimited members

Dedicated CSM support

WhatsApp module: Included across Node Lite, Standard, and Enterprise.

Atlas Credit Sync: Full on Node Lite and Standard, Full + Priority on Enterprise.

Datab mobile app: Available as an optional enterprise deployment.

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Frequently asked

The questions institutions usually ask before they move forward.

What exactly is DatabStudio?

DatabStudio is Datab's flagship institutional management platform. It is positioned as an offline-first operating system for members, loans, savings, payroll deductions, servicing, and reporting.

Is the WhatsApp module part of every plan?

Yes. Node Lite, Standard, and Enterprise all include the WhatsApp module so institutions can launch member-facing servicing immediately.

When does the branded mobile app become available?

The Datab mobile app is positioned as an optional enterprise rollout. It is meant for institutions that want their own branded member experience on top of the DatabStudio core.

Does the product assume strong internet connectivity?

No. The product and deployment model are intentionally framed around offline-first operation, with Node Lite hardware and connectivity treated as an advantage rather than a constant assumption.

Where does Atlas fit?

Atlas Core is the privacy-preserving network layer that can extend the story from internal institution operations into shared credit and identity intelligence over time.

What is the best next step?

A live walkthrough is the best place to start. It lets the team map your institution's operating model, review pricing, and determine the right rollout path.

See the platform properly

If the goal is better operations, stronger trust, and a more credible data future, this is the right conversation to start.

Book a walkthrough to see how DatabStudio, WhatsApp servicing, mobile-app rollout, Atlas, pricing, and deployment can be shaped around your institution.

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