Building the autonomous infrastructure for African real estate.
Stayly was founded by institutional real estate operators and veteran AI engineers to solve systemic operational friction across commercial high-rises, residential communities, and REIT portfolios.
Solving Capital Leakage in High-Yielding Property Markets
African real estate yields in prime metropolitan hubs like Lagos (Ikoyi, Victoria Island) and Abuja (Maitama, CBD) regularly exceed 9% to 12% in gross terms. Yet institutional owners routinely forfeit 25% to 40% of their net operating income to unverified artisan over-invoicing, tenant rent delinquency, dual-currency slippage, and manual spreadsheet delays.
Stayly replaces this friction with an autonomous operations layer: combining multimodal computer vision for maintenance triage, neural open-banking underwriting, and automated multi-currency escrow reconciliation.
The founders behind Stayly.
Bridging institutional West African property management with Silicon Valley-grade machine learning.
Chinedu Okafor
B.Eng Covenant University • MBA INSEAD (Fontainebleau)
Chinedu brings over 12 years of institutional real estate asset management experience across West Africa. Prior to co-founding Stayly, he served as Senior Vice President of Asset Development at a premier Nigerian private equity real estate firm, directly overseeing the development and operations of ₦35B+ in Grade-A commercial towers and residential communities in Victoria Island, Ikoyi, and Abuja CBD.
- Supervised 4,000+ luxury and commercial units across Lagos and Abuja
- Led institutional negotiations with multinational tenants and state land bureaus
- Pioneered alternative lease indexation models during FX devaluation periods
Dr. Olumide Adeleke
B.Sc Computer Science UNILAG (First Class) • PhD Applied AI Imperial College London
Dr. Adeleke is a veteran machine learning researcher and distributed systems architect. Prior to Stayly, he was a Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Stripe in San Francisco and Dublin, leading payment risk anomaly detection and automated dispute underwriting models processing billions of dollars in daily volume. He returned to Nigeria to architect domain-specific computer vision and credit underwriting models tailored to African property infrastructure.
- Author of 9 peer-reviewed IEEE papers on computer vision and tabular neural nets
- Engineered fraud prevention architectures processing $100M+ daily fintech transactions
- Architected Stayly VisionOps and Sentinel models optimized on NVIDIA TensorRT and AWS SageMaker
Strategic Advisory Board
Guiding Stayly on institutional real estate law, tax policy, and enterprise capital markets.
Barrister Ifeanyi Nnamdi, SAN
Ex-Special Legal Advisor on Land Reforms & Lagos Tenancy Regulations
Folake Adebayo, FCA
Former Senior Partner at PwC Nigeria (Real Estate & Tax Practice)
Dr. Kenneth Mensah
Managing Director, African Urban Infrastructure Fund
Registered Operational Hubs
Stayly maintains operational centers across Nigeria to support our institutional property manager partners with on-site deployment, hardware calibration, and banking integration.