We built the proof layer for field work

Why Cordelia exists

Anyone who has run a field campaign in Nigeria knows the feeling. You brief a team of agents, send them out across Lagos or Kano or Port Harcourt, and wait. Weeks later a spreadsheet arrives. Two hundred vendor sign-ups. Four hundred shelf checks. Numbers that look fine.

And you have no way to know whether any of it happened.

That uncertainty is expensive. It makes brands under-invest in field work they know they need. It makes honest agents look the same as dishonest ones. And it makes month-end a negotiation rather than a payment run.

So we built the proof layer. When an agent files a report on Cordelia, the platform captures where they are and turns it into a real address — not a pair of coordinates that mean nothing to anyone, but 14 Allen Avenue, Ikeja LGA, Lagos State. Campaigns can be geofenced, so work filed outside the agreed zone is flagged before anybody pays for it. AI reads each report for quality and fraud signals before it reaches a human.

Then we did the other half. Verification without payment is only half a solution, so Cordelia settles the money too. You set how agents earn on a campaign — per KPI, per day, base plus commission, or tiered — fund your wallet, and every approved report pays out automatically. Agents withdraw to their bank whenever they like. No chasing, no reconciliation.

What grew out of it

Once brands had a verified field network, they started asking it to do more than one job. Could the same agents check competitor prices? Could they run a survey while they were in the outlet? Could they sell, not just report?

They can. Merchants get a branded storefront with products agents can promote on their own affiliate links, and can sell it all from one dashboard: orders, discount codes, pickup locations and reviews. Surveys pay respondents per answer. Market research exercises pay per approved submission and build nationwide coverage one LGA at a time. Trainings bring the whole team up to speed before a campaign starts. Plans start free and grow with the team, with clear limits you can see before you upgrade.

The Nigeria Price Index

The same field network turned out to answer a question every Nigerian shopper and trader asks: what does it cost today, and where? Our open Nigeria Price Index shows live prices by market. Anyone can join, add a price by photographing a receipt or typing what they see, and need no field job to do it. A firm price only goes on the board once two different people have reported it, and receipt photos are deleted once a decision is made.

For brands, the same data powers competitor price watches, Verified Prices and Ask the Market, where a merchant asks the field network a specific question and pays only for an answer that comes back checked.

All of it runs on the same foundation: verified people, verified locations, automatic payment.