The testing layer Nigeria-first products deserve.
Most user-testing marketplaces treat Nigeria as a checkbox: a tag on a tester's profile, paid in dollars at a fraction of local market value, with no way to verify the human is who they say they are. 9jatesters is the opposite of that. Built in Nigeria for every region of Nigeria — identity-locked at the BVN, paid in naira.
What we believe
Four principles that shape every product decision we make.
Identity first, anonymous-by-default to buyers
We verify every contributor's identity once, at the bank-KYC level, then strip identifying details from anything a client or AI buyer ever sees. Trust upstream. Privacy downstream.
Pay testers more than the next-best alternative
Nigerian testers on global platforms typically earn $1–$2 a session. We pay ₦400–₦2,500 — clearly above local market rates — and 100% to the tester on AI-data work. That's how you keep a panel that actually shows up.
Nigerian-language native
Pidgin, Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, NG English. Not as a feature checkbox. As the languages our contributors actually narrate in.
Build in public, ship the small thing first
We'd rather ship one honest pilot than ten polished slides. The platform you're using today is a beta — usable, paid, real — that we'll grow as the panel grows.
The story so far
9jatesters started from a frustration: every product team shipping to Nigeria — whether it's a Nigerian fintech serving the South-West, a Northern e-commerce platform routing on Airtel, a global SaaS opening up an Africa region, or an AI lab training Pidgin speech models — was either guessing at how Nigerians actually use their product, or sourcing testers through channels that pay poorly and verify poorly.
There's no shortage of Nigerians who would love to earn a few thousand naira a week giving honest feedback or recording voice clips. The bottleneck is the trust layer: who is this person, are they actually Nigerian, and is the bank account they're asking us to pay actually theirs? Paystack's BVN match closes that gap in seconds, and lets us pay in naira via the same rails Nigerian fintechs use to move money.
The result is a small, identity-locked, well-paid panel that grows deliberately — and a platform that lets clients run a usability test or AI labs run a data-collection pilot in a few minutes, paid in their own currency.