Trust Infrastructure · Live across Africa

Identity & Trust
Infrastructure for Africa.

pasby coordinates identity, authorization, verification, digital signatures, and interoperable trust across platforms, institutions, and ecosystems.

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p99 · 84msedges · 1,204uptime · 99.998%operational design targets
National digital programs

Immigration · National resident ID · University verification · Staff & pass systems · Contractor onboarding · Oil & gas workforce · Housing allocation · Public procurement · Licensing

Foundational thesis

Payments scaled.
Trust did not.

Africa successfully scaled payment infrastructure. The continent moved money across borders, banks, wallets and merchants at internet scale.

But trust still restarts on every platform. Identity fragments across institutions. Verification is duplicated. Authorization is siloed. Reputation does not travel.

pasby coordinates trusted digital interactions across platforms, institutions, and ecosystems — the infrastructure layer beneath the next era of the African internet.

Core infrastructure

Infrastructure primitives, not features.

Each module is a primitive in a coordinated trust layer. Composable. Interoperable. Designed to outlast products.

01core
Identity

Portable, verifiable identity coordination across digital ecosystems.

02core
Authorization

Granular, interoperable authorization between institutions and applications.

03core
Verification

Verified trust signals — issued once, reusable across the ecosystem.

04core
Digital signatures

Cryptographic signatures for contracts, consent, and institutional intent.

05core
Access control

Policy-driven access across services, devices, and partner systems.

06protocol
Portable trust

Reputation and trust signals that move with the user, not the platform.

07protocol
Trust APIs

Composable APIs for identity, authorization, and verification primitives.

08protocol
Interoperability

Coordination across fintechs, governments, telcos, and enterprise systems.

Interoperability

One layer. Many systems.

Trust fragmentation is the cost African digital systems quietly pay every day. pasby coordinates verified interactions between institutions that would otherwise stay isolated.

Banks01
Fintechs02
Governments03
Telcos04
Marketplaces05
Rental platforms06
Enterprises07
Public services08
Healthcare09
Education10
Workforce systems11
Investment platforms12
Portable trust

Trust should not restart on every platform.

Identity should interoperate.

Trust should persist.

Reputation should travel.

pasby enables verified trust signals to move across platforms and systems — the foundation of a coherent African internet economy.

Architecture

A coordination layer beneath the African internet.

pasby sits between applications and ecosystem participants — a single layer that lets institutions coordinate verified interactions without rebuilding trust from scratch.

L4Applications
Fintechs · Marketplaces · Public services · Banks
L3Trust layer · pasbypasby
Identity · Authorization · Verification · Signatures · Portable trust
L2Ecosystem participants
Governments · Institutions · Enterprises · Developers
L1Foundational rails
Networks · Payments · Telco · Devices
Government

National programs — immigration, ID, licensing, procurement.

Program-ready trust infrastructure for ministries and agencies. Scoped from pilot through multi-year O&M under institutional contracts.

National programs & procurement
Enterprise

Onboarding, workforce, camps, access & compliance.

Embedded trust infrastructure for regulated operators — contractor chains, site access, procurement, and multi-year O&M programs.

Enterprise programs & delivery
National programs

Built for the programs governments actually procure.

Immigration, national ID, workforce access, licensing, procurement, and social systems — pasby is structured as infrastructure beneath mission-critical public programs, not as a point solution.

IMM · ₦150M – ₦800M+

Immigration modernization

Challenge: Border, visa, and permit systems still depend on fragmented identity checks and repeated manual verification.

pasby layer: Unified identity verification, consent-based claims exchange, and audit-ready authorization across immigration touchpoints.

Discovery → pilot corridor → national rollout → O&M

NID · ₦300M – ₦1B+

National resident ID systems

Challenge: Civil registry and national ID programs need interoperable identity issuance, updates, and cross-agency reuse without duplicating trust.

pasby layer: Trust layer beneath ID issuance — portable credentials, scoped claims, and institution-to-institution authorization.

Architecture → phased registry integration → nationwide scale

EDU · ₦50M – ₦250M

University & credential verification

Challenge: Institutions verify students, staff, and credentials through slow, document-heavy processes prone to fraud.

pasby layer: Instant verification flows with cryptographic receipts and reusable trust signals across campuses and regulators.

Pilot institutions → sector federation → national education trust grid

ACC · ₦80M – ₦400M

Staff, pass & workforce access

Challenge: Government and regulated employers need high-assurance access control with full audit trails for staff, contractors, and visitors.

pasby layer: Identity-bound authentication, role-based authorization, and pass lifecycle management across facilities.

Facility pilot → agency-wide deployment → multi-site O&M

ONB · ₦60M – ₦350M

Contractor & vendor onboarding

Challenge: Public procurement and contractor management repeat KYC, background checks, and document signing on every engagement.

pasby layer: Portable trust for vendors — verify once, authorize across ministries with revocable institutional consent.

Registry design → ministry pilots → national vendor trust layer

O&G · ₦100M – ₦600M

Oil, gas & critical workforce

Challenge: High-risk sites require strict workforce identity, access tiers, and incident-grade auditability across operators and subcontractors.

pasby layer: Tiered authorization, site-specific access policies, and signature-backed permits for regulated workforce movements.

Operator pilot → joint-venture federation → sector-wide O&M

HSG · ₦70M – ₦300M

Housing & social allocation

Challenge: Benefits, housing, and allocation programs struggle with eligibility verification and duplicate claims across agencies.

pasby layer: Cross-agency identity matching with consent, fraud-resistant verification, and portable eligibility signals.

Agency integration → cross-ministry trust → program automation

PRC · ₦120M – ₦500M

Public procurement systems

Challenge: Procurement platforms need verified bidder identity, institutional signing authority, and tamper-evident transaction records.

pasby layer: Identity-bound signatures, authorization for institutional actors, and audit trails aligned to procurement law.

BPP-aligned design → state pilots → national procurement trust rail

LIC · ₦50M – ₦280M

Licensing & permits

Challenge: License issuance across ministries duplicates identity proof and lacks a shared trust layer for renewals and inspections.

pasby layer: Single identity substrate for license applications, renewals, inspections, and inter-agency verification.

Ministry pilot → shared license trust layer → national federation

Embedded infrastructure

The systems operators actually run.

Onboarding, contractors, catering, workforce, procurement, camps, access, and compliance — pasby embeds as the trust layer beneath these programs, coordinating identity and authorization across sites and partners.

ONB · ₦40M – ₦350M

Onboarding systems

Challenge: Employees, contractors, and visitors are onboarded separately in HR, security, and vendor tools — duplicating identity proof and slowing site readiness.

pasby layer: Single identity substrate for onboarding — verify once, issue scoped credentials, and propagate trust across HR, access, and compliance systems.

Process mapping → pilot site → multi-site rollout

CTR · ₦60M – ₦450M

Contractor systems

Challenge: Contractor management repeats KYC, induction, and permit signing for every project and every subcontractor tier.

pasby layer: Portable contractor trust — identity-bound authorization, revocable site access, and signature-backed work permits across the contractor chain.

Vendor registry → operator pilot → federation across JVs

CAT · ₦25M – ₦180M

Catering & facilities access

Challenge: Catering, facilities, and ancillary vendors need time-bound access without compromising core workforce security policies.

pasby layer: Scoped, expiring authorization for third-party services with audit trails tied to site and shift context.

Facility pilot → campus-wide → retained operations

WFS · ₦80M – ₦600M

Workforce systems

Challenge: Workforce identity is fragmented across timekeeping, access control, safety, and operator ERP systems.

pasby layer: Unified workforce identity — authentication, role tiers, and portable trust signals across sites and subcontractors.

Single-site pilot → multi-site workforce grid → O&M

PRC · ₦50M – ₦400M

Procurement systems

Challenge: Enterprise procurement needs verified signatory authority, vendor identity, and tamper-evident records across B2B workflows.

pasby layer: Identity-bound signatures, institutional authorization, and audit-ready procurement interactions embedded in existing platforms.

Integration design → category pilot → enterprise-wide trust rail

CMP · ₦70M – ₦500M

Camp management

Challenge: Remote camps and project sites manage residents, rotations, and access in spreadsheets and disconnected gate systems.

pasby layer: Camp lifecycle trust — check-in/out, room allocation, access tiers, and incident-grade logging for regulated sites.

Camp pilot → operator portfolio → long-term O&M

ACC · ₦45M – ₦320M

Access systems

Challenge: Physical and logical access control run on different identity stacks, creating gaps for visitors, contractors, and escalated privileges.

pasby layer: Identity-bound access policies — badges, gates, and application permissions driven from one authorization layer.

Perimeter pilot → site federation → continuous attestation

CPL · ₦35M – ₦280M

Compliance systems

Challenge: Regulators and operators require evidence of who did what, when, and under which authority — often reconstructed manually after the fact.

pasby layer: Continuous compliance posture — tamper-evident logs, policy evaluation on every interaction, and exportable audit packs.

Control mapping → pilot attestations → enterprise compliance grid

Developer infrastructure

Built for developers integrating trust into modern digital systems.

API-native. Protocol-grade. Designed for institutional reliability and developer velocity in equal measure.

POST /v2/identification/different-device
import Pasby from '@finsel-dgi/pasby';

const pasby = new Pasby({
  apikeyAuth: process.env.PASBY_API_KEY,
  appSecretKey: process.env.PASBY_APP_SECRET_KEY,
});

// Institutional-grade flow with explicit policy intent
const flow = await pasby.signing.differentDevice({
  action: "confirm",
  nin: "12345678910",
  claims: ["naming.given", "naming.family", "contact.email"],
  payload: "Approve regulated account recovery",
  callbackUrl: "https://partner.gov.africa/hooks/pasby",
});

// Later: verify signed result by request id
const result = await pasby.flows.ping({ request: flow.request });
console.log(result.signature, result.claims);
Latency
84ms p99
Uptime
99.998%
Regions
12 African
Ecosystem vision

Africa scaled payment infrastructure.
The next infrastructure layer is trust.

pasby coordinates identity, authorization, verification, and trusted digital interactions across African internet systems.

National programs start with an institutional briefing.

Immigration, national ID, workforce access, licensing, and procurement systems — scoped, delivered, and operated as sovereign infrastructure engagements.

Typical program scope · ₦50M – ₦1B+ · Multi-year O&M available