Mission Control

Systems that ship. Decisions that hold.

Dayo Kelani operates at the seam between business intent and running software: technical project manager and AI systems builder. This site is a working map of how that thinking runs.

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Business Analysis · Product Management · Project Management · AI Systems

3AI products
₦9B+Project revenue
50+Projects delivered
90%On-time delivery

Operating Principles

How the system decides

001The system is the product
A feature that ships without its operating model is a liability. Every delivery includes the process, the controls, and the people who keep it running after go-live.
002Decisions beat documents
Requirements exist to force decisions: what is in, what is out, and who owns the trade-off. If a document does not close a decision, it is overhead.
003Constraints are design inputs
Regulators, legacy platforms, and immovable deadlines are not obstacles to the design. They are the design. The best architectures in banking were shaped by what could not move.
004AI is leverage, not magic
Agentic systems earn their place by removing real operational load, with deterministic guardrails, human oversight, and a measurable before-and-after.

Career Journey

The road that built the operating system

Portfolio

Decisions under load

01USSD Channel Re-Platforming

Event-driven rebuild of the *909# USSD channel, replacing a retired, unsupported menu-manager platform with a containerised microservices architecture and message-broker-backed message flow to restore stability, scale, and release speed.

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02NIBSS National Payment Stack Integration

Led BA and PM delivery of Stanbic IBTC's NIBSS National Payment Stack integration, enabling ISO 20022-compliant real-time payments across all digital channels with reconciliation as the operational backbone.

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03FIRS e-Invoicing Compliance

End-to-end regulatory delivery of FIRS e-invoicing compliance for Stanbic IBTC, coordinating six teams across Finance, Tax, IT, Compliance, Procurement, and a third-party Access Point Provider.

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04EasyBuy Consumer Finance

Product management and delivery leadership for EasyBuy, a consumer lending product enabling instalment purchases at point of sale across retail partners.

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05Digital Lending Suite

Consolidation of Stanbic IBTC's retail loan products into a single self-service digital journey inside Mobile App 3.0, covering EZ Cash and the Unsecured Personal Loan with instant in-app application, decisioning, and disbursement.

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AI Systems

Running processes

Open the AI lab
proc_01Yourly
building

The accountability partner that calls you back.

AI accountability partner via WhatsApp and voice.

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proc_02Lameda
live

Commerce infrastructure for Nigerian merchants.

AI-powered inquiry to payment in one layer. Live at lameda.com.ng.

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proc_03Dwella
building

Trust-first property discovery for Nigeria.

Verified listings, transparent fees, escrow-secured transactions.

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proc_04Hagah
building

Digital preservation for handwritten Bible study.

Photograph a notebook page, get a verbatim, searchable archive.

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Writing

Two bodies of writing, kept in one place.

On one side the technical notes: the systems I build, the architecture decisions behind them, and what production actually teaches once a thing is live. On the other, the personal writing. Poetry, reflections, and observations that have nothing to do with any of it.