A software company that took the language problem seriously.
Guwit Technology Solutions Ltd is a private company registered in Nigeria, working from Badagry, Lagos State.
Guwit builds software for Nigerian businesses and organisations: Android applications, websites, and automated systems that run on WhatsApp. Alongside that, we do something most development companies do not — we work on languages that technology has largely ignored.
Where we work from
Badagry sits at the western edge of Lagos State, on the border with the Republic of Benin. It is a town with its own languages, its own trade, and businesses that are underserved by software written for Lagos Island or for somewhere else entirely. Building here means designing for real conditions: mid-range Android phones, expensive data, patchy power, customers who will not install an app for a single transaction.
Those constraints have made us better engineers. A system that works well in Badagry works anywhere.
What we believe
- Build for the phone people actually have. Not the newest device on the newest network.
- Meet people where they already are. A WhatsApp conversation will beat a beautiful app that nobody downloads.
- A language with few speakers online still deserves software. Low-resource does not mean low-value.
- Say what something costs, before building it. Fixed scope, fixed price, written down.
Language work
Gungbe — the language of the Ogu people of Badagry and southern Benin — has almost no presence in digital tools. There are few dictionaries in machine-readable form, little recorded audio available for learning, and no mainstream software that supports it. The same is true, at a different scale, of Nigerian Pidgin: enormously spoken, barely supported.
We publish Learn Gungbe on Google Play, and we take on translation, transcription and localisation work in these languages for clients who need to communicate with people properly rather than approximately.
Corporate information
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Registered name | Guwit Technology Solutions Ltd |
| Registration number | RC 9040112 |
| Company type | Private company limited by shares |
| Registered office | Nigeria |
| Business address | 8 Obiwale Street, Mowo, Badagry, Lagos State |
| Principal activities | Software and mobile application development, web design, development and hosting, information technology services, telecommunications, and translation services for low-resource languages |
| Contact | info@guwit.com · +234 704 164 9942 |
Beyond software
Our incorporation documents cover a wider range of trade than we lead with here — including IT equipment and accessories, telecommunications hardware, printing and publishing, and general supply and contracting. We are able to take on that work, and we do. But software, web and language services are what we are known for.
Work with us.
Tell us about the project. We reply the same day, most days.