→For families abroad, building back home

See your building back home. Know it's real.

The people building your house in Lagos, Accra or Kingston send photos every week. Sitewitness proves each one was taken on your land, just now, and shows you what changed and what went missing.

  • 3-day free trial
  • Free for the person on site
  • Premium $14.99/month
  • Payments by Stripe
Weekly update Lekki, Lagos
Family house
from Chinedu · 8 photos · 4:12 pm
96
Verified on site
19 checks · stage: lintel to roof, 48%
  • Inside your boundary · 6 m from the edge
  • Real GPS, real phone, clock not changed
  • Light matches 4:12 pm in Lagos
  • Same site as last week's photos
  • !Missing since last visit: ~40 roofing sheets
19
checks on every photo
$0
for the person on the ground
3
launch countries
1
boundary, from your survey plan
Built for the diaspora

You're in Houston or Toronto. Your house is in Lekki. Now you can see it.

United States
Houston · Atlanta · New York · Dallas · Washington DC
Canada
Toronto · Calgary · Edmonton · Montreal · Ottawa

You pay by card in US dollars, from anywhere. Cancel any time.

Verified both ways
Nigeria
Lagos · Abuja · Port Harcourt · Enugu · Ibadan
Ghana
Accra · Kumasi · Tema
Jamaica
Kingston · Montego Bay · Spanish Town
The problem

“The roof is done.” But is that even your site?

Families abroad send money home for years and only find the truth when they fly in. A WhatsApp photo proves nothing on its own.

Caught
Recycled photos

The same picture of “progress”, sent again with a new date. Or a photo from someone else's building.

Caught
The wrong plot

A real building, real photos, just not your land. Without the boundary, you can't tell.

Caught
Materials that vanish

Cement, rods and roofing sheets you paid for, there one week and gone the next.

How it works

Two phones. One truth.

  1. 1
    Add your property

    Drop the pin and upload the survey plan. We read the beacon coordinates and draw the real boundary of your land.

  2. 2
    Invite your person on the ground

    Send a 6-letter code on WhatsApp to your brother, foreman or caretaker. They download the app free.

  3. 3
    Ask for an update

    “Show me the roofing this week.” They get a notification and a shot list: the same four spots every visit.

  4. 4
    Get proof, not just photos

    Every photo is checked: inside your boundary, taken just now, on a real phone, never used before. You see why, in plain words.

What we check

No photo is “just a photo”.

Each one gets a score and a checklist you can read in ten seconds.

19 checks per photo
Inside your boundary

GPS must fall inside the plot drawn from your survey plan, not just “somewhere in Lekki”.

No fake GPS

Location-spoofing apps and emulators are detected and fail the photo.

Taken just now

Our server starts every visit and keeps the clock. Changing the phone's time doesn't help.

Never used before

Every photo is fingerprinted and compared with every photo ever sent, even cropped or re-saved copies.

Light and shadows match

Premium: a photo claiming 4 pm in Lagos must have 4 pm light, with shadows where the sun actually was.

Same place as last time

Premium auto-check: each visit is compared with earlier ones: the same gate, the same neighbours, the same trees.

Nothing quietly missing

Premium: roofing sheets delivered last week and gone this week? Walls lower than before? You get an alert.

The sender is who they say

Premium: your person on the ground verifies a government ID with a live selfie, through Stripe Identity.

Construction, start to finish

Follow every stage, from site clearing to keys.

The same four vantage points every visit, so you can compare like for like. Premium auto-checks read the stage and percentage from the photos and flags work going backwards, materials disappearing, or weeks with no progress.

Family house, Lekki
48% complete
Site clearingLintel to roofCompleted
Missing since last visit
About 40 roofing sheets stacked by the gate on 12 May aren't in this week's photos.
In-person land checks Port Harcourt nowLagos & Abuja soon

Before you pay for land, check the records.

Starting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. A registered surveyor runs the charting at the Rivers State Surveyor-General's office, and a Nigerian lawyer traces the root of title at the state Land Registry. Their signed report lands in your app. Lagos and Abuja are coming soon.

See what's included →
Charting (survey search)
$179 once
$152 on Pro and Enterprise · 5–10 working days

A registered surveyor checks your survey plan's coordinates at the state Surveyor-General's office: is the land free, committed or under government acquisition?

  • ✓Search at the state Surveyor-General's office with your survey plan's coordinates
  • ✓Written report from a SURCON-registered surveyor
  • ✓Photo of the stamped search result
Signed by: Registered surveyor (SURCON)
Port Harcourt now; Lagos and Abuja coming soon.
Root of title search
$449 once
$382 on Pro and Enterprise · 2–4 weeks

A lawyer searches the state Land Registry and traces ownership back to its root, so you know the seller has the right to sell.

  • ✓Search at the state Land Registry
  • ✓Chain of ownership traced back to the root of title
  • ✓Governor's consent, mortgages and other encumbrances checked
  • ✓Signed legal report from a Nigerian lawyer
Signed by: Lawyer called to the Nigerian Bar
Port Harcourt now; Lagos and Abuja coming soon.
Full land check
$549 once
$467 on Pro and Enterprise · 2–4 weeks

Charting and root of title together, plus a verified boundary walk with photos. The check to do before you pay for land.

  • ✓Everything in Charting
  • ✓Everything in Root of title search
  • ✓Verified boundary walk with GPS-checked photos of each corner
Signed by: Registered surveyor and lawyer
Port Harcourt now; Lagos and Abuja coming soon.
Pricing

Try it free for 3 days. Upgrade when it matters.

Prices in US dollars. The person on the ground never pays.

Free trial
3 days to see it work
$0
3-day trial · the person on the ground is always free
  • ✓3 days, 1 property, 1 person on the ground
  • ✓5 photos in total
  • ✓GPS location verified on the first 2 photos
  • ✓Time, real-phone and reused-photo checks on every photo
  • –No alerts
Start 3-day trial
Premium
Most popular
One family, one build
$14.99/month
or $149/year (2 months free)
  • ✓Up to 3 properties, unlimited photos
  • ✓GPS location verified on every photo, plus alerts
  • ✓Auto-checks: daylight, weather and shadows match the place and time
  • ✓Auto-check that it's the same site as earlier visits
  • ✓Survey-plan coordinates read automatically into your boundary
  • ✓Construction tracking: stage & % complete from the photos
  • ✓Missing-item alerts: materials, blocks or work that disappeared
  • ✓Surprise checks, shareable proof links, viewers (spouse, lawyer)
Start with the free trial
Pro
Several projects, or builders reporting to clients
$39.00/month
or $390/year (2 months free)
  • ✓Up to 10 properties, unlimited photos
  • ✓Everything in Premium
  • ✓Monthly progress report for each property, ready to print or save as PDF
  • ✓15% off charting and root-of-title checks
  • ✓Priority support
Start with the free trial
Enterprise
Developers, estate agencies, associations, lenders
from $299.00/month
yearly contract
  • ✓Unlimited properties and people
  • ✓Everything in Pro
  • ✓Volume prices on charting and root-of-title checks
  • ✓Your logo on proof links (on request)
  • ✓Invoice billing and a named contact
Talk to us

What Sitewitness proves, and what it doesn't

We prove where and when each photo was taken, that it wasn't faked or reused, and what changed between visits. We don't guarantee title to land. For that, order a land check or use a property lawyer, and share your Sitewitness proof links with them.

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