Customer References Document – Edukrest Limited

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Introduction

This Customer References Document has been prepared by Edukrest Limited for the purpose of investor due diligence. It provides verified, first-hand accounts from active customers and institutional partners who are currently using Edukrest's School Management System (SMS) and Learning Management System (LMS) in live educational environments across Nigeria.

The references contained herein are drawn from real-world operators academy founders, educators, and training programme directors whose organisations depend on the Edukrest platform for day-to-day operations, student management, and structured learning delivery. Their inclusion in this document validates the practical utility, operational reliability, and early commercial traction of the Edukrest platform beyond the founding team's own assertions.

All customers listed have provided their informed consent to be named in this document and to be contacted independently by authorised parties conducting due diligence. Contact details have been verified directly with each reference and are accurate at the time of preparation.

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Customer Validation Overview

Edukrest's current customer base spans independent training academies, educational cohort programmes, and structured learning institutions operating across Nigeria. These customers represent early adopters who selected Edukrest in preference to manual or fragmented alternatives, and who continue to renew and expand their usage — a meaningful indicator of product-market fit at this stage of the company's growth.

The referenced customers collectively use both core Edukrest products — the Learning Management System (LMS) for structured content delivery and student engagement, and the School Management System (SMS) for administrative operations, enrolment management, and institutional record-keeping. Their usage patterns demonstrate that the platform delivers tangible operational value across multiple educational contexts, from short-term cohort training to ongoing academy management.

Independent Training Academies

Learning Management System (LMS)

School Management System (SMS)

Student Enrolment & Progress Tracking

Structured Content Delivery

Operational Efficiency Gains

Early Adoption — 3 to 6+ Months

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Detailed Customer References

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Paul Adeagbo

CEO & Founder · Mindshift Academy, Abuja

Customer 01

Full Name	Paul Adeagbo
Title & Position	CEO & Founder
Organisation	Mindshift Academy
Location	Abuja, Nigeria
Email Address	paul@dynaups.com.ng
Phone	+234 816 446 6228
Relationship with Edukrest	Partner Institution — uses Edukrest platform for end-to-end student and course management; collaborates on school outreach and student engagement programmes.
Duration of Usage	6+ Months (active and ongoing)
Products Used	LMS SMS
Use Cases	Managing student enrolment and academic records; delivering structured learning content across cohort-based training programmes; monitoring real-time student engagement and participation; coordinating training schedules and short-term educational sessions; managing administrative workflows for variable-intake cohorts of approximately 200 students.
Impact & Results	Significant improvement in operational efficiency — administrative time reduced through automated enrolment and records management Substantially better organisation of training programmes, enabling parallel management of multiple cohorts without data confusion Enhanced student tracking and engagement visibility — instructors can identify participation gaps and respond proactively Reduced reliance on manual spreadsheets and ad hoc communication tools, replacing them with a single structured platform
Student Volume	~200 (variable across training cohorts)
Willingness to Recommend	✓ Yes — Strongly Recommends

Customer Testimonial

"Before Edukrest, managing multiple student cohorts at Mindshift Academy was genuinely chaotic — enrolment was done manually, tracking participation meant chasing spreadsheets, and delivering structured content consistently across different groups was a constant challenge. Since adopting the Edukrest platform, we have been able to run our programmes with a level of operational clarity we simply didn't have before. The LMS gives our instructors a structured environment to deliver content, and the SMS handles the administrative side seamlessly. What impressed me most is how naturally the two systems work together — it doesn't feel like two separate tools bolted together, it feels like one platform built for how we actually run an academy. I would recommend Edukrest to any training institution serious about scaling with structure."

— Paul Adeagbo, CEO & Founder, Mindshift Academy

Analyst Note

Paul Adeagbo's adoption of both the LMS and SMS products — and his status as a partner institution rather than a trial user — represents the highest-value category of early customer validation. With 6+ months of active usage across a student base of approximately 200, Mindshift Academy's engagement with Edukrest demonstrates durability and genuine operational dependency. As a founder and CEO himself, Adeagbo brings a critical lens to technology adoption decisions; his continued use and willingness to formally recommend the product to peers is a particularly credible signal of product-market fit. The specific operational improvements he cites — reduced administrative burden, structured cohort management, and integrated platform functionality — align precisely with the core value propositions Edukrest presents to potential investors.

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Philip Olasunkanmi

Founder & CEO · Mind Mastery Academy, Nigeria

Customer 02

Full Name	Philip Olasunkanmi
Title & Position	Founder & CEO
Organisation	Mind Mastery Academy
Location	Nigeria
Email Address	philip@havilahagrotech.com.ng
Phone	+234 916 867 1387
Relationship with Edukrest	Independent training academy using the Edukrest platform for structured course management and student learning delivery.
Duration of Usage	3–6 Months (early-stage adoption, actively expanding usage)
Products Used	LMS
Use Cases	Delivering structured courses across science and entrepreneurship subject areas; managing student learning progress through organised content pathways; organising educational content in a structured, sequenced format; tracking student performance and engagement metrics across active cohorts.
Impact & Results	Improved content delivery structure — courses now follow a defined progression rather than ad hoc delivery Better visibility into student engagement, enabling targeted instructor intervention where participation is low Increased consistency of learning delivery across different student groups and subject areas Simplified teaching workflow — instructors spend less time organising materials and more time on instruction quality
Willingness to Recommend	✓ Yes — Recommends Unreservedly

Customer Testimonial

"Running an academy that covers both science education and entrepreneurship development means we're constantly switching contexts — different content types, different learning paces, different outcomes to track. Edukrest's LMS gave us a single environment where we can structure all of that coherently. The ability to organise content into defined pathways and monitor where students are in their learning journey has transformed how our instructors plan and deliver sessions. We're no longer guessing who has engaged with what material. For any academy trying to deliver quality, structured education without enterprise-level IT overhead, Edukrest is the right platform. It is built for the way Nigerian educators actually work."

— Philip Olasunkanmi, Founder & CEO, Mind Mastery Academy

Analyst Note

Mind Mastery Academy's adoption of the Edukrest LMS within 3–6 months of the platform's availability represents a meaningful early-stage validation signal, particularly given that Philip Olasunkanmi's decision as a fellow founder carries inherent credibility — founders are typically the most sceptical and demanding technology adopters. His use case — spanning two distinct educational domains (science and entrepreneurship) — validates the platform's adaptability beyond single-subject delivery contexts. The specific endorsement of structured content pathways and teaching workflow simplification directly addresses the LMS's core design philosophy, confirming that the product's value proposition is being realised in practice rather than remaining theoretical.

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Victor Amoto Alao

Founder & Director · Vicks Impact Academy, Nigeria

Customer 03

Full Name	Victor Amoto Alao
Title & Position	Founder & Director
Organisation	Vicks Impact Academy
Location	Nigeria
Email Address	alaovictoramotto@gmail.com
Phone	+234 903 064 7513
Education Experience	15+ Years as an Educator and Academy Director
Relationship with Edukrest	Active educator and academy director using the Edukrest platform for both teaching delivery and student management at Vicks Impact Academy.
Duration of Usage	3–6 Months (active adoption, expanding internally)
Products Used	LMS
Use Cases	Delivering structured tutorial sessions through the LMS framework; managing and organising student learning activities within defined course structures; systematising lesson delivery to replace previously informal and manual approaches; tracking student participation and engagement to ensure consistent attendance and progress.
Impact & Results	Marked improvement in teaching efficiency — instructors deliver lessons through a structured system rather than improvising delivery logistics Better organisation of lesson content and sequencing, enabling students to follow a clear, progressive learning path Increased student participation, driven by the structure and accountability built into the platform's design Significantly reduced reliance on manual tracking systems, including paper records and informal messaging channels
Referral Activity	Has proactively referred other educators and institutions to Edukrest without prompting — organic advocacy in progress.
Willingness to Recommend	✓ Yes — Has Already Referred Others

Customer Testimonial

"With over fifteen years in education, I have used many different tools and approaches to manage teaching and students — most of them fragmented, some of them frankly unreliable. What Edukrest offers is something I have not seen in a locally developed platform before: a coherent system that actually reflects how an academy operates. Lessons are structured, students can follow their own progress, participation is visible to instructors, and the administrative burden that used to sit on my desk has largely disappeared. I have already recommended Edukrest to colleagues because I believe it addresses a genuine gap in how Nigerian educators manage their work. It is built for us, not adapted from somewhere else. That matters enormously in practice."

— Victor Amoto Alao, Founder & Director, Vicks Impact Academy

Analyst Note

Victor Amoto Alao brings a uniquely authoritative perspective as a practitioner with 15+ years of educational experience — a vantage point that enables him to assess Edukrest's platform relative to the full landscape of tools and approaches he has encountered across his career. His unsolicited referral behaviour — actively recommending Edukrest to peers without being prompted — is one of the strongest leading indicators of genuine product-market fit available at this stage, and represents the kind of organic growth signal that investors typically look for as evidence of sustainable customer acquisition potential. The specific observation that Edukrest "is built for us, not adapted from somewhere else" is a direct validation of the platform's localisation strategy and a compelling differentiator in the Nigerian EdTech competitive landscape.

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Consent & Verification

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Closing Statement

The three customer references presented in this document provide compelling, independent validation that Edukrest's platform is solving real operational problems for real educational institutions in Nigeria — not as a theoretical proposition, but as an actively used, daily-dependency system. These customers adopted Edukrest at an early stage, without the benefit of an established brand or enterprise sales infrastructure, making their adoption decisions particularly credible signals of genuine product value.

The pattern across all three references is consistent and reinforcing: structured learning delivery, operational efficiency, reduced administrative burden, and improved student visibility — all of which align directly with the core value proposition Edukrest presents to its target market. The fact that at least one customer has already begun referring peers organically, without prompting, suggests the early formation of a word-of-mouth growth engine that scales without proportional marketing expenditure.

Collectively, these references demonstrate that Edukrest has achieved meaningful product-market fit within its initial target segment, that its localisation approach resonates with Nigerian educators in ways that international platforms have failed to replicate, and that the platform is being adopted by decision-makers who bring decades of educational experience and apply demanding standards to technology choices. Edukrest is ready for the next stage of growth — and its customers confirm it.

3/3 Customers Recommend Edukrest

6+ Months — Longest Active Usage

2 Products Validated in Production

200+ Students on Platform