Pragence / About
About · est. 2024

We're building the company knowledge layer we always wished existed.

Pragence was started by a small group who'd shipped enterprise search and AI at four different companies. We knew what teams needed — and what was still missing.

FOUNDED Lagos · 2024
TEAM 4 people
FUNDING Self-funded · independent
§01 What we believe

A short list of operating principles.

01

Citations are non-negotiable.

An answer without sources is just confident text. We earn trust by showing our work — every time, no exceptions.

02

Trust is structural.

Security and access controls aren't features bolted on. They're the foundation everything else is built on.

03

Boring infrastructure wins.

We pick proven, reliable technology over hype. Fewer moving parts means fewer outages and lower bills for our customers.

04

Show your work.

How an answer was reached should never be a mystery. We surface the reasoning, the sources, and the trade-offs.

05

Sell to operators, not slides.

Our customers buy because Pragence makes their team faster on Monday morning — not because we wrote a clever pitch deck.

§02 Trajectory

The short version.

2024 · Q1 Founded

Abdussamad Bello starts Pragence to build the company knowledge layer teams kept wishing existed.

2024 · Q3 First customers

Three design partners ship Pragence into production. The third — a regional bank — becomes the audit-trail use case.

2025 · Q3 Twelve connectors

We stop building features for a quarter and only build connectors. It is the right call.

§03 The team

The people behind it.

Abdussamad Bello
CEO · Snr Software Developer
Bello-Ahmed Lateefat
Software Engineer
Ahmed Alege
Software Engineer
Abdulkadir Aliagan
Creative Director
§04 Ownership

Independent and self-funded.

Pragence is self-funded and independently owned — no outside investors, no board. We answer to our customers, not a term sheet.

Next steps

See it work on your knowledge.

30 minutes with a solutions engineer. Bring a real question your current tools couldn't answer — we'll wire up a connector and try it live.