A dated, independently verified record of what is actually happening on a building site — for the people paying for it, the developers proving their work, and the buyers deciding whether to believe them.
We never handle your money. You pay your builder directly.
The problem
You send the money. Then the information stops.
What comes back is a photograph you can't date, a story you can't check, and a request for more. The failure is rarely dramatic theft — it's ordinary and unprovable. The cement grade was substituted. The blocks were fewer than invoiced. Three weeks passed with nobody on site. By the time anyone can see it, it's inside a wall.
Nobody independent was ever standing there. That's the gap we exist to close.
How it works
We don't ask you to trust us. We build a record you can check yourself.
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A development or a private build is registered on the platform, with its own dated record from that day forward.
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Site visits, dated photography from fixed positions, delivery records and material checks. Every item timestamped and sealed the moment it arrives.
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A record you can open from anywhere, at any hour, showing what happened and — just as importantly — what didn't.
What makes it trustworthy
Most platforms show you claims and findings in the same typeface, so you can't tell which is which. We label all three, always.
The developer said it. Useful, attributed, and unverified. Shown as a claim, never dressed up as a finding.
Our instruments recorded it. Dated frames, activity, deliveries. True but mechanical — it saw a truck arrive, not what was inside it.
A named inspector attended and signed. Method, scope and limitations published alongside. Never applied to anything a machine produced.
And where no independent verification has taken place, the record says so plainly rather than leaving a comfortable blank. An empty space reads as reassurance. It shouldn't.
Where we stand
Datum is not an escrow service and never holds, moves or receives construction funds. You pay your builder directly, on your own terms. We take no commission when a property is sold and no share of any transaction. We have no way to disappear with money we never hold — and you should ask that question of anyone offering to protect you.
The people we report on are the people who pay us. That is true of every inspection business, and pretending otherwise would be the first dishonest thing on this page. So the rule is drawn narrowly: we take a fee for running the record, on the same terms as everyone else. Never a share of a sale, never a fee that moves with a finding, never a stake in a project. Where we have any interest beyond that fee, an independent inspector does the verifying and the interest is stated on the record itself.
Who this is for
The same record, read from three different sides of the same table.
Funding a house at home from another continent, in instalments, over years. Working in Accra and building four hours away. Siblings pooling money for a parent's house, with questions nobody wants to ask out loud. You want to know what is actually there — not what you've been told is there.
Ask about a project →You're building, and your buyers have no reason to believe you beyond your word — the same word every other developer offers. An independent record gives them one. It also protects you: when a delay isn't your fault, the record is what proves it wasn't.
Put a project on the record →Engineers, surveyors and building inspectors. We appoint independent inspectors under a framework that keeps you independent of the developer — a fixed fee agreed before the visit, never moving with what you find, and your report written for the buyer rather than for us.
Join the inspector panel →Whether it's a foundation going in next month or a development already out of the ground, start with a conversation. No obligation, no forms.
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