In a dazzling display of innovation and grit, Team SETLD from the University of Lagos clinched 2nd place at the third (3rd) edition of GTCO Squad Hackathon – one of Nigeria’s fiercest student fintech competitions.
This year’s hackathon, themed “Smart Systems: The Intelligent Economy”, drew over 1,600 teams nationwide. Contestants battled through grueling elimination rounds – from AI/ML challenges to full-stack engineering assessments, capped by a nerve-wracking 1-hour LeetCode-style test featuring medium and hard problems.
The team came in 2nd place with its project, “Recivo”, an AI-powered voice and simulation platform designed to solve trust and verification challenges for Nigeria’s 41 million informal workers (phone repair technicians, tailors, mechanics, welders, electricians, etc.).
Recivo allows skilled artisans to prove their expertise through multilingual voice-guided 3D Diagnostic Interviews (in Pidgin, Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, and English). The platform generates an Iṣẹ́ Score (Knowledge + Trust), enabling employers to replay diagnostic sessions before hiring, and uses Squad’s Virtual Accounts and Transfer APIs structurally for secure per-job escrow and instant payouts. The project can be accessed via recivo.vercel.app
The brilliant minds behind ‘Recivo’ include: Quadri Lasisi (200 Level, Department of Statistics), Adam Lawal (200 Level, Department of Statistics), Abdulrahman Raufu (200 Level, Department of Computer Science), Sanni Shazily (200 Level, Department of Statistics), carting home a ₦3,000,000 cash prize, GTCO Internship opportunity and scholarship opportunity.
The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Folasade Ogunsola, OON, FAS, on behalf of Senate, staff and students congratulates Team Setld on this win and wishes them success in their academic endeavours.
