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Closed beta · LagosWhatsApp + Instagram

The AI operating system for African informal businesses.

Your orders live in WhatsApp threads and Instagram DMs. Silq's AI captures every one of them: every item, every payment, every customer. One dashboard runs the rest.

See how it works
Join the waitlist to get notified the day the app launches.
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Live orders
Online
New
MCK-2841
Adaeze O.
₦14,500
2×Jollof rice with chicken
1×Plantain side
no pepper, extra plantain
5B Freedom Way, Lekki·2 min ago
Confirmed
MCK-2839
Ifeoma E.
₦18,750
Pickup·14 min ago
Adaeze O.
2 jollof rice with chicken, no pepper. Add extra plantain
SILQ AI
That's 2× Jollof + chicken, no pepper, and 1 plantain side, ₦14,500. Deliver to 5B Freedom Way?
Yes that's correct 👍
SILQ AI
Lovely. Payment link sent. I'll confirm the moment it clears.
New order · Adaeze O.
2× Jollof + plantain
₦14,500
The problem, made real

Chaos in the chat. Money on the floor.

A restaurant misreads an address and remakes the order. A salon double-books a Saturday. A pharmacy loses a transfer screenshot in a 200-message thread. It adds up, fast.

₦30–50k
lost every day to operational drift: forgotten orders, wrong totals, money that never gets reconciled.
Typical Lagos kitchen
100+
messages a day across WhatsApp and Instagram, with orders, payments and complaints tangled in the same threads.
Chat-native business
25–30%
taken by delivery aggregators on every order. And they own your customer, not you.
The aggregator tax

Restaurants feel it worst, but it's the same story for salons, tailors, photographers, pharmacies and retail. Anyone whose business runs through a chat thread is leaking time and money they can't see.

How it works

Three steps. No new app for your customers.

1

Your customer chats

Wherever they already reach you: WhatsApp, Instagram DM. They don't download anything or learn a new flow.

Good afternoon! Do you still have goat meat?
Let me get 2 jollof + chicken to Lekki Phase 1
2

Silq's AI takes the order

Every item, modifier, address, payment and customer, captured cleanly. It confirms the details and sends the payment link itself.

SILQ AI
2× Jollof + chicken, no pepper, extra plantain, ₦14,500 to 5B Freedom Way. Payment link sent ✓
3

You see and run everything

One dashboard for orders, money, customers and growth, across every channel and outlet you run.

New
MCK-2841
Adaeze O.
₦14,500
5B Freedom Way, Lekki·2 min ago
Who Silq is for

If your business runs on chat, Silq runs your business.

We're starting with restaurants, the most demanding case, then opening up to every chat-native business next.

Restaurants & kitchens
Live now
Salons & barbershops
Joining soon
Tailors & fashion
Joining soon
Photographers
Joining soon
Pharmacies
Joining soon
Professional services
Joining soon
Retail
Joining soon
Any chat-native business
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Trust & verification

The businesses you find on Silq are real, verified and accountable.

Aggregators ask you to trust a logo. Silq's structural advantage is that every merchant is verified the hard way: in person, identity-bound, money on the owner.

Physically verified

We visit every business in person and confirm it's real, where it says it is. No anonymous listings, no ghosts.

Identity-bound accounts

Each merchant account is tied to the owner's verified identity. The person behind the business is accountable.

Money lives with the owner

Funds settle to the business owner's own bank account, not a pooled aggregator wallet. It was always yours.

Silq verified merchant
Silq verified
What you get

Everything it takes to run your business, in one place.

AI handles your chat orders

Across WhatsApp & Instagram, day and night, in the languages your customers use.

One dashboard

Orders, menu and customers in a single live view. Never a thread you scroll back through.

Money reconciled automatically

Every payment matched to its order. End-of-day totals you can actually trust.

Withdraw to your bank

Funds settle to your own account. Owner-controlled, with a clear audit trail.

Run multiple outlets

One login across every branch you own, with money scoped strictly per outlet.

Built for offline-spotty markets

Keep taking orders when the network drops. Everything syncs the moment you're back.

Verified merchant trust badge

Once you're verified, your badge appears across your Silq directory profile. It's the same trust mark customers learn to look for.

Silq verified
The directory

Discover verified businesses on Silq.

These businesses are joining at launch. When we go live, you'll reach each one through the chat channel they already use.

Preview the directory
Restaurant · photoSilq verifiedJoining at launch
Restaurant
Mama Cass Kitchen
Lekki Phase 1
Jollof, swallow & grills, with orders running straight through WhatsApp.
Restaurant · photoSilq verifiedJoining at launch
Restaurant
Suya Republic
Yaba
Charcoal suya, asun & shawarma. Open till midnight, every night.
Salon & beauty · photoSilq verifiedJoining at launch
Salon & beauty
Glow by Tola
Victoria Island
Braids, wigs, nails & lashes. Book a slot, pay a deposit, show up.
Pricing

Free during beta. Fair after.

No setup fees, no lock-in. When we introduce paid plans, it's a small monthly subscription plus a low transaction fee. That's a fraction of what aggregators take, and your money still lands in your own account.

Closed betaFree
After launchsubscription + low txn fee
The Silq app

Run your business from your phone.

Available when we launch. Join the waitlist to get notified first, and be set up before the app even hits the store.

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Live orders
Live
New
MCK-2841
Adaeze O.
₦14,500
2×Jollof rice with chicken
1×Plantain side
no pepper, extra plantain
5B Freedom Way, Lekki·2 min ago
New
MCK-2840
Kelechi N.
InstagramUnpaid
₦9,800
21 Olosa St, V.I.·9 min ago

Stop running your business from a chat thread.

Join the businesses getting set up for launch in Lagos.

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