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Resident — Overview

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Individual Economic Participation in the Leja Ecosystem

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What Resident Is

Resident is not a tenant app. It is not a gig economy platform. It is not an apartment listing aggregator. It is not a receipt-link utility or rent-history dashboard. Resident is the answer to a question millions of Nigerian residents carry without knowing it has an answer:
“How do I build a verifiable economic identity from where I am right now — as a resident, as a worker, and as a participant in the housing market?”
A Resident user builds three tracks of verified economic identity simultaneously on one RIN. All three compound. All three feed the Trust Graph. All three open doors that self-reported credentials, verbal references, and thin credit files never could. Within the nine-surface architecture, Resident is the individual-facing surface where Residents, Space Seekers, Service Providers, Guests, Buyers, Diaspora Payers, and future individual roles build economic identity and participate in the ecosystem. Resident is not demand-only. It contains demand behavior and supply behavior:
  • demand behavior: searching, saving, viewing, applying, booking, buying intent
  • supply behavior: service providers offering work, individual short-let hosts where applicable, provider reputation, job completion, and service income
  • life operations: utilities, finance referral, maintenance, consent, sharing, and AI advocacy
Resident means individual participation across residential history, service work, space seeking, stays, buyer behavior, diaspora payment, home-life operations, and consent. Track 3 is now called the Space Consumer Identity track, and property consumers are referred to as Space Seekers. See 00_Foundation/02_surface_architecture.md.

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The Three Tracks

TRACK 1 — RESIDENTIAL IDENTITY (Milestone Wave 1 architecture, Milestone Wave 2 UI)
  What you have built as a resident over time.
  Payment history, tenancy record, deposit behavior, exit quality,
  dispute record, neighborhood trust score.
  This is your housing CV — witnessed, not claimed.

TRACK 2 — SERVICE PROVIDER IDENTITY (Milestone Wave 3)
  What you have built as a worker within the residential economy.
  Jobs completed, certifications, ratings, repeat hire rate,
  response time, completion quality, service income signal.
  This is your professional record — witnessed, not claimed.

TRACK 3 — PROPERTY CONSUMER IDENTITY (Milestone Wave 3 MVP, Milestone Wave 4 full)
  What you do when you are in the housing market.
  Apartment hunting, property viewing, rental applications,
  short-let bookings, inspection requests.
  This is your market behavior — witnessed, not claimed.
All three tracks accumulate on one RIN. No other platform in Nigeria witnesses all three simultaneously. The compounding across tracks is the moat.

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Who Uses Resident

Residential participants (Track 1 primary): Any person occupying, staying in, funding, or building history through a space. Payment history is one signal, not the definition. Maintenance behavior, exit quality, stay history, consent, and verified residential continuity all accumulate from the first witnessed record. Service providers (Track 2 primary; Resident supply behavior): Plumbers, electricians, cleaners, estate managers, and every property-adjacent worker. Their professional identity builds with every job completed through Resident. Property buyers and searchers (Track 3 primary; Resident participation behavior): Anyone actively searching for accommodation — to rent, to buy, or to book short-let. Their market behavior and seriousness signals accumulate, making them more credible to landlords and agents. Travelers and short-let guests (Track 1 + Track 3): Any Leja user booking a short-let stay. Their guest behavior feeds both their consumer identity (Track 3) and their residential identity (Track 1, lightweight). Note: Every person on Leja Professional (agents, landlords, org staff) also has a Resident. Their RIN accumulates data from both surfaces. An agent who rents an apartment is simultaneously building their Track 1 residential identity through Leja Professional and Resident.

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Maturity Labels, Not Execution Doctrine

Milestone Waves below are historical maturity labels. They do not define build order. Execution comes from milestone loops over ecosystem dependencies. 
MILESTONE WAVE 1 (MVP — architecture only, no Resident UI):
  - Personal RINs issued silently through Leja Professional
  - TrendEvents accumulate in the background
  - Resident record link: read-only, no account required
  - No Resident app, no dashboard, no visible Trust Graph

MILESTONE WAVE 2 (Resident launch — Track 1 UI):
  - Resident web app launches
  - People can claim their RIN and activate Resident
  - Track 1 dashboard: residential history, Score tier, Trend timeline
  - Access log: who has queried their data and when
  - Consent management: grant and revoke access
  - Resident profile sharing: share verified profile link with new landlords

MILESTONE WAVE 3 (Tracks 2 and 3 MVP):
  - Track 2: service participation loop (property-adjacent categories)
  - Track 3 MVP: search, view, apply, Leja Stay
  - Leja Stay: short-let booking through Resident
  - Resident Pro subscription launches

MILESTONE WAVE 4 (Tracks 2 and 3 full):
  - General gig economy categories added to Track 2
  - Track 3 expansion: purchase inquiry, lease negotiation,
    property inspection as consumer
  - Full Resident advocate support for Track 3
  - On-chain consent rail
  - ZK proof layer for sensitive disclosures

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The Three-Track Compounding Example

Year 3 on Resident, a resident in Lagos Island: 
Track 1 shows:
  Two completed tenancies, both ended cleanly.
  Consistent payment record, zero unresolved disputes.
  Deposit returned in full both times.
  Improving stability score.

Track 2 shows:
  47 completed plumbing jobs in 18 months.
  4.8 rating, 68% repeat hire rate.
  Verified trade certification (State Plumbers Board).
  Service income signal: consistent and growing.

Track 3 shows:
  Currently searching Yaba and Surulere.
  3 viewings completed, 1 application submitted.
  Document pack: 94% complete.
  Seriousness score: HIGH.
  Budget band: ₦600k–₦900k/year (behavioral derivation).

What a landlord sees (with consent):
  A verified, high-seriousness applicant with strong residential
  history, growing secondary income, and a document pack ready.
  Not a self-reported CV — a witnessed economic identity.

What a bank sees (with advanced consent):
  A borrower whose residential stability, service income, and market
  behavior together create a creditworthiness picture their internal
  models, built on thin data, cannot see.

What the applicant has:
  An identity that opens doors — not because they claimed it,
  but because Leja witnessed it being built, one event at a time.

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Revenue Model (Summary — Full Detail in 09_Revenue_Model)

Track 1 revenue:
  Resident Standard subscription (₦1,200/month or ₦12,000/year)
  Institutional API standard tier (banks querying residential signals)
  Short-let transaction fees (Leja Stay bookings)

Track 2 revenue:
  Service transaction fees (% of every job processed)
  Resident Pro subscription (advanced provider analytics)
  Provider visibility features (boosted listings)

Track 3 revenue:
  Application pack service (AI-assisted document prep — paid)
  Viewing scheduling premium (AI-prioritized)
  Deal seriousness signal sold to Leja Professional side (agent/landlord API)
  Short-let booking transaction fees

Cross-track institutional revenue:
  Full three-track economic identity fed into bank advanced API tier
  Federated computation revenue (bank models run on three-track data)
  Protocol verification fees (Milestone Wave 3+)