Question 1

Who is Elijah Moses Iyajini?

Accepted Answer

Elijah Moses Iyajini is a Lagos based founder, builder, speaker and thinker. He is Co-Owner and Director of Operations at SSA Hub Limited, founder of the creative and technology agency VerionX, principal of VerionX Institute, Partnership and Innovation Lead at RLabs Nigeria, and founder of Blustars Nigeria Limited. He has been operating for nine years across venture building, growth, grant writing and AI product development, and his mission is to build useful solutions that connect people, technology, culture and innovation.

Question 2

What does he actually build?

Accepted Answer

Full software products rather than prototypes. Thirty eight are deployed and publicly reachable, with one hundred more in the pipeline, spanning learning platforms, research and intelligence engines, grant and capital tooling, workshop and industry systems, customer operations software, and frontier work such as a meta language compiler and a synthetic biology design console. Each ships with authentication, a real database, document import and export, and a resident agent that can act rather than only answer.

Question 3

What is VerionX?

Accepted Answer

VerionX, trading as Xrion Technology Limited, is the creative and technology agency Elijah founded. It is the studio behind most of the products in his fleet, with Benedict Olom as Chief Technical Officer and Alpha Iyajini as Design Lead. It has delivered work for institutions including UCTH, MLSCN and UFMB.

Question 4

What is SSA Hub Limited?

Accepted Answer

SSA Hub Limited is a Nigerian business advisory and consulting firm where Elijah is Co-Owner and Director of Operations, co-leading with Dr. Mrs. Anita Adeyemi. SSA stands for Scale, Sales and Access. The firm covers investment readiness, proposals, memoranda of understanding, data rooms and cohort training through SSA Academy, and is the official recruitment partner for ZEBS Zurich Elite Business School.

Question 5

How does he charge for advisory work?

Accepted Answer

The standing commercial model for advisory engagements is a one off engagement fee with no monthly retainer, plus a ten per cent success fee on funds disbursed, whether that is investment raised, investment attracted or grants accessed.

Question 6

Does he write grants?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Grant writing and funder strategy are a core part of the practice, covering concept notes, theories of change, logic models, activity based budgets and monitoring frameworks, with alignment to institutional funders such as the African Development Bank, the European Union, USAID and the World Bank, as well as philanthropies and family offices. He has executed more than 250,000 US dollars in grant funded projects and personally raised 60,000 US dollars.

Question 7

What sectors does he work across?

Accepted Answer

Learning and education technology, renewable energy and energy efficiency, agriculture, mobility and automotive, construction and infrastructure, financial services and inclusion, health, research and academia, and public sector programme delivery. Most of the work is anchored in Nigeria and the wider African market, with some United States and European engagements.

Question 8

What is his educational background?

Accepted Answer

He holds a B.Eng. in Applied Physics with an Electronics focus from the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, a B.Sc. in Business and Information Technology from IU International University of Applied Sciences in Germany, entrepreneurship study at MIVA Open University, and the Ventures in Management Program at Lagos Business School. A Doctorate in Innovation and Value Creation is in view.

Question 9

What recognition has he received?

Accepted Answer

He is a World Literacy Foundation Ambassador for Nigeria, an Aspire Leaders Fellow, and a Lagos Business School Ventures in Management Program alumnus. As co-founder of Zander Tech he won a 50,000 US dollar Markhack 2.0 grant.

Question 10

Has he written anything?

Accepted Answer

He wrote and produced the ebooks AI Wealth Blueprint 2026 and A Tale of a Brighter Future, and was commissioned to produce Towards The New Africa: Paradigms, Principles, Policy, a sixty page ebook built from the REEEA-Alliance 5th International Investment and Partnership Conference. He writes on Medium at medium.com/@ebibliophile45, most recently on governing AI for the Nigerian good.

Question 11

How do you reach or hire him?

Accepted Answer

Email elijahmoses1000@gmail.com or call +234 810 533 6367. He takes on partnerships, grant writing, investment readiness advisory, AI product development, programme design, speaking and consulting. The contact desk on this site sends the enquiry straight to that inbox, and he replies himself, usually within two working days.

Question 12

Where is he based and does he work remotely?

Accepted Answer

He is based in Lagos, Nigeria, and works with clients across Africa, Europe and the United States. Delivery is remote by default, with on site engagements arranged where the work needs it.

Question 13

How does he describe himself and what drives the work?

Accepted Answer

He describes himself in four words: founder, builder, speaker, thinker. The mission is to build useful solutions that connect people, technology, culture and innovation. The driving principle is a line he takes from Carl Gustav Jung, with one bracketed addition of his own: no matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends and I dare to add [opportunities] will come and seek you.

Question 14

What is VerionX Institute?

Accepted Answer

VerionX Institute is the leading agentic institution Elijah runs, where the agent practice behind the fleet is taught, tested and turned into working systems. It sits alongside VerionX, the agency, and carries the teaching and research side of the same body of work.

Question 15

What is his approach to AI products?

Accepted Answer

Every product is built around a named resident agent that both advises and acts, grounded in the sources the user has supplied rather than parametric recall. Security comes first: isolated databases per project, row level security on every table, and no unofficial or unauthorised data collection. He declined a WhatsApp scraping specification and rebuilt it as a consent first CRM on the official Business Cloud API.