Kochab Labs · Scholarship intelligence
Providia
A scholarship intelligence product that turns scattered opportunities into a structured discovery, matching and readiness workflow for students.
Providia
Opportunity match
Find what fits before you apply.
Student workflow
Product state
Live
Core loop
Discover → match → prepare
Payments
Card · transfer · USSD
Context
What the product had to solve
The problem
The constraint shaped the product.
Scholarship discovery is fragmented across portals, posts and spreadsheets. The product needed to make opportunities easier to evaluate while keeping payment access, eligibility and editorial operations understandable to a small team.
The system
Built around the critical path.
Kochab designed the product around a single student journey: discover an opportunity, understand fit, see readiness gaps and move toward an application without losing context.
What we built
Product capability, not a feature dump.
01
Curated scholarship discovery and filtering
02
Matching and readiness scoring surfaces
03
Plus entitlement and payment flows
04
Webhook-driven payment state and refund handling
05
Admin controls for opportunity and access operations
System decisions
Why it was built this way
Decisions that carry the product.
- Keep scholarship information useful before asking for payment.
- Treat subscription access as a durable entitlement rather than a UI toggle.
- Keep payment state changes behind verified server-side events.
- Make readiness explainable enough that a student can act on it.
Technology
The stack follows the job.
Next.js · TypeScript · Paystack · Vercel