The platform is bringing vendor bookings, ticketing and event management together, starting with the everyday people doing the organising.

The trouble started with two event budgets getting mixed up.

A caterer with several bookings ahead of her was trying to keep track of different clients. She used WhatsApp and spreadsheets, but managing everything on her phone while constantly moving between jobs was proving difficult. At one point, figures meant for one event found their way into another event’s budget.

She eventually resolved the problem. For her cousin Anthony, however, the conversation raised a question that stayed with him: what would make this work easier to manage?

That question helped shape Eve, an event platform built around the relationship between organisers, vendors and the people who attend. The name brings together the three things the team wants to connect: events, vendors and experiences.

Speaking with Africa Geek Circle Network, Eve’s co-founder and CEO, Anthony, described a family familiar with the business of serving people. He and his brother Patrick, also a co-founder, grew up around vendors, including caterers, chefs and bakers. They had seen how much effort goes into an event long before the first guest arrives.

 

When your usual contact is unavailable

Anthony had also experienced the problem from the customer’s side. While trying to arrange a small get-together, he found that his cousin and the people she recommended were unavailable. He struggled to find a reliable alternative and eventually cancelled the gathering.

It is an easy situation to recognise. You need someone to handle the food, take photographs or sort out the sound. You ask around. Someone sends a number. Then comes the work of checking availability, explaining what you need and deciding whether you feel comfortable paying.

Eve is trying to make that process easier to follow. Its intended users include people organising something for the first time, with no established list of suppliers and no professional planning experience. A small gathering with friends matters to the team alongside the larger events it hopes to serve.

Through its vendor marketplace, which the website calls Stream by Eve, users can browse service providers, review their profiles and send proposals describing the job and budget. The team says messaging and payment can then happen within the platform, keeping a record of what was discussed and agreed.

For a vendor, that creates another route to customers beyond referrals. Anthony recalled an early vendor contacting him after completing a job found through Eve. The vendor had not been sure the opportunity would amount to anything. Then the work happened, and payment followed. It was a small but meaningful sign that the marketplace could connect people who might otherwise never have met.

From the first listing to the entrance queue

The organising process begins with an event builder. Hosts enter the details, including the date, location and ticket price, and can add speakers or performers. Once published, the event has a link they can share with their audience.

Patrick, who leads the technology side of the business, explained that the workflow continues on event day. The organiser app, Eve Connect, lets hosts scan tickets and see who has checked in. The aim is for someone running a smaller event to handle admission themselves, with support available when they need it.

At a comedy event the team discussed, the organiser’s initial hesitation was switching from a provider they already knew. Eve responded with a demonstration of the full process, including how to find vendors. Patrick said the event subsequently saw faster check-ins and fewer ticket-loading complaints.

The team also used that event to test a visual planning feature called Eve Plan Mode, which lets organisers map out an event before it happens. Patrick was clear that the feature was still in development. Its usefulness in that trial gives the team something to build on, rather than a finished capability to promise every customer today.

A booking needs more than a good profile

Finding a vendor is one part of the job. Trusting them with your money and your event is another.

Anthony said Eve’s verification process asks vendors for business registration documents and an operating address that can be checked. Portfolios and evidence of previous work also matter. The team says it investigates service disputes by hearing from both sides, and encourages customers to leave honest reviews.

Keeping the booking conversation and payment on Eve is central to that approach. It gives the team a record to work from if a service falls short. The founders also described a scheduling restriction intended to prevent vendors from accepting overlapping bookings through the platform.

These measures will need to hold up as more people join. During the interview, Anthony reported roughly 1,000 vendor sign-ups, of which about 250 had been verified, with only a subset visible on the platform. Those are company-reported figures, but the distinction matters: a registration is only the beginning of building a dependable supplier network.

What using Eve costs

At the time of the interview on 18 October 2026, Patrick said Eve charged a 5% fee on ticket sales. Organisers could absorb that fee or pass it on to attendees. Creating a vendor profile was free, with a 5% fee on vendor contracts and additional charges for optional premium features such as profile promotion.

Ufuoma, Eve’s Lead Engineer and Co-founder, explained that the platform supports payments through Paystack and Stripe, allowing customers to pay in naira and foreign currencies. The team is building for customers beyond Nigeria while keeping the experience practical for vendors who manage much of their work on their phones.

Patrick also described a payout safeguard that generally holds event proceeds until after the event. When an event is cancelled or rescheduled, the organiser and Eve must coordinate the next steps, including communication and refunds. For hosts, understanding that arrangement matters as much as knowing the ticket fee, particularly when suppliers need paying before the doors open.

Learning from the parts that do not work yet

Eve is still an early product. Anthony said it had supported two completed events, a comedy show and a party, and estimated that more than 1,000 tickets had been sold across them between July and the interview. He did not have the exact ticket total to hand.

Africa Geek Circle Network’s own experience came up in the conversation. We had used Eve to list our summit and initially encountered outdated screens and features that appeared to be unavailable. Patrick said that feedback prompted changes to how product updates reached users.

When we later returned to revise the event details, those changes worked in real time. That experience does not establish how the platform performs for everyone. It does offer a concrete example of the team responding to a problem an organiser had actually faced.

There are also boundaries to what Eve currently handles. Anthony acknowledged that vendors still communicate with their own staff and delivery riders outside the platform. Bringing delivery coordination into Eve is an ambition. So are richer social features that help attendees share experiences and discover things they want to do.

Something worth leaving the house for

For Anthony, the longer-term goal reaches into how an event feels. He spoke about gatherings that become repetitive, where the organiser changes but the experience barely does. He wants Eve to help hosts give people something they will remember and want to return to.

Patrick brought that ambition back to someone looking for a place to start: a person in a new city, or someone who wants to go out but does not know what is happening or where they will feel comfortable.

There is plenty for the team to prove as the platform grows. But the problem that first caught its attention remains a useful measure of progress. Can a busy caterer keep separate bookings straight? Can an organiser find a dependable supplier when their usual contact is unavailable? Can guests get through the door without the evening starting in frustration?

Eve’s opportunity is in making those ordinary moments easier, so the people putting an event together have more time to make it worth attending.

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