Labour mobility and skills
INSPIRE AFRICA
One platform family for labour mobility, five surfaces
- Client
- INSPIRE AFRICA (Inspire Africa Platform Ltd)
- Sector
- Labour mobility and skills
- Year
- 2026
- Scope
- Technology partner and CTO function: infrastructure, public website, candidate portal, central back office, programme portal and its admin dashboard
- Stack
- Laravel, Filament, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, nginx
- Countries
- UK, Kenya, Germany, Uganda
- Role
- Technology partner and CTO function
01 / The brief
A UK-registered labour-mobility organisation runs its website, candidate readiness portal, staff back office and Kenya to Germany programme portal on one platform family we built and run.
Challenge
INSPIRE AFRICA prepares African candidates for work abroad and connects them with employers. Candidates, employers, staff and programme teams each needed their own front door, but the records behind them had to be one set of truth, with strict access control over personal data.
Approach
Our founder serves as INSPIRE AFRICA's CTO, and COTE acts as its technology partner. We moved the domain from Wix to a VPS we manage, then built one central back office that every portal signs in against. Each surface does one job for one audience, and personal data stays behind role-based access, two-factor sign-in and an audit log.
Inside the system
01 / Home screen
02 / Further down the home page
03 / Further down again
02 / What we built
What we built
- 01inspireafricans.com moved from Wix to a COTE-managed VPS with nginx, SSL and DKIM email authentication
- 02Candidate readiness portal in Next.js: profile, CV and documents, find work, applications, messages, plans and a marketplace of preparation services
- 03AI CV parsing that fills structured profile fields for the candidate to check
- 04Central Database in Laravel and Filament: one login, two modules (Central Database and Community Vault)
- 05Role-based access for 29 staff job titles, two-factor sign-in and audit logging
- 06Employer (Roster) and candidate (Readiness) portals authenticate against the central back office
- 07Kenya to Germany programme portal for skilled artisans, in English and Swahili
- 08Eligibility checker, interest registration, a five-step process guide and worker-rights information
- 09A form to report anyone asking candidates for fees
- 10An admin dashboard for the programme team
03 / On a phone
The same system, on a phone.
Captured at 390 pixels wide, the width of a typical Android phone.
PlatformOne family, 5 surfaces
Five front doors. One set of records.
Public sites are linked. Staff and programme back offices are private by design, so we describe them and do not link them.
- [01]Public
Public website
inspireafricans.com on a COTE-managed VPS: nginx, SSL and DKIM email authentication.
- [02]Public
Candidate readiness portal
Next.js front end for job seekers: profile, CV and documents, find work, applications, messages, plans and preparation services, with AI CV parsing.
- [03]Private
Central Database
Laravel and Filament back office behind one login, with Central Database and Community Vault modules, role-based access for 29 job titles, two-factor sign-in and audit logging.
Staff only, not public
- [04]Public
KE-DE programme portal
Programme portal built for INSPIRE AFRICA: Kenya to Germany labour mobility for skilled artisans, in English and Swahili, with an eligibility checker and a fee-report form.
- [05]Private
KE-DE admin dashboard
Back office for the programme team to review registrations and reports.
Programme team only, not public
Outcome
Live and in use. We publish outcome figures once the client has approved them.
A client reference is available on request after a discovery call.
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