Domain scope
Explore enterprise size, sector, registration and workforce context in the published business records.
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Explore enterprise size, sector, registration and workforce context in the published business records.
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Published domain facts
Explore enterprise size, sector, registration and workforce context in the published business records.
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Preview samples & fields →Ownership cap remediation remains ongoing; a contractor size exception is disclosed. Workforce reconciliation and construction chronology remain open. Calibration is largely shared; Insurance, Finance and Health links are unpopulated. Business growth is not fully endogenous.
Review the source limits →Inspect synthetic company formation, ownership, sector, size and operating status. Workforce relationships apply where the release supplies employer links.
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FCTE models company formation, ownership, size, sector and operating status for over a million synthetic businesses — the same businesses that employ citizens, contract to build the city and own the land it sits on.
Every business row connects back to a real ward, a real owner (domestic or foreign), and — where linked — a real Employer with real workers. What it does not yet do is pretend to be more mature than it is: several genuine gaps are disclosed below, not hidden.
Lagos City Twin™ · 1940–2026
| Business name | Business sector | Business size | Ward name | Employee count | Business status | Owner link type | Has land ownership |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isheri-North Media | Media | MICRO | Isheri-North | 5 | SUSPENDED | Citizen | No |
| Obalende Trading Plc | Retail | LARGE | Obalende | 930 | DORMANT | Citizen | No |
| Ladipo Technology & Partners | Technology | SMALL | Ladipo | 16 | DORMANT | Citizen | No |
Showing 3 of 100 sample rows and 8 of 57 fields. “Not recorded” is a display label; downloads retain original values.
Supplied synthetic business name. No record represents a real company.
Original field: BusinessName
Example: Isheri-North Media
Source industry or economic sector assigned to the business.
Original field: Sector
Example: Media
Source business-size category, from MICRO through ENTERPRISE.
Original field: BusinessSize
Example: MICRO
Name of the business ward.
Original field: WardName
Example: Isheri-North
Workforce count supplied for this business. It is not a count of employment records in this sample or a verified join to a separate employment sample.
Original field: EmployeeCount
Example: 5
Source operating status. This field alone does not describe status changes through time.
Original field: BusinessStatus
Example: SUSPENDED
Source ownership category: Citizen, ForeignNational or Unowned. Do not assume every owner is a citizen.
Original field: OwnerLinkType
Example: Citizen
Source flag indicating business land-ownership context. 1 means yes, 0 means no.
Original field: HasLandOwnership
Example: No
BusinessIdBusiness referenceBusinessCodeBusiness codeBusinessNameBusiness nameTradingNameTrading nameRegistrationNoRegistration numberRegistrationDateRegistration dateBusinessTypeBusiness typeSectorCodeSector codeSectorBusiness sectorWardIdWard referenceWardNameWard nameWardIncomeMultiplierWard income multiplierWardInformalSectorRateWard informal sector rateEmployeeCountEmployee countAnnualRevenueBandAnnual revenue bandAnnualTurnoverAnnual turnoverBusinessSizeBusiness sizeIsRegisteredIs registeredIsTaxCompliantIs tax compliantIsEmployerIs employerIsActiveIs activeBusinessStatusBusiness statusClosureDateClosure dateOwnerLinkTypeOwner link typeOwnerCitizenIdOwner citizen referenceOwnerFullNameOwner full nameOwnerDOBOwner date of birthOwnerAgeOwner ageOwnerGenderOwner genderOwnerEthnicGroupIdOwner ethnic group referenceOwnerEthnicGroupOwner ethnic groupOwnerResidencyStatusOwner residency statusOwnerIsCurrentlyPhysicallyResidentOwner physically residentOwnerIsDeceasedOwner is deceasedOwnerDeathDateOwner death dateOwnerResidenceWardIdOwner residence ward referenceOwnerResidenceWardNameOwner residence ward nameSameWardAsResidenceSame ward as owner residenceOwnerHouseholdIdOwner household referenceOwnerHouseholdTypeOwner household typeOwnerHouseholdRoleOwner household roleOwnerHouseholdSizeOwner household sizeHasLandOwnershipHas land ownershipOwnedParcelCountOwned parcel countPrimaryParcelIdPrimary parcel referencePrimaryParcelLandUseTypePrimary parcel land use typePrimaryParcelMarketValueLocalPrimary parcel market value (local currency)PrimaryParcelTitleStatusPrimary parcel title statusIsConstructionContractorIs construction contractorContractorPermitCountContractor permit countContractorProjectCountContractor project countLatestPermitStatusLatest permit statusLatestPermitApprovalDateLatest permit approval dateLatestProjectStatusLatest project statusLatestProjectBudgetLocalLatest project budget (local currency)LatestProjectActualCostLocalLatest project actual cost (local currency)LatestProjectParcelIdLatest project parcel referenceInspect the published definitions and release context.
Disclosed limitation: the 17 linked Contract rows carry job titles (e.g. "House Help") drawn from Employment's own generic Employer-generation pool, not cross-validated against this business's MEDIA sector identity — see Limitations below.
Direct synthetic records from the current City Twin™ release. No record represents a real company.
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| Public entity family | Represents | Disclosure boundary |
| Enterprise identity | Synthetic business identity, geography and operating status | Physical identifiers and registration fields are controlled |
| Sector & size context | Industry, size and legal-form categories | Exact calibration shares and assignment weights are controlled |
| Ownership & operator context | Resident, household or institutional ownership context | Physical ownership keys and assignment logic are controlled |
| Business lifecycle | Formation, activity and closure context through time | Transition rules and generation model sequence are controlled |
| Business ID | BusinessName | Sector | RegistrationDate | Status |
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| Domain or context | Relationship and published scope |
| Demographics | Resident lifecycle context — ownership chronology is certified against age and life-event eligibility origin context supports city-specific aggregate ownership analysis; exact reweighting is controlled |
| Investor context | foreign-investor participation represented at the public semantic level |
| Ward / Household | city geography and household context inform aggregate business placement and scale |
| Employment | Employer (73.9% of employers resolved, Lagos combined) |
| Construction | BuildingPermit / Project links registered businesses into Lagos construction activity. |
| Insurance | InsuranceCompany (0 rows, Lagos) |
| Finance | TaxAccount / BudgetExpenditure (0 rows, Lagos) |
| Health | Facility (0 rows, Lagos) |
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Connections follow the published domain scope. Optional, contextual and planned relationships retain their stated limits below.
| Domain or context | Relationship and published scope |
| Demographics | Resident lifecycle context — ownership chronology is certified against age and life-event eligibility origin context supports city-specific aggregate ownership analysis; exact reweighting is controlled |
| Investor context | foreign-investor participation represented at the public semantic level |
| Ward / Household | city geography and household context inform aggregate business placement and scale |
| Employment | Employer (73.9% of employers resolved, Lagos combined) |
| Construction | BuildingPermit / Project links registered businesses into Lagos construction activity. |
| Insurance | InsuranceCompany (0 rows, Lagos) |
| Finance | TaxAccount / BudgetExpenditure (0 rows, Lagos) |
| Health | Facility (0 rows, Lagos) |
Striped Donkey V5.89 - 7 September 2026
Counts, prices and “live/today” certification statements reflect this dated edition. They are not a current rerun or offer. The current scope, known limits and accepted quote take priority.
Ownership cap remediation remains ongoing; a contractor size exception is disclosed. Workforce reconciliation and construction chronology remain open. Calibration is largely shared; Insurance, Finance and Health links are unpopulated. Business growth is not fully endogenous.
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FCTE Business represents company formation, ownership and operating status for the enterprises that anchor the wider city economy — most of them small, most of them owned by an ordinary citizen.
BusinessCode, BusinessName, a 16-value canonical sector category and one of 7 legal forms (BusinessType) — assigned a RegistrationDate anywhere from 1940 to 2026.
Owned by a domestic citizen (domestic-owner identity), a resident foreign investor (foreign-investor identity), or left unowned for STATE_OWNED / NGO forms — with a disclosed per-owner concentration cap.
MICRO through ENTERPRISE (BusinessSize), with workforce count and a modeled Revenue banded by sector and size tier.
ACTIVE, DORMANT, SUSPENDED or LIQUIDATED — including businesses that close because their owner died (a real, wired lifecycle event, not just a status flag).
16 canonical sectors, shared jurisdiction-agnostically, crosswalked to Lagos's own Employment sector vocabulary via SectorCrosswalk.
The same Business row can be referenced elsewhere as an Employer, a building contractor or a landowner — one identity, several real roles.
Every Business row is marked IsRegistered = 1 today — 100%, Lagos. This table does not represent the informal, unregistered economy; genuinely informal self-employment is modeled separately in Employment's SelfEmployment and InformalCluster tables, not here. Business models registered company formation, not street-level informal trade.
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Formation and ownership are genuinely modeled and temporally consistent. Day-to-day business change — growth, contraction, a voluntary wind-down unrelated to the owner — is not yet part of this engine, and this page says so rather than implying otherwise.
What is represented: Registration timing, operating status and ownership chronology are represented across the historical release. Public certification verifies lifecycle consistency; exact status probabilities, sampling dates, assignment steps and regression-guard design remain controlled.
What's planned, not modeled: organic growth or contraction in workforce count/Revenue over a business's own history, voluntary closure or bankruptcy independent of owner death, and re-registration after closure are not currently generated. A business's size and status today are effectively a snapshot taken once, not a lived history.
Review sector, ownership and geographic context.
This section describes the live Lagos release on its own terms: its scale, ownership signals, geography and the parts of the model that remain intentionally generic.
City-specific signals verified in the release:
Shared model assumptions — disclosed, not presented as city character:
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| Attribute | Lagos release |
| Top sector (RETAIL) | 22.02% |
| MICRO share | 54.97% |
| SOLE_PROPRIETORSHIP share | 55.08% |
| Distinct sectors in use | 16 of 16 |
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Business volume, registration timing and ownership eligibility are calibrated to city context and resident lifecycle constraints. Public pages expose the resulting distributions and certification outcomes; exact sizing ratios, sampling strategy, assignment sequence and guard design remain controlled.
The 1940–2026 generation epoch, verified live via MIN/MAX(RegistrationDate). CAC/NBS 2023 Lagos State Business Survey size mix (55/30/10/4/1).
Per-sector revenue-per-employee bands, derived from the sector/size assignment rather than independently sourced.
Business formation, sector mix, size class, ownership and registration timing are calibrated to cited city evidence and release-level realism checks. Exact weights and assignment logic remain controlled.
Individual synthetic assignments are generated under controlled domain rules. Exact sampling, assignment order and parameterization are not published.
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Enterprise-size distribution benchmark.
Documented commercial-sector settlement, reweighted with disclosed confidence levels.
16 canonical sector codes, shared across this jurisdiction.
Resident foreign-national investor pool, FDI-sector-capped.
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Ownership cap remediation remains ongoing; a contractor size exception is disclosed. Workforce reconciliation and construction chronology remain open. Calibration is largely shared; Insurance, Finance and Health links are unpopulated. Business growth is not fully endogenous.
Ownership cap remediation remains ongoing; a contractor size exception is disclosed. Workforce reconciliation and construction chronology remain open. Calibration is largely shared; Insurance, Finance and Health links are unpopulated. Business growth is not fully endogenous.
The one enterprise-tier business previously flagged outside the expected workforce-size band was traced to a deliberately-modeled historical state-contractor anchor record, not a generation method defect — the certification check has been updated with a named, disclosed exception rather than the underlying data being changed.
A per-owner business-ownership cap was found exceeded on both City Twins (a small number of synthetic citizens were linked to well over the intended maximum of 5 businesses each). A permanent enforcement step has been written and wired into the standard generation workflow so it runs on every future generation cycle; remediation of the existing release data is in progress.
Sector, size and legal-form composition still relies on a shared core calibration profile more than ideal city-specific differentiation. Public outcomes are disclosed; the underlying weight table and generation model parameters are not.
Business workforce context and Employment-domain headcount are not yet fully reconciled for every linked entity. The cross-domain relationship exists, but the two independently modeled measures are not certified as identical.
Some linked construction/business histories can violate intuitive ordering in the current release. The issue is disclosed as a temporal-certification gap without publishing exact record counts, identifiers or repair logic.
Several registered relationships into Insurance, Finance and Health remain unpopulated in the current release. They are treated as planned/registered interfaces, not functioning data paths.
Business status and size do not yet evolve through a fully endogenous growth/contraction model. Lifecycle change is limited to explicitly implemented events; exact generation-time assignment logic is controlled.
No synthetic business corresponds to a real company. Business names, owners and financials are statistically generated, not drawn from a real companies registry.
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The core realism claims hold up against sourced benchmarks. One structural finding and several deeper limitations are disclosed here — not hidden.
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The full certification check–11 structural battery plus a 6-check realism pass (certification check–R06) run live against Lagos release. All 11 structural checks pass.
A separate 6-check realism suite (certification check–R06) passes 5 PASS / 1 INFO on this City Twin™ today, with 0 FAIL. Revalidated live 2026-08-06.
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Published release reference · These recorded checks are not a current rerun.
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Business 0 · RETAIL sector · PRIVATE_LIMITED · registered 2000-06-06, 5 nominal employees.
A real, DOB-eligible domestic owner (DOB 1974-09-20, 25 at registration) — assigned by the same eligibility rule enforced everywhere in this engine, not a placeholder.
confirmed in the published source: 0 of 10,002 Lagos Employer rows carry a BusinessId — the relationship field exists, but nothing populates it today. A business's registered workforce can't yet be traced to its own Employer/Contract rows.
Business ownership (real, DOB-eligible owners) and Employer/Contract data (real, published rows) are each generated and certified independently — they just don't join to each other yet. Shown, not hidden.
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