Document marketplace
The marketplace to store, monetize, discover, and use documents—so opportunities are never lost to missing proof.
The Problem
People undervalue documents—even monetizable educational and business records—until they are lost and opportunities are missed. Retrieving them later is often nearly impossible.
Our Solution
Tshijuka is a two-sided document ecosystem—not storage-only or retrieval-only. Holders and seekers meet on one marketplace with private or public listings, controlled access, fair fees, and documents linked to real opportunities.
Ecosystem
Most tools serve holders or seekers alone. Tshijuka connects both sides with storage, discovery, payments, verification, and opportunity tools in one marketplace.
Cloud lockers focus on storage. Retrieval services focus on getting copies back. Verification tools focus on checking credentials. Each solves one slice—holders and seekers still meet elsewhere.
If you have documents: list privately or publicly, set fees, and monetize responsibly. If you want documents: discover, view, request access, and use verified records for admissions, jobs, licensing, and funding—on the same platform.
Upload up to 100 MB per document file—larger per-file headroom than typical Google Drive upload limits for heavy scans and multi-page PDFs, so holders can list complete records without splitting files.
Marketplace
List, discover, verify, and act—built for a two-sided document economy.
Holders upload as private (direct request) or public (platform-wide). Seekers browse and request.
Secure payments, approved access, and traceable status.
Use verified documents for admissions, jobs, licensing, and funding.
Store, price, and monetize documents you hold—using freemium and premium listings.
View listings, request access, and qualify for opportunities.
Freemium & premium model
Tshijuka uses a freemium and premium model. Everyone who has documents shares part of their library for free so the marketplace stays accessible.
Dedicate 20% of your documents to freemium—out of every 10 you list, 2 are free and 8 are premium.
Out of 10 documents
Free access for seekers you mark as eligible—your 20% contribution to underprivileged groups and open discovery.
Fee-based listings where you set fair prices for access, verification, or delivery.
Categories
Three document categories—each with public marketplace listings and private secure storage.
Research papers, textbooks, study guides, lecture notes, online course materials.
School certificates, academic transcripts, diplomas, personal notes, unpublished research.
Business plans, contract templates, financial templates, market research reports, investor pitch decks.
Company financial records, confidential contracts, internal reports, customer data records, family business transition plans, testament/succession plans, agricultural datasets for prevention and AI model training.
Books, novels, comics, sheet music, digital artwork, published screenplays.
Unpublished manuscripts, original artwork files, draft screenplays, private commissions, creative drafts.
Document criteria
Existing in digital or physical form, a document is "a structured amount of data that can be managed as a unit" (ISO, 2011).
Digital or physical structured data managed as one unit.
Proves identity, qualifications, eligibility, or compliance.
Held or issued by a trusted school, business, or institution.
Private (direct request to holder) or public; view by default; download by uploader rules. Private access without the holder’s approval is allowed only for verified heirs after the uploader’s death, on platform review.
May carry fair fees when access or verification is needed.
Educational, business, and creative—public marketplace or private storage.
Monetizable
Many holders do not know which records they can list for a fair fee. On Tshijuka, a document is monetizable when all of the following apply:
Meets the form, purpose, issuer, access, and category criteria above—not just any random file.
Falls in educational, business, or creative records—the core marketplace categories.
You issued the record, represent the issuing body, or have clear authority to list and share it.
Someone would pay—or legitimately needs verified access, replacement, or timely delivery.
Fees are honest; no fraud, forgery, or stolen records. Access rules (private, public, view, download) are clear.
Can be uploaded within platform limits, stored private or public, and fulfilled through approved requests and payments.
Opportunities
Match verified documents to scholarships, jobs, training, and funding—with optional reminders after you join.