Architecting Digital Trust: A Relational Deep Dive into the LocalHands Prisma Schema

Subtitle: How to model a secure, escrow-based marketplace for emerging economies using Prisma and PostgreSQL. Schema. In my previous article on Medium, I discussed the sociotechnical challenge of Information Poverty in the African gig economy. But as engineers, we know that solving social problems requires more than vision it requires a robust, type-safe, and scalable data architecture. For LocalHands, I chose Prisma ORM with PostgreSQL. The goal was to build a "Technical Source of Truth" that c