Commissioned briefings, written to your question.
Where a decision needs more than a conversation but less than a full field engagement. Scoped, fixed-fee, and delivered as a document you can circulate internally.
Not a report you buy off a shelf. One written because you asked something specific.
Generic country reports are already free and mostly repeat each other. What is not available anywhere is an answer to your question, checked on the ground, by people who will put their name to it.
Sector briefing
How a sector actually works in Nigeria: who controls distribution, what margins look like in practice, where the regulatory and FX friction sits, and who the credible operators are. For a firm deciding whether to enter at all.
Corridor briefing
A trade route examined end to end — landed cost, haulage, port dwell, clearance, and the failure points. Written for importers and exporters modelling a route they have not run.
Regulatory pathway
The licence and permit sequence for one specific activity, priced step by step, with the timelines we would plan for rather than the statutory ones.
A document, and a call to walk your team through it.
- Findings
- What we established, how, and when. Sources named where naming them is safe.
- Gaps
- What could not be established and why. In this market that section usually carries more weight than the findings.
- Field record
- Where the brief includes site work, dated photographs and notes from our staff on the ground.
- Recommendation
- What we would do in your position, stated plainly — including when that is nothing.
- Debrief
- A call with whoever needs to interrogate it, at no additional fee.
Quoted before we start, and not contingent on what we find.
Fees depend on scope, the number of cities involved, and how much field work the question requires. A desk-based regulatory pathway sits at the lower end; a multi-state sector briefing with site visits sits well above it. You receive the figure in writing after the calibration call and approve it before any work begins.
- Fixed fee, agreed in advance. No hourly billing and no revised invoice at the end.
- No commission, percentage or equity in anything we assess.
- Adverse findings are reported on the same terms as favourable ones.
- The briefing is yours. We do not resell it, and we do not write the same question for a competitor.
Tell us the question. We will tell you whether it can be answered and what it costs.
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