(CONSULTING)
Serious engagements for serious problems.
Strategy sprints, advisory retainers, and institutional mandates. For founders and operators who need more than a session — and know it.
Start with a diagnostic →(ENGAGEMENTS)
Four ways to engage.
STRATEGY SPRINT
A focused 2–6 week engagement on one problem. Market entry, GTM, fundraising readiness, or brand strategy. We go deep, fast.
ADVISORY RETAINER
Ongoing fractional strategic advisor. Monthly sessions, async access, and quarterly reviews. For founders who want a thinking partner, not a consultant who disappears after the deck.
INSTITUTIONAL MANDATE
Corporate programs, government engagements, DFI relationships, and ecosystem-level projects. For organisations that need sustained intelligence and strategic execution at scale.
AGENCY ENGAGEMENT
Full-service brand, campaign, and web engagements for African businesses via Ascent Creative. Strategy, identity, execution — under one roof.
(PROCESS)
Every engagement starts the same way.
Diagnostic
A 45-minute session to identify the real constraint. Book at /office-hours.
Proposal
Within 5 days, a scoped proposal: what we do, how long, what you leave with.
Engagement
We start. You get a strategic partner who has done this in African markets before.
(DIFFERENTIATION)
Why this is different.
Africa-native intelligence, not adapted frameworks.
- Built from 5 years of African market pattern recognition
- Client work across Lagos, Nairobi, Accra, Kigali
- Islamic finance, VC intelligence, and GTM strategy as integrated capabilities, not siloed services
Execution, not just advice.
- Strategy sprints end with an executable plan, not a slide deck
- Agency arm (Ascent Creative) means we can build what we advise
- Tech and AI builds available when the problem requires it
(FIT)
Who this is for.
African founders preparing to raise or scale to new markets
Foreign companies entering African markets who need local intelligence
Corporate and institutional clients building Africa strategies
Operators who have outgrown generic consulting and need Africa-specific expertise
Not sure if this is you? Start with a diagnostic session. →
(WHAT CLIENTS SAY)
From the field.
We came in thinking we had a product problem. The diagnostic session reframed it as a distribution problem — and the sprint gave us a go-to-market we could actually execute. We closed our first anchor client in Kigali three weeks after the engagement ended.
We had the funding and the ambition but we didn't understand the regulatory and distribution landscape across three markets. The retainer gave us a thinking partner who knew the terrain — not someone who had to learn Africa on our dime.
(COMMON QUESTIONS)
What founders usually ask
Start with a diagnostic.
45 minutes. One constraint identified. A clear next step. No commitment to a larger engagement required.