Importers price their inputs off numbers they cannot verify. We collect those numbers at origin — prices, producer capacity, export documentation — on the goods you actually buy, and put a report in your inbox every week.
Published price indices tell you where a commodity closed in London. They do not tell you what a cooperative outside Yaoundé will actually accept, whether it can fill your tonnage, or whether its paperwork will survive a customs inspection. That gap is where importers lose margin. We close it — across the four areas below, on whichever goods sit on your own buying list.
What producers are actually asking this week, by region and quality grade — not last quarter's average.
Volumes available now, lead times, and which producers have surplus they need to move quickly.
Export permits, tax clearance, EUDR traceability. Which counterparties have it, and which will delay your cargo.
Harvest calendars, seasonal price movement, and the windows where waiting two weeks costs or saves you real money.
Name one commodity and one corridor — whatever you actually buy, not whatever is listed on this page. We build a report against your specification and send it at no cost. If it changes how you buy, the weekly subscription follows.
These are the lanes we trade on our own account, and they are deliberately few — we open one only where a market has a durable surplus and its counterpart a durable deficit. Not a seasonal spread, not a bad harvest somewhere: a structural gap that is still there next year. What we track is a separate question, set by what you buy rather than by this list.
Goods listed here are representative, not exhaustive — they are what we trade, not the limit of what we track. If what you buy is not on this page, it is still very likely something we can report on. Send us the specification.
Most counterparties start with intelligence and stay there. Some want us to find the buyer, carry the paperwork, or take the cargo ourselves. We work at whichever level the trade needs.
You set the scope: the goods you buy, the origins you buy from, your specifications and volumes. We report against it weekly — prices, producer capacity, compliance status and timing signals — with direct access to us for follow-up. If part of your buying sits outside Africa, we cover those origins too. Your first report is free.
We identify the counterparty, verify their standing, and negotiate price, specs and Incoterms on your behalf. You contract directly; we earn a commission on completion.
Phytosanitary certificates, certificates of origin, EUDR traceability files, freight booking and inspection coordination — the paperwork that turns a handshake into a discharged cargo.
For selected flows we take title ourselves: sourcing at origin, arranging finance and freight, and delivering to the buyer's port under our own contract.
Data on African commodities is usually collected by people who have never stood at a farm gate. Ours is not. We were built on both sides — a producing family at origin, and formal training in the trading capital of the world.
Name the goods, the specification and the volume you move in a normal year — whatever they are. We come back within 48 hours with a sample report on your corridor — price range at origin, who can supply it, and what the documentation looks like.