Capital needs conviction. Projects need rigour.

Not today: our revenue comes from advisory mandates, which guarantees our independence of judgement. When we occasionally co-invest in a file, it is stated explicitly, both on the portfolio entry and to the investors concerned. Our fourth line is post-investment monitoring: we keep the books, we go on site, and we report to the investor. We manage no capital on behalf of third parties, and we will not before we hold the status for it.

The first step is free: the Financeability Index, online, in three minutes. After that, our prices are published — the large majority of our offers show their amount or range on their own page. The financeability assessment is a 400,000 FCFA fixed fee. Only success-based mandates — the financing mandate and the introduction — are priced as a percentage of the deal: their amount depends on the deal itself, and we only earn if it happens.

Yes — it is in fact the most common situation, and no ground for refusal. Formalisation is the first step of our structuring support. Start with the Index: it will tell you precisely where you stand and what to fix first.

We decline more files than we present, and we say which: the Services page carries a section titled “What we do not support”, with five cases and their reasons. In short: import trading without local processing, residential real estate, projects whose activity cannot be observed on site, and any attestation covering a file we produced ourselves. Our selectivity is exactly what investors buy.

Your submission is readable by our team only and never passed to a third party without your written consent. Sensitive documents do not travel through the public form. On the investor side, access to reserved resources is authenticated, authorised account by account, and logged.

That is what post-investment monitoring is for: we keep the company’s books, reconcile its figures against what we observe on site, and write to you every month — time-stamped and geolocated photographs included. Your funds never pass through us — we are your eyes on the ground, not your banker.

For a file already in order: four to nine months between the start of the mandate and closing. If the company must first be brought up to standard, add the timelines of our first line — three to six weeks per engagement, run in parallel where possible. Anyone promising faster is setting you up for disappointment.

On a fundraising mandate, part of our fee is tied to success: if you don’t raise, we don’t collect it. That is also why we are selective at the door — we don’t commit our time, or your money, to a file we don’t believe in.

It is our attestation offer: identity verified at the registry, accounts attested by an external chartered accountancy firm, activity observed on site, a score out of one hundred and a reasoned opinion with its reservations named. The company commissions it; the banker or the investor is the recipient. We never passport a company whose accounts or file we produced ourselves — one does not attest one’s own work.

First-line mandates start within a fortnight. Attestation work and capital transactions require prior set-up — agreements with the chartered accountancy firm, regulatory scope, the timetable of the deal itself — and we give you the real lead time at the first conversation. We would rather quote a date we will meet than one that suits us.