Critical Frontiers produces decision intelligence for consequential decisions in complex African markets.
Formal records, published data and standard due diligence do not always explain how a market actually works.
A focused intelligence product built around a specific decision.
A bounded evidence problem investigated within a larger engagement.
Evidence requirements follow the decision rather than a fixed report format.
Establish what must be known.
Triangulate documentary and primary evidence.
Make confidence visible alongside conclusions.
Methodological principle
★★★★★
The harder the information is to verify, the more important the method becomes.
Engagement principle
★★★★★
Bring us the decision and the evidence gap; CF diagnoses the investigation.
[COMMERCIAL TERMS ARE DEFINED AFTER THE SCOPE AND EVIDENCE PLAN ARE AGREED.]
[NO STANDARD GUARANTEE IS PUBLISHED. OUTPUTS DISTINGUISH ESTABLISHED, CORROBORATED, INDICATIVE AND UNRESOLVED FINDINGS.]
If yes, you probably do not need CF.
That is where a CF investigation may become useful.
No. Bring the unresolved question and the point where the evidence stops being reliable.
Tell us the decision you are facing, what you already know, and where the evidence stops being reliable.