Our Expertise.
We transform supply chain opacity into strategic visibility. Intelligence, verification, and resilience for the commodities sector.
01. Anticipate.
Understanding exposure before it becomes disruption.
Risk in commodity origins almost never appears without warning. Political pressure, institutional fragility, informal power structures, social tension, environmental constraints — these factors evolve over time and leave traces. When read correctly, they show where an operation is becoming exposed.
Our role is not to predict events, but to interpret how local conditions change and what those changes imply for supply continuity, pricing pressure and operational decisions.
Reality Check
Road closures, regulatory shifts or local unrest are rarely “unexpected”. They are the result of dynamics that are visible months in advance. Operating without this visibility means relying on chance — and chance is not a risk strategy.
The value is not reacting to a crisis, but having already integrated it before it reaches your organisation.
02. Operations.
Data verification, supplier assessment and fraud detection
Commodity supply chains such as coffee and cocoa are fragmented, layered and often opaque. Between what is declared, what is actually produced, and what is shipped, structural gaps are common.
Inconsistent yields, documents that do not align, quality deviations between samples and shipments — these are not anomalies. They are signals.
Our work focuses on confronting declared data with operational reality: volumes, capacity, behaviour and incentives. This is where exposure becomes visible.
Reality Check
- In rising markets, the risk is supplier default.
- In falling markets, the risk is quality dilution.
Confidence is built through evidence, not assumptions.
03. Resilience
Continuity, mitigation and operational stability : designing continuity in volatile environment.
Years of cost optimisation have produced supply chains that are efficient, but fragile. Recent decades — pandemics, port congestion, strikes, weather shocks, geopolitical events — have exposed the limits of systems designed only for stability.
Resilience is the ability to absorb disruption without breaking operations: alternative routes, diversified entry points, realistic buffers, and contingency planning grounded in actual constraints. This is engineering, not optimism.
Reality Check
A signed contract does not guarantee delivery. A single point of failure — one road, one port, one transporter — is enough to compromise an entire season.
Resilience turns a major disruption for others into a manageable incident for you.
04. Compliance
Regulatory alignment and market access : Compliance as a strategic licence to operate.
EUDR, due diligence obligations, sanctions, ESG scrutiny — regulatory pressure is no longer theoretical. It acts as a filter.
Compliance is not an administrative exercise. It determines whether your flows, data and counterparties can withstand scrutiny — from regulators, banks and buyers alike. Beyond penalties, the real risk is exclusion: loss of market access, financing constraints, insurance withdrawal.
Reality Check
An operator unable to demonstrate the integrity of its commodity supply chain is not simply “non-compliant”. It becomes a banking and counterparty risk. Without verifiable proof — not declarations — access to capital and markets erodes rapidly.
Compliance is not a cost centre. It is the condition for continuing to operate.
Expertise is nothing without integrity.
You have seen what we do. Now understand how we operate. We answer the hard questions before you even ask them: conflict of interest, data sovereignty, and ROI.