Regulus Africa

Regulus Africa — African cross-border trade intelligence across 5 markets (Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, South Africa, Zimbabwe), 27 cities and 22 trade routes. Three layers with very different ownership: (1) crowdsourced supply-chain friction reports — border delays, customs friction and logistics conditions, verified by the merchant community, updated live; (2) fuel-price series from government sources; (3) forex rates on a 4-hour refresh. Plus AI 'defensive strategy' recommendations with confidence scores, cargo-consolidation matching across markets, and peer benchmarking.. Early-stage but archit…

Regulus Africa offers (Alternative, Supply Chain, Price, Geospatial) — Structured and route-dense rather than voluminous: 5 markets × 27 cities × 22 trade routes for friction reports (live-streamed, so the report count is the real metric and is unpublished), fuel prices on a government-source cadence, and forex on a 4-hour refresh (~6 observations per pair per day). The licensable object is the friction-report corpus, whose size is not disclosed..

Border-post and customs friction intelligence is the standout — a rare, ground-truth crowd-sourced series on how long cargo actually waits at named posts across 22 trade routes, which is what freight forwarders, FMCG distributors and cross-border trucking operators price into lead times and working capital. Also: FX and fuel exposure management for CFOs of importers and distributors (the stated audience), corridor-level logistics cost modelling, cargo-consolidation and empty-backhaul optimisation, inflation and supply-disruption nowcasting from delay and fuel signals, and benchmarking of border-reform programmes such as one-stop border posts.

Coverage spans Other, APAC; Airport & Marine Services, Data Processing & Outsourced Services; alternative, supply_chain, price, geospatial; fx, commodities, equities.