How to work with us
Scoped to the mandate, not to a tier list.
Reports have a published price and a card checkout. The platform is subscribed, services are engaged, and what those cost depends on coverage, seats, integration, governance and the decision in scope — so we scope them with you rather than guess.
Packages
Five ways institutions work with us.
Reports are bought on the page. Everything else is a starting point, and the scope is set in the conversation.
Research access
Individual analysts and small teams
From $1,500 per report
Flagship reports are bought one at a time, by card, from the report page. No account, no call, and the PDF arrives the moment payment clears.
- Single-user licence $1,500 per flagship — one named reader, card checkout, VAT handled, PDF in minutes
- Team licence $3,500 for three named readers; enterprise $6,000 for up to ten — by card or on invoice, each with a 20-minute read-out with the series editor
- Every flagship shows its first pages free, and sends them as a PDF sample for a work email
- Need more readers later? Upgrade within 30 days and pay only the difference
- Quarterly briefs, published open
- Africa Signal Check by email, Monday, Wednesday and Friday: free, with every call in full for subscribers
Most common
Platform
Investment and risk teams
Live ISI and METI across Kilwa’s covered markets, with Zawadi and the full explainability layer.
- Everything in Research access
- Live ISI scores and METI entry windows
- Multilingual Sentiment Pulse
- Zawadi AI natural-language queries
- SHAP decomposition and model cards
- Role-based access for your team
Services
Institutions with a decision to defend
Advisory and managed intelligence across five service lines, delivered as retainers, scoped projects or subscriptions and priced to the mandate.
- Capital allocation, deal and portfolio intelligence
- Risk, resilience and regulatory intelligence
- Market entry and growth strategy
- Sovereign capital and investment promotion
- Sovereign AI and public data systems
- Deal Room, Briefing Engine and Factbook delivered inside the engagement
Enterprise
Institutions with governance requirements
Platform access with the security, integration and support posture large institutions require.
- Everything in Platform
- SSO and advanced access control
- Audit trails and governance reporting
- API access and data integration
- Security questionnaire and vendor onboarding support
- Dedicated customer success
Sovereign
Governments and public institutions
National-scale AI capability built with the institutions that will own and operate it.
- Sovereign AI deployment
- National language model capability
- Local capacity building and transfer
- Investment promotion intelligence
- Co-branded delivery with partner institutions
- Can I buy a single report without talking to anyone?
- Yes. Every flagship on sale has a purchase button on its page. Checkout runs on Payhip with a card, VAT is handled, no account is needed, and the PDF is delivered the moment payment clears, with a receipt. A single-user licence is $1,500 for one named reader, a team licence is $3,500 for three named readers and an enterprise licence is $6,000 for up to ten, each reader receiving their own copy; team and enterprise licences include a 20-minute read-out with the series editor. If your institution needs an invoice or a purchase order instead, use the invoice request on the same page and we raise it the same day. The first pages of every report are free as a sample, and a licence can be upgraded within 30 days for the difference in price.
- Why don't you publish prices for the other packages?
- Because platform, enterprise, services and sovereign engagements differ materially by coverage universe, seat count, integration depth, governance requirements and the decision in scope. Rather than publish a number that would be wrong for most institutions, we scope the package against what you actually need. Reports are the exception: they carry a published licence price and a checkout.
- How is coverage defined?
- ISI and METI are computed uniformly across every market Kilwa covers, and every subscriber in a tier receives the same published scores. What a package sets is seat count, access tier and integration depth — not a different set of numbers.
- Can our risk team review the methodology before we commit?
- Yes, and we encourage it. Methodology, the full input table with provenance flags, and the robustness testing are published with each flagship report, and we'll walk your due-diligence team through the models directly.
- Do you support procurement and vendor onboarding?
- Yes. Enterprise engagements include security questionnaire support and vendor onboarding. Kilwa holds SBA certification as an SDVOSB, which is relevant for federal and set-aside pathways.
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Let's scope it properly.
Tell us which markets you follow and your governance requirements, and we'll come back with a package that fits.