Insight

Periplus Research provides relationship-based intelligence and strategic advice where outcomes depend on realities structurally inaccessible to conventional analysis.

Our proprietary interlocutor networks operate at ministerial, provincial, and coastal levels across 75 jurisdictions in Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia. Through native-language dialogue and ethnographic, governance, and political-regulatory analysis, we surface insights that address the gap between what formal channels reveal and what implementation requires.

Periplus preserves what algorithms cannot access: the tacit knowledge embedded in illegible power, relationship networks, and cultural codes that determine outcomes. We work selectively with institutional clients requiring integrity, discretion, and an unconflicted cross-cultural approach.

Institutions

• Global corporations navigating governance challenges and regulatory asymmetries
• Sovereign wealth funds positioning across strategic resources and market transitions
• Private equity and infrastructure funds entering complex, high-context economies
• Development finance institutions ensuring integrity in governance-sensitive contexts
• Investment banks conducting due diligence on M&A and distressed asset transactions
• Law firms building case theory for international arbitration and frontier litigation
• Litigation funders mapping political protection, concealed assets, and enforcement