Institutional Foundation

Periplus Research—named for the navigational manuscripts that charted the unknown—builds on over a decade of operational experience in under-examined markets, applying immersive methodology developed across hundreds of commercial and sovereign engagements.

We have advised European foreign ministries in Track II peace negotiations spanning civil and interstate conflict. Leading corporations and institutional investors rely on us in strategic sectors, with particular depth in telecommunications and infrastructure, ports and maritime, minerals, and energy transitions. Our selective approach enables focused engagement in each mandate.

Our senior advisors include experienced professionals from global industry, finance, and strategic policy, enabling peer-level engagement through collaborative delivery based on sustainable engagement and respect for local knowledge systems.

Our approach preserves essential practices displaced by digital mediation—systematising tacit knowledge through relationship-based networks and cultural codes that cannot be replicated algorithmically. This cognitive model scales through deepened relationships, anticipating how critical decisions are made where formal structures diverge from actual dynamics—surfacing insights that conventional frameworks structurally cannot address. These relationship-derived insights compound through systematic application.

Periplus operates as an independent advisory firm with complementary partners. Having developed specialised network assessment capabilities through extensive mandates across the top-tier advisory sector, we provide unconflicted insight and advice with absolute discretion.

Governance & Ethics

Our interlocutor networks operate under rigorous confidentiality and ethical protocols aligned with UK, US, EU, and international legislation, calibrated for complex multi-party engagements. We maintain operational neutrality through documented procedures validated by external counsel, in coordination with client compliance teams. This enables us to preserve an architecture of human relationships that span continents and cultures.