Bring Your Own Question

Submit a real deal scenario. Receive an Afrimintel-shaped screening framework, anchored to the platform's published methodology and primary-source provenance.

STRUCTURED INTAKE v2.4.3 FOR INSTITUTIONAL USE
This page is the platform's structured on-ramp for institutional analysts, DFI investment officers, sovereign wealth allocators, strategic acquirers, family offices, and intelligence-firm researchers who want to test the platform on a real deal — not on a synthetic scenario. Submission is by structured form below; the form composes a structured email to nikesh@afrimintel.com and Nikesh responds personally within 48 hours. There is no API, no automated processing, no client-onboarding flow at this stage of the platform's build — the on-ramp is deliberately direct, with editorial responsibility at the receiving end.

What you receive in response

An Afrimintel-shaped screening framework typically including the following, scaled to the complexity of the question:

1. Decision-shape framing. The seven-to-eight questions a credit committee, capital committee, or investment officer at your institution-type would typically ask of this deal scenario. (Cf. the worked structures in the published Case Studies for Kabanga pre-FID, Manono disputed-tenure, and Loulo-Gounkoto post-settlement.)

2. Asset-level provenance pull. Where the asset is in the platform's intelligence-grade or research-grade dossier set: field-level provenance on reserves, resources, operator interest, recent events, and last-reviewed dates. Where the asset is not in scope: an explicit gap statement, with adjacent context the platform can surface, and the named primary sources outside Afrimintel that would close the gap.

3. Country-risk overlay. The published Country Risk Composite (30/25/25/20 Fraser/TI/RGI/EITI weighted) for the jurisdiction, with the four input scores displayed alongside, the EITI binarisation rule, the weight re-normalisation if any component is missing, and any active editorial overrides. Cf. /methodology/ for the full specification.

4. DCF / stress-test framework where economically meaningful. The platform's DCF Test Battery v1.0 is anchored to the Kamoa-Kakula reconciliation suite. Where operator FS economics are public, a stress-test scenario set can be constructed (long-run consensus / conservative / downside / tail-risk / premium). The output is Derived under the Quality Standard with explicit confidence range.

5. Trigger conditions / pathway analysis where decision shape requires. For disputed-tenure assets, post-settlement assets, restructuring scenarios, or any decision where the constraint is governance/legal rather than geological/economic, the framework includes explicit trigger-condition tables (cf. Manono and Loulo-Gounkoto case studies).

6. Explicit honest-gap statements. What Afrimintel does NOT do for this question — IE commission, legal opinion, sovereign credit analysis, real-time price feeds, regulatory clearance, sanctions screening, etc. — itemised so your institution's other workstreams know exactly where the platform's output stops and where commissioned advisory or in-house work begins.

7. Counterparty-disclosure header. Every response carries the same disclosure carried in published case studies: no commercial relationship with any party named. Where the platform has no relationship and no engagement, this is stated; where the platform has had a relationship, this is disclosed.

Worked example of how the form structures the question

Institution context.
Institution type: Multilateral DFI (Investment Officer)
Role / function: Credit committee analyst, Critical Minerals desk
Reachable at: [analyst@institution.example]

Deal scenario.
Jurisdiction: Tanzania
Commodity: Nickel (Class I sulphide)
Asset / target name (if disclosable): [optional]
Deal stage: Pre-FID, mid-2026 target
Decision type: Debt participation in multi-source financing package
Time horizon: 8-week credit committee preparation cycle

Specific question.
Should our institution take debt participation in the Kabanga Nickel financing package alongside DFC, EXIM, JOGMEC, and the commercial syndicate being assembled by Société Générale? At what tranche size, with what political-risk-insurance overlay, and against what conservative-case nickel price scenario?

Confidentiality.
Submission and response held confidentially by editorial responsibility. Response may be referenced anonymously in subsequent platform documentation if you consent (you can decline).

Additional context.
Our institution has prior exposure to Tanzanian sovereign credit through unrelated infrastructure work; Indonesian laterite oversupply analysis is in our internal Q1 2026 research; we have not previously taken Class I nickel sulphide exposure in Africa.

→ The platform's structured response would address each of the seven questions in the published Kabanga Pre-FID Investment Brief, calibrated to multilateral-DFI debt-participation perspective specifically, with the institution's prior exposure and internal research context surfaced where relevant.

Submit your scenario

Institution context

Used to calibrate the response to relevant decision shape
Optional — e.g. "Credit committee analyst, Critical Minerals desk" or "Head of Mining, M&A team"
Email at which you'd like to receive the response. Held confidentially.

Deal scenario

African country or cross-border province where the asset sits
Primary commodity; multi-commodity deals listable as e.g. "Cu-Co" or "Li-Sn-Ta"
Optional. If your scenario is on a specific named asset and you can disclose it, the response will be sharper. If not, leave blank and describe the asset profile in additional context.
When does your decision need to land?

Specific question

The clearer the question, the sharper the response. Frame it as your credit committee chair / capital committee chair would frame it.

Confidentiality / disclosure preferences

Additional context

Prior institutional exposure to the jurisdiction or commodity; internal research already completed; specific constraints (mandate, exposure limits, ESG, sanctions screening, sovereign-credit position); related deals in your pipeline.

The button opens your email client with a structured pre-populated message to nikesh@afrimintel.com. You review and send. Editorial responsibility at the receiving end. Response within 48 hours.

What this on-ramp is, and what it is not

Is. A deliberate, direct, editorial-attention on-ramp for institutional analysts who want the platform shaped against a real question. The platform is currently in beta — there is no automated workflow, no API, no client-onboarding flow at this stage. The form composes a structured email; Nikesh responds personally. This is the workflow a senior reviewer would expect from a research product whose discipline depends on editorial responsibility.

Is not. A commercial sales funnel. There is no automated upsell, no enrichment of submitted data for marketing, no third-party processing. Submitted scenarios are held under the disclosure preference selected. The Counterparty Extension discipline applies to anything that flows from the response: the platform makes no claim of partnership, customer relationship, or commissioned engagement on the basis of an intake submission. If the relationship evolves, the audit log records it.