Where Afrimintel fits

DFIs use three kinds of firm: global data publishers (S&P, Wood Mackenzie, GlobalData), technical & advisory consultancies (SRK, DMT, Kumi), and ESG-scoring platforms (Digbee). Afrimintel is a challenger to the first, a complement to the second, and has its one genuine head-to-head with the third — and it competes head-to-head with the publishers and consultancies on neither's core game.

Broad market data & forecasts Deep asset / advisory Digbee — ESG scoring the one genuine head-to-head Global data publishers S&P · Wood Mac · GlobalData • Global breadth, all commodities • Forecasts, pipelines, equipment recs • Shallow on African juniors / pre-FID • $100–250k+ enterprise seats Technical & advisory firms SRK · DMT · Kumi • CPRs, FS, geological models • EIAs, valuations, OECD sourcing DD • Per-project, licensed, expensive • Kumi lane = Afrimintel COI stop Afrimintel decision-grade Africa synthesis • Africa-deep, pre-FID to operating • Bankability + risk + screening • + glass-box ESG / safeguards index • Sourced / Derived / Absent • Platform, subscription The job none of them does cleanly: Screen & triage African assets — bankable? jurisdiction / counterparty risk? aligned? — BEFORE a DFI spends $X00k on a deep SRK / DMT / Kumi review or a $250k S&P / GlobalData seat. Verification discount: the global publishers under-cover & discount African data — Afrimintel closes the gap.

Honest head-to-head

FirmTheir core gameAfrimintel vs them
S&P Global MIGlobal asset screening, capital costs, metals forecasts; enterprise terminalChallenger Behind on breadth; ahead on Africa-depth, decision-synthesis, glass-box provenance, price. S&P is global-but-shallow on Africa.
Wood MackenzieForecasting to 2050, cost curves, commercial advisoryDeliberate non-overlap Afrimintel does not compete on forecasting — modelled-not-Sourced collides with the standard. Their forward views are theirs.
SRK ConsultingTechnical DD, geological modelling, bankable feasibilityComplement Afrimintel does not do technical DD. It verifies & normalises the disclosure SRK produces — feeds the DD, never replaces the CPR.
DMT GroupCPRs, valuations, EIAsComplement Same line: Afrimintel indexes & verifies what DMT signs; it does not issue CPRs, valuations, or EIAs.
GlobalDataMacro intelligence, equipment records, global project pipelinesChallenger Same camp as S&P / Wood Mac: behind on global breadth + equipment/pipeline volume, ahead on Africa-decision-depth, synthesis, glass-box. Equipment records are out of scope — ceded.
Kumi ConsultingResponsible sourcing, OECD-aligned supply-chain DD, socio-economic evaluationComplement + COI stop Advisory you don't replace — and its OECD / conflict-minerals lane is a hard Afrimintel COI stop (data-layer-only). Cede responsible-sourcing DD; offer only the upstream jurisdiction/counterparty risk in /screening/.
Digbee ESGMining ESG scoring — assured, member-submitted, performance-oriented, matureGenuine head-to-head The one real overlap. Afrimintel = glass-box + independent-of-submission (reads public primary disclosure from outside) vs their assured-but-proprietary depth. They're deeper; Afrimintel is more transparent & external. Not "better" — different, and earlier (1 of 7 scored).

The objection — and the answer

"We already license S&P and we hire SRK — why you?"

S&P doesn't cover African juniors and pre-FID assets at decision depth; SRK is per-project and far too expensive to screen forty assets; and neither hands you one verifiable decision view. Afrimintel is the layer that decides which assets are worth their money — complementary to existing spend, not rip-and-replace.

Comparative positioning from public-record descriptions of each firm's offering; no commercial relationship with any named firm is claimed or implied. See also the verification-discount thesis.