Industries & practices
Every sector, every function, one engine calibrated to each.
The leading strategy firms organise as a two-axis matrix: who the client is, and what problem is solved. We offer the full matrix. The engine stays the same; what changes between sectors is calibration: sources, domain corpus, KPI weighting, competitor taxonomy, regulator map and language.
- Sectors
- 17
- Functional practices
- 13
- Private-equity stages
- 8
Sector deep dives.
For each sector: the KPIs the engine scores, where AI pays first, and what we have already done there.
Banking & payments
DeliveredRetail, business, corporate and investment banking; payments, fintech and mobile money.
KPIs the engine scores
NIM, cost-to-income, CET1, loan-to-deposit, NPLs, revenue-pool share, corridor share, take rate
Where AI pays first
- Competitor and revenue-pool intelligence across every market held
- Credit, fraud and AML signal agents
- A cost-to-income programme traced to ROE and the multiple
Proof in this sector
Anchor deployment at a Top 40 JSE bank: competitive intelligence and revenue pools, co-built inside Group Strategy and cleared through the bank’s information-security review.
- DeliveredStrategy & corporate finance: Competitive intelligence and revenue pools at a Top 40 JSE bank
- DeliveredGrowth, marketing, sales & pricing: Revenue pools by market and product at a Top 40 JSE bank
- DeliveredData, software & platform engineering: Platform build and source-data remediation inside the bank
- DeliveredAI strategy & transformation: An always-on intelligence layer that replaced a quarterly consulting cycle
- DemonstratedM&A, transactions & integration: An M&A question answered at a bank’s strategy desk from 412 sources in 7.2 seconds
- DesignedRisk, regulation & resilience: Regulatory Intelligence Hub, powered by AO-Regulatory-5B
- DesignedPeople & organisation: WorkforceIQ™ designed
Thirteen practices, one evidence base.
A regulatory change in risk shows up as a value-driver movement in finance and a board pre-read line in strategy: the same fact, traced to the same source, at three registers.
Strategy
Strategy & corporate finance
- Corporate and portfolio strategy: where to play and how to win
- Competitive intelligence on PSIDA™
- Revenue pools by market, product and corridor
- Capital allocation and strategic asset allocation
- Strategic diagnostics with peer value-performance boards
- Board packs with the so-what and now-what
CFO
Finance office & financial intelligence
- Look-through NAV and portfolio valuation between reporting dates
- Share-Price Engineering™
- Investor & funder sentiment, listed or unlisted
- FP&A on one graded view
- Funding mix, dividend capacity and liquidity scenarios
- Results briefs and the equity story
M&A
M&A, transactions & integration
- Target, partner and licence screening against a scored universe
- Commercial due diligence from the entity graph
- Valuation and synergy cases with Monte Carlo ranges
- Integration tracking on live data
- Vendor due diligence and the exit equity story
AI
AI strategy & transformation
- Enterprise AI readiness assessment
- AI strategy and the path to 2030
- A use-case portfolio priced through the Capital-to-EV Linkage Matrix™
- An AI command centre for the executive team
- AI governance, model risk and acceptable-use policy
- Adoption, training and change
Build
Data, software & platform engineering
- Data foundations: inventory, ownership, quality, one version of the truth
- Pipelines into core systems, ERPs and warehouses
- Custom agents on the governed bus
- Fine-tuned domain models inside your tenancy
- Dashboards, board packs and internal tools
- Deployment into your own cloud and identity estate
Growth
Growth, marketing, sales & pricing
- Share-shift and revenue-pool capture analysis
- Pricing, channel and corridor economics
- Customer and market intelligence
- Sales budgeting and pipeline intelligence
- Go-to-market for new markets and segments
Ops
Operations & performance
- Working capital, stock and cash release
- Procurement and supplier intelligence
- Leading operational indicators next to the financials
- Process redesign with AI, diagnosed by time-and-motion and Theory of Constraints
- Full-potential and turnaround programmes with live tracking
People
People & organisation
- HC-to-EV Framework™: people decisions traced to enterprise value
- WorkforceIQ™: skills genome, redeployment, span and layer engineering
- Organisation design for an AI-enabled operating model
- Leadership, succession and executive-team effectiveness
- Culture and adoption measurement
Risk
Risk, regulation & resilience
- The Regulatory Intelligence Hub
- Concentration, stress and scenario intelligence
- AML/CFT and sanctions intelligence
- POPIA and AI-policy readiness
- Cyber risk in rand and post-quantum readiness
Capitals
Sustainability & the six capitals
- The Capital-to-EV Engine™ across all six King IV capitals
- Integrated-reporting intelligence
- Climate, transition and financed-emissions analytics
- Natural-capital and energy-cost optimisation
- Stakeholder and licence-to-operate sensing
New ventures
Innovation & business building
- New ventures and AI-native business models
- Tokenised capital rails for real-world assets
- Product incubation from first working artefact to platform
- Partnership and ecosystem design
Corridors
Geopolitics, corridors & international
- Corridor intelligence: trade, capital and payment flows
- Asia, Gulf and UK allocation maps for a global allocation
- Cross-border settlement: wire, tokenised bank rails, stablecoin rails where the law allows
- World-order monitoring: reserves, tariffs, sanctions, critical minerals
PE
Private equity & principal investing
- Fund and portfolio strategy
- Deal sourcing and sector screening
- Commercial and operational due diligence
- Value-creation plans and the first 100 days
- Portfolio monitoring on one operating standard (Apex)
- Exit readiness and vendor due diligence
The practice map.
Every sector against every function. Select any cell for the offer and the proof behind it. Coloured cells mark where we have done the work; the rest are offered on the same engine and method.
- Live
- Delivered
- Demonstrated
- Designed
- Offered
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| Travel, tourism & hospitality |
Private capital, sovereign & institutional investors, Finance office & financial intelligence
Look-through NAV and a NAV scenario simulator on a holding-company board
Demonstrated A working board, diagnostic or demo shown to an executive team
What we deliver
- Look-through NAV and portfolio valuation between reporting dates
- Share-Price Engineering™
- Investor & funder sentiment, listed or unlisted
- FP&A on one graded view
- Funding mix, dividend capacity and liquidity scenarios
- Results briefs and the equity story
Calibrated to the sector
NAV and look-through NAV, payout, concentration, global share, private-book coverage, IRR, MOIC, TVPI
Private equity, from fund strategy to exit.
Private equity runs as an eight-stage lifecycle. We cover every stage on one engine and one set of numbers, with Apex carrying the portfolio companies from the first hundred days onward.
- 01
Fund & portfolio strategy
DemonstratedStrategic asset allocation and sleeve design run on scenario engines, benchmarked against sovereign and holding-company peers.
GP strategy, investment focus, operating model, governance.
NAV scenario simulator, allocation maps
- 02
Deal sourcing & screening
DemonstratedTargets, partners and licences screened against a scored universe of 10,500+ resolved entities, with the strategic gap each one closes.
Sector theses, structured target search, pre-diligence screening.
PSIDA™, entity graph
- 03
Due diligence
DemonstratedCommercial diligence from the entity graph and revenue pools; operational diligence by time-and-motion and constraint analysis; AI and data diligence on the target’s estate.
Commercial, operational, technology and AI diligence; business-plan test.
Revenue Pools Engine, diagnostic method
- 04
Value-creation plan
DemonstratedEvery lever priced through the Capital-to-EV Linkage Matrix™: intervention, throughput, KPI, income statement, multiple.
The plan agreed at signing; commercial and operational levers.
Capital-to-EV Engine™, Share-Price Engineering™
- 05
First 100 days
LiveThe portfolio company onboarded to one operating standard: ledgers, budgets and operating data hosted securely and graded.
The 100-day plan, quick wins, integration or carve-out, PMO.
The Apex operating standard
- 06
Portfolio value creation
LiveWorking capital, stock, procurement, pricing and people levers run on the company’s own data, with leading indicators beside the financials.
Full-potential programmes, EBITDA levers, turnaround where needed.
Apex modules, AI command centre
- 07
Performance monitoring
DemonstratedMonthly and graded, against plan and against peers, for every holding on one register, with private marks visible between valuations.
Initiative tracking, KPI and value reporting across the portfolio.
Apex, portfolio register
- 08
Exit & vendor due diligence
OfferedThe equity story built from the drivers the market prices, with investor and funder sentiment mapped to value.
Equity story, vendor due diligence, IPO readiness, buyer studies.
Investor & Funder Sentiment, Share-Price Engineering™
Bring us one real question your current systems cannot answer.
We scope it as a contained sprint, agree the acceptance criteria in writing, and return with a working intelligence artefact.