Consulting firm — Africa · Europe · Middle East

We help organisations and decision-makers make decisions they can defend.

Strategic advisory and intelligence, cybersecurity and digital intelligence, artificial intelligence, development and market entry. When the stakes are high, we verify the information, clarify the options and support the decision.

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From information to a defensible decision.
Overview

The firm in one minute

What we do

Four areas of practice

Every engagement begins with a decision to be made, never with a technology. We work to a defined mandate, with a scope, a deadline and a deliverable stated in advance.

Team & partners

A compact team, a network of experts

Across each of the four practice areas, beyond its own team, the firm draws on a network of international experts and partners — specialist firms, analysts, lawyers, country specialists and independent professionals — selected assignment by assignment. The client keeps a single point of contact and one shared standard of method.

Complementary expertise, one shared standard of method.
Who we work with

Organisations, executives and individuals

Companies and groups
Pre-contract verification, entering a new market, protecting digital exposure, controlled AI adoption.
Entrepreneurs and project owners
Setting up and structuring a business, choosing partners and associates, international development, AI adoption, information protection.
Executives, investors and individuals
Understanding a risk before investing, knowing who is across the table before committing, reducing personal digital exposure, structuring a project or a transition.
NGOs and international organisations
Selecting and assessing local partners, structuring programmes, donor requirements, governance and internal control.
Institutions and donors
Decision support in complex environments, file assessment, an independent second opinion on a commitment.

“We do not sell reports. We help decision-makers make decisions they can defend before a board, a donor or an auditor.”

OUR DIFFERENCE
Typical situations

What you can call us for

Four typical situations. If yours resembles one of them, a thirty-minute scoping call is enough to know whether we can help.

A company wants to enter a country it does not know, and is looking for where to start.

An individual is about to invest, or to commit to a counterparty they do not know.

An NGO must select a local partner to deliver a donor-funded programme.

An SME wants to bring AI into its work without exposing its data or depending on a provider.

CAMO

Make uncertainty visible.

INFORMATION TO ASSESS
CContextProduction & interests
AAgeDate & validity
MMultiplicityIndependent sources
OOriginPrimary evidence

Four questions, assessed together. One explicit level of confidence.

Established

Primary source or independent corroboration.

Probable

Converging evidence, with an identified weakness.

Uncertain

Dependent or conflicting sources.

Not established

No evidence found; does not mean false.

A clearer basis for judgement. The decision remains yours.

Deliverables

What your decision rests on.

Illustrative formats, entirely fictional. No client data or actual engagement is represented.

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FICTIONAL EXAMPLE

Counterparty assessment

Illustrative company Alpha · Decision brief

EstablishedRegistered entity
ProbableOperational activity
UncertainAnnounced project
Not establishedAnnounced financing
Before committing

Obtain documentary evidence of financing and confirm project status.

Sources · qualifications · limitations · next steps
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FICTIONAL EXAMPLE

Comparing the options

Illustrative market entry · Decision matrix

Fictional qualitative comparison
CriterionPilotDirect entry
CommitmentLimitedHigh
ReversibilityHighLimited
Local partnerTo verify
Decision condition

Test the operational assumptions before increasing the commitment.

Criteria · assumptions · trade-offs · conditions
Get in touch

Thirty minutes,
no commitment

Together we establish what you are actually trying to decide, and what it would take to get there.

You then receive a one-page note: what we understood, the risks we see, and what we would do in your position — including what does not require us. The note is yours, whether or not we work together.

If your situation is not for us, we will say so and point you elsewhere.

contact@saime3i.com

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