Insights & research

Perspectives from Africa's frontier.

Benchmark research, practical playbooks and board-level briefings on the technology decisions facing African enterprises.

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Reports and playbooks

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Benchmark study38 pagesFeb 2026

The African Digital Maturity Index 2026

A benchmark of digital maturity across 120 mid-market and enterprise organisations in South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana, scored across strategy, data, infrastructure, security and operating model.

  • Maturity distribution by sector and revenue band
  • The five capabilities that separate leaders from laggards
  • Where African budgets are actually going in 2026
  • A self-scoring worksheet aligned to our assessment model
Playbook44 pagesJan 2026

The AI Adoption Playbook for African Enterprises

A practical route from pilot to production: use-case selection, data foundations, governance under POPIA, cost modelling and the operating model needed to keep models in service.

  • A use-case scoring model weighted for value and feasibility
  • Reference architecture for retrieval and agent workloads
  • Governance controls mapped to POPIA and the EU AI Act
  • Unit economics: what a production use case actually costs
Board briefing22 pagesDec 2025

Cyber Resilience in Africa: Board Briefing

What boards need to ask about ransomware readiness, third-party exposure and incident response in African operating environments, with a set of board-level metrics that hold up under scrutiny.

  • Threat landscape specific to African operating environments
  • Twelve questions every board should ask the CISO
  • Recovery-time expectations versus measured reality
  • A one-page board reporting template
Technical blueprint31 pagesNov 2025

The Modern Data Platform Blueprint

Reference architecture for a governed lakehouse on Azure, AWS or Google Cloud, including ingestion patterns, modelling standards, data quality gates and cost control for African bandwidth realities.

  • Landing, curation and serving layer patterns
  • Data contracts and quality gates that survive production
  • Residency and sovereignty considerations by jurisdiction
  • Cost control levers and a sizing model

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