One mandate.
The whole picture.
SISG delivers comprehensive consultancy grounded in the frameworks of strategic intelligence. An intelligence firm sees the threat. A consultancy frames the decision. A compliance firm keeps you inside the lines. We do all three inside a single mandate, so the pieces never arrive as separate reports that never meet.
The decision lives between the reports.
Where the decision actually lives
In the space between them. That space is nobody's deliverable, so nobody is paid to read it. The decision then fails on a factor no single report was ever asked about.
Nowhere is that gap more expensive than in MENA today. Markets shift fast, previously stable countries are in turmoil, and the factors deciding an investment's fate are increasingly external to its sector.
Framed as one question. Delivered as one roadmap.
Seven ways into one mandate.
These are not seven products bought separately. They are the entry points clients usually arrive through. Most mandates draw on several at once, and the format follows the question, never the other way around.
Political & Security Risk Advisory
Is it safe, viable, and wise to operate here?
Bespoke threat assessments, scenario planning, and early warning for corporates, investors, and governments entering or operating in fragile, contested, or transitional markets. We combine human source networks with AI-powered monitoring of open-source signals, from media and social networks to grey-zone indicators, to deliver assessments that reflect ground reality, not modelled assumptions.
Competitive Intelligence & Market Entry
Where should we place capital or effort, with whom, and how?
Competitive and market intelligence for clients entering or operating in complex markets: who holds the advantage, who the real counterparts are, and where the opening is. We combine AI-augmented open-source analysis with human networks that validate what no algorithm can confirm, and we give phased, risk-calibrated entry paths, never a binary verdict.
Crisis & Access Advisory
How do we reach, operate in, or withdraw from a contested environment safely?
Operational continuity and access advisory for organisations facing disruption, instability, or sudden crisis, including engagement and access in complex environments. Extended to due diligence and third-party vetting for corporates, investors, and financial institutions requiring deep background on partners and counterparts in frontier and emerging markets.
Compliance Advisory
Are we exposed under sanctions, regulation, or IHL, and how do we prove we are not?
Compliance advisory across sanctions, anti-corruption, and regulatory exposure for corporates, financial institutions, and law firms in complex markets, with international humanitarian law as a specialist capability for clients in conflict-adjacent contexts. AI-assisted sanctions screening runs throughout, and our IHL-qualified practitioners provide expert opinion, written guidance, and litigation support.
AI & Influence Threat Advisory
Is someone shaping the narrative, market, or decision around us, and who?
Strategic assessment and counter-analysis of AI-driven disinformation, coordinated influence operations, and narrative manipulation. We deploy AI detection and attribution tools alongside human analyst judgement to map, track, and counter influence operations across fragile political and competitive commercial environments.
Executive & Asset Protection Intelligence
What are the threats to our people and our assets?
Personalised threat profiling, travel risk intelligence, and asset security assessments for senior executives and organisations in high-risk environments. We provide the intelligence layer, not physical security provision, so clients can make informed decisions. AI-powered threat monitoring delivers continuous situational awareness while our field networks provide the ground truth no system can replicate. Extended to a corporate counter-intelligence assessment, an AI-supported read of whether, how, and by whom a principal or organisation is being watched or collected on, delivered as analysis to inform the client's own decisions.
Training, Assessment & Leadership Advisory
How do we equip our own people for these environments?
Bespoke assessment, training, and leadership advisory for organisations navigating complexity, transition, or performance challenges, across the public, private, and institutional sectors. Drawing on direct experience with government bodies, armed forces, international institutions, and corporate leadership teams, SISG evaluates organisational effectiveness, leadership capacity, and institutional resilience. AI-assisted diagnostic tools accelerate data gathering and pattern analysis across large organisations; all findings and recommendations are practitioner-authored. Engagements range from discrete diagnostic assessments to sustained advisory relationships with senior leadership. Where relevant, this extends to training on information exposure and corporate counter-intelligence awareness.
Who we serve.
Companies entering or operating in fragile, emerging, or contested markets requiring intelligence beyond published country risk ratings.
Private equity, private credit, and insurers requiring political risk intelligence, third-party vetting, and due diligence in frontier markets.
International legal practices requiring IHL expertise, sanctions due diligence, expert witness services, and specialised regional intelligence.
Operators and developers with assets in high-risk environments requiring ongoing intelligence and access advisory.
Government and public institutions seeking specialised regional analysis and decision support from practitioners with direct field experience.
International organisations requiring access advisory, IHL compliance, and operational intelligence in complex and high-risk environments.
Investors and family offices with capital to place and no fixed target, requiring origination and assessment of options in markets that publish little.
Five capabilities run through every mandate.
AI-augmented intelligence, continuous monitoring, strategic foresight, war gaming, and standing decision support. Not services bought separately. This is how the work is done.
Our Model