About Us

Periplus Research is a strategic intelligence and disputes advisory firm for frontier and emerging economies. Its work rests on interlocutor networks, developed and sustained locally, and on a method—mosaic research, built on the Track II tradition—that assembles independently sourced human fragments into a picture formal reporting cannot reach. Native-language dialogue, organised through regional coordination clusters, surfaces closed-door dynamics. Periplus converts these into judgement and sequencing for political risk and transactions, and into reconstruction of counterparty conduct in contentious matters. These networks span 85 jurisdictions across Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia—standing relationships at ministerial, regulatory, and provincial levels, the layers where decisions are made and where formal analysis runs out. Billions of dollars rest on structures that are entirely legible: filings, registries, data rooms, financial models. Periplus delivers the part that is not—the local knowledge and human relationships that determine whether the formal structure holds. We work selectively with institutional decision-makers who know what the record says, and need to know what it does not.