Merkhet builds AI-powered decision systems for operators in construction, finance, distribution, and telecoms, turning ground-truth signals into automated decisions, months before official data.
African real economies generate the activity that drives growth and remain almost entirely invisible to traditional systems. Operators make multi-million-dollar decisions on data that is months late, geographically blind, or structurally biased.
Production capacity keeps growing. Demand stays flat. And no one knows where their own output is actually landing. The result is structural overcapacity, margin compression, and lost share to competitors who guess less.
Non-performing loan ratios sit at record highs. SME credit decisions take up to four months. The 80% of borrowers operating in the real economy remain invisible to retrospective credit data, and risk is priced through proxies that no longer hold.
Go-to-market strategies run on intuition. Territory allocation is calibrated on last year's data. Market share is measured quarterly by panels that miss where the actual transactions happen, leaving brands to react three months after the competitor has already moved.
The cost of decisions made on stale data is measurable. We close that gap.
Merkhet ingests thousands of proprietary and public signals: geospatial, maritime, procurement, pricing, behavioural, and synthesizes them through proprietary AI models purpose-built for African markets.
Computer vision, NLP, maritime and ground-truth intelligence models surface what happens in the real economy in days, not quarters.
AI-powered scoring and forecasting translate raw signals into ranked, zone-level decisions you can act on.
Alerts, dashboards, and APIs integrate directly into your commercial and risk workflows.
Each Merkhet product runs on the same decision infrastructure. Every market we deepen strengthens every vertical we serve.
Construction & Materials Intelligence
For cement manufacturers, materials distributors, and construction conglomerates operating in markets where demand outruns measurement.
Book a demo→Construction activity, procurement pipeline, and competitor flows surfaced months before official data, with arrondissement-level precision.
Zone-level demand forecasts that turn satellite, maritime, and economic signals into ranked commercial decisions.
Track competitor activity weeks ahead. Identify distribution gaps before the competition. Anticipate disruption before it hits.
Real-economy credit intelligence
Full-spectrum credit intelligence for banks and lenders serving the real economy.
Request early access→Last-mile distribution intelligence
Last-mile distribution intelligence for brands selling through channels they cannot see.
Request early access→Sell-through intelligence
Sell-through intelligence for device manufacturers and telecom operators.
Request early access→Every Merkhet product can be augmented with our adversarial AI engine. Strategic Foresight simulates how markets, competitors, and scenarios will respond to your decisions, calibrated on ground-truth data, not generic assumptions.
Book a 30-minute demo. We'll walk you through live intelligence specific to your sector.