ROAD-1

Banks, logistics operators, hedge funds and port authorities trying to move cargo or capital across Africa's 54 AfCFTA trade corridors face fragmented, hard-to-verify data on port congestion, FX volatility, non-tariff barriers and settlement risk. Today this information is scattered across named sources like UNCTAD, World Bank, Afreximbank, Africa Ports & Ships, PAPSS, AfDB and central bank portals, making it costly to assemble a reliable picture of corridor friction before making a trade or financing decision. Without a consolidated view, operators risk cargo delays like Mombasa's 5.1-day dwell time or Apapa's high friction score, unexpected FX spread costs such as the 9.2% EGP/NGN SWIFT spread, and exposure to narrative risk gaps that aren't reflected in formal data.

ROAD-1 is an African trade intelligence platform that computes a composite Friction Score from four weighted components: port friction (40%, drawing on Africa Ports & Ships, Maersk API, GCNet, CBN portal), FX volatility (30%, from CBN, SARB, CBK, BoG and the PAPSS API), NTB friction (20%, from UNCTAD's NTB database, tradebarriers.africa, World Bank) and a narrative gap signal (10%, from Lloyd's List NLP, Bloomberg and insurance premium deltas). Users query a live intelligence terminal covering 14,847 corridor analyses, voice-enabled in 25+ African languages, to get real-time metrics on port dwell times, PAPSS settlement status, commodity prices, NTB relief rates and Narrative Friction Flags. The platform also offers landed cost and PAPSS savings calculators, a forecast tool, intelligence agents, an enterprise API, and a publisher plugin, with a $49/month Pro subscription covering unlimited queries across all corridors.