Plans & Pricing
Everything the platform does, and which of it a membership opens.
What the platform includes
The platform is free to use today. Companies, investors, deals, sectors, people and country profiles are all browsable without an account, and most of what the site does is open to every visitor. A small number of functions are reserved for a membership; nothing is on sale at the moment, and the full list below marks which is which. If you represent an institution, a research team or a newsroom that needs structured access to African business data, get in touch and we will work with you directly.
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- Country profiles and indicators
- Downloadable country reports
- Buyer and competitor intelligence agent
- Company directory
- Tech startups
- Small and medium enterprises
- Corporates and multinationals
- Accelerators and incubators
- Founders and leaders
- Browse by sector
- Company contact details
- Investors and venture capital firms
- Development finance institutions
- Government
- Government agencies
- Intergovernmental organisations
- Non-profits and foundations
- The funder directory
- Capital provider contact details
- Funding rounds and investments
- Recent deals
- Largest rounds
- Investments by country
- Investments by sector
- The full opportunity listing
- Full opportunity records
- Tender and notice documents
- Opportunity export
- Tender match and fit scout
- All funding opportunities
- Grants and competitions
- Loans and debt finance
- Equity and venture capital
- Challenges and prizes
- Fellowships
- Blended finance
- All tenders
- Requests for proposals
- Consultancy services
- Invitations to bid
- Expressions of interest
- Works and construction
- Contract awards
- All programs
- Accelerators
- Incubators
- Capacity building
- Program fellowships
- Mentorship
- Events calendar
- Insight articles
- How-to guides
- Expert insights
- Market reports
- Case studies
- News and updates
- Signals from the Ground
- Industry intelligence by sector
- Daily Business Brief
- Saved opportunities
- Application tracker
- Deadline calendar
- Opportunity matching
- AI request allowance: 200 AI requests per day
- ABA'AI Assess
- ABA'AI Pitch Deck Builder
- ABA'AI Proposal Generator
- ABA'AI Business Plan Writer
- ABA'AI Market Research
- Bid readiness and eligibility check
- ABA'AI Financial Templates
- Solutions and services directory
- Submit a company, event or tender
- Claim your company profile
- Marketplace listings
- Draft listings from your website or a brochure
- Marketplace matching
- Site wide search
- Buyer profiles
- Retender radar
- Who has won work before
- Saved search alerts
- Calendar feed
- Submit an event
- Shared trackers
- Personalised daily brief
- Record translation
- Clarification drafter
- Assessment export
- Manage your featured placements
- AI credits
- Commission bespoke research
- Compare countries
Everything the platform does
Every function on the site, grouped the way the navigation is, with nothing dressed up. The figures beside a line are live row counts, read from the database as this page loaded.
93 functions across 14 sections: 29 reserved for a plan, 64 open to everyone.
Countries3 functions, 1 reserved for a plan
- Country profiles and indicators54
- Downloadable country reportsNeeds a plan
- Compare countries
Capital and institutions9 functions, 2 reserved for a plan
- Buyer and competitor intelligence agentNeeds a plan
- Investors and venture capital firms3,677
- Development finance institutions
- Government
- Government agencies
- Intergovernmental organisations
- Non-profits and foundations
- The funder directory368
- Capital provider contact detailsNeeds a plan
Companies8 functions, 1 reserved for a plan
- Company directory11,938
- Tech startups
- Small and medium enterprises
- Corporates and multinationals
- Accelerators and incubators
- Founders and leaders
- Browse by sector
- Company contact detailsNeeds a plan
Investments5 functions, all open to everyone
- Funding rounds and investments356
- Recent deals
- Largest rounds
- Investments by country
- Investments by sector
Opportunities, across every type5 functions, 4 reserved for a plan
- The full opportunity listing129,194
- Full opportunity recordsNeeds a plan
- Tender and notice documentsNeeds a plan
- Opportunity exportNeeds a plan
- Tender match and fit scoutNeeds a plan
Funding7 functions, all open to everyone
- All funding opportunities678
- Grants and competitions
- Loans and debt finance
- Equity and venture capital
- Challenges and prizes
- Fellowships
- Blended finance
Tenders and procurement10 functions, 1 reserved for a plan
- All tenders1,562
- Requests for proposals
- Consultancy services
- Invitations to bid
- Expressions of interest
- Works and construction
- Contract awards126,714
- Buyer profiles
- Retender radarNeeds a plan
- Who has won work before
Programs and events9 functions, 2 reserved for a plan
- All programs240
- Accelerators
- Incubators
- Capacity building
- Program fellowships
- Mentorship
- Events calendar
- Calendar feedNeeds a plan
- Submit an eventNeeds a plan
Knowledge Hub11 functions, all open to everyone
- Insight articles
- How-to guides
- Expert insights
- Market reports
- Case studies
- News and updates
- Signals from the Ground
- Industry intelligence by sector
- Daily Business Brief
- Personalised daily brief
- Commission bespoke research
Member workspace6 functions, 2 reserved for a plan
- Saved opportunities
- Application tracker
- Deadline calendar
- Opportunity matching
- Saved search alertsNeeds a plan
- Shared trackersNeeds a plan
ABA'AI11 functions, all reserved for a plan
- AI request allowanceNeeds a plan
- ABA'AI AssessNeeds a plan
- ABA'AI Pitch Deck BuilderNeeds a plan
- ABA'AI Proposal GeneratorNeeds a plan
- ABA'AI Business Plan WriterNeeds a plan
- ABA'AI Market ResearchNeeds a plan
- Bid readiness and eligibility checkNeeds a plan
- ABA'AI Financial TemplatesNeeds a plan
- Clarification drafterNeeds a plan
- Assessment exportNeeds a plan
- AI creditsNeeds a plan
Deal Room1 function, open to everyone
- Solutions and services directory
Visibility and listings5 functions, 3 reserved for a plan
- Submit a company, event or tender
- Claim your company profile
- Marketplace listingsNeeds a plan
- Draft listings from your website or a brochureNeeds a plan
- Manage your featured placementsNeeds a plan
Platform access and support3 functions, 2 reserved for a plan
- Marketplace matchingNeeds a plan
- Site wide search
- Record translationNeeds a plan
Named on the platform, and not built
These 14 capabilities are named in our own list and do not exist today. No plan includes any of them and none of them is part of any price. They are printed here so that a name you have heard from us is answered rather than left out. Nothing in this list is a date. What each line says is what it would do and what is in the way.
- Email alerts on new matches. Email when a new matching opportunity is published. The preference can be set today, and nothing is delivered yet because no send path has been built.
- ABA'AI Document Analyzer. Upload a tender, RFP or grant and have its requirements, deadlines and eligibility read back to you. Not built: nothing on this platform lets a member upload a file at all, because the only route that stores one is a staff route, so there is no analysis of your own documents to sell. What a member can do today is give ABA'AI the address of a notice and have it read before it answers anything, and that is the Assess tool, sold under its own key.
- Deal room access. Private exchange of documents between a company and an investor. Not built, and not being built: it was ruled out on 2026-08-20 against the audit this key names as its evidence. No access model on this platform can express one member reading another member's file, uploaded files are served without authentication and nothing scans them, and no member holds a plan today, so there is nobody to exchange a document with. No plan includes it and nothing here implies a date.
- Due diligence packs. Assembled due diligence material shared under controlled access. Not built, and not being built: it is one use of the document exchange that was ruled out on 2026-08-20, and it needs the same member to member access model, which does not exist.
- NDA management. Issuing, signing and tracking non-disclosure agreements before a pack is opened. Not built, and not being built: there is no electronic signature capability anywhere on this platform, so an NDA here could be stored and never signed, and a signature nobody can verify is worth less than no NDA at all.
- Term sheets. Term sheet exchange between a company and an investor. Not built, and not being built: it needs the signing capability an NDA needs and the member to member access model an exchange needs, and neither exists.
- Featured listing. Your company promoted to the featured positions in the directory and on the homepage. Placements themselves are real and a member who has claimed a company sees the ones it holds and when they end, but no plan can produce one: the only live path to a placement is a grant recorded by our own team, and the purchase route refuses every member and answers with the reasons it was refused. Nothing a plan carries changes that today.
- Unlimited search results. Lift the cap on search results. Not built: search applies the same cap to everyone, signed in or not, and no per account or per plan limit exists anywhere in the search path.
- Platform API access. Programmatic access to the platform data under your own credential. The API exists and is served at /api/public/v1, and credentials for it exist as rows in api_keys. What does not exist is any way for a PLAN to produce one: keys are issued by staff by hand, api_keys carries no member, and nothing in the entitlement path is consulted when a key is admitted. So this key still buys a member nothing and stays planned until a plan can mint one.
- Priority support. A faster answer than the public contact form. Not built: the contact form is the only support channel and it is open to everyone, so no queue, ticket or response target exists to prioritise.
- Follow a buyer for updates. Follow a buyer so that its new notices reach you. Not built: there is no follow route, no table to hold a follow and no send path to carry the notice. The buyer profiles themselves are live and open to everyone under their own key, so what is missing is the following and nothing else, and the control on the profile is drawn disabled and says so.
- Requirement checklist. Turn a tender pack into a checklist of what the notice actually asks you to submit, quoted from the document. Not built as a run of its own: the only standalone extraction on this platform is the staff intake route, and the checklist a member sees today is the must fix block inside an Assess run, which Assess is already sold for.
- Climate readiness index. A country level climate readiness view built from the indicator series already held on each country profile.
- Data API allowance. The metered allowance behind API access, counted in calls, so a plan can carry a documented volume. The meter is built and runs: every call to /api/public/v1 is counted on the api_keys row that authorised it and refused with a 429 when the daily number is reached. The allowance is set per key by staff, though, not by a plan, so no plan carries a volume yet and this stays planned until one can.
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