Your business doesn’t have a money problem.
It has a structural problem. And structures can be built.
We are an operational growth consultancy working inside Sierra Leone’s real business economy. We build the systems underneath a business so it can absorb investment, survive your absence, and actually make money.
If any of this sounds familiar, you are not unlucky.
The business makes money, and somehow there is never any left.
Stock goes missing, and nobody can explain where.
It runs beautifully while you are standing in it, and falls apart the moment you leave.
You invested, you trusted someone, and it went the way it always goes.
You bought the software, wrote the procedure, and hired the consultant.
Nothing changed. None of that is bad luck. It happens when a business is held together by one person's presence instead of structure. Which means it has a cause. And a cause can be fixed.
We don't work on the paintwork. We work on the engine.
We go in, not alongside. We diagnose the business from the inside, then build what is missing and stay until it works.
We start with the leaks. Records, systems, accountability, visibility. The unglamorous layer that decides whether a business keeps what it earns.
We build for distance. Everything is designed so the business runs and reports properly when the owner is not standing in front of it.
We use frameworks built here. Systems For Informal Wealth was developed from fieldwork inside Sierra Leonean businesses, not imported from a market that works nothing like this one.
We are measured by whether it still works afterwards. Not by workshops delivered or people reached.
Sierra Leone does not have an investment problem.
It has an absorption problem.
Capital already arrives: local capital, Remittances, investors, development finance, grants. What is often missing is the operational capability to absorb it and turn it into a business that works.
Capital gets a business started. Operations decide how it ends.
Sat 12 December 2026, 10:00 am, doors open
Lagoonda Resort, Aberdeen Beachfront, Freetown.
DCBF presents · The annual convening
The Capital &
Business Lab 2026
How to do business in Sierra Leone.
Investment forums tell you why to invest in Sierra Leone. The Capital & Business Lab is what happens after that decision: the operational work of making capital survive on the ground.
Meet the Architect
Mahawa Kamara, Private Sector Development Specialist, founder of Connoisseur Consults. A decade spent working to bridge the gap between UK diaspora capital and West African markets.
Most recently, venture mentor at ALU Ventures Lab 2026, where five of her ten ventures left Demo Day, securing $ 83,000. Her argument, for the market trader and the pan-African startup alike: you cannot digitise chaos, and you cannot fund it either. Structure comes first.
We don't just build systems — we study the ecosystem. Two free reports on the $5.6 billion engine the formal economy can't see, and the structure that turns it into investable business.
Ecosystem Insights & Reports
From Street to Structure
64.5% of GDP. $5.6 billion. Largely unprotected. This white paper uncovers where the wealth evaporates and introduces Systems for Informal Wealth™, the framework that turns market vendors into structured, investable enterprises.
85–90% of Sierra Leone's workforce is informal — and invisible to capital. This report maps the Opacity Trap: no records, no visibility, no financing. Then it lays out the "layer before tech" the structure that must exist before any digital tool or investor can work..
The Invisible Engine
Knowing what is missing is one thing. Building it is another. That gap between knowing and building is where we work.
Tell us where you are stuck. If we are the right people to help, we will say so