Economics & financial consultingNairobi, since 2018
We build the numbers, bids and plans that have to survive a lender, a tender board or a boardroom. Senior people do the work, check every line, and stay until it lands.
Why Staxad
The tender closes on Friday. The bank likes the project but wants a model it can test. The board wants a strategy next month, and everyone is already stretched.
This is the work we do every week, alongside your team or on its behalf. We are a small firm on purpose: the person you meet on the first call is the person doing your work, and our name goes on it.
Five services, often combined. A tender usually needs a financial model; a strategy needs a document that opens doors.
Know your numbers before anyone else asks.
Submit a bid you are proud of, on time.
Turn noise into a plan people can follow.
Look as strong on paper as you are in person.
Systems and sites that work as hard as you do.
Three projects we can describe. Every client stays anonymous, because discretion is part of the job.
Dry port, export zone, trucking fleet and ICT operations across several countries, currencies and customs systems, in one model that lenders and investors can check line by line.
Research built on primary data from national regulators, an interactive infographic and a 44-slide investor proposal that took the board from interest to a decision.
The full package for a national tracer study: expression of interest, methodology, team CVs, data protection policy and every compliance document, submitted before the deadline.
The same four steps on every job, whether it is a two-week tender or a year-long corridor model.
Your business, your deadline and what a win looks like for you. We plan the work around that, not around a template.
Before any work starts you know exactly what you are getting and what it costs. No surprises later.
Models, research, proposals and documents, built by the people you met on the first call. You stay in the loop without doing the work twice.
Submission day, the investor meeting, the board presentation. Our name is on the work, so we are in the room when it matters.
Kenya is home. Much of our work follows the trade corridors inland, so we already know the regulators, the procurement rules and the pressures in each market.
Corridors, dry ports, export zones and customs systems.
Counties, ministries, parastatals and revenue authorities.
Power, fuel terminals, data centres and large projects.
Payments, banking, IFRS for SMEs and raising capital.
Roads, boreholes, ECDE centres and county water projects.
Customs technology, aviation fuel systems and start-ups.
Staxad started in Ruiru in 2018 with a simple belief: businesses and institutions in East Africa deserve world-class advice from people who understand how things really work here.
Our team brings together economics, sociology, finance and technology. That mix lets us read the numbers and the people behind them, which is usually where projects are won or lost. We keep the team small on purpose, and we would rather turn a job down than do it half well.
Six letters, six tests every piece of work passes before it reaches you.
We think about year ten, not just the pitch.
We check the line nobody else checks.
Built to survive hard questions.
Compliant is the minimum. Clear gets you chosen.
We measure what changed for you.
Good for you, good for the region.
The things people ask before they call. Anything else, ask it in the form below.
Yes. Some of our favourite projects are a first big tender or a first funding round. More than 15 start-ups have launched with our help. If the work matters to you, it matters to us.
A senior consultant leads every project from the first call to delivery. The people who win the work are the people who do it.
Often, yes. Send us the closing date and the tender document today. We will tell you honestly whether there is enough time to do it properly, and what we would need from you.
It depends on the size of the job. After a short call we send a written proposal with the scope, timeline and fee, so you know the cost before any work starts.
Kenya is home, and we also work in Uganda, Rwanda, South Sudan and Sudan, often on cross-border trade and corridor projects.
Always. That is why every project on this page is described without a client name.
Tell us what you are working on. A few lines are enough to start.
Your message is with us. We will reply to once we have read it properly.
