MONOKROMATIK INTELLIGENCE
Value the culture. Keep the upside.
The value-capture practice for African & diaspora culture — a valuation engine for brands, sport, talent and catalogues, a strategy desk for the decisions that follow, and the proprietary data behind both.
One engine under everything: the Cultural-Signal Index and the Ownership 100, read through Authorship → Ownership → Capture.
Every valuation, every advisory call and every data licence runs on the same source-verified corpus. One method, one ledger — so the number you get here is the number you can defend in a boardroom.
THE RESOURCE · DAY-TO-DAY
A valuation engine for culture.
What a brand, a sports right, a player or team, or a catalogue is actually worth — and who is capturing that value. Not reach or followers: authorship, ownership and the capturable upside, scored on our data.
Brands
Composite /100 on the Cultural-Signal Index, the authorship read, benchmarked against named rivals.
Sport & rights
Value and value-capture on teams, federations and commercial rights — the AFCON-tender lens, applied.
Players & talent
What the talent creates vs what the current structure captures — the case for keeping the upside home.
Catalogues & IP
Music, film and brand IP valued through ownership and leakage, not headline revenue.
THE DESK · SPECIALISED
The strategy behind the number.
When a valuation becomes a decision — a sponsorship, an acquisition, a rights deal, a renegotiation — the desk builds the case. Consulting-grade rigour, cultural fluency, one named buyer per engagement.
Signal Scorecard
from $900A brand, artist, franchise or property
What is our authorship worth, who is capturing it, and how do we keep more?
Signal Fit
from $1,500Brands & agencies choosing a partnership
Which culture property, talent or moment actually fits us — on authenticity, not reach?
Value-Capture Advisory
from $5,000Rights holders, IP & catalogue owners, founders
How do we own the certification apparatus and stop the value leaking offshore?
Culture Due Diligence
bespoke — on applicationPE, VC, corp-dev & sovereign capital
Should we buy in, at what value, and what is the authorship & reputational risk?
ONE PRACTICE, THREE DISCIPLINES
Why the number holds up.
01 / RIGOUR
Framework-led
A repeatable method — Authorship → Ownership → Capture — and a ranked Index behind every claim. The structure of a strategy house, not a hot take.
02 / FLUENCY
Culture, translated
We read culture the way the people inside it do, and translate it into a decision a brand, board or investor can act on — authentically, not opportunistically.
03 / VALUATION
Priced on data
A proprietary valuation engine for brands, sport, talent and catalogues — so the cultural read always lands as a number and a move.
THE WEDGE
Africa makes the culture. The upside leaks offshore. We built the practice that keeps it home.
Global consultancies don’t cover African value-capture; culture agencies don’t price it; data vendors sell the feed, not the decision. We do all three — for the continent and its diaspora, where the question of who keeps the money is the whole story.
Index
The Cultural-Signal Index — ranked, authorship-weighted
Ownership 100
The ranked ownership ledger across sport, music, brands & fintech
Sourced
Named sources on every claim; a Bear Case on every serious read
Cited
A reference the AI answer-engines already quote
WHO WE WORK WITH
Built for the people on both sides of the deal.
Brands & sponsors
Which property, talent or moment fits — and what it’s worth before you sign.
Rights-holders & federations
Price the rights, structure the deal, keep more of the value you create.
Investors & funds
Culture due diligence on the target and the category — value and risk, read straight.
Artists & catalogue owners
What your authorship is worth, who’s capturing it, and how to own the chain.
RESEARCH & DATA
The corpus the practice runs on.
Open to read; the paid tiers and advisory build on it.
The Cultural-Signal Index
The ranked, authorship-weighted read of who authors African influence.
EXPLOREThe Ownership 100
The ranked ownership ledger across sport, music, brands and fintech.
EXPLORECase Study Library
Structured, source-led decodes — objective, bet, execution, lesson.
EXPLORESource Desk
Curated signal from authoritative global and African sources.
EXPLOREReports & Special Issues
Designed value-capture reports — free and paid.
EXPLORETALK TO THE BUSINESS
The desk is always open.
One line to the whole business — valuations, advisory, data licences, partnerships and press. Tell us the decision in front of you; we reply from a real inbox, usually within one working day.