For investors
The information environment, read in the languages it is written in.
PRISM IE monitors, rates and explains what is being said about a country, an institution or a company, and runs entirely on the client’s own infrastructure when it has to.
The problem
Security agencies and large companies make decisions every day based on what is being said in the press and online. Most of that conversation never reaches them in a usable form, and the tools they could buy were not built for their situation.
Wrong languages
Global monitoring tools are strongest in English and a few major world languages. In much of the world, what shapes opinion is said in local languages those tools handle poorly.
Wrong place
Defence and security clients cannot send intelligence requirements to a cloud service in another jurisdiction. They need something that runs on their own servers, offline if required.
No judgement
Keyword alerts produce volume, not assessments. Analysts still have to decide how reliable a report is, and whether ten stories are ten sources or one source copied ten times.
Traction
Figures as at EDIT: month, year.
- Product
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Built, documented and deployable today on Linux and Windows, including a fully air-gapped configuration. Reliability grading follows the NATO Admiralty system, with corroboration computed rather than guessed.
- Distribution
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The founding team has trained and supplied intelligence products to defence, security and law enforcement institutions for more than 25 years. PRISM IE sells into relationships that already exist.
Clients are not named publicly without their express consent. References are available to investors under NDA.
- Home market
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The team’s existing relationships are in Nigeria, which is where the first deployments are happening. The platform is designed to be configured per country, region and language, so a new market starts as a new configuration rather than a new product.
- Ready configurations
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Client builds are prepared for defence and security use, election monitoring and multilingual monitoring, with intelligence requirements loaded from day one.
- Pipeline
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EDIT: number agency pilots in progress on 90-day terms with stated commercial value. A first-wave corporate programme covering roughly 100 companies in our home market is timed to the October to December budget cycle. EDIT: signed clients or revenue to date, if any.
- Revenue model
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Sold as an intelligence service, not software seats. Agencies start with managed reporting and training, then move to an in-house platform licence. Companies subscribe at one of three levels.
Watch
Continuous monitoring and rated alerts on the issues that affect the business.
Assess
Analyst-reviewed assessments on a regular cycle.
Command
Full requirement-driven coverage with dedicated analyst support.
Team
Idara Akpan
Founder and CEO
Has run an open source intelligence training and analysis practice in Abuja since 1999, working with Nigerian defence, security and law enforcement institutions. Legal practitioner, called to the Nigerian Bar in 2012. Wrote the PRISM IE codebase.
Emem Isaac
Lead Software Architect
Lead software architect at PRISM IE and the most senior developer on the team. Responsible for the overall architecture of the platform, including how it installs on a client’s own servers and runs in fully offline environments. Reviews major design decisions and guides the engineering team on how the system should be built.
Ini Hood
Technical Lead
Technical lead at PRISM IE, setting engineering direction and standards for the platform. Works with the Head of Product to turn specifications into delivery plans, and with the Founding Engineer to ship them. Accountable for the reliability and security of PRISM IE in production.
Silas Ejimonye
Founding Engineer
Founding engineer at PRISM IE, on the team from the start. Turns product specifications into working software across the PRISM IE platform. Builds and maintains the systems behind its collection and analysis pipeline.
John Jude
Head of Product
Leads product at PRISM IE, turning the company’s vision into specifications the engineering team can build against. Runs user research and wireframing with prospective users of the platform. Owns the PRISM IE roadmap and decides what gets built first.
Praise Chinazaekpere
Head of Growth and Go-To-Market Lead
Leads growth and go-to-market at PRISM IE, building traction ahead of the first client deployments. Responsible for customer acquisition, sales and early marketing across security and corporate clients. Builds the content and community around PRISM IE.
The ask
EDIT: $X
EDIT: pre-seed / seed round to take PRISM IE from pilots to paying anchor clients in both markets.
Demand is not what limits growth. Trained analysts are. Most of this round goes into the people who turn PRISM IE output into assessments clients pay for.
- EDIT%Analyst hiring and training, paced to signed contracts
- EDIT%Engineering, on-premise model packaging and security hardening
- EDIT%Corporate sales, channel partners, regional expansion and data protection compliance
PRISM IE Limited (in formation). Abuja, Nigeria. Capability detail is shared under NDA.