API
What We Do

One coordinated commercial execution programme.

Three services. Delivered senior-led, on a retainer or fixed-project basis, with a written scope before any engagement begins.
I

Market Intelligence

Sector research written to Chinese diligence standards.

Sector-specific research on Egypt's industrial and regulatory landscape, structured around the specific commercial decision the client is making — market sizing, regulatory pathway, counterparty landscape, competitive positioning.

Deliverables are written to Chinese diligence standards: clear executive summary, data-backed market views, named-counterparty mapping, regulatory pathway documentation, and a defined recommended-next-step decision tree.

Deliverables
  • —Market sizing for client's specific vertical in Egypt
  • —Regulatory pathway summary (GAFI, SCZone, FRA where relevant)
  • —Vetted counterparty profiles with relationship notes
  • —Sector-competitive context
II

Corporate Matchmaking

Private, fixed-fee introductions. No success fees. No conflicts.

Private, one-on-one introductions to vetted Egyptian counterparties — family businesses, mid-market industrials, distribution partners, joint-venture candidates — relevant to the client's specific commercial objective.

Charged on a fixed-fee basis. We do not earn success fees tied to regulated transactions. This is deliberate: it keeps our advice honest and removes structural incentives to recommend an outcome we have a financial stake in.

Deliverables
  • —3–5 vetted counterparty profiles per mandate
  • —Direct introduction protocol with both parties' consent
  • —Background context on each counterparty's commercial style and decision-making
  • —Follow-up coordination from introduction through to first executed meeting
III

Market-Entry Advisory

From first scoping visit through to executed agreement.

On-the-ground support across the full commercial journey: scoping visit coordination, meeting agendas with named participants, commercial proposal structuring at Egyptian-market standards, negotiation support, and follow-through from agreement to operational launch.

We work in coordination with the client's existing legal, tax, and financial advisors — or refer to vetted Cairo-based specialist partners where the client doesn't have one in place.

Deliverables
  • —Scoping visit logistics and meeting orchestration
  • —Commercial proposal drafting and review
  • —Counterparty negotiation support
  • —Coordination with licensed legal, tax, and financial specialists
02 — How We Engage

Retainer or fixed project. Never success fees.

We do not do hourly billing, and we do not earn success fees tied to regulated transactions. This matters because it keeps our advice honest — we are not structurally motivated to recommend an outcome we have a financial stake in.

Fee Structure

  • Project mandates
    Fixed-fee engagements with a defined scope, timeline, and deliverable. Agreed in writing before work begins.
  • Monthly retainers
    Ongoing corridor support with a defined monthly scope. Minimum term three months.
  • Currency
    USD or EGP, based on client preference.
  • Not offered
    Success fees on regulated activity. Hourly billing. Commission-based introductions.

Invoice Mechanics

Chinese clients invoice APIX as a consulting line item. This is intentional. It is cleaner internally for Chinese procurement, and it removes the compliance risk that comes with performance-tied compensation structures in Egypt's regulatory environment.

Egyptian clients are invoiced under standard Egyptian commercial consulting terms.

Every engagement begins with a written letter of engagement covering scope, deliverables, timeline, fee, payment terms, confidentiality, and conflict-of-interest protocol.

03 — The First Engagement

A two-week
paid scoping memo.

The fastest way to know whether APIX is the right partner for your Egypt mandate is to run the entry product. Most engagements start here.

Duration
Two weeks
Cost
By project size
Language
EN · Mandarin*
The scoping memo covers
  • —Market sizing for the client's specific vertical in Egypt
  • —Three to five vetted local counterparty profiles
  • —Regulatory pathway summary (GAFI, SCZone, FRA where relevant)
  • —A recommended next-step decision tree
What follows

From the scoping memo, clients typically move into either a project mandate (executed agreement targeted within 90 days) or a monthly retainer (ongoing corridor support, minimum three months).

*Mandarin translation available on request via retained interpreter.
04 — Regulatory Position

GAFI-licensed. Disciplined boundaries.

APIX operates under a GAFI commercial and consulting license. Our service mix — market intelligence, corporate matchmaking, strategy advisory, and convening — sits clearly within that framework.

Where a mandate approaches FRA-regulated territory — securities, fund formation, performance-tied capital-raising, fair-value work — we refer to appropriately licensed counterparties. We obtained written legal counsel on our service-mix boundaries before taking any client engagements, and that opinion is on file.

This boundary is structural, not aspirational. It is why our fee model is what it is.

Next Step

Begin with a two-week scoping memo.

The fastest way to know whether APIX is the right partner for your Egypt mandate is to run the entry product. Most engagements start here.

Request a Scoping Memo