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Three verticals. One mechanism.

Every Maatis engagement follows the same logic: connect a US capability with an African opportunity, structure the relationship formally, and execute until the deal closes. The vertical changes. The discipline does not.

Oil & Gas

The first vertical — the immediate revenue engine

Oil and gas is where Maatis generates revenue today. We focus on well intervention, slickline tools, pressure control equipment, and production optimization — the segments where mature field economics in Nigeria, Gabon, Côte d’Ivoire, and Congo create the strongest near-term demand for US-manufactured technology. With $41B in African upstream capex committed for 2026, the operators in these basins are spending — and they are spending on the interventions that keep producing wells producing.

Côte d’Ivoire is the clearest illustration. The Baleine field’s Phase 3 reached final investment decision in May 2026, adding roughly 150,000 barrels per day of capacity and pulling a wave of well-services demand into a market where we are already based. This is exactly the kind of structural flow Maatis is built to intermediate: a fast-growing operator base, a procurement cycle that rewards proximity, and US technology that fits the operational problem.

Our first principal

Downhole Design International Corporation (DDIC) — a US OEM in slickline, downhole tools, and pressure control equipment. Field-proven products including the Smart Dump Bailer, the Nippleless Plug, and the TRC Gas Lift Enhancement Tool — technologies suited precisely to the mature-field interventions that define near-term demand across our Tier 1 markets.

Critical Minerals

The strategic vertical — where US policy meets African geology

Critical minerals is the vertical where national strategy and commercial opportunity converge. We facilitate project introduction, government navigation, and offtake agreements across cobalt, lithium, rare earths, copper, and graphite — particularly in the post-Washington Accords framework that has redefined the US-Africa critical mineral relationship.

The capital is committed. The FORGE Partnership brought more than $30B in US critical-minerals pledges in February 2026, and Project Vault — a $12B US strategic mineral reserve — signals that this is durable policy, not a cycle. What these flows require is intermediaries who can move between a US allocator’s diligence standards and an African ministry’s approval pathway without losing either side. That is the role Maatis plays.

US–Africa critical-minerals milestones

  1. Jun 2025Washington Accords
  2. Feb 2026Project Vault announced
  3. Feb 2026FORGE Partnership
  4. Feb 2026Orion–Glencore MoU, DRC
  5. Apr 2026US Strategic Metals MoU

Commodities

The diversification layer — anchored in Abidjan

Agricultural commodities are the diversification layer of the firm, and they sit naturally with our base in Abidjan — the commercial heart of one of the world’s most important soft-commodity economies. We connect US food manufacturers, traders, and ingredient buyers with traceable, compliance-grade producers of cocoa, cashew, specialty coffee, and industrial agricultural inputs.

The thesis here is traceability. US buyers increasingly require provenance and compliance documentation that informal supply chains cannot provide. Maatis bridges that gap — sourcing from producers who can meet the standard, and structuring the relationship so the buyer’s requirements and the producer’s reality are reconciled before the first container ships.

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A capability to place, or an opportunity to source?

Whichever side of the bridge you stand on, the mechanism is the same — and the conversation starts the same way.

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