Selected work

Mandates, platforms and ventures—properly labelled.

This is a selected, non-exhaustive view of work that demonstrates Kryterion’s progression from strategy consultancy to institutional architect, pathway convener and venture builder.

Client mandate

Defence industrialisation

DICON Evolution Strategy 2030

DICON institutional programme

Strategy into institutional momentum.

Kryterion’s public mandate has included strategic support to the Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria around institutional transformation and flagship programmes.

PolicyEvolution Strategy 2030 and institutional transformation architecture.
ProductsProgramme concepts, strategy documents, conference and innovation-challenge structures.
PartnershipsGovernment, military, industry, innovators, academia and international stakeholders.
PathwaysDICON @60, Africa Defence Industries Conference and Defence Innovation Challenge.
InvestmentIndustrial and innovation pathways intended to support local capability and partnership formation.
Status discipline: This case study describes Kryterion’s publicly stated role and programme architecture. It does not imply authority to procure, contract or represent DICON beyond written mandates.
Client mandate

Knowledge infrastructure

National Library Renewal

Lit for Life Africa programme

Repositioning a national knowledge institution.

Kryterion supported the National Library of Nigeria’s 60th-anniversary programme and a wider institutional renewal pathway connecting literacy, public value, partnerships and long-term strategy.

PolicyInstitutional relevance, access to knowledge, literacy and modern national-library strategy.
ProductsProgramme architecture, strategic narrative, Lit for Life Africa and institutional roadmaps.
PartnershipsGovernment, education, culture, publishing, corporate and community stakeholders.
PathwaysNLN @60 as a milestone within a longer renewal programme.
InvestmentPartnership and resource architecture for programmes, infrastructure and public engagement.
Kryterion-convened platform

Defence Futures Lab

A pathway, not a showcase.

Defence Futures Lab was designed to connect defence priorities to screened technologies, responsible governance, pilots and implementation commitments.

01

Discover

Map stakeholders and define real capability problems rather than start with products.

02

Screen

Qualify products, teams, evidence, security, ownership and institutional fit.

03

Convene

Use working sessions and controlled Deal Rooms to align users, makers, partners and capital.

04

Pilot

Translate interest into a defined 90-to-180-day implementation pathway.

Venture building

Building beyond advisory.

Kryterion’s wider ecosystem includes founder-led and group-linked ventures where the P⁴I model is applied to products, talent, intellectual property and commercial scale.

Music

Martial Records

Artist development, repertoire, publishing, audience and venture economics built as an integrated operating system.

Technology

SheCode.ai

AI-era product-building, diagnostics, identity and pathways for women and girls across Africa.

Infrastructure

Resilience Systems

A vendor-neutral platform in development for energy, mobility, operations software and performance-linked finance.

Bring a priority, a capability or capital. We will build the pathway.

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