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About Strategine

Responsible business begins with seeing reality clearly.

Strategine exists to help organisations understand the human and environmental consequences of their decisions early enough to act—and clearly enough to be accountable for what follows.

Accountability operating cycle

Identify → prioritise → respond → track → communicate

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What we do

Connect what the organisation knows to what it does next.

We call this Responsible Business Intelligence: the organisational capability to connect fragmented signals, evidence, context, ownership, and response into a view that supports better decisions about people and the environment.

Our work can include risk and evidence structures, governance policies, accountability routines, leadership reporting, and the operating model behind Trace. The aim is not more reporting. It is earlier understanding, clearer responsibility, and a response the organisation can examine and improve.

Our mission

Business should not be surprised by preventable harm.

We hold that belief because the alternative is common: organisations that are diligent on paper are still surprised by harm in practice, because recording that something happened is not the same as recognising its significance in time to act on it.

Human rights and environmental due diligence informs how we work, but it does not limit it: the same discipline applies wherever a responsible decision depends on context, evidence, ownership, and follow-through—whichever policy or framework happens to name it.

Responsible business intelligence

Commitment → practice → proof

Operating model
01

Commitment

Policy, standards, expectations

02

Practice

Risk, ownership, response

03

Proof

Evidence, outcomes, review

The management question

Can we show what changed after a risk was identified?

Where we stand

A Nairobi perspective, built for wider operating contexts.

Strategine is based in Nairobi, close to the realities of African production, employment, communities, export markets, and global value chains. That proximity shapes how we listen, test assumptions, and distinguish a formal requirement from the reality it is meant to improve.

Our work is sector-neutral. We do not assume one geography, industry, or framework has all the answers. We use local context as a source of intelligence, while designing accountability structures that can support organisations and value chains operating across borders.

See how that thinking is becoming a working platform in Strategine Trace.

Risk identification

Evidence pathways

Ownership logic

Response tracking

How we work

Clarity before complexity.

We use recognised due diligence frameworks where they are relevant, but organise the work around the organisation's decisions, responsibilities, and real operating conditions.

01

We begin with the decision

Before adding a report, system, or indicator, we ask what someone needs to understand, decide, own, or change.

02

We stay close to operating reality

Evidence is interpreted in context: how work is organised, whose voice is missing, and what action is feasible without hiding the underlying risk.

03

We are precise about what evidence shows

We separate what is confirmed from what is inferred, and say plainly what remains uncertain, so a decision is never built on more confidence than the evidence supports.

04

We build for accountable continuity

Structures, governance policies, and review routines should remain usable after an engagement and improve as the organisation learns.

Frameworks we work with

UNGP

Guiding Principles

OECD

Due Diligence

CSDDD

EU Corporate Due Diligence, where applicable

CSRD / ESRS

EU Sustainability Reporting, where applicable

RBC

Responsible Business Conduct

Start with the question

What does leadership need to see more clearly?

Tell us where signals, evidence, ownership, or response stop connecting. We will begin with the decision—not a predetermined solution.