The Project Herald Partnership Board is where projects find capital, contractors find developers, suppliers find buyers, and investors find opportunities worth backing — before any of it becomes public knowledge.
It was built on a simple observation: the people doing the most consequential deals in infrastructure, capital and project development are rarely the ones broadcasting what they’re looking for. A financier evaluating a ₦2 billion opportunity doesn’t want their mandate visible to every competitor scanning the internet. A contractor bidding quietly on a tender doesn’t want their capacity gaps public. The Partnership Board is designed around that reality — not against it.
What It Is
The Partnership Board is a structured matchmaking system for companies and investors across construction, infrastructure, energy, real estate, capital markets and related sectors. Every listing captures what a company actually offers, what it’s actually seeking, its sector, its stage, and the scale of opportunity involved — the same structured intelligence The Project Herald applies to projects, procurement and capital elsewhere on the platform.
What makes it different from a conventional business directory is what it deliberately withholds: no listing reveals who a company is, or how to reach them, until that company has explicitly agreed to be introduced.
How It Works
1. A company submits a Partnership Brief.
Any business can list itself, free of charge. The submission form captures identity (company, sector, country), what the company offers, what it’s seeking, the type of partner it wants, the opportunity type and stage, and a short brief in the company’s own words. Contact details are collected too — but they’re never published.
2. The Project Herald’s editorial team reviews it.
Every submission is checked before it goes live, typically within two to three business days. The submitter is notified by email the moment a decision is made either way.
3. It’s published — anonymized.
Once approved, the listing appears on the Board as a structured card: sector, country, what it offers, what it’s seeking, stage, and its brief. No company name. No email. No phone number. Just enough for the right counterpart to recognize a fit.
4. A visitor browses and requests an introduction.
Anyone can filter the Board by sector, country, partner type or stage, and request an introduction to any listing that fits what they’re building or financing. They submit their own company details and a short message on why it’s relevant.
5. The Project Herald reviews the request.
Every introduction request is checked before it goes anywhere — this keeps the Board free of spam and irrelevant approaches, and protects the listed company from being flooded with noise.
6. The listed company decides.
If approved, the listed company — not the requester — receives an email with a short, anonymized summary of who’s asking and why, and a one-click Accept or Decline. Nothing has been shared yet at this point. That decision belongs entirely to them.
7. Only on acceptance are details exchanged.
The moment a company accepts, both sides are emailed each other’s real name, contact details and brief. If they decline, nothing is shared, and the requester is never told why. This is the entire model: identity is currency, and it’s only spent when both sides have something to gain from spending it.
Checking Where You Stand
Every company on the Board can check who has accepted their introduction requests through a private “My Introductions” page, verified by a secure email link rather than a password. It shows nothing about the Board at large — only the outcomes of requests that company has personally made.
Who Should Be on the Board
The Board is built for the full chain of a project’s life: developers and project owners, contractors and EPC firms, suppliers and manufacturers, engineers and technical consultants, financiers and investors, and businesses offering the professional and logistical services large projects depend on. If your company supplies, builds, finances, advises on, or develops physical infrastructure in Africa — the Board exists for you.
Why This Model, and Not an Open Directory
An open directory rewards whoever’s loudest, not whoever’s most credible. It exposes serious companies to spam the moment they list a real need. And it tells competitors exactly what to undercut. The Project Herald built the Board the way serious dealmaking actually happens: quietly, on structured criteria, with identity revealed only once genuine mutual interest exists.
Getting Started
Submitting a Partnership Brief takes a few minutes and costs nothing. https://www.theprojectherald.com/