Choose Your Path
For Enterprises: Scale With Sense
Are you an agri-processor ready to move from survival to scale?
We don’t offer generic advice. We offer operational partners who stand with you on the factory floor and in the boardroom.
- Get Technical Coaching: Fix the bottlenecks in your production line. From Food Safety Certification (HACCP/ISO) to Mechanical Drying installation, our technical experts help you lower costs and increase quality.
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Access New Markets (Marketing Sense): Stop knocking on closed doors. We act as your trade representative in the EU and US. We assess your export readiness, broker deals with volume buyers, and train your internal sales team to hold the ground we gain.
- Unlock Capital: Stop getting rejected by banks. Our AgFin Solutions Lab rebuilds your financial models to make your business “investor-ready,” helping you secure the working capital needed to buy more from farmers.
For Experts: Mentor the Makers
Do you have the skills to share?
We don’t need generalists; we need specialists. We are looking for seasoned professionals to mentor our cohort of high-potential processors.
- The Technical Track: Are you a retired food scientist, factory engineer, or quality assurance specialist? Help a processor troubleshoot a boiler or set up a traceability system.
- The Business Track: Are you a CFO or Supply Chain Director? Coach an entrepreneur on cash flow modelling or logistics negotiation.
- The Commitment: Focused, high-impact sessions that solve real problems on the factory floor.
For Donors & Investors: Fund the Shift
Invest in the “Missing Middle”.
The gap between the farm and the shelf is starved for capital. We provide a direct channel to invest in the industrial transformation of agriculture.
- Sponsor a Cohort: Fund a technical assistance program for a specific value chain (e.g., The Fonio Force).
- Direct Impact: Your contribution goes toward tangible assets—training hours, market studies, and technical tooling—not administrative bloat.
Join the Community. Don't build in isolation.
Plug into the ecosystem that is defining the new standard for African food.
- The GROW Network: Connect with 100+ vetted technical experts and peers across 15 countries. Find suppliers, trade opportunities, and solutions to common challenges.
- Sense Signals: Get the data from the factory floor. Sign up for our regular digest of market trends, policy shifts, and real-time opportunities—no fluff, just business intelligence.
Our Funders & Donors
Our Funders
Sense collaborates with development partners who believe in the potential of agri-food enterprises to drive economic transformation. Our donors support us in testing new ideas, developing solutions, and scaling what works. These partnerships ensure that our work is rooted in shared learning, accountability, and meaningful impact.
In Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire, Sense operates in close partnership with AGRODEV SARL, a regional leader in enterprise development and agricultural value chain transformation.
Through AGRODEV, Sense delivers:
- Technical assistance across rice, poultry, compost, and horticulture
- Local project implementation and coordination
- Coach training and enterprise support under the GROW Network
- Francophone expertise for regional donor programmes
Jean Bosco Diblouni, founder of AGRODEV SARL, serves as Regional Partner, anchoring implementation and strategic engagement in West Africa
Our Beneficiaries The people and enterprises we work with are at the heart of Sense’s mission.
They are processors, entrepreneurs, and innovators across Africa who are transforming agri-food systems from the ground up.
Through our training, coaching, and financial facilitation, these enterprises are scaling their businesses, creating jobs, and driving local economic growth.
Each beneficiary represents a story of progress – from women-led processing companies improving food safety standards to youth-owned enterprises developing new market opportunities.
Their success is our purpose, and their growth, the measure of our impact.
We regularly collaborate with independent consultants, technical experts, and development organisations.