Built for the decisions others avoid.
ICP is a human-led business intelligence and research organization. For over four decades, we have investigated companies operating in markets where reliable data does not exist and assumptions are expensive. Our work supports decisions in trade, credit, and investment where the margin for error is thin and the cost of being wrong is real.
Where confidence must be earned, not assumed
In many emerging and opaque markets, company data is incomplete, unverified, or deliberately obscured.
Automated assessments offer speed, but not certainty.
ICP exists for moments when confidence must be earned through evidence, judgement, and context, not inferred from surface-level data.
How ICP works in practice
Propriertary
Research
Every investigation follows a research framework developed through decades of fieldwork, not theory.
Local
Researcher
Our work is grounded in interviews and primary sources, gathered by researchers who understand local context.
Judgement over
aggregation
We do not aggregate data. We assess it.
Each finding is reviewed, challenged, and contextualised.
Reports written for decisions
Our reports are not archives. They are written to support a specific decision, at a specific moment.
Perspective
from the field
Perspective
from the field
Use technology to its fullest extent, but don’t rely on it at the expense of on-the-ground information gathering.
Laurens Meijer
Managing Director
Perspective
from the field
Perspective
from the field
Use technology to its fullest extent, but don’t rely on it at the expense of on-the-ground information gathering.
Laurens Meijer
Managing Director
Perspective
from the field
Perspective
from the field
Use technology to its fullest extent, but don’t rely on it at the expense of on-the-ground information gathering.
Laurens Meijer
Managing Director
Perspective
from the field
Perspective
from the field
Use technology to its fullest extent, but don’t rely on it at the expense of on-the-ground information gathering.
Laurens Meijer
Managing Director
A legacy built quietly
1983
Founded to support credit risk assessment for international trade at a time when reliable global company data barely existed.
1990s
Expanded across the Middle East and Africa, building long-term research networks and regional expertise.
2020
Formalised investigative methodologies and reporting standards shaped by real-world use.
Today
Trusted by insurers, banks, export credit agencies, and institutions operating in the world’s most complex markets.
1983
Founded to support credit risk assessment for international trade at a time when reliable global company data barely existed.
1990s
Expanded across the Middle East and Africa, building long-term research networks and regional expertise.
2020s
Formalised investigative methodologies and reporting standards shaped by real-world use.
Today
Trusted by insurers, banks, export credit agencies, and institutions operating in the world’s most complex markets.