The development life cycle
The expertise of KPO spans the entire development lifecycle of a project, from idea to roll-out, as well as its myriad components and facets. from concept to feasibility, design to construction, and regulatory to exports.
The life cycle is divided into three principal stages: pre-financing, financing, and post-financing.
- Pre-financing makes the business case and quantifies the certainty of the investors’ ROI.
- Financing is self-explanatory. Get funded to get built or get nowhere.
- Post-financing develops the investment opportunity into a profitably performing asset.
Each stage is subject to an aggressive, pro-active management approach to spot and neuter the myriad risks that can crop up at any time.
The expertise
Front-end development. Define and oversee the formulation and assessment of the project concept, up to the capital raise.
Delivery management. Define, implement, and manage the plans, strategies, budgets, timelines, and supply chains to design and build the asset.
Risk Management. Audit, detect, and neuter risks (actual or potential) across the three stages.
Financial integrity. Detect, counter, and sterilize potential sources of corruption, graft, kickbacks, and money laundering. Also, direct and oversee ALL financial transactions incurred by the project throughout the development lifecycle.
Development management. Full development of the project across the three stages, with the inclusion front-end development, delivery management, risk management, and financial integrity.
Advisory. Advise the owner’s executive team on critical, strategic and tactical topics related to the project or the business, with absolute confidentiality.
Consulting. Provide analysis, insights, plans, and strategies across the four functional groups of the development cycle: Commercial, Delivery, Relational, Financial.
Capital raise. Identify and introduce potential investor groups to the project owner seeking debt and/or equity financing.
Content creation. Create and develop data, graphics, documents, online contents, and models required by the project or the business. The methodology is client-specific and never fitted to generic templates. The creative approach is clarity-driven, clean, concise, verifiable, and direct.
Investment likelihood
Funders and investors gauge projects in terms of their maturity, defined as how close they are to revenues:
Class A: Shovel-ready (highest priority)
Class B: Procurement-ready (design & permitting completed)
Class C: Design-ready (concept & environmental completed)
Class D: Concept-ready (feasibility study completed)
Class E: New (idea posited as starting point)