Market Maps
We construct the target universe around your sector, geography, size parameters, and commercial criteria.
Bespoke Origination & Automation for Lean African SMEs
More qualified conversations. Less manual chasing.
AfriLoop helps lean Zimbabwean and Southern African businesses build a repeatable path to better suppliers, customers, and workflows — from target research and contact paths to WhatsApp outreach, follow-up, and learning loops.
Trusted by
Mining Supply
Agriculture
Solar & Energy
Logistics
Field Services
Mining Supply
Agriculture
Solar & Energy
Logistics
Field Services
Trusted by ambitious SMEs in mining supply, agriculture, solar, logistics, and field services pursuing repeatable growth across Zimbabwe and Southern Africa
3–5×
partner reply rate
vs. generic WhatsApp blasts
<4 weeks
to first qualified conversation
Voice + image
real workflows activated
intelligent WhatsApp automation
Example Screens
Live Screens. Real Markets. Click In.
Two example screens you can explore right now — every target scored, ownership verified, contact paths identified, with an audit trail on every conversation. The demo samples are open. Want the full inventory for either market? Request it below — it's free.
Live
Sector + Geography
Zimbabwe Mining Supply
Suppliers and buyers across Harare, Bulawayo, and mining corridors — owner-led businesses prioritized by capacity, reliability signals, location, and ownership type.
View live screen →
Live
Intelligence + Matching
Agri & Solar Intelligence
Crop health and inventory signals combined with buyer/seller matching. Live tunable thresholds across specialty, size, seasonal patterns, and ownership signals.
View live screen →What We Build
The Origination Loop, End to End
Thesis-Aligned Screens
We organize and prioritize partners against the signals that matter for your mandate, making it easier to decide who is worth reviewing and contacting.
Contact Layer
We enrich founders, owners, operators, websites, signals, and WhatsApp contact paths for priority targets.
Conversation Workflow
We turn priority targets into structured conversations using intelligent messaging, WhatsApp workflows, reply handling, and feedback loops that improve targeting over time.
Where the Value Lives
The Hard Part Isn't the List. It's the Judgement Layer.
AfriLoop does more than map companies or send messages. We design the operating logic between your growth thesis and the real conversation: how the market is defined, which signals matter, how targets are prioritized, how partners are approached, and how every reply improves the system.
Local-Native Qualification Logic
We translate your criteria into practical screening rules: ownership signals, capacity proxies, reliability indicators, market position, trust signals, and thesis-specific red flags.
A System of Record, Not a Spreadsheet
Every target, contact, signal, message, reply, and next step lives in one structured workflow — so your growth knowledge compounds instead of disappearing into inboxes and tabs.
Operator Psychology Built Into the Workflow
Founder and operator outreach is not generic sales copy. We design messaging around trust, timing, relevance, practical constraints, and why a conversation might be worth taking.
Feedback That Improves the Screen
Replies, objections, referrals, dead ends, and positive signals feed back into the screen, making each campaign smarter than the last.
How to Engage
Two ways to run your origination.
The Growth Desk
For teams that want AfriLoop to help operate the origination motion, not just build the system.
From $199/month
Tiered by volume and vertical
Everything in Built For You, plus:
- Ongoing target batches
- Managed WhatsApp workflow
- Reply handling support
- Weekly optimization
- Monthly reporting
- Qualified conversation handoff when there is real interest
- A managed path to more qualified conversations over time
For teams that want a hands-on growth partner rather than another database or internal tool.
The AfriLoop Guarantee: Meaningful pipeline growth in your first 60–90 days on the Desk — or we work with you until it works. Calibrated to your market and set in writing when we map your thesis.
Book a Growth DiagnosticBuilt For You
We build and maintain your proprietary origination system so your team can run a more focused, repeatable growth motion.
From $1,500 setup
+ $149/mo maintenance & support
Your team runs the outreach. We maintain the system behind it.
- Target universe built around your thesis
- Owner/operator contact layer
- AfriLoop screen and system of record
- WhatsApp workflow and messaging logic
- Monthly data refresh, QA, and support
- Ongoing improvements as your thesis evolves
For growth teams that want a proprietary origination engine, but do not need AfriLoop to run the inbox.
Book a Growth DiagnosticHow It Works
From Growth Bottleneck to Repeatable Origination Motion
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We Understand the Bottleneck
Sector, geography, commercial criteria, current sourcing process, what has worked, and where the motion is getting stuck.
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We Build the Target Universe
We construct a practical universe using public data, company websites, directories, local knowledge, enrichment sources, and custom research.
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We Prioritize the Right Targets
We use thesis-specific signals to help separate obvious no-fits from partners worth reviewing more closely.
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We Build the Conversation Workflow
We identify likely contact paths and design outreach logic around relevance, trust, timing, and operator psychology — on WhatsApp.
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The System Learns
Replies, objections, referrals, timing signals, and dead ends feed back into the system so targeting and messaging improve over time.
MC
About the Founder
Built by Someone Who's Been in the Field
Mark Cochrane spent years in gold drilling and field operations across Australia and Zimbabwe — AngloGold Ashanti, remote rig logistics, supply coordination, and practical problem-solving in tough environments.
After years building lightweight automation and reporting tools (often on WhatsApp) to help teams see problems sooner, he founded AfriLoop to solve the origination and workflow bottleneck with purpose-built AI systems for African SMEs.
AfriLoop is built for operators who need more than another chatbot — they need a repeatable way to find, qualify, contact, and learn from the right suppliers and customers.
AfriLoop was built at the intersection of field operations judgement, AI workflow design, and operator-conversation psychology — because proprietary growth is not just a data problem or an outreach problem.
Start With Your Growth Bottleneck
Tell us what you are trying to achieve, how you are sourcing today, and where the motion is breaking down. We'll talk through whether the issue is target universe, contact access, qualification, messaging, follow-up, or something else — and whether AfriLoop can help.
Book a Growth Diagnostic