Institutional Intelligence

The sovereign price
of every trade corridor.
Quantified.

Purahu RTU gives institutional desks, sovereign wealth funds, and development finance institutions a neutral, data-driven measurement of bilateral trade value — independent of dollar hegemony, political weight, or capital flow noise.

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RTU Live Signals
🇳🇬 Nigerian Naira
NGN · Africa
Stressed
Index: 91
🇯🇵 Japanese Yen
JPY · Asia
Very Strong
Index: 11
🇰🇪 Kenyan Shilling
KES · Africa
Near Parity
Index: 34
🇺🇸 US Dollar
USD · Americas
FX Overvalued
Index: 26
🇹🇷 Turkish Lira
TRY · Europe
Severely Stressed
Index: 253
RTU v4 · Sovereign Intelligence Engine · Updated Q4 2024 · IMF / World Bank / BIS

Who This Is For

Built for desks that
can't afford wrong prices

RTU intelligence is not for retail traders. It is for institutions making decisions where currency mispricing has seven-figure consequences.

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Development Finance Institutions
AfDB, IFC, bilateral DFIs pricing loans and equity in emerging market corridors where the dollar invoice is systematically above fundamental value.
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Sovereign Wealth Funds
SWFs managing reserves across multiple currency corridors — needing a neutral measure of bilateral trade value that doesn't move with US monetary policy.
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Hedge Funds & Macro Desks
Discretionary macro strategies, EM carry trades, and relative value positioning where sovereign fundamentals diverge from FX market pricing.
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Finance Ministries
Sovereign finance teams negotiating bilateral trade agreements, debt restructuring, or reserve diversification away from dollar-denominated instruments.
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Trade Finance & Corridors
Commodity traders, trade finance banks, and corridor payment operators settling cross-border transactions and needing a fair bilateral reference rate.
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Economic Research & Policy
Research institutions, central bank economists, and policy advisors modeling the structural consequences of dollar dependency on trade-dependent economies.

Intelligence Products

What RTU delivers
to institutional clients

Not a data feed. Not a dashboard subscription. A sovereign intelligence product — structured, reviewed, and delivered by the founder.

Product 01
Sovereign Score Report
Deep analysis of a single sovereign: RTU index, strength classification, structural drivers, FX gap assessment, and forward indicators. Delivered as a confidential PDF narrative — no formulas, no methodology exposure. Reads like Bloomberg. Priced like a premium research note.
Product 02
Bilateral Corridor Analysis
Full bilateral trade corridor intelligence: RTU ratio, FX pricing gap, settlement pathway options, which party carries the hidden premium and why. Built for trade finance desks, corridor payment operators, and cross-border investment teams making decisions in a specific pair.
Product 03
Thematic Sovereign Brief
Portfolio-level analysis across a theme: "Sub-Saharan Africa sovereign stress," "ASEAN carry exposure," "Dollar overvaluation impact on MENA reserves." Up to eight sovereigns analyzed in a single integrated brief — for macro desks and strategy teams building a regional view.
Product 04
Ongoing Signal Access
Monthly sovereign intelligence briefing: RTU movements, emerging stress signals, corridor convergence and divergence alerts. Delivered by email to your desk. Not automated — written by the founder, reviewed against current data, calibrated to your portfolio exposure.
Product 05
API Data Access
Institutional annual subscribers receive API access to RTU index values and bilateral ratio lookups — structured for integration into your existing risk infrastructure. Outputs only. The engine is never exposed. Rate-limited by tier. Available at annual institutional pricing.
Product 06
Methodology Briefing (NDA)
For qualified partners — a controlled disclosure of the model architecture, factor selection rationale, and validation approach. Not the weights. Not the transformation logic. The intellectual framework that gives you confidence in what the scores mean and how they behave.

Signal Examples

What RTU intelligence
looks like in practice

These are the types of signals RTU surfaces — not predictions, not advice. Sovereign pricing intelligence that your desk can act on.

Severe Stress
Turkey: FX market pricing ignores fundamental deterioration
RTU sovereign index at 253 — the highest stress reading in our coverage universe. Every dollar-denominated Turkish import carries a structural premium that the lira's market rate does not reflect. Trade corridors routed through Istanbul are pricing sovereign risk at a discount.
TRY · RTU Index 253 · Severely Stressed
Structural Gap
Japan: Carry trade suppresses yen below sovereign fundamentals
Japan's RTU index at 11 — among the strongest sovereign fundamentals globally. Yet the yen trades at levels that reflect carry trade positioning, not economic reality. Yen-denominated settlements are systematically underpriced relative to Japan's sovereign capacity.
JPY · RTU Index 11 · Very Strong fundamentals vs FX
Near Parity
Kenya: Closest to RTU fair value in sub-Saharan Africa
The Kenyan shilling trades closer to its RTU fundamental value than any other sub-Saharan sovereign in our coverage. KES-denominated trade corridors carry the lowest hidden premium in the region — making Kenya a natural anchor for East African settlement discussions.
KES · RTU Index 34 · Near RTU Parity
Structural Overvalue
US Dollar: Exorbitant privilege inflates every dollar invoice
At 122% debt-to-GDP and a service-dependent economy facing structural AI displacement, the dollar's RTU index of 26 sits above where its fundamentals alone would place it. Every dollar-invoiced trade embeds a privilege premium that no individual counterparty negotiated.
USD · RTU Index 26 · FX Overvalued
Import Premium
Nigeria–Germany corridor: hidden premium exceeds corridor cost
The RTU bilateral ratio for NGN/EUR places the sovereign-based rate far from the FX market cross. Nigerian importers of German machinery and capital goods carry a structural premium in every transaction — a pricing gap that RTU makes visible and quantifiable.
NGN/EUR · Bilateral Corridor · Significant Gap
Convergence Watch
BRICS payment corridors: RTU ratio reveals settlement opportunity
As alternative payment corridors develop between Brazil, India, China, and South Africa, RTU bilateral ratios provide the only neutral reference for what settlement rates should be — independent of any participant's currency or political interest.
BRICS Corridor · Multi-Sovereign · Strategic Signal

Process

From request to intelligence
in hours, not weeks

01
Submit Request
Specify your corridor, sovereign, or thematic focus. Select your report depth. Provide context about the decision your desk is making.
02
Founder Review
Every request is reviewed directly. No automated delivery. The founder assesses scope, confirms fit, and approves production. You receive acknowledgment within one business day.
03
Engine Run
The RTU sovereign model processes your specific corridor or sovereign against current IMF, World Bank, and BIS data. Outputs are generated, reviewed, and calibrated.
04
Intelligence Delivered
A confidential PDF intelligence brief is delivered directly to your email. No portal. No login. A document your desk can act on — structured as analysis, not a data dump.

"For 80 years, every trade corridor has been priced in a currency controlled by one nation. RTU is the first neutral measurement of what that price should actually be."

Purahu — RTU v4 · Sovereign Intelligence Engine

Institutional Pricing

Built for desks,
not individuals

All pricing is per deliverable until a subscription relationship makes sense. No auto-renewal. No hidden fees.

Sovereign Brief
$499/report
Single sovereign or bilateral corridor
  • ✦ Single sovereign deep analysis
  • ✦ RTU index + strength classification
  • ✦ FX gap assessment
  • ✦ 1,000+ word confidential PDF
  • ✦ Same-day delivery post-approval
Most Requested
Corridor Intelligence
$1,500/report
Full bilateral or thematic brief
  • ✦ Full bilateral corridor analysis
  • ✦ RTU ratio vs FX cross — gap quantified
  • ✦ Settlement pathway options
  • ✦ Thematic: up to 4 sovereigns
  • ✦ 2,000+ word strategic brief
  • ✦ Follow-up Q&A included
Annual Institutional
$25,000/yr
Unlimited reports + API + briefings
  • ✦ Unlimited sovereign reports
  • ✦ RTU API access (outputs only)
  • ✦ Monthly signal briefing
  • ✦ Methodology briefing (NDA)
  • ✦ Direct founder relationship
  • ✦ Custom corridor requests

Institutional Access

Request access or
a methodology briefing

Institutional Intake Form

Complete the form below. All requests are reviewed by the founder before any work begins. Methodology briefings are issued under NDA to qualified institutional partners only.

Delivery Policy: No report is generated or delivered without explicit founder approval. Methodology briefings require a signed NDA prior to any disclosure. Typical turnaround: reports same-day to 48hr post-approval.

Reviewed by the founder · No auto-delivery · Confidential