Services

From a strategic question to a practical market-entry plan

Five services to help you assess an opportunity, make an informed decision, and establish operations when the case supports proceeding. Before work begins, we agree on the deliverables, fees, timeline, and boundaries — including the questions the engagement will answer and those it will not.

Orientation Brief

Written analysis and a 90-minute session with your leadership team

Decide whether the opportunity warrants a closer look. The Orientation Brief explains how the Philippine market works, which policy frameworks and locations may be relevant, and what could constrain your investment.

It establishes a current, sourced starting point. It is not a project-specific financial model or a substitute for feasibility work.

Operating conditions: The practical requirements and constraints of doing business in the Philippines.
Potential incentives: Philippine and, where relevant, U.S. incentives, tax credits, and grant programmes that may apply, subject to eligibility checks.
Location options: Differences among New Clark City, Clark Freeport, Subic, and PEZA-registered estates in Laguna, Batangas, Cavite, and Cebu — including the authorities responsible for each.
CREATE MORE: The incentive framework and the choices that matter at the initial assessment stage.
Logistics: Current transport options, bottlenecks, and the status of proposed infrastructure. Projects under study are distinguished from infrastructure available today.
Power: Electricity costs, supply reliability, and the questions requiring site-level verification.
Leadership questions: The issues your board is likely to raise, with evidence-based answers and clearly identified gaps.

Market Entry Feasibility Study

Project-specific analysis, with an optional Regional Comparison Study

Test whether the investment works for your business. The Feasibility Study applies the market assessment to your products, volumes, staffing, utility requirements, capital investment, and timetable.

It gives your board a structured basis for deciding whether to proceed, under what conditions, and what must be verified before committing capital.

Cost analysis: Project-specific estimates of tax, property, utilities, transport, and other material operating costs.
Workforce assessment: Employment and wage data, recruitment options, and the availability of relevant skills.
Confidential site screening: Comparison of existing facilities and build-to-suit options against your commercial requirements.
Structure and incentive analysis: Comparison of entity and incentive options, including illustrative CREATE MORE calculations using your figures, with legal and tax treatment subject to professional confirmation.
Approval map: Relevant agencies, prerequisites, dependencies, and the order in which approvals should be pursued.
Implementation schedule: An indicative 18-month critical path, adjusted to the project’s requirements and supported by stated assumptions.
Decision tools: A weighted site scorecard, cost and timeline model, risk register, and decision gates, with uncertainty and confidence levels made explicit.
Optional Regional Comparison Study: Compare the Philippines with one or two alternatives — such as Vietnam, Malaysia, India, or Indonesia — using the same project assumptions and evaluation criteria. The purpose is a like-for-like comparison, not a collection of separate country profiles.

Site advice without a property interest. We work for you, not for a location. We are not retained by an industrial estate, park, or landowner, and hold no property listing, sales mandate, or commission on a site we present. Commercial site screening does not replace independent engineering or environmental validation.

Supply Chain Exposure Screen

Written analysis and a working session with your supply-chain and compliance leads

Understand your exposure and compare practical responses. We examine sourcing, ownership, trade, and regulatory risks across your existing or proposed supply chain. The work identifies potential exposure, evidence gaps, and questions requiring specialist review.

Supplier mapping: Review of identified and potential Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers, subject to available information.
Counterparty screening: Checks against relevant public sanctions and restricted-party lists.
Regulatory exposure: Identification of potential tariff, export-control, import-control, Section 889, and forced-labour concerns.
Bill-of-materials review: A tiered exposure map showing affected inputs, applicable requirements, and unresolved questions.
Philippine alternatives: Identification and preliminary assessment of potential substitute suppliers.
Capability checks: A distinction between advertised capabilities and those supported by available evidence.
Response options: Comparison of potential remedies, including where specialist legal, compliance, or supply-chain support is required.

We do not issue legal determinations or certify compliance. Where additional expertise is needed, we can identify specialist providers without paying or receiving referral fees.

Landing Coordination

Monthly retainer after the decision to proceed

Keep the implementation process coordinated. Once you decide to enter the market, we provide a single coordination lead across the agencies, advisers, and service providers involved.

We track responsibilities, dependencies, and deadlines. Each professional provider remains responsible for its own regulated or specialist work.

Incorporation and administrative permit facilitation.
Local visit planning, meeting arrangements, and transport coordination.
Coordination with relevant agencies, zone authorities, counterparties, and advisers.
A maintained implementation tracker with task owners, deadlines, and dependencies.
Escalation of delays, missing information, and unresolved issues.
A standing weekly progress call.
Introductions to legal, tax, audit, recruitment, leasing, and other service providers as needed.

The monthly fee, responsibilities, and scope are agreed in writing. We neither pay nor accept referral fees or commissions.

The AnterBridge Brief

Monthly market-intelligence subscription

Know when the assumptions behind your decision have changed. The AnterBridge Brief tracks developments that may affect investment decisions, operating costs, approvals, or implementation schedules.

Policy frameworks and negotiation status.
Company investment announcements, approvals, and construction milestones.
Power supply, electricity costs, and grid developments.
Transport infrastructure and logistics.
PIPIR-related awards and implementation developments.
Critical minerals policy, including developments under Executive Order 122.
Political and regulatory risks relevant to business planning.

Each issue distinguishes announcements from signed agreements, approvals from implementation, and reported claims from verified findings. Coverage follows the evidence, not a page quota, and subscribers also receive updates on material watchlist developments between issues.

View sample issues, the public policy ledger, and subscription details.

Which service should you choose?

Orientation Brief or Feasibility Study?

The distinction is not simply length. It is whether the analysis describes the market or tests your project.

	Orientation Brief	Market Entry Feasibility Study
Main question	Is this opportunity worth investigating further?	Does this project justify proceeding, and under what conditions?
Basis of analysis	Current market conditions, frameworks, locations, and constraints.	Your products, volumes, staffing, utilities, investment, and timeline.
Incentive assessment	Overview of potentially relevant regimes and eligibility requirements.	Illustrative calculations and option comparisons using your figures.
Location assessment	Explanation of relevant zones and their differences.	Project-specific screening and comparison of shortlisted locations.
Intended decision	Whether to commission deeper work.	Whether to proceed, revise, defer, or stop, subject to required specialist validation.

Most clients begin with the Orientation Brief. If it would add little to what you already know, we will recommend moving directly to the relevant analysis rather than selling an unnecessary step.

How we work

Judgment you can check

Our recommendations are useful only if you can examine the evidence and understand how we reached them.

We show the basis for material findings

We identify the relevant law, issuance, agency, document, site evidence, or interview, subject to confidentiality. “The investment climate has improved” is not enough. We explain which change matters, when it took effect, who administers it, and what it means for your project.

We put the answer first

Our analytical deliverables begin with the recommendation and the conditions attached to it, followed by the supporting evidence, alternatives, and limitations. You should not have to search through a report to discover what we think.

We make uncertainty explicit

If a conclusion depends on unpublished rules, unconfirmed agency practice, or information we cannot independently verify, we say so. We identify what would resolve the uncertainty and show how it affects the recommendation. Numerical precision is not presented as certainty.

We represent both sides accurately

We assess the commercial case for our clients without reducing local markets to cost advantages or presenting investors as opportunities to be captured at any price. Our work should remain credible when read by the client, a local counterparty, or a regulator.

How an engagement runs

A defined scope, a clear fee, and continuity of responsibility

Analytical assignments are fixed-fee, not hourly. Landing Coordination is provided under an agreed monthly retainer. A senior adviser remains responsible from scoping through delivery — you know who is doing the work and who is accountable for it.

One

Scoping call

Approximately one hour, free of charge and without obligation. We establish the decision you face, what you already know, and whether further work would be useful. If the call answers the question — or we are not the right firm — we say so.

Two

Written scope and fee

Before work begins, you receive a written agreement covering deliverables and intended decisions; questions included and excluded; required client inputs and specialist contributions; fees, milestones, and delivery dates; and material assumptions and dependencies. Changes in scope, fees, or timing are agreed in writing before additional work proceeds.

Three

Research and verification

We review the regulatory and commercial evidence, then investigate what requires direct engagement: agency practice, counterparty capabilities, site information, and implementation conditions. We distinguish documentary evidence, attributed statements, confidential interviews, and findings that remain unverified.

Four

Interim findings

We share emerging findings before the final report, particularly when they challenge the original investment case. A material negative finding should not first appear at the final presentation.

Five

Delivery and working session

You receive the agreed deliverable and a session with the people responsible for the decision or implementation. Where agreed in scope, we present to your board or investment committee.

Six

Follow-up

For 90 days after delivery, we answer clarification questions about the completed work without an additional fee. New analysis or an expanded assignment is scoped separately. If implementation support would be useful, we explain the options. You remain free to appoint another provider.

Conduct

Clear rules for dealing with officials

Regulatory work involves public officials. Our written anti-corruption policy sets the standards for every engagement:

No bribes or facilitation payments.
A register of gifts and hospitality.
Annual training for everyone working on our engagements.
A named escalation contact for improper requests.
Authority for any team member to stop work rather than make an improper payment.

We would rather lose an engagement than compromise these standards. Publishing them allows clients and counterparties to hold us accountable.

Where our role ends

Specialist advice remains independent

We do not:

Issue legal opinions, prepare tax filings, conduct audits, or provide engineering or environmental certifications.
Perform facility-level technical validation, including power-quality, water, wastewater, geotechnical, cleanroom, or equipment-commissioning assessments.
Operate a permanent local presence on a client’s behalf.
Provide lobbying or government-relations retainers, or undertake representation requiring FARA or equivalent local registration.
Sell land, logistics, equity, or brokerage services.
Pay or accept commissions for introductions.

Licensed and qualified professionals provide the specialist work their disciplines require. We coordinate their contributions without substituting for their judgment.

Independence means our advice is paid for by the client making the decision — not by a party seeking to influence it.

Read our independence commitment.