Better intelligence requires clear boundaries.
Afrisapients is designed to support useful professional insight while protecting confidential information, respecting legal obligations and managing conflicts.
Our operating principles
Relevant expertise
Experts are assessed for professional experience related to the specific research question.
Accurate representation
Experts must provide truthful and current information about their identity, experience and employment.
Project-specific screening
Experts complete eligibility and conflict questions for each relevant engagement.
Confidentiality
Clients and experts must respect applicable confidentiality obligations and Afrisapients’ engagement terms.
Information boundaries
Experts must not disclose confidential, proprietary, classified or material non-public information.
Professional independence
Experts provide their own professional perspectives and must not misrepresent another organisation.
Controls across the engagement
Before
- Client and project review.
- Expert identity and background checks.
- Project-specific screening.
- Conflict and restriction declarations.
- Required terms and compliance acknowledgement.
During
- Defined consultation scope.
- Compliance reminders.
- Escalation and consultation-stopping procedures.
- Recording only where consent and policy allow.
After
- Consultation record management.
- Controlled access to transcripts and summaries.
- Audit and issue escalation processes.
- Retention and deletion according to policy.
Responsible use of AI
Afrisapients may use AI-assisted tools to support matching, workflow administration, transcription and summarisation. Human reviewers remain responsible for expert recommendations and quality control.
- Do not present AI-generated analysis as an expert’s verbatim statement.
- Clearly distinguish transcripts from summaries.
- Require human review of client-facing summaries.
- Restrict access according to user role and project membership.
- Avoid using confidential client content for unrelated model training.
- Provide a process for correcting material transcription or summary errors.