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The Market Calibration Sprint

30 days from your commodities to a quantified sourcing decision · built for procurement teams moving serious volume

Every sourcing decision is a bet on three numbers: what the commodity costs at source, what it costs to move, and what it truly costs delivered. The Calibration Sprint prices those numbers for your operation — your commodities, your source markets, your receiving locations — for 30 days, and ends with one executive report that says in naira what the intelligence found.

You bring

  • 1–3 commodities you buy at volume
  • 5–10 source markets you buy from (or want benchmarked)
  • 1–3 receiving locations — mills, plants, depots

You get, for 30 days

  • A landed-cost dashboard — source price, corridor haulage, delivered cost per tonne, side by side
  • A weekly sourcing brief for your desk
  • Price-change and spread alerts as they move
  • Corridor benchmarking against diesel-indexed rates
  • One executive savings & opportunity report
  • Optional API or data export into your systems

What the numbers look like

From the live engine this week — sourcing 300 tonnes of maize for Aba (Abia):

Source marketMarket price / tHaulage / tLanded / t
Ibadan (Oyo)₦477,740₦26,418₦504,158
Dawanau (Kano)₦552,950₦44,154₦597,104
Mai Adoua (Katsina)₦508,620₦50,493₦559,113
Buying in Aba itself₦786,540—₦786,540

Best corridor against buying at destination: ₦282,585 per tonne — ₦84.8M on the lot. A sprint builds this view for your commodities and routes, refreshed all month.

The conversion question we hold ourselves to: did the sprint identify an opportunity, or prevent a sourcing decision, worth more than it cost? If the answer is no, you should not renew — and we will say so first.

How the numbers are made

Market medians from World Bank Real-Time Food Prices and WFP monitoring, verified weekly by contracted ambassadors inside the markets; haulage modelled from field-calibrated truck rates, re-indexed to the national diesel price every week. Sources, verification loop and known limits are published in full in our methodology — including what each number can and cannot promise.

Coverage today: 10 staple commodities — maize, rice, sorghum, millet, garri, beans, yam, onions, maize flour and groundnuts — across 67 Nigerian markets, with corridor economics on the routes between them.

Start

Write to hello@lokoja.app with your commodities and receiving locations, or request a demo — scoping takes one call, and the sprint starts the same week.

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