Senior partners and advisors on every engagement
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The senior experts who scope the work deliver it.
No handoff to junior staff behind the scenes with generic inputs. Our team, systems, and tools prioritize direct client and stakeholder engagement.
Advanced Analytics · Organizational Development · Shared Value Partnerships
Bridging insight
to action.
We help conservation, development, and humanitarian teams analyze markets, broker partnerships, and build the skills to act. Senior practitioners do the work, assisted by our PartnerAI platform.
About MarketEdge
Too much of what gets analyzed never gets acted on.
That is why so much good analysis dies in a PDF. We exist to close that gap.
MarketEdge tackles the hard problems in systems for our clients in sustainable development, conservation impact, and humanitarian assistance. We untangle dynamics where the market, environment, and social factors all pull against each other, and you cannot move one without moving the others.
Market
Environment
Social
Integrated solutions
How we work
Expertise teams can act on.
Our value lies in what happens after the insight. We pair senior practitioners with custom digital tools teams use every day, and training where people learn on their own problems. Lean, senior-led teams keep the cost within reach of mission-driven budgets.
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Built around your decision, in your language.
MarketEdge puts you in the driver’s seat. Your team co-creates the strategy and tests the tools while we build them.
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Tailored digital tools carry the routine load.
PartnerAI assists data collection, dataset synthesis, and hands-on learning. Senior time goes to understanding, innovation, and critical thinking.
Goal on our USDA engagement: staff run the program independently by June 2027.
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Build it, hand it over, get out of the way.
We teach your people to run it. You will stop needing us. That is the point.
Who you work with
The people who scope the work deliver it.
Nikolaus Eichman
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
Private sector engagement, financial modeling, investment structuring
Ben Amick
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
20+ years in inclusive growth, adult learning, and AI-enabled delivery
Marisa Traniello
Technical Director
15+ years in humanitarian and development programs
Tim Moore
Senior Advisor, Blue Food Systems
20+ years in marine conservation and blue finance
Farid Maruf
Blue Economy Partnerships Advisor
25+ years in fisheries, traceability, and private sector engagement
Johs Pierce
USDA Food for Peace Project Director
17+ years in U.S. foreign affairs and food assistance
Our services
Three services. One senior team.
Most firms specialize in one of these. Our advantage is moving across all three within a single engagement, led by senior practitioners and assisted by PartnerAI.
Evidence in, decision out
Advanced Analytics
Market and stakeholder evidence turned into a decision tool your team runs, delivered while the decision is still open.
Tailor-made decision toolsFindings tracked in real timeSite and partner rankings
Learners work before they listen
Organizational Development
Teams build the skills and systems they will own and run. Every module ends with something a senior practitioner reviews.
Attempt firstCoach on the live caseApply and own
Ambition to real collaboration
Shared Value Partnerships
Commercial, social, and environmental interests aligned around shared goals, and acted on. The partnership runs after we leave.
Demand-driven blended financeStakeholder alignment scoring
One engagement · One senior team
All three delivered, assisted by PartnerAI.
See PartnerAI at workWhen teams call us
Three situations we get called into.
We tailor every strategy, tool, and training to the team that has to act on it.
Advanced Analytics
“You have thirty commodity options and no defensible way to choose.”
We build you a tailored decision tool that picks one and shows the reasoning, so you can put it in front of your board.
Shared Value Partnerships
“You met the partner last month. Everyone agreed. The momentum is fading.”
We tell you what step one is and how to prepare for it. Then we get you ready for step five, and for managing it once we are gone.
Organizational Development
“Your teams need to work differently. No generic template fits.”
We assess what your teams actually need, then co-design the change with them, on their live cases rather than ours.
PartnerAI in 19 seconds
From scattered notes to findings you can trace.
Most teams wait weeks for a write-up built from scattered files. PartnerAI keeps one live evidence base, and every finding links back to the person who said it. A senior practitioner reviews every output before it reaches you.
See all three toolsWhat partners say
“The team immediately jumped into the middle of things, took the lead on coordinating, brought fresh and engaging ideas, and skillfully managed the interests of numerous internal stakeholders.”
“Your approach to capacity assessment and capacity building is awesome. We still use the skills we gained, and we presented a new strategic direction at our annual general meeting.”
“The depth of information gathered, access to key stakeholders, and the actionable insights into the environment, approach, and strategy were invaluable.”
“Your flexibility in adapting to our needs and incorporating our suggestions made a tremendous difference. Thanks to your team’s efforts, we now have several PSE champions within the office.”
We do more than advise.
We build alongside you.
Insight only matters when it lands.
Capital and trust move together.
Teams change institutions.
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ben@marketedgeglobal.comnik@marketedgeglobal.comWashington, DC · New Smyrna Beach, Florida · San José, Costa Rica