Data providers tell you how much copper there will be in 2030. Nobody tells you whether the ministry that will decide your permit still exists, who runs it, and what changed in the last twelve months.
Before committing capital to a country in the region, a committee needs to know whether the rules will still be the same when the project reaches production. A market intelligence subscription does not answer that, because it was never built to.
The Jurisdiction File scores five dimensions, five points each. It deliberately excludes the orebody, the price deck and the quality of the sponsor: those are already covered by people better equipped than us.
What it captures is what decides whether a technically sound project ever produces.
Rule stability, permitting predictability, social licence architecture, fiscal clarity and institutional capacity.
And what is about to change, with legislation and regulation currently in process.
And that appear in no market report.
A list of institutional counterparts by subject matter, with names and offices.
Fixed, closed price with no hourly billing. Guaranteed turnaround from receipt of complete background material. The full value of the package is credited against the following mandate if you engage us within six months. Delivered as a signed document plus a 60-minute presentation session.
A score you cannot audit is worth nothing. Every level of every dimension is defined by observable evidence rather than an adjective, and the full rubric is delivered with the memorandum. You do not have to trust the number: you have to be able to argue with it by pointing at evidence.
Security of title and contract over time.
5: constitutionally protected title with no revocation precedent in the decade. 3: administrative title with objective lapse grounds. 1: a contract in force annulled, or the activity prohibited by law.
Not speed: how closely the real timeframe matches the promised one.
5: statutory deadline with positive silence and published compliance statistics. 3: statutory deadline with real deviation above 100%. 1: no procedure in force.
Whether an institutional channel exists, not whether conflict is absent.
5: regulated consultation with consolidated case law. 3: regulated consultation with frequent litigation over its sufficiency. 1: conflict operating on assets already built.
A poor but clear regime scores above a good but uncertain one.
5: stability actually granted to comparable projects, with an approved filing. 3: modellable regime with no special incentive. 1: regime without object, or suspended.
Who decides, with what people and what budget.
5: demonstrated capacity on filings of the largest scale. 3: sufficient for the usual scale, or decisions pending before a political body with no committed date. 1: the technical body does not decide.
Absolute scale. A 5 is a demanding standard in general terms, not “the best in Latin America”. It is anchored to the committee comparing Chile against Canada or Australia. That is why, in the September 2026 round, none of the six jurisdictions scored above 17 out of 25. Each score is delivered with the source that triggers its anchor; without a source there is no score.
It is not an investment recommendation or a credit rating, and it does not assess asset quality. It is a structured reading of a jurisdiction's institutional risk, with a stated method and a cut-off date. Where a figure depends on a decision not yet taken, we say so rather than filling the gap with a number.
Investment committees, funds and corporates evaluating entry into, or expansion within, a Latin American country.
A standing investment committee adviser role starts at US$3,000 per month.
Cultural gaps and different regulatory frameworks are tremendously intimidating when investing in an unknown jurisdiction. Sound professional support provides an edge.
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