Couto & Silva Intelligence works with a small number of independent professionals who introduce institutional decision-makers to the firm. This is not a distribution channel and not an affiliate scheme. It exists because certain relationships cannot be opened cold, and because the people who hold them are usually not looking for work.
Who this is for
Professionals who already hold direct, credible relationships at decision-making level with institutions exposed to Brazil — chief investment officers, portfolio managers and heads of emerging markets; chief risk officers and heads of geopolitical risk at global corporations; senior figures in diplomatic, trade and multilateral institutions.
Typically: placement agents, investor-relations advisers, former emerging-markets bankers, former trade or defence attachés, and consultants with a defined regional mandate.
What is required
Existing relationships, not lists. No cold outreach, no mass email, no purchased databases, no scraping.
Every prospect is registered and approved in writing by the firm before any contact is made.
No report of the firm circulates through a representative, in whole or in part, under any circumstances.
Written approval before any use of the firm's name, and adherence to a controlled onboarding manual issued on a named copy.
What this is not
It is not a reseller or agency relationship. A representative does not negotiate price, does not set scope or licensing, does not sign on the firm's behalf and does not receive client funds. The firm conducts all discovery, contracting and delivery directly.
How to be considered
Write to desk@coutosilva.com answering three questions:
- Which decision-makers do you already know personally, and in what capacity?
- Why would those institutions need an integrated reading of Brazilian political, geopolitical, security and financial risk?
- What has been your professional relationship with them over the past three years?
Applications without specific names and a stated basis of access are not reviewed. Terms of the relationship, including compensation, are discussed only after an initial assessment.
We would rather have three representatives who can open the right door than thirty who cannot.