Register a company in Guyana, the fastest economy on earth.

Yes - incorporation and GRA registrations run by power of attorney. Banks prefer to meet a signatory, and oil-sector counterparties respect presence, so most clients visit once between filing and first contract. We sequence everything so the trip is short.

Forty service categories - from catering to trucking to insurance brokerage - are reserved or prioritised for Guyanese companies, defined as majority Guyanese-owned and managed. Foreign capability enters those lanes through joint ventures with real local partners. We design that architecture deliberately: governance, economics and exit written down before anyone shakes hands.

You wouldn't, knowingly: the 40% 'commercial' band catches companies whose income is mostly trading goods they didn't make. Service providers, manufacturers and processors sit at 25%. The classification follows your actual revenue mix - so we structure the model, and sometimes split entities, before the GRA decides for you.

The claim is real and loud; the practical picture is steadier: the ICJ has the case, the US and partners patrol visibly, the operators keep investing billions, and production keeps rising. We treat Essequibo as a scenario in the risk register - insurance, contracts, jurisdiction clauses - not a reason to skip the fastest growth on earth.

Boomtown expensive: housing scarce and priced accordingly, skilled salaries inflated by oil-sector competition, imports queued through busy ports. Budgets built on pre-boom assumptions fail. We model the real cost base - and the gas-to-energy project is already scheduled to halve power costs.

The structural constraint: eight hundred thousand people cannot staff this boom, so expatriate permits are routine and training local hires is both good economics and good local-content standing. Payroll plans here are recruitment plans. We build both.

Functional and conservative: Republic, GBTI and Demerara process a boom's worth of business with real KYC. Two to four weeks with a defended file. USD accounts are routine; the Guyanese dollar is stable and convertible.

More than most frontiers: oil revenues flow through a rules-based sovereign fund, debt is moderate, and the election of 2025 passed with policy continuity. The macro risk here is absorption - too much money meeting too little capacity - which for service businesses is precisely the opportunity.

Alive and earning: gold remains a major hard-currency export with its own services chain, agriculture is pushed hard under CARICOM food-security targets, and timber persists. They diversify the boom and offer quieter entries with less competition for talent.

From $2,900 for the company, from $4,900 with a bank account. The registry takes one to two weeks; JV architecture, registrations and the bank stretch realistic zero-to-operating to four to six weeks. Local-content support from $1,500. Renewal from $1,500/year.