For enterprise-development programmes.
Measure SME development beyond attendance. Cohort diagnostics, interventions, evidence outputs, impact reporting.
What is broken today.
Enterprise-development programmes (ESD, BEE, corporate-funded SME support) operate against the wrong unit of measurement. Attendance is counted because attendance is countable. The programmes that fund corporate compliance lines are measured on a metric that has nothing to do with whether a supplier business is measurably stronger.
What changes when Mothusi is in place.
- 01
Cohort diagnostics at entry
Every SME in a cohort enters with a structured MGS diagnostic: tier, levers, issue clusters, evidence baseline. The programme starts with a picture of what each business actually needs.
- 02
Lever-movement reporting
Report on what changed inside the supported businesses, not on how many sessions they attended. Movement across maturity tiers, lever-level diagnostics, issue clusters resolved.
- 03
Interventions linked to outcomes
Every intervention (training, mentoring, funding, market access) is captured against the underlying business it touched. Programme operators see which interventions move which levers in which sectors.
- 04
Procurement-ready supplier evidence
For ESD programmes feeding corporate procurement: supplier evidence packs ready for buyer review. Buyer-to-supplier matching against verified capability, not against a directory.
- 05
B-BBEE, WSP, ATR, SETA reporting
Statutory reporting outputs generated from the underlying growth record. No parallel data capture for compliance reporting.
How it works on the ground.
An ESD partner funded by a JSE-listed enterprise runs three cohorts a year, 60 SMEs per cohort. Each cohort enters with a structured diagnostic, runs through curated interventions on platform, and exits with a measurable change in MGS tier and evidence confidence.
The board-grade ESG report at the end of the year is not assembled in PowerPoint. It is published from the same record that the programme operators worked from all year.
When a buyer in the parent enterprise needs a vetted supplier in a specific category, the ESD programme can introduce one that the buyer can verify in 90 seconds.
Attendance is not impact.
Programmes have spent forty years optimising for what can be counted, instead of what should be measured. The MGS framework gives operators a measurement standard that the businesses themselves benefit from.
Other audiences Avnon serves.
Learning providers
Course-to-lever mapping. AI-tutor assessment. WSP, ATR, SETA, and B-BBEE reporting from the underlying record.
Read more →Agriculture and sector programmes
Sector-specific overlays, farm profiles, GIS, commodity diagnostics, offtake, on top of the standard framework.
Read more →
Tell us what you are trying to do.
A 45-minute scoping conversation covers your institutional context, deployment scope, country and sector focus, integration surface, and reporting cadence.