Mothusi helps national, regional and city-level SME agencies track business movement across programmes, sectors, regions, interventions and delivery partners. Every SME has a live Growth Record. Every programme contributes evidence. Every cohort can be compared through the Mothusi Growth Score - a standardised framework for reading maturity, readiness, risk, evidence confidence and progress over time.
Designed for public SME programmes, donor reporting, regional development, sector support and enterprise-development delivery.
Programmes are designed around five simple stages, with three evidence-graded gate checks each. Your programme stages describe the support journey institutions design; MGS measures the business maturity that moves underneath. That separation is important: a business can be in Stage 4 of your programme while still being Operating in MGS. The programme can progress, while the business maturity record stays honest - and cohort-to-cohort and programme-to-programme comparison stays defensible.
Understand where each SME is starting from.
Get the core business record into shape.
Target the main blocker (intervention).
Turn progress into readiness.
Show what changed.
Bankability Gap
Books are weak, no rolling monthly close, bank evidence incomplete.
Connect bank feed and close out cash forecast.
Moves bank evidence to live-data verification and clears the final gate item.
Schedule a 30-minute working-capital readiness review with the finance mentor this week. After the cash forecast is signed off, the SME exits Stage 3 and Mothusi will assemble a draft funding pack for the Bankability pathway.
Books quality is weak; no rolling monthly close; lender keeps declining on financial discipline.
Last 6 months of bank statements; latest management accounts; signed Northam contract.
Working-capital readiness review with finance specialist; close out cash-forecast gate item.
Most programmes can report activity: how many businesses applied, attended training, completed mentoring, submitted documents or attended events. But governments and programme operators need to answer a harder question: which businesses actually improved? Without a shared evidence layer, teams struggle to see which SMEs are moving, which are stuck, where support is duplicated, and which interventions are producing measurable progress.
Applications, attendance and completion counts show participation, not whether a business became stronger.
Without one record per business, teams cannot see which SMEs are moving and which are stuck.
It is hard to see where support overlaps, or where businesses are falling through the gaps.
Teams cannot tell which interventions are actually producing measurable progress.
Mothusi makes M&E part of daily programme delivery, not a report built after the fact. Teams can monitor movement while the programme is still running.
Mothusi gives programme teams a live view of each SME's stage, evidence strength, blockers, interventions, readiness and next action. Instead of waiting for month-end reports, teams can see which businesses are moving, which are stuck, which evidence is weak, and where support should go next.
Move from generic support to targeted intervention based on the issue clusters that actually exist in the cohort.
If a cohort is blocked by compliance freshness, route those SMEs into a compliance pathway.
If businesses have weak financial records, assign finance-readiness support and track the movement.
If buyer proof is missing, request contracts, invoices, delivery records or references.
If learning gaps are visible, map courses directly to the relevant business levers.
Every intervention connects back to the Growth Record, so teams can see whether anything changed.
From application and baselining through intervention routing, learning, field activity and reporting - the full programme lifecycle on one record.
Create programme intake forms, screen applicants and identify evidence gaps early.
Capture the starting point for each SME before support begins.
Maintain one live record of each business, its tier, evidence, blockers and movement.
Assign businesses to the right support pathway based on issue cluster, tier and evidence gaps.
Connect courses, assessments and outputs to business capability gaps.
Capture notes, visits, evidence, follow-ups and actions in the Growth Record.
Track progress by SME, cohort, sector, region, intervention type and outcome area.
Ask Mothusi which SMEs are stuck, which are ready, what changed this month and what needs action next.
Different audiences read the same growth record differently. These are the specific signals this audience needs to capture, verify, or rely on.
| Audience | Value delivered |
|---|---|
| Government agencies | A live view of SME programme performance across sectors, regions and cohorts. |
| Programme operators | A practical system to manage delivery, interventions, evidence and reporting. |
| Donors | Stronger evidence of what changed after support was delivered. |
| Enterprise-development teams | Better targeting, monitoring and reporting of supplier or SME support. |
| Regional managers | Visibility into which businesses are improving, stuck or need escalation. |
| SMEs | Clearer support, clearer next actions and a more useful growth record. |
A programme briefing covers the MGS framework, Growth Record, programme configuration, evidence model, intervention routing, reporting layer, AI support, deployment approach and data-governance posture.
From business support to measurable enterprise development. Across sectors, countries, and real operating environments.