The shared evidence and progression infrastructure
for SME and farmer development
Find the right businesses.
Move them forward.
Prove what changed.
Mothusi gives institutions one evidence-backed way to understand where every business stands, show each business what it needs to do next, target support where the same gaps repeat, and identify who is ready for the next programme, funder, buyer or opportunity.
Live across 2,850 businesses and farmers approximately 50 industries
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Business profile completed · bank account verified
Verified tierForming
Levers cleared4 of 7
Latest evidenceBusiness bank account verified
Priority blockerFirst customer proof
Upload your first paid invoice
Then send it for review
The same gap appears across 31 businesses. A sales-readiness workshop starts next week.
Product UI · illustrative data
The Live Growth Record
One live record behind every business.
Every business has one evidence-backed record of where it stands, what has been verified, what support it has received, what is still missing and what should happen next. Applications, check-ins, documents, mentor notes, interventions and outcomes all write back to the same record.
- The businesssees its current position and exact next action.
- The programme teamsees the full history of evidence, support and progress.
- Funders and buyerssee evidence before review, not claims after the fact.
Mothusi Growth Score
The same score should not lead to the same decision.
MGS gives every business one evidence-backed position across programmes, countries and sectors. The score shows current business health. The verified tier shows the maturity foundations the business has established. The levers and evidence explain what is driving the position and what should happen next.
Two points apart. Two different decisions.
Operating
Mokoena Construction · 61
What has been provenRepeat trading activity and core operating foundations
What changedRevenue has weakened over the last 3 months
Institutional responseStabilisation support
Forming
Puleng Transport · 63
What has been provenBusiness identity, registration and active bank account
What remains openFirst-customer proof
Institutional responseSales support and evidence review
Similar health today. Different maturity. Different intervention.
Product UI · illustrative data
Mothusi AI
One conversation runs the whole loop.
An AI mentor for the business and a live intelligence layer for the programme. Mothusi understands the company, its Growth Record and what it is trying to achieve next. It finds relevant opportunities, checks readiness, guides the work, closes knowledge and evidence gaps, and keeps the institutional record current as the business moves forward.
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Later that day
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Behind the scenes · signal intelligence
2 documents read and understood · mapped to the Customer Proof lever
Behind the scenes · provenance
Every figure in the draft traces to verified record entries
Behind the scenes · one event, many updates
One sign-off recalculated score, readiness and eligibility at once
Behind the scenes · human control
Nothing is submitted without the owner's approval
Behind the scenes · opportunity intelligence
Matched on live eligibility, not a listing search
Behind the scenes · record to revenue
Verified evidence became a R418,600 bid in one day
One verified event moved several parts of the system at once: the record, the score, fund eligibility, and two live commercial documents - each traceable to its evidence, each held for human approval.
Illustrative data
Targeted action
Turn repeated blockers into coordinated action across the ecosystem.
Mothusi shows each business what it needs to address next, then reveals where the same requirement is unresolved across the programme or portfolio.
Businesses that already have the evidence move to review. Those that need help are connected to the right mentors, specialists, providers and targeted learning, with every intervention and subsequent clearance tracked.
01 · Scan
Mothusi scans your portfolio for common blockers.
It reads monthly check-ins, documents and mentor notes - live, not last year's audit.
02 · Surface
Mothusi surfaces the intelligence and recommends next steps.
Missing here: signed orders, invoices and proof of payment - named per business.
03 · Intervene
Interventions scheduled - Mothusi runs the assessments and personalised tutoring.
Fail the assessment and Mothusi tutors you on your own invoices - then retests.
04 · Measure
Impact is measured by how many companies clear the blocker.
"Cleared" means a mentor verified real evidence - attendance counts for nothing.
Mothusi scans all 2,823 businesses across 11 regions and finds the same blocker in 41 of them: no verified proof that customers come back. It recommends the fix, the programme manager approves it, and the 41 are enrolled into a scheduled workshop with their own documents. Afterwards Mothusi assesses everyone (80% pass mark), and personally tutors whoever falls short on their own invoices, then retests. Six weeks later, 29 of 41 have cleared the blocker - evidence pre-checked by Mothusi and signed off by an authorised mentor - with growth scores up 6 points on average, and the remaining 12 each have a clear next step.
One blocker, one scan, one intervention - 29 verified outcomes in six weeks. Mothusi runs this loop for every blocker in your portfolio, every month.
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Funding and portfolios
Build the fund. Let the right businesses surface.
Define the mandate, capital, instrument, ticket size, target sectors and geographies, verified maturity requirements, required levers and minimum evidence threshold.
Mothusi reads authorised Growth Records against those conditions in real time, explains why every business matches and separates those that qualify now from those that need a clear readiness pathway.
Build the fund
Set the rules once: capital, instrument, ticket size and the evidence a business must hold to qualify.
R120 million
Host-Community ESD Fund · Platinum Belt
01 · The mandate
An example: R120 million of interest-free ESD loans, R250k to R2.5m a ticket, for Rustenburg host-community contractors in mining services, engineering and logistics - verified Operating tier, MGS 55+, with financial records, customer proof and compliance proven.
Every rule becomes a live filter
Find qualifying businesses
Mothusi screens live Growth Records against the mandate - a pre-qualified pipeline, not a pile of applications.
48 qualify now
From 1,247 records · every match explained
02 · The pipeline
Save the mandate and Mothusi reads all 1,247 authorised Growth Records against it - live positions, not application forms. Today 48 qualify, each match explained; 31 more are one named gap away, so each gets a readiness pathway.
No call for applications · no forms
Structure IC memos and voting
Mothusi drafts every IC memo from the record; your managers edit before it goes to committee. Votes recorded and defensible.
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Approved · deferred · declined
03 · The decision
Mothusi drafts each IC memo from the Growth Record - position, evidence, risks - with every figure footnoting its source. Your fund managers review and edit before it reaches committee. 22 approved, 12 deferred, 14 declined - every vote recorded with reasons.
AI drafts · your managers edit · your IC decides
Award the funds
The award becomes a signed agreement - then Mothusi tracks the milestones and holds each business accountable.
R38.4m committed
Of R120 million · 22 awards
04 · The capital
When the IC awards the funds, the agreement goes out for signature. From there, Mothusi tracks delivery against the signed agreement - milestones stay connected to the Growth Record, progress is checked through weekly updates, and emerging risks are surfaced to the responsible team.
Award · sign · delivery tracked on the record
Track repayment and growth
Repayments tracked beside live business health - and the businesses measurably stronger for the capital.
MGS up 9 points on average
21 of 22 on schedule · 14 levers cleared
05 · The performance
Six months in, 21 of 22 pay on schedule - and the portfolio is measurably stronger for the capital: average MGS up 9 points, 14 levers cleared and verified, three businesses moved up a tier. The strengthening, not just the repayment, reports live to your funder.
Stronger MGS · levers cleared · evidenced
Hover a step for the detail
Mothusi organises readiness and evidence. The institution retains underwriting, approval and capital-allocation authority.
Illustrative data
From the institution’s mandate to the business evidence behind every decision.
Mothusi connects programmes, support, capital and opportunities through one shared standard and one continuously updated Growth Record.