SME diagnostics & bootcamps · South Africa
Equilearn gives independent coaches, consultants and training providers the same diagnostic engine, scoring and reports used in institutional SME programmes — without running one. Invite a business, run the checkup, deliver with evidence.
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Start with credible diagnostics or run a full bootcamp. Same platform, same rigour — pick the depth your client needs.
Pay per assessment · no programme setup
Send a professional SME diagnostic in minutes. Your client completes a structured 8-minute checkup; you download a report you'd be proud to put your name on.
Workshop day + 30 days online learning
Run a professional, topic-focused SME workshop with diagnostics, attendance and surveys — then unlock gated online learning that keeps the room working long after it empties.
How the Coach Diagnostic works
Credit-based and low friction. No cohorts to configure, no programme to launch — just credible diagnostics on demand.
Create your coaching organisation and top up diagnostic credits. One credit covers one business.
Enter a name, business and email. Your client receives a branded, secure signup link.
An ~8-minute structured assessment. Track status from pending to in-progress to complete.
Score, segment, pillar breakdown and gap flags — a polished PDF ready to take into the session.
What it measures
Three steps, around eight minutes, segment-adaptive to South African SMEs. Every answer maps to a capability pillar or an urgent priority.
Scale, growth momentum, complexity and founder ambition place the business on the segment index.
Questions tailored to the segment — Micro, Stabilising, Growth or Scaling — for an honest read.
The pain points the founder picks add urgency weighting, so the report leads with what matters now.
Six capability pillars scored 1–5
Segmentation
The engine sorts each SME into one of four segments — so your advice fits where the business actually is. The pyramid fills as the business matures; the lime column marks the breakthrough.
Early-stage or survival-focused. Needs foundational operating discipline before anything else.
Has traction but inconsistent systems. Needs structure and control to hold the gains.
Scaling revenue and teams. Needs stronger execution and leadership systems to keep pace.
Advanced and expansion-minded. Preparing for investment readiness and governance.
Platform bootcamp library
Mental-models-based courses with South African SME case contexts, interactive recall gates and narrated audio — not generic slide decks. Pick a template or build custom content.
Empathy, narrative identity, affordance theory, threshold concepts.
Hero's journey, dramatic tension, framing, subtext, loss aversion.
Thucydides trap, blind spots, the Overton window, network economies, counter-positioning.
Institutional inertia, the veil of ignorance, in-group dynamics, culture.
Dramatic tension, framing, narrative identity, subtext, change & alignment.
The owner trap, value-journey mapping, SOP capture, embed & optimise.
The Cobra effect, Goodhart's law, the incentive half-life, system design.
Why coaches choose Equilearn
The infrastructure is the same one used to run multi-year donor and corporate programmes. You get the credibility; your client gets the relationship with you.
Segmentation, six pillars, priorities and gap flags — consistent, defensible scoring every time.
Branded invites, reminders and report delivery sent for you, under your sender name.
SME, facilitator and cohort reports your clients will trust and keep.
Invite status, completion and attendance logged — clean records when you need them.
Segment-adaptive questions and local case studies built for the market you work in.
Admin, coach, facilitator and SME views — everyone sees exactly what they should.
Questions
On the roadmap
The diagnostics and bootcamps you can run today are the foundation. The full institutional programme layer is in active development — book a demo to get early access.
The flagship institutional model — workshops, tools and targeted 1:1 coaching over 1–14 months, with diagnostic-driven coach allocation and budget tracking.
Before-and-after diagnostics, revenue and employment change, and endline reporting for donors and corporates.
Ecosystem support that matches founders to mentors across the programme roster.
Book a demo
See the diagnostic engine and bootcamp flow in a 30-minute walkthrough. We'll tailor it to how you work — coaching, consulting or running workshops.
