An ESD programme needs development and evidence to work together
The capability to actually develop a small business, and the evidence to prove it happened. Consultancies tend to have the first. Software tends to have the second. A programme that only has one of them either does good work nobody can verify, or produces clean reports about very little.
Growth Firm has the delivery bench — legal and compliance, tax and finance, operations. GrowthIQ connects that work to the evidence a sponsor needs, and trades as a Growth Firm company today.
The gap is not only information scattered across spreadsheets, email and reports. An ESD programme runs across five connected stages — Identify, Assess, Develop, Integrate and Verify — and each one needs to connect to the next. See how we run them.
What is ESD?
ESD is where a corporate invests a legislated share of profit in growing small suppliers — then has to prove, at verification, that the spend worked.
A professional bench the business could not afford alone
The platform produces the evidence. People do the development. Ours are hands-on rather than a written recommendation — what a small business usually needs is work done, not advice given.
Each stage is delivered as a service. See how GrowthIQ works.
An employee became the owner. Nobody lost a job
A corporate customer needed to move spend from a large supplier to a small business without dropping service quality or losing the skills already on site. What came out of it was a business trading in its own right, meeting the customer's standards, with every job intact.
Our team
The team behind the system
GrowthIQ connects assessment, development, evidence and reporting across the full ESD programme. Growth Firm's team brings the legal, accounting, compliance, operations and business expertise that helps each SME close its gaps and move forward. Growth Firm is a Level 1 B-BBEE contributor with 51% women ownership, structured around the 2023 Amended Codes.
City Seokane
Managing Director
Admitted attorney · 20+ years in corporate and commercial law
Lerato Anita Ferland
Business Analysis — Compliance
Sesethu Zingelwa
Business Analysis — Compliance
Arinao Mavhusha
Business Administrator
Tshinyi Mavhusha
Operations Director
MBA (GIBS) · BCom Hons (Rhodes)
Vhulenda Khorommbi
Business Analyst — Accounting