The Challenge
In Africa’s agri-food sector, promising innovations – from tools to support models – rarely reach the businesses that need them most.
Many solutions are designed far from the field, without input from processors, coaches, or ESOs. As a result, they’re untested, underused, or unscaleable.
Our Response
The Enterprise Innovation Lab We co-create tools, business models, and service solutions with SMEs and their support ecosystems. We test in real-world conditions – with feedback loops, coaching data, and enterprise performance insights to refine what works and drop what doesn’t.
The Innovation is for impact – not just theory.
What We Offer
Tools & Equipment
Prototyping
Affordable, field-ready innovations in food processing, diagnostics, and enterprise operations
Business Model &
Value Chain Testing
Piloting new roles, sourcing models, and bundled services that enterprises can adopt and grow with
Support Model Design
For Coaches & ESOs
Creating scalable coaching bundles, shared-service models, and tools for ESOs to improve performance
Learning Loops
For Iteration
Using enterprise-level feedback and field testing to refine innovations before broader rollout
Where We've Worked
Have an Idea Worth Testing? Let's build a test together - for real-world growth, not just theoretical promise
Why It Matters
Real Innovation happens where enterprises live and work
We believe the best tools, models, and services are co-designed with users, tested in messy real-world conditions, and refined through data and experience.
THE ENTERPRISE INNOVATION LAB IS
WHERE GREAT IDEAS
BECOME TANGIBLE SOLUTIONS
for African SMEs.
Who We Work With
- Processors and food entrepreneurs
- Local fabricators and toolmakers
- Enterprise Support Organisations
- Program designers and funders looking to pilot new models
The Challenge
In Africa’s agri-food sector, promising innovations – from tools to support models – rarely reach the businesses that need them most.
Many solutions are designed far from the field, without input from processors, coaches, or ESOs. As a result, they’re untested, underused, or unscaleable.
Our Response
The Enterprise Innovation Lab We co-create tools, business models, and service solutions with SMEs and their support ecosystems. We test in real-world conditions – with feedback loops, coaching data, and enterprise performance insights to refine what works and drop what doesn’t.
The Innovation is for impact – not just theory.
What We Offer
Tools & Equipment
Prototyping
Affordable, field-ready innovations in food processing, diagnostics, and enterprise operations
Business Model &
Value Chain Testing
Piloting new roles, sourcing models, and bundled services that enterprises can adopt and grow with
Support Model Design
For Coaches & ESOs
Creating scalable coaching bundles, shared-service models, and tools for ESOs to improve performance
Learning Loops
For Iteration
Using enterprise-level feedback and field testing to refine innovations before broader rollout
What We’ve Built
SME-ready Processing Equipment
Diagnostic tools integrated with the GROW LMS
Bundles Coaching + Digital Service Offers
Real-time Testing protocols with processors and advisors
Feedback frameworks linking designs to outcomes
Where We’ve Worked
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Burkina Faso (DryMore Programme)
Developed and tested food drying equipment and diversification strategies with youth-led enterprise
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Malawi, Kenya, Mozambique
Business model pilots across aquaculture, compost, rice, and poultry
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Benin & Côte d’Ivoire
Support tools for ESOs and service providers piloted with local coaches
Have an Idea Worth Testing?
Let’s build a test together – for real-world growth, not just theoretical promise
Why It Matters
Real Innovation happens where enterprises live and work
We believe the best tools, models, and services are co-designed with users, tested in messy real-world conditions, and refined through data and experience.
THE ENTERPRISE INNOVATION LAB IS
WHERE GREAT IDEAS
BECOME TANGIBLE SOLUTIONS
for African SMEs.
Who We Work With
- Processors and food entrepreneurs
- Local fabricators and toolmakers
- Enterprise Support Organisations
- Program designers and funders looking to pilot new models
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