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African Enterprise Health Index
The AEHI is a quarterly benchmark that scores enterprises on the five layers of how a business operates, from business design to governance. The inaugural edition, for Q4 2026, is collecting responses now.
About 10 minutes. You see your own ESRE OS Performance Score straight away. Your company is never named.
The ESRE OS model
Every enterprise in the index is scored on the same five OS layers. They depend on each other: a weakness in a lower layer shows up in every layer built on top of it. Explore the layers, then trace what happens when one is weak.
Tap a layer to see what it covers.
Illustration of the ESRE OS model: slab thickness shows each layer's weight in the score. It shows how the method reasons, not results from the index.
Read all five layers as textL2 Operating Model selected.
L2 · Operating Model
Weight 1.4× (highest)What it covers
How work actually happens: processes, roles, decision rights and the handovers between teams.
When it is weak
Core processes live in people's heads. Work stops when key people are away, and the founder or CEO still routes day-to-day decisions.
Why L2 carries the most weight
L2 is the layer the others run on. Technology automates it, data records it and governance controls it, so a weakness here shows up in all three. That is why it carries a weight of 1.4, the highest of the five. In Crelligent's diagnostic work it is also the layer that most often holds enterprises back. That is a hypothesis: the inaugural edition will test it.
This is how the ESRE OS model reasons. It is not a result from the index.
How the 100 points are made up
OS Performance Score = (L1×1.0 + L2×1.4 + L3×1.0 + L4×1.0 + L5×0.6) ÷ 5 × 10Each layer is scored from 0 to 10. An enterprise scoring 10 on every layer scores 100.
How the index works
Each enterprise gets something useful straight away. The index only ever publishes what is true of a group.
01 · You
A senior leader answers questions about how the enterprise runs, across the five OS layers. It takes about 10 minutes and is free.
02 · Private
You see your ESRE OS Performance Score and your five layer scores straight away. Only you and Crelligent see them.
03 · Anonymised
Names and identifying details are removed. Results are only combined in groups of at least 10 enterprises; smaller groups are merged into a broader one so no company can be picked out.
04 · Published
Each quarter, Crelligent publishes the aggregate results with the sample size, method and limitations stated. The inaugural edition covers Q4 2026.
Your individual answers and score are never published or shared with other participants. See the methodology for the full anonymisation rules.
Coverage
Every response so far comes from Nigerian mid-market enterprises. Other African markets are not covered yet, and we will only add a market when it has enough responses to report on.
Hover or tap a country to see its status. The map shows coverage only, not scores.
Research
The World Bank surveyed 1,043 Nigerian firms in 2025. Read through the ESRE OS layers, its data points to the operating model. These are the World Bank's figures, not AEHI results.
Executive Barometer · Wave 1, 2026
Alongside the index, a short survey asks senior leaders how confident they are in their operating model, what they expect for the next 12 months, what holds them back and whom they trust. You see your own score as soon as you finish.
Hypotheses for the inaugural edition
Three patterns Crelligent sees repeatedly in its diagnostic work. They are hypotheses, not findings. The inaugural edition will report how widely each one holds, including where we are wrong.
In many growing companies, core processes are not written down, so the founder or CEO still routes day-to-day work. We expect the Operating Model (L2) to be the most common primary constraint.
Layers: L2
Companies invest in technology (L3) but score lower on data and intelligence (L4): the software is in place, but nobody has a timely view of operations.
Layers: L3, L4
Exceptions are resolved by going to the top rather than through clear approval limits and controls (L5).
Layers: L5
Take part
Take the diagnostic and get your enterprise's ESRE OS Performance Score, layer by layer. Your anonymised answers become part of the inaugural edition.
Review the method with us, invite your members or portfolio companies to take part, or plan for access to the published data.
Get one email when the inaugural report is published.