Crelligent Library
Articles, whitepapers and research by Crelligent, for founders and the leaders of growing African enterprises.
All: 11 items
10 min read
African capital is back, but it goes to fewer companies. The PMF evidence investors trust, how VeloDesk weights it, and a 30-day plan to build it before your raise.
5 min read
What Partech, Africa: The Big Deal, Briter and Carta data say about seed and Series A in 2025, why the trackers disagree, and five things it means for your raise.
6 min read
Most new launches fail, and first-time builders skip validation more often. How to test a second product before you build it, protect your core team, and when to co-build.
1 min read
An operating model bridges the gap between strategy and execution. Discover how to architect your enterprise for scale.
1 min read
When your engineering team spends 80% of their time fixing bugs, you have a structural technology debt crisis.
8 min read
The World Bank surveyed 1,043 Nigerian firms in 2025. Read through the ESRE OS layers, its management data points to the operating model (L2) and to what leaders can see (L4).
5 min read
PwC's family business surveys show Nigerian firms behind global peers on governance policies, family constitutions, succession plans and written strategy.
5 min read
The World Bank and PwC both find power and finance at the top of Nigerian firms' constraints. Those surveys do not ask about the operating model. The AEHI does.
Publishing Q4 2026
The inaugural benchmark of operating health across Nigerian mid-market companies. In preparation; enterprises can contribute now.
Open study
How do early-stage founders measure product-market fit? Take our 3-minute anonymous survey and get access to the full research findings.
Issue #1
Systems thinking for African enterprise leaders. Why the real cost of an ERP is the gap between what you paid for and what you received, and why that gap is not about the technology.