Perpetu8 is the African leader in building SMEs into exponential organisations aligned to the global rate of change and opportunities presented by the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Perpetu8 is a boutique SME implementation consulting firm that is building relevant, sustainable and scalable SMEs through leveraging the gig economy.
Perpetu8 makes skilled specialists/freelancers available and affordable to SMEs through on demand implementation consulting to grow the business and create jobs. We do this through partnering with funders in the SME ecosystem.
Africa holds 10.1% of the world’s freelancers. Higher than North America (4.1%) and the Middle East (1%)
- The Payoneer Freelancer Income Survey 2018
In line with exponential growth in technology and the abundance of opportunities, successful SMEs are exponential organisations with scalable systems, processes, structures, people, culture, KPIs. Exponential Organisations scale at a minimum, 10x better than their peers in the same space.
- Exponential Organisations: Why New Organizations Are Ten Times Better, Faster, Cheaper Than Yours (and What to Do About It) - Salim Ismail
Freelance market brought in $5 billion into Africa by 2016.
- Rockefeller Foundation
47% of working millennials freelance in some capacity.
- Freelancing in America:2017
South African SMEs face pressures in accessing, affording and securing the right skills for their businesses. The demand for certain skills far outstrips the supply of such skills.
- The Small, Medium and Micro Enterprise Sector of South Africa, 2016
Staff on demand (freelancers) allows for speed, functionality and flexibility to respond to the fast rate of change. It shifts business from a scarcity mindset to an abundance reality.
OUR HOW
We partner with SME Ecosystem funders to direct their funding towards implemented interventions that drive sustainable and scalable SME growth.
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Partner with us to deliver implementation support to SMEs.
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Watch us find the best freelancers to work with the SMEs.
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Watch solutions being implemented in SMEs.
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Reap the rewards of SME growth and scale.
OUR WOWS
Perpetu8 recently provided some consulting work with my company, Sea Monster. S’onqoba is without doubt one of the most competent, insightful and talented people I have ever met. She has an enquiring mind, great intelligence and a huge work ethic, and yet she manages to combine this with a sense of fun and compassion. She has a great understanding of business, the realities faced by start-ups and scale-ups and how true value and transformation will be created. The fact that she wants to dedicate her life to helping others, and solving some of the biggest social challenges we face as a society, rather than pursuing a traditional corporate career (which she would excel at) is a testament to her deep and sincere belief that the world can and must be a better place tomorrow than it is today.
- Glenn Gillis - Founder & CEO: SeaMonster
Perpetu8 is a fantastic solution for SMEs and the platform
has been of great
help to our investee companies, as an impact investor.
Secha has been, over the last few years, trying to build a network of
consultants and services providers that we can rely on for the SMEs we
invest in.
It has been difficult to match quality providers with a price that was
reasonable for a growing SME.
Perpetu8 solves that for us by pre-screening providers and negotiating
affordable rates that work for the SME market.
We needed assistance with accounting conversion, to a cloud-based solution,
and the process through Perpetu8 was seamless.
The Perpetu8 team paired us with a great consultant and they managed all
communications, as well as organising training for our bookkeeper.
They helped facilitate everything to set up the work and to ensure we worked
within the deadlines and also provided proactive status updates.
I'd highly recommend Perpetu8 to any SME, and we will be using their
services in future.
The team are clearly passionate about bridging the gap between growing SMEs
and high-quality talent needed to support that growth.
We’re excited to leverage the Perpetu8 platform for the rest of our
investees"
- Rushil Vallabh - Co-Founder SechaCapital
OUR WOWS
Glenn Gillis
Founder & CEO: SeaMonster
Perpetu8 recently provided some consulting work with my company, Sea Monster. S’onqoba is without doubt one of the most competent, insightful and talented people I have ever met. She has an enquiring mind, great intelligence and a huge work ethic, and yet she manages to combine this with a sense of fun and compassion. She has a great understanding of business, the realities faced by start-ups and scale-ups and how true value and transformation will be created. The fact that she wants to dedicate her life to helping others, and solving some of the biggest social challenges we face as a society, rather than pursuing a traditional corporate career (which she would excel at) is a testament to her deep and sincere belief that the world can and must be a better place tomorrow than it is today.
Rushil Vallabh
Co-Founder SechaCapital
Perpetu8 is a fantastic solution for SMEs and the platform has been of great
help to our investee companies, as an impact investor.
Secha has been, over the last few years, trying to build a network of
consultants and services providers that we can rely on for the SMEs we
invest in.
It has been difficult to match quality providers with a price that was
reasonable for a growing SME.
Perpetu8 solves that for us by pre-screening providers and negotiating
affordable rates that work for the SME market.
We needed assistance with accounting conversion, to a cloud-based solution,
and the process through Perpetu8 was seamless.
The Perpetu8 team paired us with a great consultant and they managed all
communications, as well as organising training for our bookkeeper.
They helped facilitate everything to set up the work and to ensure we worked
within the deadlines and also provided proactive status updates.
I'd highly recommend Perpetu8 to any SME, and we will be using their
services in future.
The team are clearly passionate about bridging the gap between growing SMEs
and high-quality talent needed to support that growth.
We’re excited to leverage the Perpetu8 platform for the rest of our
investees"