merezha

Online platform for expert solutions

About MEREZHA

The MEREZHA team actively shares the belief that MSMEs are a key ingredient of economic life thanks to their potential to create further jobs, drive economic growth and enable entrepreneurial self-expression.

While the majority of Ukrainian MSMEs are run by the founders, they sometimes need external expertise to grow and to reach the next level, however they do not always know where to start, how to find a trusted adviser and how to, actually, work with the external advisers to fully benefit from their expertise.

That's why we in 2019 established MEREZHA as an ultimate part of Ukraine's MSME support ecosystem created by the EBRD and financially supported by the EU and US.

MEREZHA helps those MSMEs to improve their knowledge base and business skills while also assisting business experts in designing and proposing more relevant services to MSMEs.

Vision

MEREZHA is an expert solutions online platform that brings transparency, trust and effectiveness to the relationships between advice seeking MSMEs and reliable providers of professional services.

The platform aims at generating interactions between advisory market participants and orchestrate the MSME expert support ecosystem in Ukraine.

It aggregates market and user data to further enhance the value for MSMEs, business experts, and other market players and stakeholders.

Development Timeline

MVP + awareness
31. August 2020
Platform for business experts/professionals
Closest references
Linkedincatalant
Involvement
28. August 2021
Stimulation of content generation by experts
Transactional
31. December 2024
Transactional platform between experts and MSMEs
Closest references
airbnb logoupwork
Network
January 2025 beyond
Social network for MSMEs, experts and networkers
Closest references
facebookPinterest

Five perspectives

For MSMEs
the single source of the personalized interactive content from the leading business experts, simple and transparent access to relevant content as business-self-diagnostics, advisory in small groups, short educational events like OneMinuteConference.
For experts
the space to manage professional profile and generate highly relevant leads. MEREZHA helps consultancies to sharpen their value propositions and giving access to market analytics.
For stakeholders
may utilize MEREZHA an existing reliable platform to work with MSMEs and verified subject matter experts. Having immediate access to the targeted audience stakeholders can host online events, create sub-pages/ areas, and access marketing reports as well as business analytics.
For EBRD
the tool for the effective development of MSME support infrastructure and promotion of the most relevant services for MSMEs
For donors
the highly effective mechanism to increase impact and visibility on local markets as well as analyze market needs structure and measure program results

KPIs

By 31.08.2020
By 01.02.2021
By 28.02.2023
Monthly uniquevisitors
25'000
50'000
100'000
Registered MSME
18'737
25'000
60'000
Active MSME (at least one touch per month)
4'810
10'000
20'000
Verified experts
305
350
500
Video uploads by experts
787
850
1'200
Success stories by experts
527
525
1'200
*Full platform analytics can be accessed at https://bi.merezha.ua

Introduction video

Key features

MEREZHA.Focus
Understander
intellectual search based on natural language processing
After matching the ‘business task’ with experts, one can view the experts’ video introductions and check out their profiles
List of experts
Expert profile
Recorded podcasts help experts to interact with SMEs
National event schedule for SMEs
Expert case
Zoom Call integration
BI-Module for experts
Real-time data on market structure and SME needs
One Minute Conference. New innovative conference format
1 minute – 1 idea, that will change the worldviews of millions
One Minute Conference. New innovative conference format
1 minute – 1 idea, that will change the worldviews of millions
MEREZHA.Meteorites
MEREZHA.Peletons
SME request to expert

Demo videos

Analytical report 2021

How digitalization changes consulting
in the world and in Ukraine?

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Scaling of the MEREZHA platform

MEREZHA can be scaled to other markets, some of its modules might be taken 'as-is' and integrated via API (Application Programming Interface)