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We structure businesses so they can access finance, win markets and survive their own growth. Strategy first. Capital next. Legacy always.

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行穩致遠 Steady steps reach the farthest horizons.
What we do

Four points of leverage. One outcome.

A business that can be funded, can win work and can last.

Strategy

Clarity on where the business is going and the decisions that get it there, on a 360° GrowthWheel® view.

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Access to Market

Positioning, supply chain entry and the relationships that turn a capable business into a chosen supplier.

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Access to Finance

Structuring the business to be fundable, then building the case that gets capital across the line.

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This country was never short of entrepreneurs. It was short of people willing to fund them, structure them and stay.

House of Chen stays. Eighteen years across procurement, supply chain and enterprise development, in service of businesses that deserve to last.

以智取勝 By wisdom, prevail
Founding Story

From the Cape Flats to the boardroom.

陳 Photography · Deidre Mackenna
Founder & Lead Strategist · CDFA Certified

Clint Higgins grew up in Tafelsig on the Cape Flats. He left school before he finished. Then he went back. Over twelve years of part time study, while he worked, he earned a Master's in Development Finance from Stellenbosch University Business School. That climb is not a line on a CV. It is the reason House of Chen exists.

Along the way he built more than eighteen years in procurement, supply chain and enterprise development, including a term as Head of Procurement at the V&A Waterfront and work with the City of Cape Town and the Western Cape Government. He has sat where strategy meets capital, and where policy meets the everyday owner.

"This country was never short of entrepreneurs. It was short of people willing to fund them, structure them and stay."

He knows what it costs to build from nothing. So he refuses to watch a good business fail for want of the right structure, the right relationships or the right access. Ready, credible and fundable. That is the standard he holds for every business he touches.

18+ yrs
Procurement, supply chain and inclusion programmes
M.Dev.F
Stellenbosch University Business School · CDFA
SMMEs
Access to markets, finance and opportunity
GW®
Certified GrowthWheel® advisor
In the room with founders, doing the work alongside them.

Not slide decks handed over and forgotten. Structure, capital and accountability, built with you until the business moves.

授人以漁 Teach a person to fish
How we help

We don't sell frameworks. We do the work with you.

We sit with founders and operators, surface what is actually blocking growth and stay alongside you until the business moves.

01

An idea that needs structure

心 · Mindset · Foundation

You have a vision and early customers, but you can't yet describe what makes you different in one sentence, and your plan lives mostly in your head. Growth feels random.

  • Sharpening the value proposition until a stranger gets it in 30 seconds
  • Mapping your true target customer and the channels that convert
  • Building a written 12 month plan with quarterly priorities
  • Founder coaching anchored in mindset and discipline
→ A clear story, a written plan and the discipline to work it.
02

A business that needs to scale

商业 · Business · Discipline

Revenue is real but unpredictable. Operations strain at higher volume. You know you need capital, partnerships or both, but the foundations aren't quite investment ready yet.

  • Investment readiness: cash discipline, unit economics, funder ready materials
  • Access to market: partnerships, channels and a predictable pipeline
  • Operations: roles, documented processes, supply chain resilience
  • Connection to the right capital instruments for your stage
→ A business that's ready for the room, and gets in it.
03

An enterprise programme that needs to land

传承 · Legacy · Impact

You're a corporate, fund or development partner running ESD, supplier development or economic inclusion programmes. Compliance spend is happening, but real impact and value chain inclusion aren't.

  • Full ESD and supplier development programme design
  • SME diagnostics and structured development pathways for your beneficiaries
  • Procurement and supply chain integration into corporate value chains
  • Reporting and impact measurement that funders and boards can defend
→ Programmes that turn compliance spend into measurable transformation.
How we work

Pillars, R's and C's.

Three connected frameworks structure every engagement. The Pillars are the journey, the R's are the doors, the C's are the proof.

The Three PillarsThe Journey
Why you build, how you build, what you leave.

Mindset

思维 · Mindset

How founders think, decide and lead.

Business

商业 · Business

Disciplined growth, strategy and execution.

Legacy

传承 · Legacy

Businesses that endure beyond their founders.

The Doors & The ProofAccess
Three doors open it. Three proofs earn it. Everything points to the middle.
THE DOORSTHE PROOFRiskRelationshipReputationComplianceCompetencyCapacityACCESSTHE OUTCOME
The Doors · 3R
  • Risk. How fundable and low risk you look to capital.
  • Relationship. The networks that put you in the room.
  • Reputation. The track record that keeps you there.
The Proof · 3C
  • Compliance. The paperwork that makes you bankable.
  • Competency. The skill to deliver what you sell.
  • Capacity. The capacity to deliver it at scale.

Three pillars to walk. Three doors to open. Three proofs to enter.

The 360° Business Diagnostic

Where does your business really stand?

Fifteen questions across five focus areas: Strategy, Customers, Operations, Finance and Action. Complete it to receive your full Business Diagnostic Report, yours to download.

Business Diagnostic Assessment · valued at R2,500

Your report scores your business across the five areas, names your strengths and quick wins, and maps the priority gaps we would close with you. Complete the questions and share your details, and your full report opens on screen with a branded PDF to download. Your results route privately to House of Chen so our team can follow up with the right support.

千里之行，始於足下
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
Final step
Where should House of Chen reach you?

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以智取勝 · Business Diagnostic

Your Business Diagnostic Report

Prepared by House of Chen Advisory · GrowthWheel® 360

Section I · Health Snapshot

Where your business stands today

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Section II · Strengths & Quick Wins

What's working and where to act

    Section III · The Growth Plan

    The priority gaps we would close with you

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