The AFT EU Market Readiness Instrument is a decision grade diagnostic framework for small and medium sized enterprises considering entry into the European Union single market. It assesses whether a firm is ready to move towards EU market entry, where its main blockers sit, and what evidence must be produced before resources are committed. The instrument reads readiness across seven independent capabilities, calibrated to sector context through NACE Rev. 2.1. It treats confidence not as a perception score, but as evidence capacity: what a firm can demonstrate within an operationally meaningful window. The assessment resolves to one of three categorical verdicts: Go, Conditional Go or Hold. The methodology operates at the entity level. It assesses whether an individual firm is equipped to enter and operate within the single market, a layer distinct from policy level frameworks that assess market, regulatory or institutional conditions. The same architecture can also be read at cohort level for programme design, prioritisation and monitoring. This paper describes the framework's structure and reasoning. It does not disclose calibration parameters, which remain protected. The instrument assesses readiness and risk. It does not predict commercial success.
Ali-Fuad Turgut (Mon,) studied this question.