Resources for founders who build

Free tools, frameworks, and paid resources. Built for African market realities.

Free resources

The Bleed Test

Free

Ten questions. About three minutes. Find out whether your customers complain, cope or bleed.

Take the Bleed Test

The Haemorrhage Diagnosis

Free

Eighteen questions across six areas of your business. About six minutes. See where the business is under strain and what to fix first.

Start the Diagnosis

The Validation Checklist

Free

Twenty checkpoints every African founder should hit before spending money on building.

Open the Checklist

The Bleed Check. Free, every Thursday.

Bring your idea. Every Thursday at 18:00 SAST we run founders’ ideas through the Bleed to Build Method, live. It’s free and it’s an hour.

Save My Seat

Paid resources

Practical toolkits built around the Bleed to Build methodology. Pay once, use forever.

Customer Safari Field Guide

R149

Stop guessing what your customer wants.

How to conduct real customer conversations in African markets. The 5 Safari Questions, scripts, and debrief template.

8 to 10 pages PDF

Problem Severity Matrix Toolkit

R99

Score your business idea before you spend a cent.

Score your business idea across 8 dimensions. Scoring framework, worked examples, comparison calculator.

Pre-Sell Playbook

R199

Get paid before you finish building.

Get 10 committed customers before you build. Scripts, objection responses, tracking template.

Unit Economics Calculator

R99

Find out if your business actually makes money.

All 6 unit economics metrics pre-built for African market realities.

Founder Business Model Template

R149

One page. Every number that matters.

One page. Eight components. Real numbers.

All 5 Tools

R399

Every tool in the method, for less than three of them.

Get all five resources in one purchase. Saves R296.

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