Programme operations, entrepreneurship, conservation, technology, writing, and experiments across Africa.
The Journey So Far
Each one a different way of asking the same question.
The Lab
A modular operations stack for early-stage African ventures — finance, reporting, and team rituals in one canvas.
A first-pass return calculator for MSMEs deciding between three growth bets without losing the weekend to spreadsheets.
Map every relationship that funds, blocks, or accelerates the programme. Updated quarterly, used weekly.
A 12-block design canvas for accelerators, fellowships, and training cohorts. Replaces the brief.
What an early-stage African founder actually needs in the data room — by stage, by ticket, by funder type.
A monthly structure for capturing the call, the context, and the counterfactual. Designed to be re-read at year end.
The Junkyard
A points system that would reward neighbours for showing up to community workshops.
Why it failed: The metric quietly replaced the meaning. People started optimizing for points instead of presence.
Lesson
If your incentive is louder than your purpose, the incentive wins.
An app that would assign weekly gardening shifts using calendar APIs.
Why it failed: Plants do not respect Google Calendar. Neither do humans.
Lesson
Some systems work because they are loose, not in spite of it.
A token backed by literal seeds in a literal vault — a half-joke that almost shipped.
Why it failed: Logistics. And a very kind lawyer.
Lesson
Some ideas exist to be told at dinner, not deployed at scale.
Writing & Media
The parallel practice that keeps the systems work honest.