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The Founder’s Blueprint · The Incubator

Your business, on paper. Not in your head.

A twelve-week founder programme. Each week you open something real — your calendar, your invoices, your delivery — count it, and write down what is actually there.

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FREELevels 01–03
10 questions · 2 minutes

Your Ground Plan comes once you tell us where to send it.

Welcome

Work through this and the business grows without needing you to hold all of it in your head.

Everything you need to do it is here — the questions, the worksheets, the numbers, and someone who has done it reading what you write.

And none of it happens by trying harder

It happens by fixing the right one of four things.


What you already lead

Four things hold the business up

You are leading all four right now, whether you chose to or not. Most founders are strong in two and guessing at the other two.

One

Lead yourself

  • Your hours, counted — not remembered
  • What you refuse, even when it pays
  • The decision you have been carrying for months

Two

Lead your people

  • What you expect and have never said
  • The conversation you keep rehearsing
  • Who is waiting on you without telling you

Three

Lead your business

  • What breaks the week you are away
  • What one job earns after the rework
  • The part that only exists in your head

Four

Lead the market

  • Who actually pays you, by name
  • Why they said yes, in their words
  • What it costs them to carry the problem

Everything you are trying to fix sits in one of those four. Work the wrong one and nothing moves.

So the whole job is finding out which one — and fixing that one first.

So, how do you find out which one? Gently, and in order.

How it works

Three things happen, in this order

1

We find where you are

Ten questions. Which stage you are in, and which of the four is costing you most.

2

You work one week at a time

Open something real, count it, write it down. Twenty-eight answers closes a week.

3

You get an answer, in your own numbers

After week three the Blueprint reads your own figures back and names the one thing to fix first.

Every week asks you to open something real — your calendar, your invoices, your delivery — and write down what is actually there. That is the method, and it is why it works.

See where I stand

Ten questions. Two minutes. Nothing to pay.

Let’s find where you actually are — not where the last podcast said you should be.

Where you are

Your stage decides what comes first

A founder chasing first clients and a founder with a team describe their problem with the same words and do not have the same problem.

1

Stage one

Building

Finding the offer and the first clients. Everything depends on you.

These two carry it

Yourself The market PeopleBusiness
2

Stage two

Growing

Clients repeat, but the business still runs through one head.

These two carry it

Your people Your business YourselfMarket
3

Stage three

Scaling

There is a team, and the constraint is judgement, not work.

All four, evenly

Yourself People Business Market

You work all four either way. Only the weight changes — and the ten questions set it, not you.

Then let’s lay the weeks out flat, where you can see them.

How twelve weeks run

All four, every week

Not a module on mindset then a module on sales. Every week works all four and leans on the one you are thinnest in. They rise together, because in a real business they do.

Lead yourself Lead your people Lead your business Lead the market

Every column is one week. Every column has all four — that is the whole point. The weight shifts, the coverage never does.

Seven questions in each, every week — name it · evidence · gap · cost · decision · move · review. Twenty-eight answers close a week. None can be answered by thinking hard; each names what to open, what to count and what to write.

Let’s skip ahead for a moment, to the part worth working for.

Before and after

What you have at the end of each stretch

Today

It is all in your head

Yourself
Your people
Your business
The market
  • Long hours, hard to say where they went
  • A customer you could describe but not name
  • Nothing written down that somebody else could run

After three weeks

You can see it

Yourself
Your people
Your business
The market
  • Your week, in hours, on paper
  • Ten customers named, with a route to each
  • One sentence for what you are actually for

After twelve

It runs, and you can prove it

Yourself
Your people
Your business
The market
  • A process somebody else runs without you
  • A hundred prospects by name
  • One number, a named day, a real consequence

And so nothing gets lost: everything you write stays yours.

What lands on your desk

You keep everything you fill in

Not a course you watch. A workbook for your stage, and a worksheet every week that does the arithmetic while you fill it in.

ExploraSelf

Building

The Founder’s Blueprint

79 pages · A4

ExploraSelf

Growing

The Founder’s Blueprint

77 pages · A4

ExploraSelf

Scaling

The Founder’s Blueprint

80 pages · A4

Your answers save as you type and follow you between laptop and phone. Print them, export them, or hand them to whoever runs that part of the business next.

Start week one tonight

Free, and the first three weeks stay free.

You can start tonight, on your own, for nothing.

Here is how far that takes you, and where it is worth bringing someone in.

Let’s begin where everyone begins — on your own, and on the house.

Weeks 1–3

You start on your own

Three weeks, all four domains, at no cost. You sign up with an email so your work is saved and follows you between your laptop and your phone.

You stop losing the week
  • You can see exactly where your hours went
  • And you get one block of real work back, every week
People understand what you sell
  • One sentence that explains it without you explaining
  • So conversations start warmer and move faster
You stop waiting for the phone
  • Ten named customers you can approach this month
  • Each with a way in and a date to do it

Free · weeks 1–3

No card. An email, so your work is saved, follows you between devices — and so Alexandru can read it before you ever speak.

Start now

Two minutes to find your starting point.

Three weeks in, let’s bring in a second pair of eyes.

Weeks 4–5

Alexandru joins you

Finish week three and you can book an hour with Alexandru at no cost. Alexandru and the team read everything you wrote beforehand, so the hour is spent deciding rather than explaining.

That hour opens weeks four and five.

You get the Compass
  • Your business run through 18 of its own numbers
  • Read by Alexandru before you speak
In week 4
  • One piece of work refused, in writing
  • What it would have paid you an hour
In week 5
  • Three customers’ reasons, in their words
  • Not your summary of them
No cost One hour, and two more weeks open. The only thing it asks is that you finished the first three.

And while the team is reading, let’s put your numbers under the lamp.

Included with that hour · worth the session on its own

The Founder’s Intelligence Report

A full audit of your business across all four — thirty-two questions and eighteen of your own numbers — run before you ever speak to Alexandru. The team reads it first. You arrive to a conversation that is already about the real thing.

What goes in

  • 32 questions — eight for your stage, two in each of the four
  • 18 numbers — sales, costs, hours, cash, customers
  • Your figures only. Nothing is estimated for you, and blanks stay blank.

What comes out

Money left per founder hour Break-even sales Cost to win one customer Cash buffer and runway Your load against your own limit What a price change really does

What it tells you, domain by domain

Lead yourself
  • How many hours you are giving the business unpaid, priced at your own rate
  • Whether your workload is above the limit you said you could sustain
Lead your people
  • How much of the core work still stops when you stop
  • What has to come off your desk first for anything else to move
Lead your business
  • What is left after delivery, selling and running costs — the real margin
  • The sales figure you must hit to break even, in plain money
Lead the market
  • What you spend to win one customer, against what one is worth
  • How much of your revenue leans on a single client

Two things it checks that founders rarely check themselves

One customer, more than a third of your sales

If that is true and you do not know it, you find out the month they leave — and by then there is nothing to do about it.

More than half the work depends on you

Then the business cannot grow past your diary, cannot be handed over, and cannot survive a bad fortnight.

Neither is a verdict. Both are questions worth answering before another quarter goes by — and most founders have never put a number to either.

Start now — it is free

Finish week three, book the hour, and the Report opens with it.

Ready to keep going under your own steam? Let’s build the owner.

Weeks 1–9From operator to owner

The Personal Leadership LAB

Weeks six to nine are where the business stops living in your head — and where you find out what it has been costing you to keep it there.

The business runs without you
  • One job written down and handed over
  • Somebody else does it properly, first time
  • You could take a week off and nothing stops
You know what you really earn
  • What a job pays once the chasing and fixing is counted
  • Which customers make you money, and which cost you
  • So you price it right and stop working for free
People buy faster
  • An offer in one sentence your customer understands
  • Said clearly enough that they want it
  • And you know how much you can take on without breaking

All nine weeks, in your own time, with the library behind them: the frameworks, the tools, the books, and the printed workbook for your stage.

$97 Weeks one to nine. Everything the free weeks cover is inside it — you never buy the same thing twice.

Or let’s do the whole thing, properly, and in company.

Weeks 1–12The whole Blueprint

The Business Growth HUB

All twelve open from day one. Nothing held back and nothing sequenced to keep you waiting.

All twelve weeksEvery domain, every worksheet, every workbook — open from the day you start.
+
Three hours with AlexandruSpaced across the twelve, each one after Alexandru and the team have read what you wrote.
+
The LAB, includedThe whole library: frameworks, tools, books, and your stage’s printed workbook.
You always know who to call
  • A hundred named prospects, with a way in to each
  • And the maths: how many calls it takes to win one
  • No more quiet months you did not see coming
You stop being the last to know
  • Someone who tells you the truth, on purpose
  • The things customers have told you twice already
  • Acted on, instead of filed
The next quarter is decided, not hoped
  • Three priorities in order, with real dates
  • One number you check weekly, so nothing drifts
  • And a written list of what you will not do

Weighted to whichever of the four is thinnest for you. Two founders on the HUB walk the same twelve weeks and do a different programme.

$399 Twelve weeks + sessions + the LAB. One payment, nothing bought twice.
Start now

Begin free this week. Upgrade whenever it makes sense.

And for the founder who would rather not walk it alone at all.

Premium · The Cornerstone

You, your mentor, and a team behind you

Everything in the HUB — and Alexandru with you every week, plus the people who help you put the systems into the business rather than leaving you to do it alone.

The promise: by the end, it is installed. Not understood — installed, running, and being used by somebody other than you.

Your mentor, weeklyAn hour every week with Alexandru. Your worksheets read beforehand, so the hour is spent deciding what you do next.
A team behind itThe people who help you put each system in — written up, handed over, and actually in use before the week closes.
Two stages, not oneBuilding closed properly, and Growing started — so the business keeps moving after the twelve weeks end.

$1,989

Twelve weeks · twelve hours with your mentor · the team · both stages.

Start now

Let’s put them side by side, so the choice is easy.

Side by side

What each one gives you

Each contains the one above it. The only thing that changes is how far you get and how much of Alexandru is in it.

OpensWeeks 1–3

Free — just an email

Your week counted, your reason written, ten customers named. Your work saved and waiting on any device.

$0
UnlocksWeeks 4–5

One hour with Alexandru

Finish week three and book it. No cost. The hour itself opens weeks four and five — and Alexandru names the domain costing you most, having read everything you wrote with the team.

No cost
UnlocksWeeks 6–9

The Personal Leadership LAB

Takes you to week nine. One process somebody else runs, your margin on a job, and the work you finally put down.

$97
UnlocksWeeks 10–12

The Business Growth HUB

Takes you to the end. A hundred named prospects, your weekly number, a quarter with dates — and three hours with Alexandru.

$399
All twelve+ mentor

The Cornerstone

Everything above, plus your mentor Alexandru with you step by step — and the team who help you put each system into the business, so it is running rather than written down.

$1,989

Finally, let’s talk about what it is worth.

What it is worth

Twelve weeks from now

Hours back

You stop losing a day a week to work you never chose and cannot account for.

Better prices

You know what a job really earns, so you stop quoting from fear.

Work off your desk

At least one thing runs properly without you in the room.

A full pipeline

A hundred named people to approach, instead of waiting for referrals.

Fewer bad customers

You can see which ones cost you, and what to do about them.

A business that holds

Decisions made on figures you wrote down, not on how the week felt.

Every one of those starts in the same place, and it costs nothing to find out which.

The alternative is another quarter of guessing which of the four is the one holding you back — and most founders can name the cost of that without being told.

Start here

Ten questions. Then your Ground Plan, and somewhere to build it.

Which stage you are actually in, which of the four is costing you most, and exactly what week one asks of you.

See where I stand →

Two minutes, and free. Everybody starts at week one — the questions decide which twelve weeks you walk, not how much of it you do.