Build The Founder First

Build the Founder First explains how to start or grow a business without it costing you your health, money, relationships and time. This workbook is where you apply that thinking.

Keep it open beside the book. Read a chapter, then turn to its tool and work through it on a real decision you’re facing. By the end, you’ll have a clear record of how you think, what you’ve tested and what you’ve decided, all in one place.

What’s inside

• Your Starting Point: an honest snapshot of where you are today, to look back on later.

• 26 practical frameworks in book order, including the Founder Capacity Check, Founder Life Fit, Assumption Test, Subtraction Test, Money Lens, Risk Boundary, Plan Stress Test and Release Threshold.

• A guided page for every chapter: what to read, what to reflect on and how to use the tool.

• A Quick Finder that takes you straight to the right tool when a real decision arrives.

• The Final Founder Review, to see how far you’ve come and decide what this business is allowed to cost you from here.

• A Toolkit for Life: Decision Pages, a 90-Day Plan and a Weekly Founder Review to keep using long after you finish the book.

Who it’s for

• You’re starting a business alongside work, family or other commitments.

• You’ve read the book, or are about to, and want to put it into practice.

• You want clearer decisions about time, money, risk and capacity before they become costly.

Want support while you work through it?
The workbook is used in the Founder Clarity Session, Founder Foundations and the Build the Founder Programme.

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