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Tech Startup Readiness Check

Software businesses fail in three predictable places: building before anyone asked, owning none of what was built, and discovering the compliance obligations after launch. This checks all three, and tells you which one is actually your problem right now.

  • Evidence, before more money goes into the build

    What people say they will use and what they pay for are different questions. If you have not watched someone complete the job, the cheapest next step is not development.

  • Do you actually own what gets built?

    Paying the invoice does not transfer the intellectual property, and a repository or domain in a contractor's name is leverage they hold over you. This gets discovered during due diligence, which is the worst moment to discover it.

  • The POPIA obligations that start at your first user

    You are already the Information Officer - POPIA defines it as the head of a private body - and hosting on an overseas region is a cross-border transfer. Neither is hard to satisfy. Both are commonly missed.

It takes about 3 minutes and the score is free, with nothing to pay. We ask for your name and an email or phone number so we can send you the scorecard.

1. Where are you right now?

2. Have you watched a real user complete the job your product does?

3. Can you list every screen in the first version and what a user does on each?

4. Are the code, domain and hosting accounts registered to you or your company?

5. If you have co-founders, is the split written down with vesting?

6. Is the business registered as a company?

7. Have you registered your Information Officer with the Information Regulator?

8. Do you know which countries your users' data is stored in?

9. Do the people and services that can read your user data have written agreements?

10. If you approached a funder tomorrow, could you hand over a plan and numbers?

11. Do you know which specific funder or programme you are applying to?

12. If a customer searched for what you do right now, would they find you?

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