Free tools · built from 25 years of expensive mistakes
Three free tools that show you how to make money now, what you were built for, and where you fit at work. Start with ninety seconds — no sign-up, no card.
Free while we build.
No email. No payment. Nothing to fill in. Answer honestly and see what comes back.
Money first. Then direction. Then your seat. Each one free, each one gives you a written report you keep.
3 minutes · free
Tell it what money, skills, time and things you already have. It shows you businesses that could realistically work for you — real startup costs, what you keep per job, and where to find your first ten customers.
Show me what fits me35 minutes · free
Honest questions about your whole life — what you loved as a child, what you survived, what drains you. You get the thread running through all of it, three directions worth testing, and a coach that answers questions about your own report.
Find what I am built for15 minutes · free
Where you fit at work, out of 21 real roles. How you behave under pressure, what quietly drains you, and a paragraph you can forward to your manager explaining how to get your best work.
Find my best seatRun a business? There is a fourth: the Team X-Ray — your whole team in one picture.
Every quote is from someone who finished a print and gave permission — first names only.
It is not a bad hire. It is a good person in the wrong seat — and it bills you every month, on an invoice you never see.
You are the glue — take a week off and the wheels wobble. You paid months of salary to someone you knew by week three would not work. Your best person resigned and you never saw it coming. You promoted your best worker and lost a great worker to gain a struggling manager.
None of that means you hired badly. It means nobody could see the print — how each person is actually built to work.
See my whole team in one picture
Start with my own profile — 15 min
Free during Founding Access. WhatsApp the word TEAMPRINT to 082 786 0968 for your code.
Twelve business lessons that each cost me money, with the rule and the system for every one. Plus the Deal Red Flag Scorecard I now run before any signature, a 15-minute weekly cashflow tracker, and a partnership checklist.
"Steal the rules. Skip the burns."
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Start LifePrint™ — freeI am not retired and writing about it. Everything I teach comes out of these — and out of the two at the bottom that cost me everything.
Water filtration, purification and distribution. The comeback business — built customers-first, under real pressure, after everything else fell over.
artofwater.co.za → Follow on Facebook →School learners running a real sales business — real stock, real customers, real money. They learn selling, cash and customers before they leave school.
rep.artofwater.co.za →Bought at a Sheriff’s auction sight unseen, renovated, systemised. Sixteen years later it still runs — proof that systems outlast moods.
atlanticguesthouse.co.za → Follow on Facebook →Long-horizon farming and research — the opposite of everything else I do. Trees do not care about your deadlines, and that has taught me plenty about patience.
veriveld.co.za →Raw honey, straight from the farm. A small, honest product business — and a reminder that not everything has to scale to be worth doing.
Follow on Facebook →Buying and selling trucks, trailers and yellow plant. Twenty-five years of knowing what a machine is really worth — and what it will really cost you.
Follow on Facebook → WhatsApp the word TRUCK →Second-hand trading done properly — sourcing, pricing, moving stock. The simplest business in the world to start, and the easiest one to get wrong.
Follow on Facebook → WhatsApp the word BUYSELL →Landlord to more than 100 factory and warehouse tenants — every one of them an entrepreneur. I see what works and what quietly kills a small business, month after month.
Follow on Facebook → Space available? Ask me →Coaching for owners and people in transition. Small numbers, straight talk, no theory — every rule I give you already has an invoice behind it.
WhatsApp the word MENTOR →I bought it on numbers that looked good and were not. I poured money in to save it, carried it personally, and ended up under debt review. The most expensive education of my life — and the reason the Deal Red Flag Scorecard in my Blueprint exists.
See it on Facebook →I built the demand for this product from nothing. The supplier went behind me, straight to my customers, and took the business I had created — because my agreement had no penalties in it. Now I never sign without asking: what happens if they break it?
See it on Facebook →Twenty-five years. Nine industries. Transport, property, hospitality, mining deals, food, water, teaching. I built things that worked and things that did not, and I paid for the difference myself.
I started with one tipper truck and grew it to thirteen trucks, loaders, bobcats, a D8 bulldozer and property. I once saw a guesthouse on the Sheriff’s auction list at eight at night, drove through the dark, and bought it at ten the next morning — sight unseen. It still runs today. I have sat across the table in Africa, Dubai and Zurich and signed R989-million in mandates.
And I have lost. I bought a business on numbers that lied and it cost me millions and landed me under debt review. I built the demand for a supplier’s product and watched them walk straight to my customers, because my paperwork had no teeth. I closed the doors of a company that was profitable on paper while my customers owed me more every month.
Then I rebuilt. No easy credit, no excuses. Customers first, deliver personally, reinvest hard. That is what these tools are made of — not theory, and not a course I attended.
One tipper became thirteen trucks and heavy plant. On paper it looked like success. Underneath, my customers owed me more every month and I kept funding their businesses with my diesel. When the recession came, promises did not pay for tyres and wages.
Turnover is vanity. Cash is oxygen.
I bought a business on figures that looked good and were not. I poured money in to save it, carried it personally, and landed under debt review. The most expensive education of my life.
You do not buy the story. You buy the bank statements.
I built the demand for a product from nothing. The supplier went behind me, straight to my customers, and took the business I had created. My work became their asset because my agreement had no penalties in it.
If it is not in writing with penalties, it is a favour, not a deal.
Across nine industries the same pattern: my most expensive problems were almost never bad people. They were good people in the wrong seats, found too late. The salesman buried in admin. The best worker promoted into a manager job that broke him.
People are not the problem. The wrong seat is the problem.
25 years. Nine industries: transport, property, hospitality, mining deals, food, water, trading, agriculture, teaching.
Built: one tipper truck into thirteen trucks and heavy plant. A guesthouse bought at auction, sight unseen, still running sixteen years later. R989-million in signed mandates across Africa, Dubai and Zurich.
Lost: the fleet, to a debtors’ book. Millions, to a business bought on numbers that lied. A product line, to a supplier whose contract had no teeth.
Today: water, hospitality, property, trading, macadamias — and these tools.
Pretoria, South Africa. I answer my own WhatsApp.
Message me directly“Some of these lessons cost millions. You get them free — but only if you actually use them.”
"Die analiese is awesome… ek sal dit oral aanbeveel." — Minette ★★★★★
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