A hands-on program for building enterprises with revenue, ownership, and community impact.
Build together. Own what you build. Contribute as you grow. Leave freely. Return freely. Make the path softer for whoever builds next.
You leave with customer work, revenue history, a portfolio, a live pipeline, practical tools, and an ownership path.
Each venture comes with the essential tools to sell, deliver, and grow.
Storefront & portfolio
Pricing & proposals
Sales scripts
Briefs & contracts
Invoices
AI tools
Production templates
Domain & business email
Each month you take on more of the business, and more of what it earns — ending in a decision, not a certificate.
Paid a stipend. Understand the business and start supporting real market activity: the offer, pricing, production, the AI tools, target customers, prospect lists, outreach. Work comes from live business activity, not assignments.
Paid a stipend. Take on prospecting, outreach, customer conversations, proposals, project briefs, and delivery coordination. You start owning customer relationships, backed by mmaadd and the resource bench.
Paid a stipend and 20% of the month's operating profit — 80% stays with the business. This GM-month share is separate from the graduation split below. You run pipeline, sales, pricing within agreed limits, production, delivery, and basic performance, before ownership transfers.
You choose: Path one, independent and commercial — 100% of future profit is yours. Or Path two, cofounder and cooperative — 91% yours, 9% funds shared infrastructure and future cohorts. Full detail below.
Operating profit means revenue received minus approved direct delivery costs and agreed shared operating expenses. The GM month exposes you to real business economics before you decide whether to own it.
Not a completion certificate — a decision. You choose one of two paths.
The business moves into the Start on Monday commercial model. 100% of future profit is yours. You can purchase future production, AI, design, or development support when you need it — no continuing cooperative contribution.
You elect to become a cofounder. The business runs as a social enterprise: 91% of operating profit is yours, 9% goes to the cooperative — funding shared infrastructure, mmaadd capacity, AI access, and future cohorts. If the business earns no profit in a given period, it owes no contribution that period.
The 9% isn't repayment for training or a fee owed to Birthright. It's the contribution a business elects to make by joining a shared social-enterprise system: businesses earn → cofounders contribute → shared infrastructure grows → more digital opportunity becomes possible.
Either way, ownership transfers to you: the brand and business name, domain and website, business email, templates and operating materials, customer relationships and pipeline, portfolio and completed work, business-specific IP, and the business's accounts, contracts and payment infrastructure. Shared Softerbread systems and general templates remain shared cooperative assets. There is no exclusivity or non-compete — cofounders are free to leave the cooperative path and free to return to it later.
Cofounders share knowledge, infrastructure and opportunity. One enterprise succeeding should make the next one easier to build.
Every cofounder graduates with a path to ownership. Operate independently or remain part of the cooperative — the enterprise remains yours.
Cooperative cofounders retain 91% of operating profit and contribute 9% to shared infrastructure and future cohorts. When the enterprise earns no profit, it owes no contribution.
There is no exclusivity or non-compete. Cofounders may leave without losing what they built, and return when the cooperative fits again.
General systems, templates and cooperative infrastructure remain available to the community. Each cofounder retains their brand, customers, business-specific work and enterprise assets.
Every cofounder contributes something useful — knowledge, relationships, tools or infrastructure — that makes the next enterprise easier to build.
mmaadd studio, peer fellows, AI tools, templates, and specialist teams form a production bench behind every business. You increasingly own the customer-facing work as the bench steps back into support.
Heavy shared support from the bench.
You lead. The bench assists.
You lead the complete process. The bench provides specialist support and QA.
The program doesn't supply customers. You learn to find and close them — that skill is part of what you graduate with.
For digital businesses, you learn to prospect globally — connecting purchasable digital services with buyers for whom modest international revenue creates meaningful local income.
Nonprofits, charities, churches, community organizations, founders, small businesses, agencies, schools.
United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Europe, and diaspora communities.
Cofoundry runs where fellows are — not where an office happens to be. This first cohort launches across:
Mombasa · Kisumu · Eldoret
Ibadan · Enugu · Benin City
Kampala · Jinja
Kumasi
Blantyre · Lilongwe
Ndola
Paramaribo
Every venture has two connected workstreams.
Meet customers, close work, fulfill orders, improve the offer, and build repeat revenue.
Tell stories, run community events, build partnerships, and secure support for the next round of access.
Build a viable enterprise → expand access → create more proof.
Shared cohort programming stays common. Delivery and sales coaching become specific to your business.
Not every fellow receives every benefit — availability depends on funding. Where it exists, it can cover:
Stipends
Laptop / equipment
Data & connectivity
AI credits & software
Domains & business email
Start on Monday graduation pack
First-customer production
Mentoring & limited post-grad runway