Step 01
A free 30-minute call
You tell me the idea. I ask the questions that matter. We decide together whether this is worth taking further. No charge, no pitch.
You’re successful already. Now there is a second idea, a new venture, a thing you keep meaning to start, but no bandwidth to get to it. That is the job I do. Think of me as the general contractor for your new venture, your idea to launch partner.
You bring the idea. I work out exactly what it takes and what it costs, then I assemble and run the people who build it.
No reports that sit in a drawer. No equity. No permanent seat.
You have the ability, the network and the resources. What you do not have is a spare three months to write the plan, set up systems, find suppliers, hire the team and get a new thing off the ground on top of running the business you already have.
So the idea sits there. It has been sitting there for a while.
They describe it, then move on. You wanted it done, not described.
You do not have the hours to manage them on top of everything else.
In a business you intend to own outright. A stake you did not want to give.
Not senior enough to make the calls you would make yourself.
What you actually need is one senior person who can understand the whole picture, work out exactly what it takes, and then go and make it happen without being managed.
I keep this deliberately simple and transparent, so you know what you are getting and what it costs before you commit to anything.
You tell me the idea. I ask the questions that matter. We decide together whether this is worth taking further. No charge, no pitch.
I write back what I have understood: the shape of the venture, what you want, what success looks like. This confirms we are building the same thing.
A firm, fixed price for the planning work, quoted to the requirements we agreed, payable half up front and half on completion. You know the number before I start.
Fixed fee · quoted up frontYou keep the plan and run it yourself, or you engage me to assemble and run the team and suppliers who deliver it. Either way, the plan is yours.
The Ukuva Plan is the core of what I do. It is a fixed-fee planning engagement that turns your idea into a clear, costed, executable plan: what needs to happen, in what order, who does it, what it costs, and where the risks are. It is written to be handed to a team and built, not to sit on a shelf.
By the end you have a plan you could execute yourself, and a standing offer to have me assemble and run the people who execute it for you. You own it either way.
See what is in The Ukuva Plan →This is the one thing worth being precise about, because it is easy to assume otherwise.
Work out exactly what your venture needs, cost it, sequence it, then assemble and coordinate the team and suppliers who make it real, using my network rather than building everything myself. I present you with options and you sign off on the direction and the risk. I am the guide who frames the decisions and runs the delivery.
Write the code, design the product myself, or run your existing business day to day. I am not your developer and I am not your COO. I am the person who gets the whole thing built and keeps it moving.
I do not lead with adjectives. I have spent about twenty years building, launching and fixing things in payments, fintech, streaming and cross-border markets, always with real delivery accountability, never as an adviser on the sidelines. A few examples of the kind of hard things I have got done:
I solved the exchange-control problem that stopped South Africans from using PayPal. I built the case, secured South African Reserve Bank approval, and ran the joint build with PayPal end to end. That solution still runs today, and was later extended into Kenya.
As a founding team member at Showmax, part of Naspers, I built the payments and subscription function from scratch and set up operations across sub-Saharan Africa.
After DT One acquired MODE, I stepped in as COO and then Interim CEO to integrate the two businesses, rebuild the technical team and restructure partner deals.
That depth is why clients trust me to plan a venture properly and to know who to call to build it. The sectors change. The discipline of shipping hard things does not.
South Africans were locked out of PayPal by exchange-control regulation. I built the regulatory case, secured Reserve Bank approval, and managed the full development and launch of a joint solution across several organisations and time zones.
As a founding team member at Showmax, I set up payments, subscriptions and partnerships from nothing, negotiated commercial terms with studios, telcos, ISPs and banks, and led the localisation into Kenya and Nigeria.
When DT One acquired MODE, I went in first as COO in Singapore, then as Interim CEO in Nairobi. I integrated the acquired business, recruited a new technical team in the Czech Republic, and restructured the partner agreements.
The best place to start is a free 30-minute call. Tell me the idea, and I will tell you honestly whether I can help.
chris@ukuva.com