Gift companies to your people.
Everyone is already a CEO. They just haven't met their company yet. ceoism finds the people you serve, listens to the world they know, and builds a working company around each one. They pay nothing. They hold the seat.
Nigeria first, then the Philippines. One contact: hello@ceoism.com
The offer, in five lines.
StatedRunsPlannedEstimate- What it isWe find people in your community, listen to the world they know, build a working company around each one, and hand it over. The person pays nothing. Stated
- What each person getsA live company on a real domain, a CEO portal with their own links and posts, a revenue seat on what they bring in, and a free channel to grow it. Runs
- How a cohort worksYour people, one place, a set month. We build and hand over, and every handover posts to the public ledger with the person's consent. Planned
- What it costsThe Build Studio's own batch prices run from $500 for a Trio to $5,500 for Fifty. The full cost of a gifted company, with handover and support, is set by the Architect. Estimate pending
- Where and how to startNigeria first, then the Philippines. Email hello@ceoism.com with "Institution" in the subject. Stated
Built for your mandate.
Youth, jobs and AI displacement.
The world produces workers, not owners. While the machines take the jobs, a cohort of your citizens is handed the one position AI cannot occupy: ownership of a working company. Citizens leave holding a company, not a voucher.
Livelihoods, without the hand-to-mouth cycle of grants.
Your members are not handed a stipend that runs out. Each is handed a company built around their own world, and it keeps working after the grant ends.
Graduates leave owning something, not only holding a credential.
A CV asks to be chosen. A student who leaves with a running company does not need to ask. For ages 13 to 19 there is Young Founders: their first real app, built with them, not for them.
What each person in a cohort gets.
Never asked for: money, technical skill or an investment. Asked for: passion for their niche, the energy to grow it where they live, and care for their users.
- A cohort of gifted companies, one per person, built around your people's own worlds.
- A cohort view: the ledger filtered to your program, with build logs and handover dates. An empty cohort says "The first company in this program is being built", never a staged number.
- Your name on the ledger entries you funded, if you choose.
How a cohort works.
The surpassinggoogle pilot runs as fifty people, one place, one month. A ceoism cohort borrows that shape, sized to the Studio's batches.
- Agree the cohort.Who your people are, how many, and one place. A first cohort of 10 in one city. Estimate
- Find and listen.Each person takes the Mirror and has one conversation: what they love, who they serve, where they live.
- Build.Each company is built around one person. Sparks are built unasked, free, in days. Ten handed over within a month. Estimate
- Hand over.They see their running company first and the paperwork last. Two yeses, asked apart: to lead, and to be named. Anyone under 18 has a guardian on record.
- Grow.Each CEO uses the portal: their links, their posts, their channel.
- Report.Every handover posts to the ledger with consent. At the month's end, one honest question: is this company yours, and do you want to keep leading it?
- If a seat is left.The product does not die. It waits for the right person to carry it, inside the same community where possible. The idea stays with the person who carried it.
What it costs, with the unknowns marked.
The anchors are the Build Studio's own batch prices for paying businesses. Nothing here is a quote.
Ten companies, built from $1,400, plus a support line not set yet.
No real cost per gift has been recorded yet. A public funding ledger is what will make this number true.| Cohort | Studio batch |
|---|---|
| 3 | $500 (Trio) |
| 10 | $1,400 (Ten) |
| 25 | $3,000 (Twenty-Five) |
| 50 | $5,500 (Fifty) |
Young Founders, taught one on one.
Ages 13 to 19. Each student leaves with their first real app live on the internet, built with them, not for them. A guardian's name and contact are required under 18, and a guardian can sit in on any session. See Young Founders Stated
Sponsored: your institution pays the cohort price, and your people pay nothing. Partnered: you bring the people and the place, and ceoism funds the builds from Build Studio revenue, at the pace that revenue allows. Both are proposals
Name your price is for individual clients, not institutions.
Safeguarding and consent.
- Under 18: a parent or guardian's name and contact before we start. Whether a minor can hold a revenue seat waits on the Architect.
- Consent to be named is separate from consent to lead. Until it is given, the ledger shows initials and a city.
- No family details of any participant in public without their approval.
- No money products. No insurance, savings circle or exit fee is offered to any cohort.
- No earnings promises. Outcomes are human measures only.
- A human approves every company and every handover. Automation drafts; people decide.
Where.
A first-cohort shortlist: Lagos, Abuja, Manila, Cebu, Accra. Estimate Other cities are not offered until a real ledger entry exists there.
Equity or shares. Insurance, savings or exit-fee products. Projected earnings, returns, job numbers or user numbers. Staged or sample outcomes: an empty cohort says so.
11 companies built and gifted, unasked · 4 CEOs leading · 83 seats open · of 1,000
Last gift: Jul 6, 2026 · Spark Nº 012 is being built now · How we count
Start here. Three lines.
Who your people are, how many, and where. One call agrees the cohort, the place and the month.
A one-page program sheet and a "Book a call" link come next. Planned
