What type of founder are you?
Not a personality test. A test of how you build: where your energy comes from, how you spend it, and how you decide.
You are probably expecting a quiz that asks for your email before it shows you anything. This one does not. Your type appears immediately.
From the people behind Pausa Founder Residency in Ericeira, Portugal: live and work on the Atlantic coast, one month minimum. Built on evidence from occupational health research. The typology is a lens, not a diagnosis. Answers are stored anonymously, in aggregate, to build a real dataset on how founders work.
How you build
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Two practices, matched to your type and your week
From occupational health research. Sleep and recovery have the strongest evidence. No performance promises. Conditions, not hacks.
Pausa Founder Residency
The practices above work at your desk. Your answers suggest the pattern is bigger than a desk fix, and your work can travel.
More about the month
A month in Ericeira, Portugal, four minutes from Europe’s only World Surfing Reserve and forty from Lisbon. Mornings are quiet: the coworking room stays silent until lunch. Afternoons are yours. About four hours a week of structure, a Wednesday mastermind, a house dinner, a Friday skill-share, and nothing compulsory.
Six of us in the house: four residents plus Yaro and Albert, who live here through the winter. Small enough that everyone is genuinely known by the end.
Winter cohort 2026: 10 October 2026 to 30 April 2027, rolling arrivals, one month minimum, stay longer if it works. From €865 a month, private room, coworking, community and curation included; food and flights your own. A short application, then a relaxed fit conversation. Fit and values, never status.
All eight, one tap away
Yours is marked. Open any other to see how it reads.
Pausa Founder Residency
Two practices change your week. A month changes the defaults. Live and work on the Atlantic coast in Ericeira, Portugal: private room, quiet coworking until lunch, surf and sauna in the afternoon, four residents plus the two of us in the house.
Winter cohort 2026: 10 October 2026 to 30 April 2027, rolling arrivals. One month minimum. From €865 a month, food and flights your own.
Compare with your co-founder
The types read each other well. Send it to the person you build with, then compare risks, not just strengths.
Founder Wellbeing Playbook, free
Written for founders in general, not for your type: what the evidence actually says about sleep, recovery, detachment and load, and the practices that survive scrutiny. It opens straight away, no waiting for an email.
Pausa
Built on evidence from occupational health research. The typology is a lens, not a diagnosis. pausa.pt · Founder Residency · Residency deck (PDF)