PausaGOHA model by Pausa for founders.
Complete a test to know your true founder type.
- Your strengths
- Your blind spots
- Your zone of genius
- Profile of your ideal co-founder
Built on evidence from occupational health research. A lens, not a diagnosis. From the people behind the Pausa Founder Residency in Ericeira, Portugal.
Two last things, so the result fits your situation.
Not scored. They change how we read your result.
Congratulations 🎉 Half-way
Eight down, eight to go.Your answers look less like a working style and more like depletion.
That is worth taking seriously before anything else on this page. We can still show you your code. It will be less accurate right now, and it is not the thing that would help.
You are
Your stage asks for
All four, ranked.
The four, and why nobody is only one.
The complete founder does not exist. That is the finding, not a failure.
Two axes explain why there are four. What you work on, systems or people. How you work, by building the conditions or by going direct.
Before the rest of this page
Nothing here is strong yet, and that is normal in the first year or after a big change. Retake this in three months.
How you build
Under pressure
Zone of genius
Protect: only you should be doing this
Delegate: you are good at this, and it costs you
You will be praised for staying here. That is exactly what keeps you in it.
Your protocol
Two practices, matched to your answers.
From occupational health research. Sleep and recovery have the strongest evidence. No performance promises. Conditions, not hacks. All eight practices are in the protocol pack.
Two people strong on the same capacities will build something good and slowly run out of money.
Come and spend a month with us this winter.
Yaro and Albert
We live in the house through the winter with four residents. We read every application ourselves, and we would like to meet you.
A month in Ericeira, four minutes from Europe's only World Surfing Reserve and forty from Lisbon. Mornings quiet, afternoons yours. About four hours a week of structure: a Wednesday mastermind, a house dinner, a Friday skill-share. Nothing compulsory. Six of us in the house, 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.
Founder Wellbeing Playbook, free.
Written for founders in general, not for your code: 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.
One email address. No sequence.
Want to know how the people you work with would answer these sixteen questions about you? That is the version that finds what you cannot see yourself. Tell us if you want it.