Every clinic that runs on Pawanax catches the referral that was about to be missed, the prescription that was about to go wrong, the patient who was about to fall through the cracks. None of that happens until someone walks in and earns a yes. That someone is you.
Honest math: subscriptions alone don’t reach $1M. The path is Subscriptions + 13 × Discovery Diagnostic + 5 × WhatsApp Agent Factory + 2 × Clinical AI Pilot + 2 × Advisory Retainer. Interns open the doors, the founder closes the big rooms, and every subscription is a clinic that stays.
The 10 plays
We wrote 21. Three independent critics — unit economics, Kenyan buyer psychology, and legal/execution risk — tore them apart. These are what survived.
1
Founding 10 Paid Pilots
Sells Pro → Clinic · 10 pilots signed, 6 convert
30-day paid pilot at canon price on a metric the clinic chooses; auto-converts on day 30. Signed contract and testimonial release before any logo or video is used.
No lifetime price-locks, no free pilots, no pilot without a signed contract.
2
Owner-First Clinic Blitz + Revenue-Leak Audit
Sells Medical / Starter → Pro · 35 Medical + feeds every other play
Pairs book 15-minute owner slots by phone first, then visit a zone. Demo on synthetic data, leave a 3-leak audit PDF the owner keeps. Close on M-Pesa on receipt.
Never pitch the receptionist. Never show a real patient screen. No pressure closes.
3
Problem Hunters Studio
Sells Trust → audits → every tier · 30 published fix-stories, 60 AI explainers
Interns interview businesses and facilities on the problem they solved, not the one that shames them. Subject approves the cut. Clinician-reviewed AI explainers on stats and trends. Every interviewee is offered the audit the same week.
No patients, no clinical areas, no unconsented faces, no unsourced stats, no naming-and-shaming.
4
Retention & Referral Engine
Sells Annual prepay + referred seats · 70% day-7 activation, 15 referred payers
Day-1 onboarding, day-7 activation, day-25 renewal call with annual prepay offer. From day 30, every happy payer gets a forwardable one-page proof and a capped credit per paid referral.
Credit only to subscribers — no cash or in-kind to prescribers or pharmacists.
5
Diaspora "Care for Mum"
Sells Life Plus · 15 Life Plus
Kenyans abroad buy Life Plus for parents at home, pay by card, and set it up remotely with the parent’s consent. Urgent symptoms route to a named Nairobi clinic.
No treatment promises. "Not emergency care" on every asset.
6
Campus Ambassadors
Sells Study · 30 Study payers
Med, nursing, and pharmacy students at UoN, KU, Moi, and KMTC run study circles on Pawanax. Exam-season annual prepay. Ambassadors disclose they represent Pawanax in every message.
Flat documented recognition, not uncapped commission on medical products.
7
SACCO & Employer Health Benefit
Sells Team / Clinic · 2–4 group accounts
Bundle Pawanax as a staff or member benefit. 60-day paid pilot sponsored by a board champion. Employer sees aggregate usage only — never chats.
No employee data to the employer. Opt-in enrolment only.
8
Clinician Grand Rounds
Sells Medical / Pro · 12 sessions, 15 payers
Weekly clinician-moderated session hosted inside communities whose admins invited us. Pitch only after Q&A; price-locked offer at the end.
No CPD claims until an accredited provider confirms in writing. No patient cases on air. Never pose as a member.
Audits and pilots that reveal enterprise pain are escalated into account dossiers built on public sources only. The founder closes. This is the engine that makes $1M possible.
Zero gifts or hospitality to officials. Public-source research only.
Founder-approved LinkedIn posts and carousels built from real pilot numbers and named references. Every post ends in a Discovery-call CTA. Press only once references exist.
Founder approves every post. No unverified metrics. Disclose material AI assistance.
A week in the machine
MondayStand-up at 8:00. Scoreboard review. Book owner meetings for the week.
Tue – ThuField days in pairs. Owner meetings, demos, audits, fix-story interviews. Log everything the same day.
ThursdayClinician Grand Rounds goes live. Studio publishes the week’s stories.
FridayPilot renewals and referral asks. Retro: double down on what closed, kill what didn’t.
The squad
Every seat has a weekly number. Every number is on the scoreboard. Top performers convert to full-time.
We sell health. Trust is the product, so these lines never move:
Nobody is filmed without signed consent, and every subject approves their cut.
No patients, no clinical areas, no real patient screens — demos run on synthetic data.
Every health claim is sourced and clinician-reviewed before it ships.
We pitch owners and decision-makers, not receptionists. No pressure closes.
Warm outreach only. We never blast scraped numbers.
No kickbacks: referral credit goes to subscribers, never to prescribers or officials.
Plays we killed
So nobody re-pitches them blind:
Cold WhatsApp blasts from scraped lists.Gets the business number banned — and the product runs on WhatsApp. Unlawful direct marketing under the Data Protection Act.
Covert selling in WhatsApp/Facebook groups.Reads as astroturfing. Survives only as admin-invited Grand Rounds.
CPD-accredited course (90-day).Accreditation takes longer than the window. Start paperwork as a 12-month moat.
Pharmacy rev-share.Per-recommendation revenue share looks like a kickback and risks pharmacists’ licences.
Programmatic SEO.Compounds after month six. Revisit then, with named clinician review.