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Mission

To make sure the people building the future are still standing when it arrives.

Why we exist {['Founders carry risk nobody prices. The cap table records the capital at stake. Nothing records what it costs the person holding it: the sleep, the relationships, the slow merging of a company\u2019s numbers with a person\u2019s sense of worth.','The people closest to them are the people they cannot tell. An investor is a board seat. A co-founder is a counterparty. A team needs a leader who looks certain. The most informed people in a founder\u2019s life are the ones with the most reason to react.','The help that exists was not built for them. Employee assistance lines, generic wellbeing apps and a psychologist who needs the first three sessions to learn what a term sheet is. Founders try it once and go back to carrying it alone.'].map((p,i)=>

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Steward-ownership

Control stays with the people running it. Profit serves the purpose.

Voting rights sit with active stewards and cannot be sold. Profits are reinvested or paid as capped returns, never extracted through a sale. No acquirer can buy Pausa and change what it does with founder data.

We are building a company meant to outlast the people who started it.

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Careers

We are seven people and a network. Three of the next ones are below.

We work from healthhub by Unicorn Factory Lisbon, in person two days a week. Pausa is steward-owned, so equity works differently here, and that conversation happens in the first call.

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Not one of these three?

Write to careers@pausa.pt with what you would build here.

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Trust centre

Trust centre

Last reviewed 6 October 2026 · Data protection contact: dpo@pausa.pt

In place now

Subprocessors

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Vendor names are listed in the reviewer summary and the DPA.

Underway, with a date

Not applicable, and why

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Resource hub

What we know, and how well we know it.

The Founder's Manual

Eight sections. One continuous thread, from evidence to action.

Read the Manual
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The 17 Energy Drains

Which of these are yours?

Anonymous on this page. Nothing you select is stored.

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The protocols

Every protocol, with its evidence grade and its limits.

Drawn from the Leader Wellbeing Protocol Guide. The limit sits beside the claim, at the same size.

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The evidence base

The protocol guide is built on a reviewed literature base. Citation keys are listed below; the full reference list is available on request.

Citation keys from the Leader Wellbeing Protocol Guide go here.

Request the references

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Confidentiality Policy

Who sees what, exactly.

Version 1.0 · effective 1 October 2026

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