What it is: Fly in from anywhere. Spend 2 weeks in Cairo with us. One weekend with a private driver to hit the bucket-list spots. You leave with a press release ($1,000 value), a working platform build ($3,000 value), and the keys to my ecosystem: newsletter placement, affiliate + dropship + wholesale rails, and identity verification that actually holds up.

Who it’s for: Operators in “hard-mode” categories—age-restricted, cross-border, “gray-zone” or regulated goods/services: defense, med-spa, sexual wellness, nutraceuticals/peptides, organic CPG, ecommerce “snuff”/adult, small events using POS open loop NFC on-site payments, and other high-risk verticals. If big platforms throttle you, banks ghost you, or compliance keeps moving the goalposts, this is your lane.

The ugly truth (problems you’re facing)

Say it plain:

• Payments & Banking: Underwriting purgatory, “de-risking” shutdowns, rolling reserves, chargebacks, and KYC/AML whiplash.
• Policy & Compliance: Age-gating, HIPAA/med-claims, FDA/FTC ad claims, dual-use/sanctions (ITAR/EAR), import/export controls, MSDS & labeling, CE/FDA/ISO, and country-by-country whack-a-mole.
• Ads & Distribution: Platform bans, shadow throttling, adult/medical ad restrictions, SMS A2P 10DLC choke points, SEO down-ranking, app-store rejections, and creator platforms that won’t touch your SKU.
• Fraud & Identity: Friendly fraud, card testing, synthetic IDs, reseller scams, affiliate abuse, and KYC that leaks conversions.
• Logistics: Hazmat flags, age-verified delivery, customs seizures, DDP/Incoterms mistakes, tariff surprises, and RMA black holes.
• Data & Privacy: GDPR/CCPA/PCI, pixel hell, consent capture, gray-market brokers, and ESP deliverability death spirals.
• Reputation & PR: Moral panic cycles, risk-averse partners, and journalists who smell blood.
• Ops Complexity: Multi-store/multi-region compliance, team permissions, audit trails, SKU governance, and SOPs that don’t survive the weekend.

We’re not promising a magic wand. We’re giving you a playable playbook and a team that executes.

What you get (inclusions)

• Round-trip flight to Cairo from anywhere.
• 10 working days on-site + 1 weekend with a private driver (pyramids, museum, markets—your call).
• Press Release crafted and syndicated ($1,000 value).
• Platform build (commerce stack + CRM + automations) ($3,000 value).
• Access to Patron Journey rails: newsletter placement, affiliate/dropship/wholesale onboarding, and secure identity verification for customers/affiliates.
• Templates: risk SOPs, KYC flows, dispute kits, consent language, age-gate UX, PR crisis scripts.

Presented with our sponsors

Authorize.net · Harmony ONE · Odoo.sh · Shopify Plus · Patron Journey · Bloom Co Capital

Hosted by: Oscar Voigt — operator & systems builder, tied to $50M+ in client + personal revenue. More about me: mylinks.patronjourney.com

10-Day Schedule — HERO-Driven, tuned to Product · People · Profit · Purpose

Each day uses a HERO arc: Hook (the punch) → Empathy (the context) → Reality (the constraints) → Offer (the move).

Day 1 — Orientation & Threat Model (Purpose)

• Hook: “If they can shut you off, they will.”
• Empathy: Why high-risk founders build redundancies.
• Reality: Bank, gateway, and platform risk trees.
• Offer: Your Risk Map v1 + compliance checklist.
• Outputs: Risk register, kill-switch protocols, comms matrix.

Day 2 — Stack Foundations (Product)

• Hook: “Platforms are rented land—go multihome.”
• Empathy: Keep convenience, gain control.
• Reality: Odoo.sh + Shopify Plus + headless edges, PCI and PII lanes.
• Offer: Platform blueprint + data model + user perms.
• Outputs: Live Odoo base, Shopify shell, roles & audit trails.

Day 3 — Identity, KYC & Age-Gating (People)

• Hook: “Friction kills…except when it saves you.”
• Empathy: Balancing conversion with safety.
• Reality: KYC vendors, selfie/ID checks, 3DS2, device signals.
• Offer: KYC flow embedded; affiliate verification gate.
• Outputs: Age-gate UX, KYC SOP, fraud ruleset.

Day 4 — Payments That Don’t Flinch (Profit)

• Hook: “Accept money in hostile weather.”
• Empathy: Reserve pain, MCC traps, descriptor strategy.
• Reality: Authorize.net profiles, cascading gateways, 3DS, AVS/CVN, MID diversification.
• Offer: Payment routing + dispute playbook.
• Outputs: Routing table, chargeback macros, evidence kits.

Day 5 — Content, Claims, and Ads You Can Actually Run (Product/Profit)

• Hook: “Compliant ≠ boring.”
• Empathy: Med-claims/sexual wellness copy without the ban hammer.
• Reality: FTC/FDA lines, policy-safe creatives, SMS A2P approval, ESP warm-up.
• Offer: Ad-safe creative system + email/SMS deliverability plan.
• Outputs: 6 ad variants, landing copy, consent & suppression schema.

Day 6 — Logistics, Customs & Returns (People/Profit)

• Hook: “Customs reads your labels, not your intentions.”
• Empathy: DDP saves carts, kills surprises.
• Reality: HS codes, hazmat, restricted lanes, age-verified delivery.
• Offer: Cross-border SOP + RMA that doesn’t bleed margin.
• Outputs: Incoterms map, couriers, RMA flows, packaging spec.

Day 7 — Data, Privacy, and Telemetry (Product/Purpose)

• Hook: “Measure or hallucinate.”
• Empathy: Audit trails for when regulators knock.
• Reality: GDPR/CCPA, consent stores, server-side events, risk dashboards.
• Offer: Metrics that matter + compliance logging.
• Outputs: Dashboards (rev/fraud/ops), consent ledger, DPIA notes.

Day 8 — Partnerships & Channels (People/Profit)

• Hook: “If ads close, affiliates carry.”
• Empathy: Creator and B2B partners as distribution.
• Reality: Terms, rev-share, brand safety, creative guardrails.
• Offer: Affiliate/Dropship/Wholesale onboarding kit.
• Outputs: Contracts, briefs, tracking, payout cadence.

Day 9 — Crisis & Reputation Engine (Purpose)

• Hook: “Bad press loves a vacuum.”
• Empathy: Own the narrative before it owns you.
• Reality: Escalation ladders, counsel timing, dark-site pages.
• Offer: PR crisis framework + proactive thought-leadership map.
• Outputs: War-room SOP, press boilerplates, spokesperson scripts.

Day 10 — Demo Day & Go-Live (Product/Profit/Purpose)

• Hook: “Ship or be forgotten.”
• Empathy: Perfect is late; compliant is fast.
• Reality: Final checks: payments, KYC, shipping, analytics, consent.
• Offer: Press Release publish + Platform go-live + newsletter feature.
• Outputs: Your public launch, affiliate invites, investor one-pager.

What you walk away with

• A running system, not a slide deck.
• A press footprint and distribution rails.
• A risk-aware, audit-ready operation that can survive bans, reserves, and trend storms.
• People to call when something breaks at 2am.