THE SCHOOL OF DESIGN INTELLIGENCE

Learn how to think, design, and build better for Africa.

Three ways to learn. For every level.

Cohort Programs

Structured multi-session programs where participants work through real strategic challenges together. Designed for founders, operators, and senior practitioners who need a structured diagnostic discipline.

Certificate Courses

Focused short courses for individual practitioners at every level — designers, product managers, engineers, and operators who want to apply Design Intelligence thinking independently. A credential that signals a different kind of thinking.

Embedded Learning

Daro comes to your organization. Bespoke capability-building programs for entire teams — from leadership to practitioners. Because a leader with the right skills and a team without them creates a different kind of problem.

Where the discipline becomes the institution.

Suluhu Studio applies Design Intelligence to high-stakes client problems. Daro exists for a different mandate — to make the discipline accessible, teachable, and self-sustaining across African organizations. Where Studio delivers intelligence, Daro builds the capacity to generate it.

Daro operates with its own identity anchored to the Suluhu ecosystem. Its mandate is to eventually stand alone as Africa's reference institution for strategic design practice. Not a design school. Not a bootcamp. A school of strategic decision-making through design.

WHAT DARO IS
Practice-based learning
Every program is built around real decisions and live challenges — not theory applied in isolation.
Grounded in African context
African market conditions and organizational dynamics are not edge cases here — they are the premise.
Built around three frameworks
The Friction Map, Signal Stack, and Build Threshold. Every program applies at least one to a real problem.
For every level of the organization
From founders to practitioners. A leader with the right skills and a team without them creates a different kind of problem.
WHAT DARO IS NOT
A portfolio course or UI/UX certification
Daro teaches the discipline that precedes craft — how to decide what to design before designing it.
A generic design thinking workshop
Design thinking assumes conditions that do not hold in most African organizational contexts. Daro was built for that gap.
Imported frameworks without adaptation
Every Daro program is designed for African market conditions — not translated from a Western context and relabeled.
A substitution for professional experience
Daro accelerates judgment for people who are already operating. It is not an entry-level program.

The Founders' Diagnostic.

A structured three-session program that gives African founders the diagnostic discipline to make better product and market decisions — before committing resources to the wrong direction.

Three sessions. Applied frameworks. Real decisions. The Founders' Diagnostic is not a lecture series. Each session is a working session — participants bring their actual strategic challenges and apply the Design Intelligence frameworks to them in real time, with direct feedback.

Session 01

The Friction Map Session

Locate the resistance points in your current product, service, or market strategy. Map what is actually happening versus what you assumed would happen. Leave with a prioritized intervention list.

Session 02

The Signal Stack Session

Audit the research, data, and feedback your organization is sitting on. Separate what you have verified from what you have assumed. Leave with a clear read of where your actual knowledge gaps are.

Session 03

The Build Threshold Session

Evaluate the readiness of your next major decision — a new product, a market entry, a pivot. Apply the Build Threshold to determine whether yes is the right answer or not yet is the more defensible position.

This program is FOR

Founders and senior operators facing significant product, market, or organizational decisions who need a structured diagnostic discipline before committing.

This program is NOT FOR

Founders who have decided everything already and need execution only. This program is for leaders whose decisions are still open enough to be improved.

The Founders' Diagnostic is Live

PROGRAM The Founders' Diagnostic
COHORT June 2026
FORMAT In-person · Nairobi
SESSIONS Three sessions across three weeks
COHORT SIZE Maximum 12 participants
INVESTMENT Contact us
Apply for the June Cohort

Applications reviewed personally. We confirm fit before accepting payment.

Designed for you. Coming soon.

Daro is building Africa's reference curriculum for Design Intelligence — programs for founders, practitioners, team leads, and entire organizations. These programs are in development and will be announced as they open for enrollment.

Coming Soon 01

Design Intelligence Foundations

Short course · Self-paced or cohort · Entry level

The introduction to the Design Intelligence discipline. Built for practitioners who sense that their work operates too far downstream from the decisions that matter.

Coming Soon 02

Strategic Clarity for Design Leaders

Intensive workshop · 2 days · Senior practitioners

For heads of design and senior product leads being asked to operate at the strategic layer but never trained for it. Design leadership as a strategic function, not a creative service.

Coming Soon 03

The Decision Design Practicum

Applied cohort · 8 weeks · Mixed practitioners

Participants bring a live organizational challenge and work through it using Suluhu's three proprietary frameworks in a structured cohort setting. Real work, not case studies.

Coming Soon 04

Behavioral Architecture for CX Teams

Workshop series · 3 sessions · CX and service design teams

For in-house teams responsible for customer experience at banks, telecoms, health systems, and government services.

Coming Soon 05

Daro Intensive: Design Your Organization's Next Decision

Flagship residential · 3 days · C-suite and senior leadership

A facilitated 3-day residential for leadership teams at an organizational inflection point. Full Suluhu diagnostic methodology applied to your live strategic challenge.

+ More Programs Coming Soon
Live Program

The Founders' Diagnostic is built for leaders whose next decision still has room to be improved.

Apply for the June Cohort