Feature · Cover Story
The Builders
Six leaders, six markets, one question: what does it take to build something that outlasts you? An opening feature that sets the tone for the magazine.
Issue 01 · Concept Preview
The first record of conviction in business.
Issue 01 introduces APPLAUDx as a quarterly editorial publication — long-form profiles, frameworks, and journalism for leaders who build with faith and discipline. A preview of what the founding issue holds.
64+
Pages
4×
Per Year
2
Formats
Issue 01
The Brief
What's inside Issue 01.
01
The Cover Story
A long-form profile of a leader whose work sits at the intersection of faith and execution — built over months of reporting, not a single interview.
02
Frameworks That Travel
Operating playbooks from founders and executives — capital allocation, hiring, governance, and how conviction shapes each decision.
03
Field Notes from Africa & the Diaspora
Dispatches from Lagos, Nairobi, London, and New York. The leaders who carry capital, capability, and conviction across borders.
04
The Wealth Section
How operators build, hold, and transfer wealth — markets, asset classes, and the discipline of compounding through cycles.
Sample Spreads
Designed for readers who read deeply.
Generous margins. Considered typography. Photography that respects the subject. A first look at the editorial system behind APPLAUDx.
Profile · Long-form
On Leading Without Apology
A portrait-led conversation on faith at the executive table — recorded in full, edited with care, and laid out in the tradition of the magazines we admire.
Analysis · The Numbers
The Decade in Capital
A data-driven look at how African operators have moved capital across the last ten years — what worked, what didn't, and what the next cycle demands.
Specifications
The object itself.
- Cadence
- Quarterly
- Length
- 64+ pages
- Format
- Print · Digital
- Trim
- 220 × 285 mm
- Paper
- Uncoated, 120gsm
- Cover
- Matte, soft-touch
- Languages
- English
- First Issue
- Forthcoming
Issue 01 · Forthcoming
Be among the first to hold it.
Join the founding readership. We'll send a short, considered note when Issue 01 is ready, and select previews along the way.