Founder @GrowthPad | Prev. Growth @Canva

AI is making growth execution cheaper and easier to copy.
The advantage now comes from building a system that gets stronger with every customer, experiment, and insight.
In this 4-week accelerator, you’ll apply the GrowthPad MOAT framework to your own company:
M — Market Signal
Find evidence of what customers actually want.
O — Owned Distribution
Build channels, relationships, and assets you can repeatedly access.
A — Accelerating Loops
Design systems where customer activity creates more growth.
T — Tribal Knowledge
Turn customer behavior and operating experience into knowledge AI and competitors can’t easily copy.
You’ll leave with your own MOAT Canvas and 90-Day Growth Engine Plan, not just a collection of frameworks.
Build a growth engine that compounds by strengthening your market signal, distribution, growth loops, and proprietary learning.
Identify what customers actually want before scaling
Separate assumptions from real evidence using customer pain, behavior, urgency, workarounds, and willingness to pay.
Build a clear Market Signal statement based on observable customer behavior, not vague interest or vanity metrics.
Turn rented attention into distribution you control
Map where customers discover you today and identify which channels disappear the moment you stop feeding them.
Convert traffic, followers, events, and partnerships into relationships and assets you can repeatedly reach.
Build a growth loop where customer activity creates more growth
Identify the customer action that represents real value and can become the starting point of a growth loop.
Map how product usage creates an artifact, result, invitation, or exposure that can bring in the next customer.
Turn customer behavior into proprietary knowledge
Separate generic public knowledge from insights created through your own customers, experiments, usage, and outcomes.
Identify what your company should know after 1,000 customers that a new competitor cannot simply prompt AI for.
Know which part of your growth engine to fix next
Score your business across Market Signal, Owned Distribution, Accelerating Loops, and Tribal Knowledge
Identify the weakest part of your MOAT instead of chasing disconnected tactics or whatever channel is fashionable.
Leave with three prioritized experiments and a clear roadmap
Choose the three experiments most likely to strengthen the weakest part of your growth engine.
Define success metrics and clear double-down, iterate, or kill thresholds before each experiment begins.

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Founders with a product in market who need clearer signals on what to build, prioritize, and scale next.
Product and growth leaders responsible for finding high-leverage opportunities and building repeatable growth.
Operators building in the AI era who want stronger market signals, owned distribution, and growth that compounds.
You should have a product, business, offer, or growth initiative you can apply the MOAT framework to during the accelerator.
You should be prepared to speak with customers, observe behavior, run experiments, and use evidence to challenge your assumptions.
You do not need advanced growth experience, but you should understand your customer, product, and business well enough to make decisions and

Live sessions
Learn directly from Zain Abiddin in a real-time, interactive format.
Live working sessions
Apply the MOAT framework to your actual business, product, or growth challenge.
Advisory office hours
Bring your specific growth, pricing, monetization, or GTM questions and get direct feedback.
Hands-on support
Get practical help refining your experiments, positioning, growth loops, and next moves.
Growth & GTM roundtables
Join small-group discussions with founders, product leaders, and growth operators.
Templates & worksheets
Use practical tools for market signals, experiments, distribution, loops, and MOAT diagnostics.
Lifetime access
Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.
Community of peers
Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.
Certificate of completion
Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.
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5 live sessions • 9 projects
Nov
3
Live session: Find the Strongest Market Signal
Nov
10
Live session: Build Distribution You Actually Own
Live sessions
3-5 hrs / week
Expect 3–5 hours per week including live sessions, office hours, worksheets, and running real growth experiments in your business. The accelerator is designed around application, not passive content.
Tue, Nov 3
8:00 PM—9:00 PM (UTC)
Tue, Nov 10
8:00 PM—9:00 PM (UTC)
Tue, Nov 17
8:00 PM—9:00 PM (UTC)
Projects
1-2 hrs / week
Complete the weekly MOAT exercises and apply them directly to your business. Projects include diagnostics, experiment design, customer tests, and documenting what you learn.
Async content
1 hr / week
Review short lessons, frameworks, case studies, and templates before each live session. Async content is designed to prepare you for application, not passive consumption.
Get access to live roundtables along with this course
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