
Twelve months of real work on real ventures, building the self-awareness and skills to launch your own company. Persona profiling, team delivery boards and mentor-scored evidence, through your institution or direct.
Evidence portfolio
Thandi M.
Cohort 2026 · Full-stack track · Meridian
Build onboarding API for Brief #14
Team Orion · approved by mentor · rubric 4.4 / 5
12-months
Fully remote
4 Persona Instruments
The foundation for self-awareness
SFIA + WEF
Skill taxonomies behind every score
Scored across 26 Roles
Incl. Management, Structure and Culture fit
BUILT FOR EVERYONE
Import your student roster once, then watch attendance, delivery and capability build automatically, with exports your accreditation and funding reports can actually use. Every intern builds toward launching a company of their own.
Get startedHow a cohort runs
Import the cohort
Admins upload the roster; accounts and invites are generated in one pass.
Profile and gate
Interns submit all four persona instruments before any work is visible. Submitted once, then locked.
Form the teams
Auto-split balances every team across role tracks so a team spans multiple delivery phases.
Publish a brief
A brief generates the team's tickets. Work moves across the board from pool to submitted.
Score the evidence
Mentors evaluate against a rubric and attribute the score to the contributors who actually did the work.
The Sirius Dream frame
Structured 12-month cohorts, persona profiling across Big Five, DISC, MBTI and Enneagram, and finding the venture that fits how you are actually wired.
Briefs generate real tickets on a team board. Mentors approve time and leave, then score delivery against a rubric anchored to submitted work.
Launch your business, or open a branded public profile for employers and investors. Proof of capability, not testimonials.
Real ventures, real roles
DISCOVER
01Develop
02Deploy
03Market
04Sell
05SCALE
06Everything you need to know before you apply.
Sirius Dream reviews every application against the minimum requirements, including confirming you have a reliable device and stable internet connection. The programme is fully remote, and Sirius Dream does not provide equipment or connectivity, so this is essential.
No. Selection isn't about picking the highest skill level or strongest qualifications alone. We select for skill complementarity across the applicant pool, building cohorts where different strengths reinforce each other.
All applicants are notified of the outcome, whether successful or invited to apply again when the next round opens.
You're loaded onto Lumina, our platform, you'll complete your persona assessments and log your results on the platform. This is a critical benchmarking milestone. Everyone thinks, works and communicates differently, so you start from your own baseline and build your score from there over 12 months.
No, it's not a traditional grade. Your score builds through daily check-ins, submitting tickets on time, and delivering technically accurate, functioning work. It's a scoring algorithm Sirius Dream has developed over years of running the programme.
No. A mentor or coach places you on a team and adds a project brief to your team's Kanban board, which also links to the platform where you, your team and Sirius Dream's fractional exco team communicate.
Over 12 months, your team works toward completing your brief, shaping it into a go-to-market, launch-ready company and product.
No. Producing quality work also takes the ability to thrive in an industrious, positive environment with different kinds of people. Our exco team delivers self and situational awareness sessions to equip you with the tools to run a company and work with others.
You log in through Lumina, which records your GPS location and timestamp. You join your team's meeting room to discuss the day's tickets, follow up on correspondence and meetings, spend an hour upskilling through our curriculum, and then work through your ticket deliverables.
Coaches and mentors issue one ticket every two weeks, accounting for public and educational holidays. Submitted work is reviewed and either approved or returned for revision. That's the cycle throughout the programme.
Log your leave on the platform. This protects your reliability score.
Sirius Dream walks every step with you, so by month 12, you and your team are ready to launch and scale your company.
This is entirely acceptable. Sirius Dream has made provision for this while building Lumina. It is ideal as a Work Integrated Learning programme that can meet the requirements of your institution or employer. The profile you build and the products you develop are incredibly valuable additions to your CV when applying for jobs.
With years of experience starting and scaling businesses, Sirius Dream acts as your fractional exco team, guiding you through the complexities of building a business.
What it costs, and what you're agreeing to.
The programme costs R29 988 in total. You can pay this in full and upfront, or through a subscription link that deducts R2 499 per month for 12 months, or a 6-month payment plan at R4 998 per month. You are required to accept and agree to your chosen payment terms in order to continue within the programme.
A failed payment results in offboarding from all platforms, including Lumina, until the account is brought current.
You are required to settle the outstanding balance on your account regardless of whether you complete the 12 months. If you're on a payment plan, you remain fully liable for the remaining instalments until the total amount is settled.
Sirius Dream builds and staffs each cohort around a fixed cost per cycle, mentors, coaches and platform capacity are committed from day one. The total programme cost reflects that commitment, not a month-to-month service you can pause.
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