GOIT Pulse · Pitch guidelines
The Pulse is read by thousands of operators, founders, and hiring managers across African tech. One of its essays could carry your name. Here's everything you need to pitch.
Every quarter has one theme. In your pitch, simply share a topic from your own work that ties to it, and that becomes your article.
For this quarter, that could be how you earned trust for a lending product where users had been burned before. How agent networks became your trust layer. How you designed onboarding so a first time user trusted your product enough to finish it.
If your pitch is selected, you write the full essay with editorial support, and it's published with your byline in an issue read by thousands.
Choose a topic from your own work that ties to the quarter's theme, and pitch it. Operators only, real work only.
An editorial board, led by an editor in chief, reviews every pitch.
Selected writers develop pitches into full essays with editorial support.
The issue ships as a publication to thousands. Your name, your work, in front of the industry.
A working title. Not final, just enough to show the angle. "How we rebuilt referrals for shared phones" tells editors more than "My thoughts on referrals."
The pitch itself. No word count, just keep it short. Tell us what the article will be about and why it's worth reading. Sell it the way you'd sell it to a smart colleague over coffee.
Why you. One or two lines on your role and proximity to the work. You do not need a title, you need to have been in the room.
The shape of your evidence. You do not have to share numbers in the pitch, but tell us they exist and what kind. Percentages and ranges are fine where absolute figures are confidential.
The editors have been notified. You'll hear back after pitches close on 15 August.