A diagnostic practice for West African business
The Problem Doctor exists because founders in Ghana and Nigeria are handed advice, not diagnosis. Advice guesses. Diagnosis examines, names the root cause, rates severity, and prescribes a plan.
Structure beats opinion
Every business problem has layers. The symptom you feel — empty accounts, silent customers, staff churn — is rarely the cause. Our diagnostic engine works down those layers in a repeatable order, so two owners with the same symptom still receive different, accurate answers.
Precision
We name one leading root cause and rank the rest by probability. No lists of everything.
Local grounding
Cedi and naira realities, mobile money, power costs and informal competition are inputs, not footnotes.
Privacy
Your diagnosis lives in your dashboard. Nothing is emailed or broadcast.
Our methodology, in four moves
The LRRW methodology was founded by Richard Akwaboah Nyarko — a Ghanaian creative designer, founder, and AI Enthusiast.
Listen
A guided intake captures your specific situation in your own words — no templates, no assumptions.
Reason
Diagnostic logic separates the symptoms you feel from the root causes driving them.
Research
Every evaluation is grounded in Ghanaian and Nigerian business realities and costs.
Work
You leave with an executable action plan across immediate, short-term and long-term horizons.
Our mission
To make structured business diagnosis affordable and available to every small business owner in Ghana, Nigeria and across West Africa
We are not a chatbot and not a course. We are a diagnostic instrument you can return to whenever the business feels stuck.
A note on the brand
The clinical language is deliberate. Symptoms, severity, root cause, prescription. When a business is treated like a case rather than a conversation, the answers get sharper — and so do the results.
Founder of the methodology
Richard Akwaboah Nyarko
Ghanaian creative designer · Founder · AI strategist · Author
The LRRW diagnostic methodology was founded by Richard Akwaboah Nyarko to give small business owners structured diagnosis instead of generic advice — treating every business like a case to be examined, not a search query to be answered.