Turning a once-a-year habit into a reason to come back. These are the business innovations worth stealing this week.

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Most people need a doctor about once a year, so a health app is easy to forget. Udok's answer was to move upstream: its AI now runs an annual health review on every patient and flags the screenings they're due for. Next, GP vouchers go on sale inside a national retailer, valid for 3 years. For any business people use rarely, the move is to give them a reason to come back. See Udok's 3 lessons.

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Every week, we interview South African founders and operators building or scaling businesses of every size, and pull out the moves and decisions any business can learn from. This is a rolling list of those innovations, updated practically daily.

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