— The Diagnostic
How dependent is your business on you, really?
Not quite ready to book a call yet? That is entirely fair.
This gives you a clearer, individual picture of how dependent your business currently is on you personally.
- This gives you a clearer, individual picture of how dependent your business currently is on you personally.
- Before you speak to anyone at all.
- This is not a quick quiz designed to funnel you toward a sales call.
- It takes a genuine few minutes to work through properly.
- There is no commitment attached to completing it.
What it actually
measures
Five areas where founder dependency usually shows up
first. Each one looks at a different pressure point inside the sales function.
01
Forecast trust
Whether the forecast is a real control system, or a conversation you have to interpret every week.
02
Escalation patterns
How often deals only actually move once you personally step in.
03
Activity against control
Whether more calls and meetings are genuinely creating visibility, or just the appearance of progress.
04
Pressure direction
Whether accountability sits properly with the team, or travels back up to you regardless of who is nominally responsible.
05
Growth fragility
Whether the business is becoming easier to lead as it grows, or noticeably harder.
What you get
What you get at the end
- A plain English readout across all five areas.
- Showing roughly where founder dependency sits inside your business.
- Whether that pattern is early, established, or fairly advanced.
- If the honest result is that there is not much to fix right now, we will tell you that too.
- This tool exists to give an accurate picture either way, not to manufacture urgency that was not really there.
Early
Dependency is visible in a few places, but the pattern is not yet fixed.
Established
Several areas rely on the founder to move or interpret.
Advanced
The sales function is effectively operating through one person.
- Build note: this page currently reflects the structure and framing agreed together. The actual scoring logic, question set and interactive build are being scoped separately, given how much careful thought this genuinely deserves before it goes live.
Who this is actually for
- Founders who suspect there is a problem but are not yet certain how serious it is.
- Nothing here commits you to anything. It simply gives you a clearer starting point.
- Check the broader fit first if you'd rather: Who It's For
- Not sure this is even the right starting point for your business? Read Who It's For first.
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