The Business Assessment is a thirty-day failure analysis of your whole company across eight areas. It finds where money is leaking, ranks the leaks by what each is costing you per quarter, and hands you the order to seal them.
The leak is rarely where the symptom shows up. We score all eight areas together, so you seal the one that is actually draining margin, not the loudest complaint.
Is the plan clear, and is the company actually built to run it?
Who owns what, and are the right people in the right seats?
Does work move without the founder in every loop?
Can you see cash, margin, and runway clearly enough to steer?
Is growth repeatable, or riding on a few heroic efforts?
Do you measure the business, or find out after the fact?
What exposure is sitting on the books?
Can the team carry the next stage without breaking?
Your eight domain scores roll into one overall readiness score from 0 to 100, reported as a band and set by your weakest critical domain, not your average. Here is what each band means, and the two gates that decide when you can raise and when you can scale.
Running on luck. Survival-level gaps, cash visibility, key-person risk, governance, come first. Nothing else matters until they are closed.
The bleeding has stopped: minimum viable financial controls, metrics, and governance exist. Near the top of this band, you can take on investment without it accelerating failure.
The machine is taking shape: pipeline, retention, accountability, decisions made with data. The structure can absorb Series A-level deployment.
The architecture is reliable and measured. The business can absorb two to three times its current volume without a redesign. Strengthen, then push.
Improvement loops are active and the architecture handles stress by design. Accelerate with confidence.
The ladder is honest. A company starting at 37 cannot reach 70 in one ninety-day sprint. We model your realistic trajectory and name the band this cycle can actually reach, with the gates as milestones along the way.
The structural weaknesses draining the most margin, each with a dollar figure on what it is costing you per quarter.
Every failure mode, ordered by what breaks first, what breaks hardest, and what sealing it puts back on the table.
The exact sequence to fix it, with a real owner and a due date on every single line.
A hosted view that keeps score as you execute, so the margin you recover actually stays recovered.
The value is not the score. It is the moment a fuzzy 2am worry turns into a specific fix with a dollar figure attached.
A blended 25.6% return-rate alarm looked like broad customer dissatisfaction. The assessment traced it to a single product line and isolated $163K a year of addressable margin, turning a vague worry into a specific, costed fix.Consumer goods company
net revenue, from a four-point gain in financial-controls readiness that required an improved financial model and clearer leadership visibility.
Professional services companyprofit-margin lift after identifying a founder bottleneck and realigning decision rights across the leadership team, bringing financial discipline to customer delivery.
Services companyof expected-loss exposure retired in a single 90-day cycle, nearly a third of the company's total, from $23.9M down to $16.9M.
Performance footwear companyFigures are from real client engagements, documented and anonymized by industry. The $163K return-rate fix above is one of these.
If the diagnostic shows the real constraint is narrower, just the leadership team, or just the operating structure, we scope to that and say so. You never buy more than the evidence calls for.
1 in 2 new U.S. employer businesses do not survive five years (BLS/SBA). Most fail from a load-bearing function weakening, not one dramatic event. Rough math, before you ever hire us, on what these problems cost a company your size while they stay unnamed.
salary to replace one misfit executive, on top of the months of momentum lost around the empty seat.
Source: SHRMof momentum a $5M company typically loses to a single leadership-team misalignment nobody names.
A stuck leadership teama broken domain leaks margin, and it compounds, right up until someone finally puts a number on it.
One unfixed structural leakTake the free assessment, get your risk map, and decide what a full assessment is worth from there. No sales call.