The hard part of scale isn't discipline. It's architecture. We combine systems engineering, organizational diagnosis, and behavioral science into one sequence, designed for the stage where hiring outruns structure and the operator quietly becomes the constraint.
Diagnose what's actually there. Prescribe what holds. Govern what compounds. Skip any step and the work decays.
BAIC reads the organization as a system. LDNA reads the leaders inside it. Stack them, and the failure modes that growth is about to amplify stop hiding behind interview impressions. They show up in the rubric.
A ranked upgrade path. What to fix first. What will break hardest. Who should be paired with whom, and where leadership coaching actually pays for itself. Sequenced for impact, not for board optics.
The hosted dashboard plus the quarterly re-score plus the advisory cadence. The system you just built stays the system you have, so structural debt doesn't quietly accumulate inside the growth you're celebrating.
A 30-day diagnostic of the business as an interdependent system. Eight domains, scored against an evidence-based rubric, with a ranked vulnerability register and a 90-day execution blueprint.
Eight domains scored. A vulnerability register ranked by what it will actually cost. A 90-day execution blueprint. A hosted dashboard that keeps the architecture honest. See the full BAIC method →
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| Domain | Score | Read | Wt. | Weighted | Signal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strategy | 40 | 15% | 6.00 | At risk | |
| Structure / People | 35 | 15% | 5.25 | Override | |
| Systems | 38 | 15% | 5.70 | Override | |
| Financial Control | 42 | 15% | 6.30 | Override | |
| Revenue Engine | 39 | 15% | 5.85 | Override | |
| Data & Dashboards | 28 | 10% | 2.80 | Override | |
| Risk & Compliance | 24 | 5% | 1.20 | Override | |
| Leadership Capacity | 32 | 10% | 3.20 | Override | |
| Total AMI | 36.3 | 100% | 36.30 | 7 active |
| # | Domain | Vulnerability | ID | C | Level | Spr. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Structure | Leadership is the sole decision-maker · no delegation infrastructure | SP-C01 | 126 | Critical | 1 |
| 2 | Leadership | All investor & vendor relationships concentrated in one person | LC-C01 | 118 | Critical | 1 |
| 3 | Revenue | 87% single-purchase churn · zero retention program | GTM-C01 | 112 | Critical | 1 |
| 4 | Financial | Cash-negative projected within 5 months · no rolling forecast | FC-C01 | 108 | Critical | 1 |
| 5 | Risk | Related-party transaction used as basis for investor SAFEs | RC-C01 | 102 | Critical | 1 |
| 6 | Data | Return rate 25% actual vs. 12% reported · product issues invisible | DD-C02 | 94 | High | 1 |
| 7 | Systems | Negative inventory on 6 SKUs with active EDI partnerships | SYS-C01 | 88 | High | 1 |
| 8 | Financial | AP / balance sheet $84K gap · statements materially misstated | FC-C03 | 82 | High | 1 |
| 9 | Revenue | No CRM · 3,400+ contacts & 7 reps with no pipeline stages | GTM-C02 | 74 | High | 1 |
| 10 | Strategy | Exit-driven strategy substitutes for organizational plan | ST-C01 | 68 | High | 2 |
| Owner | Action | Success metric | Domain |
|---|---|---|---|
Diane ParkCOO | Build 13-week rolling cash forecast with weekly refresh and spending freeze triggers | Forecast live with 3 scenarios; reviewed weekly | Financial |
Diane ParkCOO | Stand up weekly one-page business health dashboard | Dashboard live; delivered to CEO every Monday | Data |
Tom VinsonMarketing | Deploy HubSpot CRM with 5 B2B pipeline stages and territory assignment for 7 reps | CRM active; 3,400+ contacts imported; weekly pipeline review | Revenue |
Carla ReyesLegal & IR | Engage securities counsel; initiate 409A valuation; prepare investor disclosure remediation | Engagement letter signed within 14 days | Risk |
Mark SuttonCEO | Co-sign board resolution for COO authority matrix; review weekly dashboard every Monday | Signed resolution filed; 4 weeks of documented review | Structure |
Tom VinsonMarketing | Launch Klaviyo post-purchase retention sequences (30 / 60 / 90 day) segmented by category | 3 automated sequences live; repeat-rate baseline set | Revenue |
Diane ParkCOO | Physical inventory count with 3PL; resolve negative inventory on 6 SKUs; document 3PL backup | Zero negative-inventory SKUs; backup warehouse identified | Systems |
Representative exampleFictional Northway Co. team. Your own read will differ.
A leadership-intelligence instrument grounded in well-documented behavioral science. Reads each leader twice across two reads (who they are naturally, and what their role demands), then rolls every profile into one view of the team.
Seven dimensions, read twice (natural and role-adapted), rolled into a team-level interaction grid. Plus an AI-exposure read for every leader's durable edge. Take the LDNA →
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| AC | MR | KP | SD | JL | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AC | ACDesigner | High | Shared | High | High |
| MR | ↑ | MRPathfinder | High | Shared | High |
| KP | ↑ | ↑ | KPStrategist | Overlap | High |
| SD | ↑ | ↑ | ↑ | SDAdventurer | High |
| JL | ↑ | ↑ | ↑ | ↑ | JLCatalyst |
Representative exampleFictional Aurelius Holdings leadership team. Your own read will differ.
Natural pattern, adaptive pattern, the daily cost of the gap, archetype on the value-stream field, strengths read.
Where the team is collectively strong, where it's thin, who complements whom, and where shared blind spots put the bench at risk.
Who to put together, who to keep apart, and what role profile the team is missing, with evidence behind every call.
An interactive view of the team across all seven dimensions. Built to run live sessions from and revisit as the team changes.
BAIC tells you which dimensions of the business are under-architected for the next stage. LDNA tells you whether the bench in front of you can actually carry the work that the rebuild will require. Stack them and the diagnosis becomes prescriptive. You get a ranked path of structural upgrades, and a paired plan for the people who will deliver them.
Two ways to start. The LDNA is the front door: free, less than 10 minutes, self-serve. For a read on the whole company, What to Fix First is sixteen questions, free, and points you to the one thing to fix first.
A leadership assessment for you or your team. Free full report on completion. less than 10 minutes. No sales call.
Take the LDNA →Sixteen questions on what's actually slowing you down, and the one thing to fix first. We point you to the right next move, or tell you it isn't BAIC.
Start What to Fix First → Or book a 30-min diagnostic call →