Key person dependency

Can the business run 90 days without you?

The founder is the operating system. That works until it caps the company at one person's calendar — and shows up as a discount the day anyone values the business.

Score it in two minutes

Five questions. Nothing is sent anywhere.

Five questions, two minutes

Scored 1 to 5. Answer honestly, with nobody watching.

01 · The 90-day test If I were unreachable for ninety days, revenue would hold.

02 · Decision rights Decisions above a defined dollar threshold are made without me.

03 · Succession A named successor exists for my role, and they know it.

04 · Time poverty I take a full week off without working, at least twice a year.

05 · The unblock I have a standing forum where hard decisions get made, not just discussed.

1 — Not true of us5 — Consistently true

Your score 13 / 25

CriticalExposedDevelopingResilient

Exposed

Structure exists on paper; decisions still route to one desk.

Where we would start

Succession is your lowest score. A named successor who knows it is the cheapest of the five to fix and the one a buyer checks first.

Under 15, there is real work to do. Over 20 is rare — we would want to know what you did.

Every company is different. On a call we would show you what that looks like for yours.

Send me the read

What would break first if you disappeared for ninety days?

Thirty minutes. Bring your score, or don't. We'll tell you where we would start, and whether this is even your real constraint.

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