The diagnostic
The Independence Diagnostic.
You measure everything else in the business.
Revenue. Margin. Pipeline. Cash.
But not the one thing that decides whether you can step away from it.
Until now.
The Independence Diagnostic measures how much of the business can operate without you, gives you an Independence Score out of 100, and shows you what has to move first.
Built for owners who want the option to step back, hand over or sell, but know too much of the business still runs through them.
The diagnostic first. Then a call to walk through your results.
Stabilise · Months 0 to 3Systemise · Months 3 to 7Liberate · Months 7 to 12
0 to 40 Dependent41 to 70 In progress71 to 100 Independent
What it measures
How much of the business routes through you.
Every question probes one of three things, one per Pathway, so your score maps straight onto the work.
Every other score you have taken, you marked yourself. This one is checked against what actually happens in the business, and the proof lives on the Record of Independence.
Those three measures combine into one number out of 100. The gaps between them are what shows up in your roadmap: 29 Installs across three Pathways.
How to read your number
Three bands. No mystery.
Most owners land in the bottom band first. That is not a failure, it is where the roadmap starts.
0 to 40
Dependent
The business is you. A buyer sees a job with your name on it, not an asset.
41 to 70
In progress
Parts of the week run without you. The exceptions still find your phone.
71 to 100
Independent
The business holds up without you, and you can prove it.
Owner dependency has a market price. Buyers discount businesses when revenue, decisions, relationships and know-how still depend on the owner.
The proof itself lives on the Record of Independence.
What you receive
What you get.
Most owners know what their business makes.
Very few know how much of its value still depends on them.
That is what we measure.
The Diagnostic looks at how the business actually works. Who decides. Who approves. Who holds the customer relationships. Who gets called when something goes wrong. What slows down, stops or gets worse when you are not there.
From that, we calculate two things.
Your Dependency Discount
- The value the business cannot fully hold because too much of it still depends on you.
Your Chaos Cost
- What that dependence is costing you today in time, margin, capacity and unnecessary drag.
Then we show you the gap between the business you own today and the business it could become over the next twelve months.
Not a list of recommendations. A sequence.
What has to move first. What comes next. What can wait. And what has to exist for the business to operate, transfer and hold value without you.
We walk you through it in one call.
You leave knowing:
- What your dependence is costing you.
- Where the value is trapped.
- What has to change to release it.
This is not a valuation. A valuation tells you what the business may be worth today.
We show you what is stopping the business from holding more value without you, what needs to change, and the order to build it into the business.
Plain answers
Asked plainly. Answered plainly.
What happens to my answers?
They produce your Independence Score and your roadmap, both by email.
Do I need my accountant?
No. If you can describe your own week, you can answer every question.
What does it cost?
Nothing. The score and the roadmap are free and yours to keep.
Can’t I just estimate this myself?
You could guess. Most owners already have, usually too generously. That’s the self-graded problem: your number moves however you feel that morning. This one moves when someone other than you signs it off, not when you decide you feel independent enough.
The next step
Get the number. Then decide.
You already have an opinion about this number. This is the one that doesn’t need your opinion to be right.
The diagnostic first. Then a call to walk through your results.