A self-assessment for owners who want the business to run without them
No transaction and no deadline. Whether the business runs for a month without you, and what stops first if it doesn't.
Where we'd start
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USD $200 until the end of 31 December 2026, UTC. From 1 January 2027, USD $500.
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Both take the same 31 questions and the same 45 minutes to an hour.
If it's for someone else, give them the full report as a gift.
How much of a business still runs through its owner shows in what follows them on holiday: the calls, the approvals, the numbers no one else can produce.
Stepping back is the easy part. Stepping out is when none of that follows you.
The assessment reads the business as someone standing in for you would, and shows which parts would still pull you back.
Every owner answers the same 31 questions. Coming in this way, the report reads your answers as somebody standing in for you would, and each of these seven comes back with a reading. These are the readings you want, word for word as the report puts them.
The business runs without you, and it's evident.
Most of how the business works is written down, not carried in your head.
What makes the business work would survive you stepping out of it.
Somebody who is not you could check your figures in a week.
Most of next year's income is already secure, whoever is here to service it.
Growth doesn't depend on you, and the trend backs it.
You can show what the business earns, and that it will last.
Each one starts where it would need to be for a month without you, as in the list above. Drag it to where you think your business stands today, and see how much of it would run without you.
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Every reading where it needs to be
100Out of 100
A business
This runs without you. What's left to do is the difference between stepping back and stepping out.
Worked out on this page from where you set the seven. Nothing you set is saved or sent.
A month away will test every one of these, whatever you set them to.
The 31 questions find out before you go, and the report reads each of the seven from your answers. It also checks two things these can't: whether the business still makes money once you're paid properly for your work, and how much rests on your biggest customer. Either can hold the number down, whatever the seven say.
31 questions about how the business runs, plus five about the business itself, in eight parts. Allow 45 minutes to an hour, most of it spent looking things up. None of them are difficult. Several are uncomfortable, which is the point.
It's not a valuation and it doesn't say what anyone would pay. It's not financial, accounting, legal or other professional advice. It scores what you tell it: nobody checks the answers, inspects the books or telephones the accountant, so a careless half hour returns a careless number.
Have last year's revenue and the most recent accounts within reach. The sheet will email you a link if you want to finish later.
Before you take the month, you'll already know the three answers to deal with first.
With the full report, you'll also know what to do about them: the next six months, each action in order, read by a person before it's sent. Pay by card or crypto (BTC or XMR) and start straight away.
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