Examination
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Ten questions about how the work actually moves. At the end you get a named condition, how far along it is, and what a year of it costs at the rate you gave.
- 01Two minutes and ten questions.
- 02Every number in the estimate comes from an answer you gave.
- 03The detailed case file, with the arithmetic step by step, comes by email.
Examination
01 of 10
How many people are in the business?
On this condition
- 01One queue, one personEverything arrives in one place, and that place is a person.
- 02A manual conveyorA process that repeats identically and is performed by hand each time.
- 03SaaS obesityMore tools than the team has processes, and nobody owns the list.
- 04Regulatory debtThings stall at review because privacy was left until after the build.
- 05The founder is the bottleneckNothing moves until you look at it, and you know that.
What the questions ask
Ten questions, in this order: how big the business is, where the week goes, how many hours that takes across everyone, what an hour of that person costs, how many places a customer can reach you, how many paid tools the team is on, whether customer data is involved, how much needs you personally, what has been tried, and when it has to be different. Two more appear only when they apply. With more than ten tools, or no idea how many, I ask whether two of them do the same job. If the work touches customer data, I ask whether a legal or security review has ever stopped a release.
How the finding is reached
Every option carries a weight towards one or more of the five conditions listed above. Some conditions have more questions pointing at them than others, and a plain sum would hand the win to whichever has the most, so each score is divided by the most that condition could have scored on the questions you were actually asked. The highest is the finding, and its stage comes from the same score: below 0.35 subclinical, below 0.6 chronic, below 0.8 acute, above that critical. A second condition that scores 0.35 or more is shown as well, because in practice these overlap.
How the yearly figure is counted
Three answers go into it: hours a week, the size of the team and the cost of an hour. Each range you pick becomes one number inside it, 10 hours for “5 to 15” and $27 for “$15 to $40”. The hours are multiplied by a hand-off factor that grows by 0.15 with each step up in team size and never passes 1.6, then by your rate, then by forty-six working weeks. There is no industry average in it. If one of the three answers is missing, there is no figure at all.
What happens next
The next step depends on the condition and its stage. A barely visible case of the first three conditions gets the vibe-coding course rather than a call. Regulatory debt always gets a call, because compliance cannot be put in place from a course. A chronic or acute founder bottleneck points to Architect Mode. Everything else ends at the free thirty-minute consultation.
Your answers stay in this browser tab while it is open. Nothing is sent unless you ask for the case file; then the answers, your name and your email come to me, and the finding is recomputed on the server from the answers themselves.
Questions
Is it free?
Yes. The questions, the finding and the yearly figure are all on the page, with no payment and no sign-up.
Do I have to leave an email?
No. The finding and the figure appear before the form. The email only gets you the long case file with the reasoning and the arithmetic. Skip it and the finding stays where it is.
Why is the figure in dollars?
The hourly-cost question is asked in dollars in every language. Showing the result in another currency would mean converting at a rate nobody stated.
What if two conditions fit?
Both are shown. The second appears under “Also present”, and each has its own page.
What happens after the result?
The result names one next step: a course, Architect Mode or the free consultation. The case file goes out once, and a call happens only if you book one.