How much does your business depend on you?
The Owner Dependency Score. Ten questions, two minutes. Find out how close your business is to running without you, where you're weakest, and what it's worth. Built for trades, field-service and industrial operators.
Your Owner Dependency Score
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How you score across the five dimensions
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What the score measures
Owner dependency is the single biggest thing standing between a busy operator and a business that runs without them, and it's the first thing a buyer discounts for. We score it across five dimensions:
- Daily Operations: can the business run day-to-day without you in the middle of it?
- Knowledge & Documentation: is how you work codified, or does it live in people's heads?
- People & Leadership: is there a bench that can decide and own outcomes without you?
- Clients & Sales: does the work and the relationship belong to the business, or to you personally?
- Visibility & Control: can the business be run by numbers, or is it run from memory?
This is a directional self-assessment, not a formal valuation. It runs entirely in your browser. Nothing is sent anywhere unless you choose to email yourself the breakdown. Closing the gap is exactly what ControlShift, our AI-first codification method, is built to do: extract, design, capture and codify how your business actually runs.
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Your score tells you where you stand. A discovery call tells you what it would take to move it, and what that's worth when you sell.