Eight tiers, pre-revenue to $500M+. Same discipline at every tier — what changes is which instruments run, how many respondents participate, and how deep the modeling goes. A Founder Blueprint is not a lesser diagnostic; it is the complete read of a simpler company.
— and can feel the company starting to run on compensation instead of system.
— and needs an evidence-grade picture of what they actually took over.
— and wants leadership risk quantified the way financial risk already is.
The founder operating system either gets built correctly now or calcifies into dependencies that cost exponentially more to fix at $5M. EQI™-Lite, founder dependency read, decision-architecture design, 60-day blueprint and 12-month roadmap.
You are still the business. Full EQI™, Founder Dependency Score™, EVRI™, cultural read, and the structural gaps that decide whether $5M becomes $10M or a ceiling — with a weekly remediation plan.
The organization is outpacing the leadership system. Full instrument suite across the leadership team, LEVI™ variance and perception-gap analysis, revenue fragility and Treadmill Ratio, cross-pillar pattern analysis, and a sequenced acceleration blueprint.
Full executive-team EQI™ with guides and rubrics, Succession Fragility Score per role, talent-system read with retention-risk mapping and turnover economics, hiring-failure cost modeling, Financial Leadership Assessment, enterprise-value sensitivity modeling, NPV transformation case, and a 180-day scale blueprint.
Everything above, at institutional depth — governance and decision-rights architecture, full C-suite variance analysis, bench-depth and continuity modeling, and board-ready findings built to withstand a sponsor’s operating partner in the room.
Full C-suite and board interviews, Governance Architecture and Board Effectiveness Assessments, enterprise-value modeling, Public Market Readiness Assessment, C-Suite Collective Vitality Report, simultaneous-transition stress test, institutional legacy architecture, and a board-ready governance brief.
The institutional method extended to multi-division, multi-geography leadership systems — governance, succession, and continuity architecture at holding-company scale.
Scoped to the organization. Board-commissioned, methodology-complete, delivered at the standard the audit committee will hold it to.
A scored diagnostic across the instruments your tier runs. A quantified risk model with dollar figures, not adjectives. A findings narrative written to your data — every report generated for your company, never assembled from a template. A sequenced remediation blueprint with owners, timelines, and definitions of done. And a live findings walkthrough where we defend every number in the room.
The findings distilled to the document a board or investor reads in one sitting.
Sealed and principal-only: the read on you, for you, and for no one else in the building.
Governance maturity, decision rights, and board readiness. Before you add a board seat or an investor, know what they’ll find.
Succession and key-person risk mapped to a continuity plan. If something happens to you tomorrow, this is what holds the company together.
Hiring scorecards, role design, and a bench-depth plan calibrated to your industry.