Founder-Critical
The company cannot run without you for a day
Find out whether your startup runs on systems or on you.
Seven questions. Under 3 minutes.
Founder-Dependent
Most decisions still route through you.
The Symptoms
That's founder dependency. If you're the operational single point of failure, growth only makes the problem worse.
The Assessment
Answer seven questions about how your company actually runs today, and you'll get a personalized report with your Founder Dependency Index, showing exactly where the company depends on you and what that dependency is costing.
What Your Report Shows
Your report names your stage on the Founder Independence Curve, whether that's Founder-Critical, Founder-Dependent, Founder-Assisted, or Founder-Independent.
The company cannot run without you for a day
Most decisions still route through you
Team runs the playbook, you shape direction
Systems run; you own strategy and growth
Then it gets specific:
You'll also receive Building Founder-Independent Companies: Inside the FoundationOS 90-Day Build, a full walkthrough of the five-phase build that turns a founder-dependent company into one that runs on its own systems, with the deliverables named at every stage.
The FoundationOS
Take the Founder Dependency Assessment and get your Founder Dependency Index report in under 3 minutes.