Startup Readiness Score™
The Startup Readiness Score™ is a diagnostic assessment that evaluates your startup across six foundational pillars and returns a clear, actionable snapshot: your overall score, a diagnosis, and what clarity you need next.
Startup Readiness Score™
The Startup Readiness Score™ is a diagnostic assessment that evaluates your startup across six foundational pillars and returns a clear, actionable snapshot: your overall score, a diagnosis, and what clarity you need next.
Why Readiness?
Most startups don't fail because the idea was bad.
They fail because founders advance before the foundations are ready—building features before problem clarity, scaling channels before urgency exists, or committing resources before constraints are understood.
Readiness is the difference between progress that compounds and progress that resets.
Readiness is not confidence.
Readiness is not a pitch deck.
Readiness is the ability to move forward with clarity.
What the Startup Readiness Score Is
The Startup Readiness Score™ is a structured diagnostic that helps you understand whether your startup is structurally prepared to take its next step at its current stage.
It does not predict success. It does not judge your idea. It identifies the conditions that most often determine whether effort turns into traction—or into noise.
What the Startup Readiness Score Is Not
The Startup Readiness Score is not a success predictor, a funding signal, or a substitute for customer validation. It does not guarantee outcomes, remove uncertainty, or replace the work of learning directly from customers.
The value is not in feeling good or feeling reassured. The value is in seeing what is structurally true right now—so the next decision is grounded in reality rather than momentum.
How It Works
Answer the Assessment
You’ll respond to a structured set of questions across six pillars. A small set of context questions helps interpret your results.
Your Scores Are Calculated
Next, your responses are evaluated using consistent scoring logic designed to reflect readiness (not optimism).
Get Your Startup Readiness Score and Snapshot
Almost instantly you’ll get an overall score and diagnosis, plus pillar-by-pillar clarity and recommended readiness actions.
What You Receive (FREE)
Overall Score & Diagnosis
A single Startup Readiness Score (0–150) plus a concise diagnosis describing your current readiness profile and dominant constraint.
Six Pillar Diagnostics
For each pillar, you receive a clear diagnosis of what this foundation currently supports - and where it breaks down.
Clarity Needed
For each pillar, you’ll see the primary clarity gap holding readiness back and recommended actions designed to increase readiness through evidence, not activity.
The 6 Pillars
These are the 6 Pillars of a strong startup foundation.
Founder Pillar
Is the founder realistically positioned to carry this business forward? Do time, energy, skills, support, and personal constraints align with what this startup actually requires in its current phase?
Business Model Pillar
Does the way value flows through the business make sense? Is there a clear, coherent explanation for who pays, why they pay, and how this creates a sustainable business?
Problem Pillar
Is the problem real, painful, and clearly understood in customer language? Does the problem reliably create urgency and willingness to change, or is it primarily defined through founder interpretation?
Go-to-Market Pillar
Can this startup reliably reach customers in a way that matches their behavior?
Do discovery paths, messages, and timing align with how customers already recognize and act on the problem?
Market Pillar
Is there a specific, reachable group of people who feel this problem most intensely? Can the first customer be clearly described, located, and understood within a real behavioral context?
Financial Pillar
Does the founder understand the financial realities that determine survivability? Are costs, runway, and critical assumptions visible enough to support informed decisions rather than reactive ones?
Get clarity before your next big decision.
If you’re building something real, readiness matters. Take the Startup Readiness Score and see what your foundations currently support before you invest more time, money, or energy.
FAQ
Founder's Frequently Asked Questions... Answered
How long does it take?
Most founders complete it in 10–20 minutes.
Do I need an LLC, product, or traction?
No. The assessment adapts to your stage. It’s designed for idea-stage through early operating businesses.
Is this “AI advice”?
The score is a diagnostic output based on structured inputs. The purpose is clarity—not telling you what to do with certainty.
Will this tell me if my idea is good?
No. It evaluates readiness: whether the foundations are strong enough to advance safely.
Can I share the results with an advisor or accelerator?
Yes. Many founders use the output to make conversations more precise and less opinion-driven.
What happens after I finish?
You’ll immediately receive your overall score + diagnosis and pillar-by-pillar outputs.
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