Comprehensive assessment
Know what's really behind the gap before you spend to fix it.
The free assessment names your biggest gaps. The comprehensive shows what's driving them: 11 focus areas from The Compounding Team, two questions on every core pattern, plus system thinking and self-awareness, each scored against your stage. About 25 minutes. You get your top three gaps, a specific first move for each, and where to start reading.
One-time purchase. No subscription.
When to run it
Founders use it in three moments.
Before you hire an exec.
Your hiring, team structure, and leadership balance scores show whether the gap is a missing person or a system that needs fixing first. A $99 diagnostic before a $250K hire.
After you close a round.
Fresh capital hides gaps. Name the structural weaknesses you're about to scale, before you scale them.
When you can't name what's wrong.
Deals are slipping, or good people seem restless, and nobody can explain why. The comprehensive measures the patterns that usually cause it, so you can stop guessing.
What the comprehensive adds
Coverage the free assessment can't give you.
11 focus areas
The free assessment covers six patterns. The comprehensive adds hiring, team structure, remote and distributed work, product practices, and design practices.
Depth per pattern
Two questions on each core pattern instead of one, so the score catches what a single question misses.
Scored against your stage
Every area is measured against what a company at your stage needs, not against a company twice your size.
Your top three gaps
Ranked across all 11 areas, each with a diagnosis and a specific first move you can make this week.
Where to start reading
The chapters and sections of The Compounding Team that address your specific gaps.
Save as PDF
Save the report from your browser and share it with your leadership team, or hand it to a new exec on day one.
Want a human read?
Add an expert review.
The comprehensive report is thorough — but it's still a report. If you want someone who's seen 25+ founding teams through these transitions to read it with you, walk through the results, and help you sequence the first three moves — book a 45-minute session.
Priced separately. Buy the assessment first; the "book a session" link is on the report.
Pricing
Two ways in.
Solo
“What's really behind our gaps?”
Your own comprehensive assessment. One respondent.
- ✓11 focus areas + system thinking + self-awareness
- ✓A score for every area, against your stage
- ✓Your top three gaps, each with a first move
- ✓Your free answers carry over when you upgrade
Team 360° · Recommended
“Do my leaders even agree on what's wrong?”
Five respondents. The team report shows the blind spots one person's view can't.
- ✓5 seats included (+$29/seat after)
- ✓Team report showing agreement and disagreement in every area
- ✓Blind-spot callouts where the team disagrees
- ✓Individual answers never shown; team averages only