CrestPoint Ventures

Free assessment

The 90-Day Test.

Nine questions about who your business actually runs through, and two about what you want from it. About four minutes. Your answers put you in one of eight owner profiles, and the report behind it comes by email.

Before you start

One reading note. “Runs without me” means the work happens without you, whether a person or a system does it. Which of those it is turns out to matter, and the last of the nine asks.

Answer for a normal week rather than a good one. Nobody sees this but you and us.

The questions

All eight are required, and so are the three right after them. Everything past that is optional, and it is what makes the report yours rather than generic.

  1. Quoting & Pricing

    1Who prices the work: quotes, bids, estimates?

  2. Sales & Customers

    2If your top five customers had a problem today, who would they call?

  3. Production & Technical

    3How many problems end up on your desk?

  4. Purchasing & Vendors

    4Who deals with vendors and subcontractors: choosing them, setting terms, placing the orders?

  5. Money

    5Who chases the money and approves credit?

  6. Money

    6Before money goes out or a commitment is made, how much is already decided?

  7. Knowledge & Systems

    7Is how this business runs written down in a form someone else could follow?

  8. Knowledge & Systems

    8What is the longest you have been completely away in the last two years?

How the work gets done. Not scored.

Handing work to people takes it off your desk. It does not make it worth doing. This one decides half your result, which is why it is required.

When the work is not yours, how much of it is still done by hand: typing in bills and orders, copying numbers between systems, chasing down what is missing?

Most owners undercount the next one until they count it.

In a normal week, how many of your own hours go to work you could hand off if how you make the call were written down? Count judgment work like quoting.

One more, and it is the easy one. It tells us what the result should be read against.

What do you most want from this business in the next few years?

Where should we send your report?

Your answers put you in one of eight owner profiles. You see the profile on the next screen. The report comes by email within one business day, after I have read your answers myself: the four readings behind your profile, your score, the three answers holding it down, and where the work starts.

Name the business and we look at your industry, and where public information allows, the business itself, and fold what we find in.

0 of 8 answered

Your profile is on the next screen. No list, and no calls unless you ask for one.