Free Self-Assessment
Nobody knows your business better than you do.
The answer to what's keeping you trapped is already felt.
This isolates it.
What You'll Find Out
Businesses accumulate structural complexity, especially through growth. Breaking them back down into their component drivers shows exactly how each one is affecting the others. The assessment names eight of them, benchmarks each against comparable businesses, and puts a number on the gap.
Revenue trajectory, margins, and consistency. Structures that support your cash flow.
How much runway remains. Whether you can see the top or touch it.
Dependency on any single customer, supplier, or employee. Concentration is risk.
The balance between recurring, reliable income and one-time revenue.
Predictable cash is the most valued asset a business can have. This measures how much you have.
Brand, IP, proprietary process. What makes this business difficult to replicate.
Retention signals and NPS. A measure of whether the business earns what it keeps.
How much the business depends on its founder to function. This is, presumably, why you're here.
Your Score
0–100
Against an industry benchmark for each driver, displayed immediately.
Current Valuation Range
Estimated
Based on your financials, your current market multiple range
The Gap
Your Number
The distance between your score and where the business could operate. That gap has a daily cost.
What To Expect
This is a self-serve diagnostic. You'll get your score on the screen when you finish, and a full report to your inbox.
The optional valuation section adds a few more questions. If you skip it, you still get your driver scores and benchmarks. If you take it, you get a dollar figure on the gap.
Takes 10-15 minutes. Plain language, no jargon. Covers your operations, customers, revenue, and team.
Each driver scored and benchmarked. Your results display on-screen the moment you finish.
Three additional questions about revenue, industry, and owner compensation. Produces your current value range and the gap to potential.
A 20-plus page breakdown of every driver, your score, industry averages, and what each gap means in practice.
If You're Further Along
A business that runs without you is more valuable, more enjoyable to own, and easier to hand off if you ever choose to. The structural work is the same whether or not you ever sell.
But if you're not just trying to reduce your dependency, if you're actively thinking about what leaving looks like, there's more to consider. Getting out on your terms requires more than a well-built business. It requires knowing whether you're personally ready, and whether the number is actually there.
75% of owners regret how they approached their exit. 12 questions across four drivers reveal whether you're personally ready, and where the gaps are before it's too late to close them.
Take The PREScore →There's a number your business needs to hit for the sale to fund the rest of your life. The Freedom Score calculates it and tells you how close you are. Get it right once and you never have to again.
Calculate Your Freedom Score →Both assessments are free. What you do with the results is entirely up to you.
Free. Immediate results. Your score is waiting on the other side.
Take The Assessment →Looking for something else? Return to ExitWorks →Work because you want to. Not because you have to.
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