A founder assessment
A picture of how you are carrying it all, built on the Operating Self framework.
As a founder you carry more than one role at once. You build the business, you lead the people, you hold your relationships, you carry how others see you, and underneath all of it there is you. When the business takes over, the other parts go quiet, and it is possible to be doing well by every outside measure and still feel that something is off. That gap, doing well and not feeling well, is usually where the real work is. This assessment is built to find it.
The Operating Self Map reads how you are carrying every part of your life and work at once. Most founders are measured by one thing: the business. This looks deeper. It reads you across five domains, the business you build, the team you lead, your close relationships, how you are seen from the outside, and the person underneath all of it.
In each domain, the same four capacities determine how well you are actually running: how clear your decisions are, how steady you stay, how much you trust your own judgement, and how much you have left in reserve.
There is a result. Your answers produce your shape: a clear map of where you are running full and where you are running thin, across all five domains. It is not a score that ranks you or a type that boxes you. The shape is yours to read, a clear starting point we dive into together on the diagnostic call.
Three short parts, around twenty minutes. First you map your roles, then you rate how each part is running, then you answer a few deeper questions. Answer honestly, for how things actually are right now. If a whole domain does not apply to you, leave it blank. An empty domain tells us as much as a full one.
Part one
For each domain, write which roles are live for you right now. Use the examples if they fit, change them, or write your own. A few words is enough. If a domain does not apply, leave it empty.
Part two
For each domain, rate how true each statement is for you right now. There are no right answers. If a domain is not live for you, leave it completely blank. If you answer one statement in a domain, answer all four, so the shape reads true.
Part three
This is the part that matters most. Write as much or as little as you want. Nothing here is marked. The more honestly you write, the more we have to work with.
Review
Here is everything you have filled in. Read it over. You can go back and change anything, or submit when it feels true.
Your map
This is your map, drawn from your answers. We read the whole map together on the call, not any single bar.
A fuller bar means more capacity is present in that domain. A thinner bar means more room to work.
Your full map is on its way.
I read every map myself. Your full report, with my read of where you are running full and where there is room to work, will reach you before our session.