Most owners don't really own their business. It owns them. This 10-minute diagnostic tells you where you stand, what it's costing you, and the first three things to do about it.
28 questions across the 8 things that decide whether a business runs — and pays you — without you, plus how safe that freedom is. Ten minutes, honest answers; nobody's watching but you.
Answer as the business actually is today, not as you'd like it to be. The value is in the honest number.
The business owns you. Right now the work is to SEE it — get the plan and the numbers visible before anything else.
Below: where the score comes from, how safe it is, your first three moves, what the trap is costing you — and where to start.
Your score answers one question — how free you are. But free isn't the same as safe. So we measure a second thing too: how well the business would survive a shock without dragging you back in. Together they place you on the grid below.
Read across for freedom, up for resilience — your position is where they meet.
↑ Resilience — how safe that freedom is (rows, bottom to top)
Eight drivers, each scored out of 100. Your weakest is your 90-day priority — you'll find it, and what to do about it, further down.
Too many decisions, relationships and pieces of knowledge still run through you. The business works — but only while you're in it.
Three places to start — what to notice, why it matters, and what better looks like. This is where to look first; the tools and method are in the Kit.
First moves, not the whole fix.
This is the free start on your weakest area. The full picture — how all eight drivers stack up and which order to tackle them in — is in the report you can send yourself below.
This isn't an audit. It's built from your answers and the assumptions below — a way of making the hidden cost visible enough to decide whether it's worth fixing.
On your profile, each point of Freehold Score is worth roughly £3,429 of business value. Closing £1/yr of hard cash leak adds about £5 to what the business is worth.
You've now seen the problem — where you're stuck, and what it's costing you.
The Score tells you where you're stuck. Kit 1 gives you the tools and the method to start getting unstuck.
This is exactly what Kit 1 is built for. Your weakest driver is Owner Independence — everything coming through you — and that's the one problem this kit fixes end to end: get your repeated decisions off your desk and prove it with a day you're genuinely unreachable.
It's not a book of theory — it's a specific, step-by-step install plan that walks you through getting the business off your shoulders, day by day, to your first genuinely unreachable day inside 30. You get the working tools that do it: the Decision Log, 20 Handover Rule cards, the Only-You Audit, the One-Page Way, the Freedom Test, and the day-by-day 30-day plan that ties them together.
A £50 kit against a £125k/yr leak is a fraction of one year's problem. 30-day promise: take a full day unreachable inside 30 days, or tell me it didn't work and I'll make it right.
The page shows your weakest area in depth. The report shows the whole board: how all eight drivers stack up, what each is doing to you and why it matters, the order to tackle them in, plus your resilience read and priced leak — saved in one place you can act on or forward to a business partner. It's the map, not the manual — the how-to lives in the Kit.
Freehold Score™ · a directional diagnostic. The kit fixes it; the Academy makes it stick.