Five areas. One clear picture of where you are the ceiling.
The FDI measures dependency across five core business pillars. Each contains five questions scored 1 to 5 and is scored independently. The result is a precise diagnostic, not a vague overview.
How much revenue generation and conversion relies on the founder directly.
How much decision-making authority is centralised in the founder.
How much client delivery quality depends on the founder's personal involvement.
How much the day-to-day running of the business depends on the founder.
How much the business's market presence and inbound rely on the founder personally.
Scoring
25 questions. 5 pillars. Your total FDI score places you in one of five dependency bands:
Built for founders who are ready to see the real picture.
The FDI is designed for business owners who are actively involved in the day-to-day and want an honest, scored view of where they are the bottleneck before it becomes the ceiling.
This is not for: early-stage founders still finding product-market fit, or businesses that are intentionally founder-led by design. The FDI assumes a business that has product, revenue, and team, and is now asking what needs to structurally change.
Most founders don't realise how much of the business still runs through them until they try to step away.
The real risk is not working hard. It is building a business that needs your constant involvement to survive. Every decision, approval, client issue and sales conversation that depends on you becomes a ceiling on growth. The FDI shows exactly where that ceiling exists.
Most founders don't have a motivation problem. They have a structural one. The FDI tells you exactly where that structure still depends on you. What you do with it is the work.