Founder Dependency Index | Could Your Business Run Without You?
The Founder Dependency Index 5-Pillar Diagnostic · Free · 5 Minutes

could your business run for
two weeks without you?

In just 5 minutes, discover exactly where your business still depends on you.

Most founders think they know what's holding their business back. They're usually wrong. The Founder Dependency Index measures how much your business still relies on you across five critical areas and pinpoints the one constraint creating the biggest ceiling on growth.

  • Your Founder Dependency Score, out of 125. One number, and the band it places you in.
  • Your biggest bottleneck. The pillar the business leans on you for most.
  • The hidden cost of that dependency. Where it's quietly capping your growth, your time, and the value of the business.
  • Your recommended next priority. The single area to fix first.
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A note from Naomi Skye

why we built the Founder Dependency Index

45 seconds on why most founders misdiagnose the real constraint in their business, and what you'll get the moment you finish.

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What founders say about the FDI

the moment the number lands, the picture gets clear.

“
I thought sales was my problem. The FDI showed me in five minutes it was actually Delivery. Everything routed back to me. First time I've had a clear place to start.
A
Marcus ThorneManaging Director, Ironbark Civil Group, Brisbane
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Most "quizzes" are fluff. This felt like an actual diagnostic. Getting a score and a band made it impossible to keep pretending the business could run without me.
B
Priya RaghunathanFounder, Meridian Health Collective, Melbourne
“
The pillar breakdown was the wake-up call. I'd been throwing time at the wrong area for a year. Worth far more than the five minutes it took.
C
Hugh Callaghan Business Owner, Callaghan Joinery Co., Newcastle
01
the five pillars

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.

01
Sales Dependency

How much revenue generation and conversion relies on the founder directly.

02
Decision Dependency

How much decision-making authority is centralised in the founder.

03
Delivery Dependency

How much client delivery quality depends on the founder's personal involvement.

04
Operational Dependency

How much the day-to-day running of the business depends on the founder.

05
Brand & Marketing

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:

1–25
Independent
Structurally sound
26–50
Low Dependency
Some exposure
51–75
Transitional
Active risk
76–100
High Dependency
Scale is blocked
101+
Critical Dependency
Structural rebuild required
02
who this is for

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.

You are the primary decision-maker
and you want to understand your current dependency level before trying to change it.
You've been thinking about delegation or scale
but haven't had a structured way to identify where to start.
Your business runs primarily through you
across sales, delivery, operations, or all three, and you want to know the real cost of that.
You're in trades, professional services or agency work
where the founder's personal involvement is baked into how the business was built.

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.

03
what you'll learn

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.

1
Your total FDI score out of 125
A single number that places you in one of five dependency bands, from Independent through to Critical Dependency.
2
A pillar-by-pillar breakdown
Scored across Sales, Decisions, Delivery, Operations and Brand. You'll see exactly where the dependency is concentrated, not just that it exists.
3
Where to act first
The pillar with the highest dependency score is where structural change will move the number fastest. The report shows you which one that is.
4
A personalised diagnostic report
Delivered straight to your inbox. No sales call required to receive it. No obligation on the other side.
The real question

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.

04
get your score

You are the ceiling. This is where.

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