The Slow Bleed Check
We already know the landscape you have inherited. Numbers that aren't yours. A board pack that tells you what already happened. Owners with no patience and no settling-in period. Value trapped as the machine slows. This scores how far it has gone in your business.
The biggest fear in the job. Being asked to defend numbers you didn't put together — numbers that have been massaged, and that tell someone else's story. Twelve questions. Answer them honestly; the value is entirely in the honesty.
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Indicative only. A real diagnostic works from your actual Order-to-Cash data — this tells you whether it is worth doing. All of it is predictable, and all of it can be planned for.
A score is not a plan.
None of this is bad luck and none of it is unusual. It is the landscape almost every CEO inherits — which means it can be predicted, measured and planned for. The next step is finding the actual number: one that can't be massaged and doesn't belong to anyone else.