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Fix what limits growth. Then prove it to investors.

A fixed-scope commercial 360° assessment, from €500. Half fixes what limits scale, half prepares what investors test.

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Part 01 · Optimise the business

Scale on evidence, not on instinct.

Most growth companies fail on execution, not ambition. The assessment names the constraints and turns them into work.

Scalability

See where growth actually breaks

Score twelve dimensions - strategy, revenue engine, GTM efficiency, unit economics, org design, operations, technology - against companies at your stage in your market. Constraints ranked by magnitude, not by volume of opinion.

Founder benefit: a ranked constraint list instead of a long issue list.
Current plan

Pressure-test the current plan

Cross-check the plan the leadership team is already executing against what the evidence supports. Which initiatives are load-bearing, which are optional, and which depend on something that is not yet true.

Business benefit: fewer parallel initiatives, clearer sequence.
Revenue engine

Fix the pipeline before adding headcount

Win rates by stage, qualification discipline, forecast accuracy, discount behaviour, channel concentration and CAC payback - read from your own CRM and billing data rather than from the sales narrative.

Business benefit: hire into a motion that already works.
Organisation

Build the org the next phase needs

Where decisions still route through the founder, which roles are single points of failure, where succession is undefined, and which two or three hires unlock the most capacity in the next two quarters.

Founder benefit: delegate decisions, not just tasks.
Internal alignment

Align the leadership team

One objective view of priorities, plan quality, execution dependencies and the improvements that matter most - so the leadership team argues about the sequence once, on shared evidence, instead of every quarter.

Business benefit: one roadmap, not competing narratives.
Execution

Turn findings into a 90-day plan

Four to six sequenced actions: one objective each, concrete deliverables, a single success metric, explicit pre-conditions, and a named owner on your side. Foundation fixes before the quick wins that depend on them.

Business benefit: readiness becomes measurable progress.
Part 02 · Prepare for investors

Pressure test the company before investors do.

Investors reward numbers that survive questioning, not polish. This half shows how the business reads from their side.

Before outreach

Build a more credible investment story

Connect market opportunity, traction, scalability, leadership capacity and capital needs into one evidence-backed story - with each claim traceable to a finding.

Founder benefit: stronger confidence without overclaiming.
Investor meetings

Rehearse the hard questions

Identify weak evidence, inconsistent metrics, likely objections, and the questions most likely to surface in investor meetings - before the first one is booked.

Founder benefit: fewer surprises and sharper answers.
Due diligence

Enter the data room prepared

Map missing evidence, fragile assumptions, ownership gaps and operational weaknesses before diligence begins, so the process tests the business rather than your document hygiene.

Business benefit: a cleaner, faster diligence process.
Negotiation

Understand the company's risk narrative

See which issues may influence valuation, terms, milestones, governance, or the perceived need for investor intervention - and which of them you can close before the conversation.

Founder benefit: negotiate from a more informed position.
Board & reporting

Report the way investors expect

The metric set, cadence and board material a new investor will ask for in the first quarter - defined before the round rather than improvised after it.

Business benefit: credibility that survives the first board cycle.
Post-close

Walk in with a value-creation plan

The 90-day plan doubles as the post-close agenda: the same owners, evidence milestones and review cadence that a new investor would otherwise spend a quarter constructing with you.

Business benefit: momentum from week one after close.
Founder-initiated report

Independent preparation - show up more ready in the next fundraising round.

The report helps leadership validate priorities, challenge current plans, expose scaling constraints and address weaknesses earlier, so the next investor conversation starts from evidence rather than assertion. It is preparation commissioned by the founder, not an endorsement issued by an investor.

  • Objective priority and current-plan cross-check
  • Scalability and execution-gap map
  • Investor meeting and due-diligence rehearsal
  • Priority fixes before the next investor interaction

Make scaling with a clearer view.

Investors can scope a decision assessment. Founders and CEOs can validate priorities, plans, scalability, and investment readiness before outreach or due diligence.

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