The 3Ts — A Founder Diagnostic | VeriScale
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A Free Founder Diagnostic · Step 1 of the VeriScale Proven Process

Find what's holding your business hostage.

Most founders can't step away for 48 hours without something slowing down. The bottleneck is rarely where you think it is. This diagnostic shows you exactly where — across your Time, your Team, and your Tech — and what to do about it.

10–20 hrs
reclaimed per week by founders who act on this
~8 min
to complete all three diagnostics, interactively
3 Ts
Time · Team · Tech — one for each bottleneck

No email required to run it. Your zone of genius is the goal — let's find what's standing in the way.

T1 · Time

Where is your time actually going?

Estimate a typical week. Tap the steppers to log hours into each bucket. Only the first bucket is work that needs you — everything else is reclaimable. Watch the readout update live.

CEO work (keep)
0 hrs
Reclaimable / week
0 hrs
% of week off your plate
0%
Start logging hours above. Most founders are shocked by how little of their week is actually CEO work.
T2 · Team

What requires you — and what shouldn't?

Map your client journey. For each touchpoint, mark who handles it today, then whether it should actually require you. The touchpoints you own but shouldn't are your delegation list. Solo or micro-team? Still applies — this is where future delegation pays off most.

Client touchpoint
Who handles it today?
Should it require you?
You handle today
0
On your plate, but shouldn't be
0
Mark who owns each touchpoint today, then be honest about which ones actually need you. The gap is your roadmap.
T3 · Tech

What's repetitive enough to automate?

Anything rule-based or that follows the same pattern every time is an automation candidate. Tap the ones that eat your week. Don't automate everything at once — start with the two or three that cost you the most.

Selected 0 automation candidate. Pick the ones that drain the most time.

The Founder Math

What is staying the bottleneck costing you?

Revenue is easy to see. Margin isn't. This uses your Time buckets to put a dollar figure on the hours trapped in work that shouldn't require you — every week, and every year.

Your hourly value
$
÷ 2,000 hrs =
$100 / hour

Set your target annual CEO salary — what you'd pay someone to do your highest-value work.

The cost of misaligned hours
Bucket (from T1)Hrs/wkWeekly $Annual $
Reclaimable value, every year
$0
Log your Time buckets in T1 to see your number. This is what's on the table when the work that isn't yours leaves your plate.
Your Results

Here's what your 3Ts just told you.

You've audited your bottlenecks across Time, Team, and Tech. Now name them — the act of writing it down is the first step to fixing it.

Reclaimable hours / week
0 hrs
Reclaimable $ / year
$0
Touchpoints to hand off
0
T1 · Time
Which bucket surprised you most — and how many hours are going somewhere they shouldn't?
T2 · Team
What's one thing on your client journey you could hand off this week?
T3 · Tech
What's one task you do every week that follows the exact same pattern every time?
The payoff
What would you do with 10 extra hours a week? This is the goal.
The VeriScale Proven Process

You just completed Step 1.

Seeing the bottleneck is the first move. Here's the full path from "the business runs on me" to "the business runs on systems" — and where you are on it right now.

You've found the leak. Now plug it.

You don't have to figure out the fix alone. Bring your 3Ts results to a working session with Christy and walk out knowing the first system to build — and who should own it instead of you.

Free monthly working session with Christy. No pitch. Just the work.