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.
No email required to run it. Your zone of genius is the goal — let's find what's standing in the way.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Set your target annual CEO salary — what you'd pay someone to do your highest-value work.
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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.
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.
"Most founders never get to their zone of genius. Not because they lack time — because their calendar is full of work that belongs to someone else."— Christy Cox, VeriScale
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.