The Handoff Test, 90 seconds, free

If you retired tomorrow, would this business keep running, or close with you?

Most trade businesses run entirely on the owner's memory, judgment, and relationships. That's fine right up until the day he steps back. Then there's nothing left to sell or hand off, only a job he can never leave. This finds out which one yours is, before it's the only question that matters.

10 questions · no email required to see your score

Every owner-run business sits somewhere on this ladder.

Borrowed from the standard business-growth staging most owners have never seen applied to their own operation. The jump from Stage 3 to Stage 4 is the only one that determines whether the business survives you.

Startup

You are the business. Every dollar depends on you personally doing the work.

Advertise

Leads are the constraint. You've proven the work; now you need more calls.

Stabilize

A few employees, but it's still too much for one person, and nothing runs without you.

Most owners here

Prioritize

Real help, real documentation. The business has value with or without you in it.

The Handoff Test

Answer honestly. This isn't graded, and nobody sees it but you unless you choose to share it.

Before you start

This covers the five places a trade business usually depends on its owner:

Products & Customers: what goes wrong, and who catches it
Sales & Service: what happens between a call coming in and the job getting done
Tech & Tools: whether your systems talk to each other or fight you
People & HR: what stops if you're out for two weeks
Money: whether you actually know your profit per job

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What's actually keeping this owner-dependent

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