Find out how owner-optional your business really is.
A free five-minute diagnostic that scores how much of your business still runs through you. Then shows you what to do about it.
Founder dependency isn't a new idea. The exit-planning industry has measured it for a decade, because buyers discount businesses that can't run without their owner.
But almost every tool out there asks the same question. What is your business worth when you leave?
The Founder Dependency Score asks a different one.
What is it costing you to stay?
It measures how much of your business still runs through you, across five domains. Not so you can sell. So you can take a holiday, hand work over with confidence, and grow without working more hours.
That direction has a name. From owner-trapped to owner-optional.
THE FIVE DOMAINS
The Score looks at where the business still leans on you, in the five places it matters most:
- Decisions. Does anything move without your sign-off?
- Knowledge. Is how the business runs written down, or only in your head?
- Delivery. Can the work go out the door when you are not in the room?
- Revenue. Do sales carry on when you stop?
- Resilience. What happens if you are out for two weeks?
You get a score out of 100, and a clear position on the spectrum from owner-trapped to owner-optional.
WHAT OWNER-OPTIONAL MEANS
Owner-optional has a simple test.
The business runs for two full weeks without you, and nothing important slips.
Most founders are nowhere near that, and they quietly know it. The Score tells you exactly how far, and which domain is holding you back first.
WHY THIS ONE IS DIFFERENT
Most assessments end with a PDF and a polite goodbye.
This one comes with someone who fixes what it finds.
Hunter Admin builds the operational infrastructure underneath service-based businesses. The systems, SOPs, workflow design and delegation frameworks that let a business run without the founder in it every day. The Score is the diagnosis. The work is the difference.
That's where we come in.
WHO IT IS FOR
Built for UK SME founders running service-based businesses with small teams. You are past the startup stage. The business has grown. But it still depends on you for every decision, every fix, every relationship.
You are not failing. The structure underneath you is missing. That is a structural problem, and a structural problem has a structural fix.