Dependence shows up before burnout does
It's hard to pinpoint the exact moment when an owner realizes the business depends on them.
They might notice it when time off becomes risky. Or when decisions stall without them. When growth adds pressure instead of leverage.
But by then, dependence can feel normal, even responsible.
These are the five signals that tell you it’s already there.
01
Time Off Has Conditions
You can step away as long as you stay reachable. Real time off would cost the business too much.
02
Decisions Default to You
Pricing, priorities, and exceptions all wait for you. Delegating is not a risk worth taking.
03
Momentum Requires You
Things move when you’re involved. They stall when you’re not. Progress runs on attention.
04
Growth Increases the Load
More revenue didn’t buy freedom. It bought complexity and more reasons you’re needed.
05
You're the Safety Net
When something breaks, you catch it. When things work, you stay alert anyway.
These tells aren’t isolated problems.They’re symptoms of a business that never learned how to run without you.
Most companies grow without ever designing a system that protects the owner. The business comes first. The owner fills the gaps.
The Owner OS is the missing layer that reverses that logic so the business supports ownership instead of consuming it.
What's the Owner OS?
Every business runs on an operating system,
a logic that decides how your time, people, and capital get used.
Most owners don’t see it.
They only feel the effects: friction, drift, bottlenecks, exhaustion.
The Ownership Scorecard measures how your Owner OS is performing across six core dimensions and shows which one to redesign first.
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The Six Ownership Dimensions
Ambition Alignment
Is this the business you actually want?
Autonomy & Choice
Can you live life on your terms?
Energy Return
Does the work fuel you or drain you?
Growth on Your Terms
Is growth aligned with what matters to you?
Sustainable Value Creation
Is the business becoming less dependent on you?
Owner Agency
How easily can you reshape the business as it evolves?
Start With Your Ownership Pulse
See where you stand today.
Understand what’s constraining you.
Get your first clear step back to ownership.
What You Will Get
Run your business like an owner again.
The Ownership Scorecard reveals how your business is performing across the six dimensions that define real ownership: Alignment, Autonomy, Energy, Growth, Sustainability, and Agency.
Each dimension shows where your operating system is working for you, and where it’s quietly working against you.
In under ten minutes, you’ll see:
* Your ownership health across six dimensions and whether you're gaining ground or losing it
* The specific patterns driving your scores and what's actually constraining you
* A personalized roadmap showing which dimension to redesign first for maximum leverage
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