Free founder-led business diagnostic

Owner Dependency Score Calculator

Answer 12 questions to see where pricing, approvals, decisions, relationships, dashboards, and process knowledge still depend on the owner.

12-question assessment

Answer with the closest reality.

Choose what best matches how your business works today. At the end, you will get one score and a Zoveto improvement plan.

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01 / Pricing authority

Can your sales team quote standard prices without calling you?

02 / Pricing authority

Can your team handle discounts, credit terms, and exceptions inside clear rules?

03 / Approval bottlenecks

How often do operational approvals need your direct sign-off?

04 / Approval bottlenecks

Can someone else handle escalations without you?

05 / Institutional knowledge

If you are unavailable for 7 days, can the team run operations normally?

06 / Institutional knowledge

Are your main processes documented in a way people actually use?

07 / Decision latency

When you are unavailable, how long do important decisions get delayed?

08 / Decision latency

Does your team know what to do when targets are missed?

09 / Customer and vendor concentration

What share of key customers or vendors run mainly through you personally?

10 / Customer and vendor concentration

Can your team see customer/vendor history without asking you?

11 / Succession readiness

Can a manager onboard a new employee without your involvement?

12 / Succession readiness

Can the business run for one month without daily owner intervention?

12 questions left before your final score is ready.

Frequently asked questions

It is a 0 to 100 diagnostic score that estimates how independently a business can run when the owner is unavailable. Higher scores mean fewer owner bottlenecks.

The score uses weighted answers across pricing authority, approvals, institutional knowledge, decision latency, relationship concentration, and succession readiness.

No. It is an operational diagnostic for owner dependency. It helps identify where systems, dashboards, delegation, and process documentation can reduce daily owner involvement.

Founder-led SMBs, distributors, manufacturers, trading businesses, service companies, and growing teams where the owner is still pulled into daily decisions.

Zoveto helps centralize workflows, dashboards, approvals, SOPs, customer records, inventory, sales, finance, HR, and alerts so decisions move through the business instead of through the owner.

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