Free assessment for founder-led businesses

Owner Dependency Score Calculator

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

12-question assessment

Choose what is closest to your real situation.

Pick the option that best matches how your business runs today. At the end, you will get your score and a Zoveto action plan.

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01 / Pricing authority

Can your sales team quote standard prices without checking with you?

02 / Pricing authority

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

03 / Approval bottlenecks

How often does the team need your approval before work can move forward?

04 / Approval bottlenecks

Can someone else handle escalations without coming to you?

05 / Institutional knowledge

If you were away for a week, could the team run day-to-day operations without you?

06 / Institutional knowledge

Are your main processes written down in a way your team actually uses?

07 / Decision latency

When you are away, how long do important decisions wait?

08 / Decision latency

When targets are missed, does your team know what to do next?

09 / Customer and vendor concentration

How much of your key customer or vendor work still goes through you personally?

10 / Customer and vendor concentration

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

11 / Succession readiness

Can a manager onboard a new hire without needing you?

12 / Succession readiness

Could the business run for a month without you getting involved every day?

12 questions left before your final score is ready.

Frequently asked questions

It is a 0 to 100 score that shows how well your business can run when the owner is unavailable. A higher score means fewer owner bottlenecks.

The score is based on weighted answers across pricing authority, approvals, process knowledge, decision speed, relationship dependence, and succession readiness.

No. This is an operations assessment for owner dependency. It helps you spot where systems, dashboards, delegation, and process documents can reduce daily owner involvement.

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

Zoveto helps centralize workflows, dashboards, approvals, SOPs, customer records, inventory, sales, finance, HR, and alerts so decisions move through the business, not only through the owner.

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