Direction
Can the business stay focused and make trade-offs without you continually resetting the priorities?
Founder Independence Assessment
How dependent is your business on you?
You've hired people. You've delegated. You've built a team.
So why do so many decisions, problems and questions still come back to you?
Take the free Founder Independence Assessment and find out where your business still needs you more than it should, and what's creating that dependency.
20 questions Free Self-reported business assessment
The founder-dependency problem
The business has grown. Your role may not have changed with it.
Founder dependency rarely looks like a broken business.
Often, it looks like a successful one.
You've got customers. You've hired people. Revenue has grown. Managers have joined the team.
But you're still the person everyone turns to when something important needs deciding, fixing or moving forward.
- PrioritiesThe team can execute, but still needs you to decide what matters most.
- DecisionsPeople have responsibility, but important decisions still wait for your approval.
- DeliveryWhen something goes wrong, you're still the safest pair of hands.
- InformationYou have systems and reports, but you still need to ask around to understand what's really happening.
- LeadershipYou've hired managers, but you're still managing through them, around them, or for them.
The problem isn't that you're too involved. It's that the business is still designed to need your involvement.
The five dimensions of Founder Independence
Where is your business still relying on you?
The Assessment looks at five areas that determine whether the business can operate effectively without everything routing back through the founder.
Decisions
Can people make the decisions their roles require without waiting for your approval?
Delivery
Can customers be served, problems resolved and standards maintained without you stepping in?
Data
Can your leadership team see what's happening and act on it without you joining the dots?
Leadership
Do your managers genuinely own outcomes, or are they still managing upwards to you?
More choice about what happens next
The goal isn't to remove you from your business.
It's to make your involvement a choice rather than a requirement.
Grow it.Sell it.Start something else.Take a month off.Spend more time with your family.Stop being the person who has to carry everything.
A business that can operate without unnecessary dependence on you gives you more choices about what happens next.
How the Assessment works
A structured view of where the dependency sits.
- 1Answer 20 questions
Look honestly at how your business operates today across the five dimensions.
- 2See where the dependency sits
You'll receive your Founder Independence Score, five-dimension profile and the area currently creating the greatest constraint.
- 3Decide what to do with it
Your result is yours. Where it identifies a meaningful founder dependency, you'll also have the option to talk it through with Antony.
This isn't a personality test.It scores the operating independence of the business, not the quality of the founder.It is a self-reported indicative assessment, not a verified Review.
Why Antony Draper?
I've spent much of my career making organisations work without everything depending on one person.
I spent 11 years in the military before moving into sales, operations, account management and programme leadership across HP, Capita and the public sector.
Different environments. Same underlying challenge:
Today I apply that operating experience to founder-led businesses that have grown beyond the point where everything can continue running through the founder.
Founder Independence isn't about stepping away from your business. It's about building a business capable of standing without you.
Ready to find out?
If you stepped away, what would come back to you first?
Take the free Founder Independence Assessment and find out where your business still depends unnecessarily on you.
20 questions Free Immediate personalised result