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Find Your Constraint

A guided self-assessment that walks your own numbers through the customer chain and names the constraint worth fixing first. In the works — here's the manual version meanwhile.

The guided version of this self-assessment is being built: a short walk through your own numbers that ends with your candidate constraint named, and one next step — sometimes including "this isn't something anyone should sell you."

Until it ships, here is the manual version. Four questions, answered honestly, get you most of the way:

  1. Where do the most people fall out? Follow a stranger's path — found, trusted, chosen, paid, returned — and find the step where your numbers thin out most sharply.
  2. Which step, if it doubled in strength, would change your month? Not your favourite step. The one with the most people waiting on the other side of it.
  3. What does the evidence say, not the feeling? Enquiry counts, booked work, days-to-paid, repeat share. One real number beats any amount of instinct.
  4. What would you have to stop believing? The constraint is usually hiding behind something you're sure is fine.

Take your answer to the cluster that owns that step — the map lives in The Whole Picture.