Startup Readiness Score
A free 20 minute assessment scoring your startup across six pillars
About Startup Readiness Score
Early-stage founders are surrounded by advice and starved of diagnosis. Every accelerator, investor and mentor has an opinion about what matters, and none of it tells you where your particular venture is actually weak. The result is founders who spend six months polishing the thing they are already good at while the real gap sits untouched. Startup Readiness Score replaces that with a structured twenty minute assessment producing a numeric score across six defined pillars, so the weakest dimension is identified rather than guessed at.
The framework breaks readiness into six pillars, and the separation is the substance of the tool. The Founder pillar addresses the team and its fit for this problem. The Problem pillar tests whether the thing being solved is real and painful. Market covers size, timing and accessibility. Business Model addresses how value is captured. Go-to-Market covers how customers will actually be reached. Financial covers the numbers underneath it all. Scoring runs to a total out of 150 with a per-pillar breakdown, and results route founders toward relevant next steps. The free tier includes two lifetime assessments; Pro adds monthly retakes so progress can be tracked over time. Separate tracks exist for accelerator programs and for mentors.
Set aside roughly twenty minutes and work through the assessment, which covers all six pillars in sequence. On completion you receive an overall readiness score out of 150 alongside a pillar-by-pillar breakdown and summary, which is where the diagnostic value sits: a respectable total can still conceal one pillar that will sink the venture. Clarity recommendations point at what to address first. Results route you toward relevant resources rather than leaving you with a number. The free tier allows two assessments in total, enough to establish a baseline and measure once after acting on it. Pro subscribers can retake monthly and track the trajectory of each pillar over time.
- •Six-Pillar Framework - Founder, Problem, Market, Business Model, Go-to-Market and Financial assessed separately rather than as one impression
- •Score Out of 150 - A numeric overall readiness score, plus per-pillar scores so a weak dimension cannot hide behind a strong total
- •Pillar-by-Pillar Summary - Written breakdown of each dimension rather than a bare number
- •Clarity Recommendations - Specific guidance on what to address first, based on where the score is weakest
- •Twenty Minute Format - Long enough to be substantive, short enough that founders actually complete it
- •Progress Tracking on Pro - Monthly retakes so improvement across pillars can be measured over time rather than assumed
- •Two Free Lifetime Assessments - Enough to take a baseline and re-measure after acting, at no cost
- •Program and Mentor Tracks - Separate offerings for accelerators running cohorts and for mentors working with founders
For early-stage founders before or during fundraising who need to know which dimension is weakest before an investor tells them, and for pre-launch founders deciding where to spend the next quarter. It suits accelerator and incubator programs assessing applicants or tracking cohort progress on a consistent framework, and mentors who want structured input rather than an unstructured first conversation. Solo founders without a board or advisors benefit most, since they have no one else supplying an outside view. The free two-assessment tier is sufficient for an individual founder to get real value.
