A Free Diagnostic

The Captain's Checklist.

A 20-question self-diagnostic across the 4 Cs of the Master Your Ship operating system. Twenty minutes. One PDF. The honest read on where your ship is leaking.

Twenty questions across Course, Crew, Cadence, Command. Five per pillar.
Score each one zero to five. Total out of one hundred.
Read the interpretation band that tells you what to do next.
Built from the same instrument we use inside the install.

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Twenty questions. Four pillars.

Each pillar of the operating system gets five questions. Total your scores. Read the band.

— Pillar I —

Course

Personal destination. Corporate destination. Exit. Direction cascade. No-Go Zones.

5 questions · 25 pts

— Pillar II —

Crew

Role charters. SOPs. Authority Matrix. Hiring Loop. Key-Person Discount removal.

5 questions · 25 pts

— Pillar III —

Cadence

Weekly leadership. Monthly Voyage Review. Quarterly Course Correction. Log Book. Meeting tests.

5 questions · 25 pts

— Pillar IV —

Command

Captain's Calendar. Standing Orders. Time off the bridge. Escalation protocol. Next Captain Plan.

5 questions · 25 pts

A look at four of the twenty.

One sample question from each pillar. Sixteen more inside the PDF.

— Course —
The personal destination is named in writing (the life the business is supposed to make possible, with specifics).

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— Crew —
Every seat in the company has a documented Role Charter naming what that seat is supposed to produce.

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— Cadence —
The leadership team meets weekly on a documented agenda and produces decisions captured in writing.

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— Command —
The Captain's Calendar exists with protected long-arc and short-arc blocks (deep work, family, strategic time).

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Score key: 0 does not exist · 1 started but not real · 2 exists but inconsistent · 3 documented, used sometimes · 4 documented, used consistently · 5 refined regularly.

Find your band.

Your score lands in one of four bands. Each one tells you what to fix next.

0 — 25

Captain at the wheel

The system runs on you. The business does not survive your absence in any meaningful way. Most decisions, workflows, and relationships funnel through one head. The install zone.

26 — 50

Improvised passage

You have pieces in place but they are not connected. Some SOPs exist. The leadership team meets but the rhythm is loose. You are still the bottleneck on too many decisions.

51 — 75

Seaworthy

You are running a real operating system. The basics are in place. The next gain is in tightening Cadence and Command.

76 — 100

Mastered the ship

You have built most of what the operating system installs. The structure is real. The system runs without you. From here the work is refinement, succession, and exit preparation.

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Ready to find out where you stand?

Twenty questions. Twenty minutes. The honest read.

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