# Owner-Light Scorecard

Ten questions. Answer each one yes or no, fast, the true answer and not the one you wish were true. Every yes is a place the business reaches for you. Score it today, then score it again on day 90 and watch the number fall.

## The ten-question read

Check the box for every **yes**.

- [ ] 1. In the last two weeks, someone called or texted you with a question the team could not settle without you.
- [ ] 2. You are the only person who can price a new job or approve a change order.
- [ ] 3. When a key customer is unhappy, it has to be you who calls them back.
- [ ] 4. You personally approve purchases or expenses above a small amount, every time.
- [ ] 5. There is at least one job or task that only runs correctly when you do it.
- [ ] 6. Payroll or a vendor payment would be missed or late if you were unreachable for a week.
- [ ] 7. You check the schedule, the jobs, or the numbers every day, weekends included.
- [ ] 8. When a new hire starts, you train them, because the process is in your head and not on paper.
- [ ] 9. In the last month, you cut a personal plan short (a dinner, a game, a trip) to handle a work call.
- [ ] 10. If you vanished for fourteen days with your phone off, the business would lose money, a customer, or momentum.

## Your score

Count the checked boxes. That is your yes count.

**Today (date: ____________): _______ / 10**

## What the number means

Your score is your starting line, not a grade.

| Yes count | Where you stand | The move |
|---|---|---|
| **0 to 2** | Further along than most. The business can likely survive a short absence. | Protect it and stretch toward the fourteen-day test. |
| **3 to 5** | The business leans on you at the edges. Two weeks away comes back to a stack of calls. | Run the interruption log, hand off your top three. Very fixable in a quarter. |
| **6 to 8** | You are the operating system. Two or three days is your real ceiling today. | Log, sort, hand off three, then write the five SOPs that cover most of it. |
| **9 to 10** | The business is you. The most common score at seven figures, and the most fixable. | Almost every yes has a one-line rule waiting. Start with the single most frequent one tonight. |

## The re-score

The point of this page is the second time you fill it. Do the work in the guide, then come back in ninety days.

**Day 90 (date: ____________): _______ / 10**

**Yeses handed off since day one: _______**

The two lines you want to see move first are the ones that map to a single rule: question 2 (pricing and change orders) and question 4 (small purchases). If those two flip from yes to no, you have taken the two most common interruptions off your phone. Everything else follows the same pattern: find the yes, write the rule, hand it off, hand it back when it bounces.

The living, scored version of this read is the free Keystone diagnostic. This page is enough to start tonight and to prove to yourself the number moves.
