Founder Overwhelm Baseline Snapshot.

An honest read of your overwhelm today, before any scoring. Mark every symptom that is true right now, across the five sub-domains.

This is the symptoms-first current-state read. A sub-domain with several boxes checked is a candidate problem area that carries into the scoring. Answers stay in your browser.

Founder role clarity

I do not have a clear sense of what I should be focused on.

I spend most of my time on work below my value.

My role never got redesigned as the business grew.

Delegation and capacity

I cannot get work off my plate to people.

Work I delegate comes back to me.

There is nobody capable to take what I would hand off.

Systematizing founder-dependent work

Things depend on me because they live in my head.

Little of how we do things is written down.

The business could not run for long without me.

Personal effectiveness

I spend my days reacting to whatever is loudest.

I have little protected time for high-value work.

Any time I free up gets swallowed by more busyness.

Personal sustainability

I work punishing hours and cannot take a real break.

I have no real boundaries between work and life.

I am heading toward burnout, or already there.

The override question

How are you really doing, in energy, health, and life outside the business? Write it plainly.

If the honest answer is alarming

That is an acute personal crisis, addressed immediately, including reaching for professional support, ahead of everything else. This pathway can wait; your wellbeing cannot.

The most revealing question: what would break if you disappeared for two weeks, and how does that make you feel?

Your answers stay in your browser on this page and are never sent anywhere. Use Save or print to keep your copy, then carry every checked sub-domain into the Diagnostic Assessment.

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