The Resilience Standard · Growth Resilience · Rung 1Pulse
Growth Resilience Pulse
Up to sixteen questions, about five minutes. An indicative reading of whether the company can carry the load of the growth it has already planned, and the one thing to do first.
4–5 minutesTen or sixteen questions, by company sizeIndicative band only
The gate rule. No overall band may exceed the band of its lowest gated domain. Here the gated domains are Financial & Capital and Operations & Systems. A company that cannot fund the growth or cannot deliver it fails under its own success, whatever the average says.
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8 domains · 16 questions0 of 16 answered
How large is the company?
This sets how many domains the Pulse covers, the same way the full Assessment does.
1 Absent2 Ad hoc3 Defined4 Managed5 Optimised
1
Capability & Talent
Does capability live in systems and people, not only the founder?
1.2Do critical roles each have a trained backup?
1 = None do · 5 = All do, and backups have been tested
1.5Does work stop if one person is unavailable?
1 = Yes, in several places · 5 = No single point of human failure
2
Market & Commercial
Is demand durable and spread wide enough to scale into?
2.1How well does qualified pipeline cover the growth target?
1 = No view of pipeline · 5 = Predictable coverage, measured against target
2.2How dependent is revenue on your top one or two accounts?
1 = One or two accounts dominate · 5 = No single account dominates
3
Financial & Capital
Gated
Can the balance sheet fund growth before growth pays it back?
3.1How many months of runway are there at current burn?
1 = A few months or less · 5 = Twelve months or more
3.3Are unit economics positive and improving?
1 = Unknown or negative · 5 = Positive, measured and improving
4
Offer & Product–Market Fit
Does the offer hold up as volume rises?
4.1Is the offer validated by paying customers?
1 = Assumption only · 5 = Validated, repeatedly, by paying customers
4.3How well do customers stay or come back?
1 = High churn, or not measured · 5 = Low churn, measured and improving
5
Leadership & Energy
Is there leadership capacity beyond the founder?
5.4Who, other than the founder, makes consequential decisions without sign-off?
1 = No one · 5 = A second layer, routinely
5.5Is the team working at a pace it can sustain?
1 = Running on fumes · 5 = Sustainable, with room for more
6
Operations & Systems
Gated
Can delivery hold at three to ten times today’s volume?
6.1Are the core processes documented as SOPs that someone outside the team could follow?
1 = Nothing documented · 5 = Documented, followed and reviewed
6.3Could delivery absorb three to ten times today’s volume?
1 = It would break · 5 = Modelled, and it would hold
7
Data & Technology
Will systems and data hold up under scale?
7.1Is there one clean system of record for each core function?
1 = Spreadsheets and silos · 5 = One system each, with clean data
7.6Does the infrastructure scale without a rebuild?
1 = A rebuild would be needed · 5 = Scales, and has been tested
8
Governance & Risk
Would the company survive inspection by a funder or auditor?
8.2Is enterprise risk identified, owned and reviewed?
1 = Never reviewed · 5 = Written register, owned, reviewed quarterly
8.4Do internal financial controls separate approval from payment?
1 = No separation · 5 = Enforced and tested
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