Find the business model that fits how you already work.
The Founder Blueprint is our own test, and this is the short free version. It asks 36 questions and takes about five minutes. You get your founder archetype and the business models that suit it. The result also lists the routine work you should hand to software.
The test starts with how you work, and ends with what to change on Monday.
No two founders run the same day, and the questions are built around that. The test reads ten sides of how you work, the four things that drive you, and twelve strengths you can build on. Then it names the business models that suit your result. It also picks out the software that can carry the parts of your week you would rather not touch.
Six situations this test was built for.
The move from working alone to hiring
You are busy, but the money still does not come in steadily enough to pay a second person. So every job stays yours, month after month. The usual answer is to hire in a panic, at the point where you cannot stand it any more. Put the repeat admin on software first, and your next hire happens on a date you chose.
When the admin keeps sliding to Friday
You can sit with a hard client problem all afternoon and enjoy every minute of it. The receipts and the filing then sit there for weeks, and moving them to Friday has never once worked. The repeating steps can run on software instead, and your attention stays on the work that pays you.
The business is eating the work
Half your week can vanish into chasing money you are owed and hunting for the file you saved somewhere sensible last month. The test finds the jobs that drain you, and names them. From there you rebuild the week around the skill people actually pay you for.
You lead a team and want to keep them
A good person who leaves costs you real money, and it knocks the mood of everyone who stays. Often your strongest people only come unstuck on the routine reporting. Build their job around how they really work, and let software carry the rest for you. When we run this across your team, each person's result goes to that person and to nobody else. You see the group picture, and you never see one person's score.
Leaving a big company to work for yourself
In a big firm, someone else sent the invoices and someone else fixed your laptop. On your own, all of it lands on your desk at once, and that is the part that frightens most people who leave. We start from what you are already good at. Only then do we pick the systems that will hold up your back office.
Told you were not cut out for business
You may have walked away from this once, because you hated the hard sell and the endless small talk. Liking every part of selling was never the price of entry. The follow-up can sit with software and with people you trust, while you do the part you are good at.
What it looks like when software takes the admin.
The pattern repeats in every trade we work in. You are paid for one skill, and the day fills up with the paperwork around it. Here are three versions of the same afternoon, and what changes for you when software takes the paperwork.
The doctor in private practice
Hours go into typing up notes and picking the right billing code. Software can take the booking and the intake forms, and draft the notes that read the same way every time. That time goes back to the person sitting in front of you.
The plumber on an emergency call
Nobody with wet hands under a burst pipe stops to answer the phone. The call still gets picked up, and the job is booked and the deposit taken while you work. You ring back when the pipe is dry.
The architect and the custom builder
Whole afternoons disappear into change orders and asking the trades again for their paperwork. The stage dates go out on time and the money gets chased, both without you. You stay at the drawing board and on the site.
The business gets built around you, rather than the other way round.
Most advice hands every owner the same job list. Do the work, sell the work, chase the money, answer the emails, keep up with the paperwork. When that list wears you down, your work ethic is rarely the problem. Your hours are just going to the wrong things.
So we do it in the other order. First we find out how you work. Then we pick the shape of your business to match it. When those two line up, your best skill gets the room it needs. The running of the place then sits with software, and with people you hand it to, rather than with more of your hours.
The Founder Blueprint is our own test. We wrote it here, and it borrows nothing from any other test you may have taken. It reads how you decide, what keeps you going, and what you are strongest at. Then it names a business model that suits what it found, and a way of running your day that goes with it.
Plain software first. AI only where it does a better job.
Plenty of people will tell you that AI is the answer to every job in your business. It moves fast, and it is not always right. It can also run up a bill you did not see coming.
We pick the tool that fits your job. For the steps in your week that run the same way every time, ordinary software goes first. It is cheap, and it does the same thing twice. AI earns its place where your work needs judgment or words rather than a fixed rule, and we use it there gladly. When something on your list does not need AI, we will tell you so, even though the AI version would cost you more.
What you get back.
Your founder archetype
Which of the eight founder archetypes you come out as, and what that says about how you decide and the pace you work at. It is the label the rest of your result hangs off.
What you are best at
A plain read on the strengths you bring to a business. It also names the business models that give your strengths the most room to work. Some of them will be ones you have never thought of running.
Your software and workflow plan
Which software to use, what to automate, and what to hand to a person. Every one of them named, so you can take the list away and set your week up without us.
You will come out as one of eight archetypes.
One of the eight will be your closest match, and you will carry pieces of the others. None of them is the one to hope for. Yours is the starting point for everything that gets built after it.