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Operational Alpha Assessment

For owners of 1–50 person businesses: 25 quick questions score how fast, automated, informed, connected and well-timed your operation is, name your first blocker, and hand you a prompt to start fixing it today.

Answer honestly — nobody sees this but you

Three levels each: Not yet (0), Partly (1), Yes, reliably (2). Questions marked ×2 count double. "Alpha" here just means the operating edge you have over a competitor of the same size.

0overall operational alpha (0–100)

How the scores are built

Fix It Now — paste into your AI assistant

One prompt per weak dimension (under 60). Copy it into Claude, ChatGPT or whatever you use; fill in the brackets.

30-day action plan

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    A self-assessment, not an audit: scores reflect your answers and a fixed weighting (reviewed 2026-09-15), so treat them as signals to act on, not a grade. Not financial or legal advice. Privacy · nothing you type leaves your browser unless you email yourself a result.