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Twelve free tools

Useful before you ever email me.

Diagnostics, scores, archetypes and calculators — built the way good board papers are written: honest logic, assumptions shown, no email gates. Each is genuinely useful on its own; together they're a funnel that respects your intelligence.

A compass — direction before motion
Free · No email gates
For founders & boards

Start with yourself — then the board.

For capital

Then the numbers and the dates.

Specialist lenses — and the NED career

The particular questions.

How they connect

A funnel that's useful at every step.

Diagnose the pattern

The Bottleneck Test, AI Posture Quiz and Board Maturity Score take ninety seconds each — a label, a number, your sharpest gaps. Built to be shared; honest enough to be worth sharing.

Examine the machinery

The Governance Health Check, Investment Readiness Scorecard, Scale-Readiness Diagnostic and Family Succession Readiness go pillar by pillar — the frames professionals use, scored from your honest answers.

Put dates and pounds on it

The Governance Debt Calculator and Fee Estimator turn structure into money; the Raise Timeline Planner turns ambition into a start-by week. Every assumption on the page.

Get the recommendation

The flagship Board Advisory Diagnostic scores all seven MAXFR engagements against your situation and writes you a short advisory paper — recommendation, rationale, first ninety days.

Numbers first. Then a conversation.

Every tool ends with one click that sends your results — and your context — straight to my inbox. That's the whole funnel: useful, honest, then human.