Interactive Business Tools
SBC interactive business tools measure the commercial health of your business across a range of use cases.
Each tool delivers clear feedback on your operational strengths, financial controls, and performance bottlenecks, providing clear guidance on which areas of your business to focus on for growth and success.
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The Diagnostic Tools
SBC Startup Business Assessment
The SBC Startup Business Assessment is a diagnostic tool that evaluates your foundational readiness across six critical pillars: business proposition, founder capability, market demand, financial viability, execution, and growth.
In less than 10 minutes, this assessment pressure-tests your concept and delivers a clear baseline of where your idea stands, showing you exactly what needs fixing before you risk capital.
What you get
- Stress-Test Your Proposition: Confirm your idea solves a painful problem that people will actually pay to fix.
- Audit Founder Capability: Expose your leadership blind spots so you know exactly which skills to learn or who you need to hire.
- Map Market & Customers: Ensure there is appetite for your offer and you know how to reach them.
- Verify Financial Viability: Validate your pricing model and unit economics make sense in the real world.
- Feedback: Get practical advice on how to address areas of vulnerability.
Who is this for?
- Aspiring founders: You have a concept and need objective validation before quitting your day job.
- Early-stage entrepreneurs: You have launched, but are still figuring things out.
- Pre-seed Startups: You are preparing to pitch investors and need to ensure your foundations hold up to scrutiny.
SBC Business Improvement & ROI Diagnostic
The SBC Business Improvement & ROI Diagnostic evaluates your company’s commercial health across seven core operational pillars: financial performance, operational efficiency, team structure, strategic focus, management information, investment ROI, and change readiness.
In 34 questions, this tool pinpoints where you are losing money, where work gets stuck, and what to fix first to protect your profits.
What you get
- Financial Control & Costs: Spot hidden waste that’s keeping you from keeping more of the money your business earns.
- Smooth Operations: Identify daily bottlenecks as you work towards more efficient delivery with fewer headaches.
- People & Organisation: Uncover role confusion and skill gaps that prevent your team from taking full ownership.
- Strategy & Focus: Gauge low-value distractions that drag time and energy away from your most profitable priorities.
- Reliable Data: Expose reporting blind spots so you can see whether key decisions rely on solid numbers or guesswork.
- Smart Investments: Identify underperforming projects and spending that fail to deliver a clear return.
- Capacity for Growth: Assess whether your current operational setup can handle extra client demand without breaking.
- Practical Diagnostic Feedback: Get straightforward, plain-English insights into your biggest commercial vulnerabilities.
Who is this for?
- Business Owners: You’re bringing in sales, but profits are tighter than they should be.
- Growing Company Leaders: Your sales are growing, but daily operations are struggling to keep up.
- Managing Directors: You want an honest look at what is working, what isn’t, and where to focus next.
SBC Growth & Performance Diagnostic
The SBC Growth & Performance Diagnostic checks whether your business can safely handle extra workload across eight practical areas: long-term goals, sales, market standing, leadership time, team capacity, daily operations, cash flow, and readiness for change.
In under 10 minutes, this tool pinpoints where extra demand could cause service quality to drop, staff to burn out, or cash flow to run tight.
What you get
- Strategy & Ambition: Spot where your daily routines conflict with your bigger plans for growth.
- Commercial Performance: Pinpoint hidden leaks in your sales steps, customer retention, and recurring income.
- Market & Competitive Position: Check how well your business stands out against main rivals when competing for new clients.
- Leadership & Management: Measure whether your managers have the time to lead a bigger business without getting bogged down in day-to-day issues.
- People & Organisation: Highlight team workload limits and skill gaps that could cause burnout during busy hiring phases.
- Operations & Scalability: Expose hidden work delays that threaten customer service quality when order numbers double.
- Financial Strength: Check if your cash buffer is strong enough to account for new equipment, stock, and recruitment.
- Execution & Change: Gauge whether your team can roll out new tools and ways of working without dropping the ball on daily jobs.
- Practical Diagnostic Feedback: Get simple, direct guidance highlighting where your setup is solid and what needs attention first.
Who is this for?
- Business Owners Planning to Expand: You want to take on more sales, but you need to check if your day-to-day operations can handle the extra work.
- Growing Company Directors: Your team is already working hard, and you want to spot hidden bottlenecks before adding more demand.
- Leadership Teams: You are preparing to invest in new hires, gear, or marketing and want an honest check on your foundation before spending money.