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Free · 90 minutes · One-to-one

Your business, scored honestly, in ninety minutes.

Six areas of your business, scored out loud with you. Not a sales pitch with a form attached: a diagnosis, including the parts we cannot help with.

Example scorecard · try it
0 / 60
Strategy & Mindset
0/10
Sales & Marketing
0/10
Customer Experience
0/10
Operations & Admin
0/10
People & HR
0/10
Finance & Numbers
0/10

A made-up, very ordinary example. The interesting part is not the 31. It is that the two lowest are Strategy and Sales, and that fixing Sales first would be the wrong order.

20
minutes of pre-work, on your own
90
minutes together, one-to-one
6
areas scored out of ten
3
constraints named, in order
$0
plus a follow-up call two weeks later
What it is

A diagnosis, before anybody talks about coaching

You already know something is not right. What is harder is naming which thing to fix first, and in what order, because sequence matters more than effort.

You do about twenty minutes of pre-work. Then we sit down for ninety minutes and score six areas of your business together, out loud, with the reasons for every score. No questionnaire emailed back a week later.

If an area scores low because of something outside what we do, you will hear that, along with who can help. You keep the one-page summary either way. Take it to your accountant.

A health check that always concludes you need my coaching is not a health check.
Anit PatelAnit PatelFounder, Ascentix Coaching
The six areas

Every small business has the same six areas

Nobody is good at all six, and nobody needs to be. Each is scored out of ten, against questions like these.

Scored out of 10

Strategy & Mindset

Where the business is going, and how the big decisions actually get made.

  • Can you say in one sentence what you do, and who for?
  • Is there a written goal for the next twelve months with a number attached?
  • When did you last spend time on the business rather than in it?
How it runs

Twenty minutes of prep, ninety together, then a follow-up

Book a time
  1. Before · 20 min
    01

    Eight questions, on your own

    What the business does and who for, roughly what you turn over, how many people, how many hours you work, the task you would stop tomorrow, and what made you book.

  2. The session · 90 min
    02

    We score the six areas together

    About fifteen minutes each, scored out loud with the reasons why. Bring last quarter’s numbers if you are comfortable. No copies are kept.

  3. At the end
    03

    Three constraints, in order

    Not always lowest score first. You do not fix marketing in a business that cannot deliver, or delivery in a business with no cash.

  4. Two weeks later
    04

    A thirty-minute follow-up call

    Did anything change? What got stuck? No obligation attached, and no email sequence chasing you afterwards.

  5. Ninety days
    05

    Re-score, if you want to

    Six lines side by side with the first set. The only honest measure of whether anything is working.

Reading the score

Your business, out of sixty

The total matters far less than which two areas are lowest, and whether they move in ninety days. A 34 out of 60 is not a failing business. It is a normal one with two things worth fixing.

34A normal business
SolidHeld by youStrainGet help0
45–60

Solid

The business works. What is usually missing is the owner getting out of it. Look hard at Operations and Strategy.

30–44

Working, but held together by you

Where most Australian small businesses sit. One or two areas drag the rest down, and fixing them in sequence is very doable.

18–29

Under real strain

Do not try to fix everything. One area, ninety days, then re-score.

< 18

Stop and get the right help

If cash is the problem, that is an accountant or a restructuring adviser before it is a coach. You will hear that plainly.

Before we start

Honest about what we are not

Some of what you need is free, and it is not ours. Where the answer is an existing free or low-cost service, that is what goes in your summary.

  • Not professional advice. Coaching is educational and motivational support, not accounting, tax, legal or financial advice. No guaranteed outcomes.
  • Confidential in both directions. Nothing from this conversation goes into a Growth Circle room unless you put it there.

Employment, awards and super

Fair Work Ombudsman, or an employment lawyer.

Tax, structure and GST

Your accountant. If you do not have one, that is the first thing to fix.

Serious cash trouble

A registered insolvency or restructuring adviser, early rather than late. The Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman (ASBFEO) runs a free hub.

Digital and online setup

Digital Solutions through Realise Business: low-cost one-on-one advice for businesses under twenty staff.

If you are struggling personally

NewAccess for Small Business Owners, through Beyond Blue. Free, by phone or video, no GP referral needed.

Three steps, one scorecard

Where the Health Check fits

The six areas scored in the webinar workbook are the same six scored here, and the same six re-scored every quarter once coaching starts.

  1. 1 Free

    Free AI webinar

    Ninety minutes, live on Zoom. See where AI saves an Australian small business time, and score your six areas in the workbook.

    Register
  2. 2 Free

    Free Business Health Check

    Ninety minutes, one-to-one. The same six areas scored properly, and the three things holding the business back, in order.

    You are here
  3. 3 Paid

    Coaching, if you want it

    One-to-one or the Growth Circle. The same six areas, re-scored every quarter, so you can see whether it is working.

    See the options
Common questions

Before you book

Something else on your mind? Email Anit directly.

Yes. Ninety minutes, plus a thirty-minute follow-up two weeks later, and you keep the written summary. No card, no trial, no sequence chasing you afterwards. It is free because it is also how we work out whether coaching can help you, and often the honest answer is that someone else can help you better.

The eight pre-work answers, and last quarter’s numbers if you are comfortable. You do not have to bring the numbers, and no copies are kept of anything you show.

Both. In person in Sydney, or online by video call from anywhere. It works about equally well either way.

No. The session ends with the three constraints and any referrals. If coaching looks like the right answer, it comes up on the follow-up call, and if it does not, you will hear that instead.

If you have no revenue yet there is not much to diagnose, and we will tell you that rather than take your time. From roughly your first employee upwards, it works.

The discovery call is a thirty-minute conversation to see whether we can help at all. The Health Check is the full ninety-minute diagnosis. If you already know you want your business scored, book the Health Check directly.

Coaching is educational and motivational support. It is not accounting, tax, legal or financial advice, and it is no substitute for your accountant, bookkeeper or lawyer. No outcome is guaranteed.

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