How much capacity are you actually operating with?

The Founder Capacity Index (FCI) is a structured diagnostic that measures the underlying capacity driving your performance as a founder. It assesses six core dimensions (Output Capacity, Sustainability, Leverage, Cognitive Load, Support Systems and Life Architecture) to show where your performance is being constrained and where to focus next. It takes 12 to 15 minutes to complete.

The FCI is designed for founders across all stages, from pre-seed to scaling teams. Whether you're a solo founder or leading a company with 150+ employees, the diagnostic adapts to your operating context and surfaces the constraints most relevant to you.

It's also used by investors and operators who want a clearer view of founder performance beyond company metrics.

Yes. The FCI is completely free to use. It requires no account.

You'll receive a clear, structured view of your current capacity, including:

• An overall capacity score (0 to 100)
• A personalised founder archetype
• A radar chart across all six dimensions
• Identification of key risk signals
• Three practical levers to improve performance

The goal is not just insight, but clarity on what to change.

The FCI is not a personality assessment. It doesn't measure traits; it measures how you operate. The diagnostic focuses on structural factors like execution capacity, recovery, leverage, and cognitive load: the things that directly impact your ability to perform over time.

The FCI is designed to provide a structured and directional view of your current capacity, not a perfect or static score. Its value comes from helping you identify patterns, constraints and trade-offs that are often difficult to see clearly in day-to-day execution. For most founders, the output is less about precision and more about recognising what's actually limiting performance.

The results are designed to be practical, not theoretical. Most founders will find that one or two dimensions are creating the majority of their constraints. The goal is to focus on those areas first, improving capacity at the system level rather than simply increasing effort.

Yes, indirectly, but meaningfully. Company metrics are an output. Founder capacity is one of the core drivers behind them. By improving how you operate, across execution, recovery, leverage, and decision-making, you increase the likelihood of sustained, high-quality performance over time.

No individual founder responses are shared without consent. Where the FCI is delivered through a partner such as a VC fund, we may provide anonymised, aggregated insights at a portfolio level. This helps partners identify broader patterns, common constraints and areas where additional founder support may be valuable. Individual results remain private unless you choose otherwise.

Investors have clear visibility into company performance, but far less into the capacity driving it. The FCI provides a structured way to understand founder performance across execution, sustainability, leverage and decision-making. At a portfolio level, this helps surface patterns, identify potential risks earlier, and improve how founders are supported. Individual results remain private and are not shared without consent.

No preparation is required. The FCI is designed to capture your current operating reality, not an idealised version of it. The most useful results come from answering honestly and based on how you've been operating over the past few weeks.

Yes. In fact, retaking the FCI periodically can help you track changes in your capacity over time and see whether the adjustments you've made are working.

The FCI is designed to give you clarity on where to focus next. For founders who want to go deeper, this can extend into more structured support, including systems, accountability, and performance optimisation. But the diagnostic itself is valuable as a standalone tool.