Are you ready to open in 90 days?

10 questions, about three minutes, for anyone planning to open a local service business. Your score, a realistic opening window and the first gap to close show the moment you finish. No email needed.

The work · Question 1 of 10

Do you know which service business you want to open?

How the score works

10 answers. One honest date.

Each answer earns up to four points, and some questions count more than others. The total is scored out of 100, and a zero on runway, hours or first customers caps your result at the 40-to-59 band, Groundwork first, whatever the total says.

01You

The work and the hours

Whether you know the trade, how many hours a week you can give it, and when you actually want to open.

02The money

Runway and opening cash

How long you can cover your own bills, what you have set aside to open, and whether you know what your trade charges.

03The ground

Customers, rules, backing

Who pays you first, what licensing and insurance you need, your tools, and the people you share a home or money with.

The score tells you whether you are ready to start and what to fix first. It cannot tell you whether a trade will work in your town.

Steps, not shortcuts

Find the customer. Then buy the gear.

Many new owners buy equipment before they find a customer, then learn in month four that their prices never covered their costs.

The steps run the other way: what the business has to pay you, what you can put in, who pays you first, and only then what you buy. The assessment checks which of those you already have.

Where your result can send you

Two plans. Your answers pick the first.

Most results point to seven free days inside The Anti-Franchise, an online community on Skool for people opening a local service business in 90 days. One short lesson a day, and by day seven you have a trade, what the business has to pay you each month, and an opening date, or an honest reason to wait.

If you score 60 or more, already know your trade and can give it 10 hours a week or more, your result points to Premium first: the documents that finish each of the 12 steps and a live call with Craig every Friday.

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