Work with growing companies long enough and you notice something uncomfortable: the problems look unique from the outside, but rarely are. The same patterns show up again and again — in the machine-shop just as in the software company. They only carry different names.
We collected and named these patterns: 42 blockages, each a concrete behavior that slows growth. Not as a diagnostic catalog for consultants, but as a mirror for teams. Because the real problem is rarely that a blockage exists — it's that no one names it out loud.
Why fast beats thorough
The classic answer to "where is it stuck?" is a project: interviews, workshops, a report after three months. By then the situation has shifted — and the energy is gone. An honest self-assessment in fifteen minutes isn't less accurate, it's just honest faster. It won't give you a perfect truth, but it gives you the right starting point.
That's exactly what the quick test is for: you go through a selection of the 42 blockages and get back the five that are slowing you down most right now. No account, no sales call — just a clear finding you can take into the team.
The value isn't in the result alone, but in the conversation it triggers. The moment three people in leadership mark the same blockage, it's no longer a gut feeling — it's a shared topic. And shared topics can be solved.