Companion tools
Reading The Control Standard?
This is the page that turns the book into something you can use on a Tuesday morning. Pick whichever tool fits the work in front of you.
Free · no account needed
Two five-minute reports to try the standard.
Run either one without signing up. You'll get a graded report by email and a recommended next step.
Diagnostic · 5 min
Drift Report
Score what you're working on right now against the ten control disciplines from the book. Get a graded report and a recommended next step.
Start the reportDiagnostic · 5 min
Should you automate this?
Take a recurring task — chasing, rework, manual handoffs — and check whether it's worth systemising, automating, or leaving alone for now.
Score a taskBoth are free. No account needed to start — create one only when you want to keep your scores or move into the portal tools below.
Free download · printable PDF
The Pocket Standard
A printable, on-brand summary of the Control Toolkit from The Control Standard — the missions, the pillars, the seven places drift hides, the escalation ladder, and the sweep of questions to ask of any piece of work you actually care about. Stick it on a wall. Take it into a one-to-one. Hand it to a direct report.
What's inside
- · The dual mission (client + delivery)
- · The three-to-five pillars
- · The seven places drift hides
- · The escalation ladder + clean-note shape
- · Cadence as a control mechanism
- · The Tuesday morning sweep
Pop in your details (or register an account) and we'll email the PDF straight to you.
Learn the standard, don't just read it.
Short, interactive courses — one per chapter of The Control Standard. Retrieval practice, worked examples, and a bridge straight back to the matching chapter assessment. Built to teach the standard on its own, even if you've never read the book.
- Retrieve, don't re-read — questions, decisions, and worked examples instead of passive video.
- Bridges to the work — each course ends with the chapter assessment and a cue back into the portal.
- ~10–20 min per sub-module — short enough to do between meetings.
Free with an account
The Image Library
Every figure from The Control Standard — plus a handful of bonus figures — in one browsable library, each with a short, self-contained lesson. A single diagram is often enough to make the point in a deck, a wiki, or a one-to-one.
What you can do
- · Browse every figure from the book in one place
- · Filter by chapter and search the lessons
- · Open any figure full-size with its lesson
- · Download a clean image in a click
Score and track specific projects.
The reports above are a wide-angle read on your work overall. The tools below score a single project against the ten disciplines — project-by-project, with a free tier and paid tracking.
Control Index Snapshot
How is this project tracking?
Score one project against the ten disciplines, see your named status, walk away with a clearer read. Project-by-project, not a broad take.
- 5 free snapshots with a free account
- One-off read — each snapshot starts from scratch
- Named status on each discipline
Project Tracker
How is the project trending?
Same Control Index, but persisted. Score a project, re-score in six weeks, watch the trend. Add a team to run the standard together.
- Unlimited tracked projects & check-ins
- Trend chart per discipline; printable project report
- Team workspace & manager view (Team plan)
Certified Assessment
Prove you know the standard.
A chapter-by-chapter assessment against The Control Standard. Pass every chapter and earn a shareable certificate.
- Question bank covering the ten disciplines
- Shareable certificate on pass
- Track progress chapter by chapter
Two ways to use the book
For yourself, or for the team you lead.
Run the standard against your own work, or set up a workspace and bring your team into a shared operating language.