Find where the business is losing control — and decide what to fix

You run the business, so you feel drift as money: missed deadlines, rework, client surprises, and too much depending on you personally. What you need first is two answers — where the business is losing control, and whether each repeated pain deserves a clearer process, a standing mechanism, or software.

The quickest value is the two free diagnostics. Both take a few minutes, neither needs payment, and each ends with a scored report you can act on and share.

Take a Drift Report

The Drift Report is a wide-angle read on your whole operating standard — not one project, the way the business runs.

1. From your dashboard, find the Diagnostics section and press Start under Take a Drift Report. (Logged out, use Get a free report in the top navigation.)
2. Answer the 24 questions — four for each of six themes, from drift visibility through to system learning.
3. Enter your details to unlock the full report.

You'll see your score out of 100 with a maturity band from Reactive up to Trusted / Systemised, a six-axis chart showing where the drift is hiding, and a practical next step. The full report is emailed to you, and the result page includes a drift-tax calculator that puts an annual cost on what you've just scored.

Score a recurring pain with Should you automate this?

Not every pain should become software. This diagnostic scores one recurring task and tells you honestly which fix fits.

1. From the Diagnostics section, press Start under Should you automate this? — or Score a task — free on its page.
2. Describe the recurring pain in a sentence. Every question after that is scored against it.
3. Score the pain across frequency, cost, detection, process shape, and what you've already tried.

The result lands in one of four bands — from Not Worth Automating Yet through Systemise Before Automating to Strong Portal / Software Candidate — with the reasoning shown. Run it once per pain; each result is stored separately.

Find the patterns with the Friction Log

Diagnostics are point-in-time; the Friction Log is the running record. Open Friction Log in the sidebar and press Log a friction whenever something snags. When your review comes due, press Start review to run a Systemise Review — the same recurrence-consequence-detectability judgement, applied to every pain you've logged. Over a few weeks this shows you which pains actually recur rather than which ones you remember.

Run the loop on your own work

Before rolling anything out, run the standard on one piece of work you personally carry. Your dashboard checklist — Your first control points — walks you through it:

1. Take a Control Discipline Snapshot — score the ten disciplines once as a private baseline.
2. Create your first project — mission, pillars, and a score over time. See projects.
3. Submit your first weekly check-in — the second check-in is where the trend appears.

You'll know the loop is working when a check-in tells you something a status meeting wouldn't have.

Bring the team in

Once the loop has earned its keep on your own work, scale it: invite managers and team members, give each project an owner, and read drift from Team progress instead of chasing it in person. Team features sit on team plans — see plans and access — and the rollout itself is covered in getting started as a manager.

Who can do this

Both diagnostics are public and free — no account needed to start. The snapshot, projects, check-ins and Friction Log are available to everyone on every plan, free tier included. Inviting members and the Team progress view need a team plan and are limited to the account owner and users with team permissions.