Take a Control Discipline Snapshot

The Control Discipline Snapshot is a one-off read of your Control Index: score the ten disciplines from 1 (Failing) to 5 (Optimised) and see your aggregate score, a named status and the disciplines pulling it down. Nothing is saved — the result exists only on the page in front of you, which makes it a genuinely private baseline.

Reach for a snapshot when you want that baseline or an occasional pulse — before you commit to tracking a piece of work, or as a periodic gut-check. The real practice is a tracked project: repeated check-ins against the same work produce the trend a one-off read never can. Score once to see where you stand; track a project to see whether you're improving.

Take a snapshot

1. Open Control Discipline Snapshot in the sidebar.
2. On the free tier, press Start assessment · use 1 snapshot. The page shows how many free snapshots you have left; starting uses one. Paid plans skip this step and go straight to the form.
3. Score each discipline by pressing one of the 1–5 pills on its row. Expand a row to read the discipline's key question and all five level descriptions before you commit to a number.
4. Watch the running aggregate at the bottom of the screen — it shows your live mean and how many of the ten you've scored.
5. Press See result.

You'll land on your Control Index result for this read.

Read your result

1. Start with the named status. It's distribution-aware, not just a mean: bands run from Strong Control Across the Board down to Control Has Broken Down, and the shape matters — one discipline at Failing while the rest hold up is a Critical Failure Point, while several weak disciplines with the same mean reads as Multiple Areas Drifting.
2. Check the aggregate score out of 5 and the counts beneath it — how many disciplines sit at Failing, Critical, At Risk and Strong or better.
3. Scan the two grids — Group A · Drift Lenses and Group B · Additional Control Disciplines — for each discipline's score and level label.
4. Read Where to start: your three weakest disciplines, each with its key question. If you only have time for one move, it's there.

From the result you can press Take another snapshot or head back to the dashboard.

Link a snapshot to a project (paid plans)

On a paid plan, the result page offers to save the read as a check-in on a tracked project, so the score joins that project's trend.

1. On the result page, find the Save this read card — "Link this snapshot to a project as a check-in."
2. Choose a Project and set the Report date — the date this read reflects, today or earlier.
3. Press Continue to check-in →.
4. You land on that project's check-in form with your scores prefilled. Add narrative, confirm the mission, and submit it as a regular check-in.

Do this straight after taking the snapshot — the scores are held only briefly, and only for your few most recent snapshots. If you see "That snapshot has expired", take a new one and link it immediately.

Who can do this

Anyone with an account, on any plan. Free accounts get 5 snapshots (plus 5 for each successful referral); after that, snapshots and project tracking need a paid plan. Linking a snapshot to a project is paid-plan only. A snapshot is never stored, so no one — manager, team or account owner — can see yours.