Tools
Free assessments for scale-up founders.
Interactive assessments built around the questions TGC asks in the workshop. Eight minutes, scored result, optional personalised follow-up.
Available assessments
Most assessment tools for founders are gated downloads that ask twenty surface-level questions and deliver a generic PDF whose only real purpose is to harvest your email. The tools below are different in two specific ways. First, each one is built around the same questions TGC asks when we prepare a workshop - not a marketing approximation of them. Second, the scored output is shown to you immediately, on-screen, without an email gate. You can use the result, share it with your co-founders, and walk away.
We publish these because the public understanding of scale-up readiness is still under-developed, and because the founders we work best with tend to be the kind who’d rather assess themselves first than hand the question to an advisor. Each tool is free, takes between five and ten minutes, and is built to be useful whether or not you ever speak to us.
How the methodology works
The Scaleup Readiness Assessment evaluates a software scale-up across five dimensions we’ve found to be the strongest predictors of whether a company can execute a step-change in scale: revenue quality (revenue composition, NRR, gross margin), commercial engine maturity (pipeline coverage, sales cycle hygiene, CAC payback), product-engineering capacity (deployment cadence, technical debt posture, platform fitness), governance readiness (board composition, reporting infrastructure, decision rights), and founder leverage (the operating system that lets a founder scale themselves, not just the company).
The framework draws on what we’ve seen across the portfolio and from working alongside European, North American and Indian software companies over the past several years. It is opinionated and category-specific - it’s designed for post-revenue scale-up founders who are deciding what they need beyond capital, when to professionalise their commercial motion, and how to sequence the next two operating stages. It is not designed for pre-revenue founders, consumer companies, or businesses that operate fundamentally outside software.
Each dimension is scored independently and rolled up into a tier output: foundation phase, scale-ready, or scale-active.
What happens with your data
The assessment is anonymous by default - you can complete the full assessment, see your score, and leave without submitting any contact information.
If you choose to opt in to receive a more detailed personalised report by email at the end, your details go to TGC’s investment team and are handled in line with the privacy policy.
We don’t resell, share, or distribute the data; we don’t add you to a marketing list; and we won’t cold-call you.
The follow-up, if any, comes from a named partner.
Coming next
The tools roadmap is sequenced around the next three questions founders actually ask us about most often:
- Capital-efficiency calculatorbenchmark your burn multiple, magic number and CAC payback against the percentile distribution of European and US software companies at your revenue band
- Dilution calculatormodel the cap-table impact of funding rounds at different amounts and valuations
- Benchmark comparison toolcompare your operating metrics against the cohort of companies at your stage, sector and geography
If there’s a specific assessment you’d find useful, let us know - we publish the tools founders ask for.
Next step: a two-hour workshop.
Book the intro call and we fix the workshop date on it.