Business Hygiene Checker
8 quick questions on your business hygiene basics. The things that should already be done.
Tick the ones that are true today — not aspirational. Your name is optional; it just makes the result feel personal.
The basics that should already be done
Business hygiene is the set of unglamorous fundamentals that quietly determine how much risk you're carrying: signed client agreements, clean and current books, documented core processes, the right insurances, a separated business structure, and basic financial controls. None of it grows revenue directly — but the absence of any of it can end the business in a single bad event.
Why it matters
Most owners running active projects without signed agreements, or operating on books months out of date, don't feel the risk until it bites — a non-paying client, an audit, a dispute, a key-person event. Hygiene gaps are invisible right up until they're catastrophic, which is exactly why they get deferred.
How to use the result
Treat any failed item as a Foundation-layer fix and close it before investing in growth. In the Business Evolution Framework, Foundation comes first for this reason: scaling marketing or hiring on top of broken fundamentals just accelerates the problem. Good hygiene is also what makes a business saleable — buyers pay for clean foundations.
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