Shina Salako

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The 12-Minute Founder Diagnostic

Twelve questions. Five operating systems. One clear answer about where your business is silently leaking.

Most founders patch the wrong system. This is the tool that tells you which one is actually broken — before you spend another quarter trying to fix the one that is not.

  • Takes 12 minutes — designed for the way founders actually think.
  • Personalised written diagnosis, in your inbox immediately.
  • Includes a free 90-day plan template for your weakest system.

Start the diagnostic

No login. No credit card. No email required to start.

Your results appear instantly on screen — you can then choose to receive the deeper written diagnosis by email.

  • 15 questions, 12 minutes
  • All 5 Operating Systems scored on a 12-point scale
  • Ranked result: weakest to strongest
  • Written diagnosis for your weakest system
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Works on phone, tablet, or laptop. Use arrow keys to navigate, A/B/C/D to choose.

"You will be wrong about which one. Almost everyone is."

The operating system you suspect is leaking is rarely the one that actually is. It is the one making the most noise. The diagnostic finds the silent one.

What the diagnostic reveals

Five operating systems, scored.

Each section asks you the questions most founders never sit down to answer honestly. By the end, you will have a ranked picture of your business that you have never seen before.

1

The Builder

You

Energy. Decision-making. Blind spots. Capacity. How much of the business is held together by you being present every day.

2

The Map

Clarity

Who exactly do you serve. What exactly do you sell. Why exactly should they pay you instead of the alternatives.

3

The Engine

Revenue

How attention becomes trust. How trust becomes money. Where the conveyor belt has gaps you have not seen.

4

The Skeleton

Structure

Decisions. Processes. Roles. Documents. What would happen if you took two weeks off tomorrow.

5

The Loop

Learning

Whether year ten of your business looks like year three repeated, or like compounding intelligence.

What you get

In your inbox, within 60 seconds.

1

Your ranked result

All five operating systems, scored from strongest to weakest. The weakest one is the leak.

2

Written diagnosis

A paragraph for each system — what your answers suggest is happening, in plain language. No jargon.

3

90-day plan template

A blank one-page plan template, tailored to your weakest system. The next three moves, with space for you to write.

4

Five-day email follow-up

One short email per day for five days — each one walking you through the deeper questions for one of the systems.

Why this works

Eighteen years of pattern recognition, in twelve minutes.

I built the diagnostic after spending two decades watching the same conversation happen, in different rooms, with different founders:

"I think we just need more leads."

No, you do not. You need to know which of the five systems in your business is actually leaking. Eight times out of ten, "more leads" is the wrong diagnosis — and chasing it costs you the next six months.

The diagnostic is the first conversation I now have with every coaching client. It is the conversation you can have with yourself, in your own time, for free.

Trust the source

Built by a founder who has run real businesses.

  • Started first business in 2009 with ₦30,000 — SMS gateway in Lagos.
  • Built fleet-management business from 2011, working with banks and logistics companies across Nigeria.
  • Postgraduate studies in Business Management — Liverpool, 2014.
  • Lagos Business School, 2019.
  • Joined the Maxwell Leadership team, 2022.
  • Author of The Entrepreneur Operating System — out August 2026.

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Twelve minutes can save you twelve months.

No credit card. No spam. Just a clear picture of what is actually leaking in your business.

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