Four minutes. Nine roles. Nothing to download.

How many roles does your business still need you in?

My sister called me Ambitiously Lazy when I was eight. Lean Six Sigma taught me it was a profession. The whole method is one question asked nine times: does this need me, or does it just need doing? Answer it below and you leave with your Score, what the roles you still hold cost you a month, and the one to hand off this week - with the steps, not a pitch.

Your first move, complete, on the results page The number in dollars, not adjectives Nothing to buy to get the answer

For each role: who does it today, how many hours a week it takes from you, and whether it needs your judgment

1Inbox and replies

Reading, sorting and answering the email and messages that come at the business.

2Books, bills and bank

Entering, categorising, paying, reconciling, chasing receipts.

3Calendar and scheduling

The back-and-forth to get a meeting, a showing, a call on the calendar.

4Contracts and paperwork

Reading what you sign, filling forms, getting signatures, filing.

5Follow-up with leads and clients

The second, third and fourth touch that turns a maybe into a yes.

6Hiring, onboarding and training

Finding people, explaining the job, explaining it again.

7Coordination and the chasing

Transactions, orders, projects - who has what, what is late, who needs a nudge.

8Marketing and posting

Content, social posts, the newsletter, the website words.

9Reporting and the numbers

Pulling the figures together so you know how the business did.

One more: what is an hour of you worth?

Not what you pay yourself. What an hour of you produces when it is pointed at the work only you can do - a sale, a deal, a hire, a decision. Pick the closest.

Where should the Score and your first move go?

You get the results page now and a copy by email so you can send it to whoever runs the roles with you. No sequence of eleven emails. If I write, it is because you asked me to.