Rate fourteen statements honestly. The diagnostic scores your structural foundations and your cross-functional alignment in real time, and tells you exactly where the friction is coming from.
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How it works
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Rate each statement
Four options from Not at all to Fully. No right or wrong, just honest.
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Watch your scores update live
Combined alignment score, structural bars, and silo risk update with every answer.
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Read your interpretation
On completion you receive a personalised reading of what your scores mean, in plain language.
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Book a diagnostic call
Take your results into a structured conversation with blacalp. No obligation.
Part 1 of 2
Structural Foundations
How well-built are the foundations your growth is standing on? Rate each statement across the four core pillars of alignment.
Market
Business
Culture
People
Market
Customer & GTM ClarityiHow clearly you understand, and consistently reach, your ideal customer.
01 / 14ICP Definition
Our ideal customer profile is clearly defined: validated by real buyer conversations, not assumptions about who we think our customer is.
02 / 14GTM Motion
We have a defined, repeatable go-to-market motion, not just activity, but a system that consistently generates qualified pipeline.
Business
Model & Revenue SystemiWhether pricing and revenue generation are proven and repeatable, not ad hoc.
03 / 14Pricing Validation
Our pricing model has been tested and validated in market: customers have said yes to our price, not just to the concept.
04 / 14Revenue System
Revenue generation is a structured, repeatable system, not dependent on founder effort, relationships, or one-off deals.
Culture
Decision Rules & DirectioniWhether the team decides from shared principles, not instinct or hierarchy.
05 / 14Shared Decision Rules
Our team makes decisions based on agreed principles and strategic direction, not just founder instinct or whoever speaks loudest.
06 / 14Strategic Clarity
Everyone in the company understands not just the vision, but the specific direction we're moving in, and why we've prioritised it over alternatives.
People
Roles & Team AlignmentiWhether ownership is clear and the team pulls toward one validated direction.
07 / 14Role Clarity
Roles and ownership are clearly defined: people know what they're accountable for and decisions don't bottleneck at the top.
08 / 14Team Alignment
Our team is aligned to a validated strategic direction, not just a founder's vision. When hard tradeoffs arrive, we make them consistently.
Part 2 of 2
Cross-Functional Alignment
Beyond foundations: how well are your functions actually working together? This is where execution either amplifies or undermines your strategy.
Strategy → Execution
Market → Product
Leadership → Teams
Strategy → Execution
Does strategy reach the ground?iWhether strategic priorities actually shape what teams do day to day.
09 / 14Direction Translation
Our strategic priorities are clearly communicated across all functions: Sales, Marketing, Product, and Tech are working from the same direction, not their own interpretation of it.
10 / 14Execution Coherence
When we look at what Sales is selling, what Marketing is messaging, and what Product is building, they are coherent expressions of the same strategy.
Market → Product
Does market signal reach Product and Tech?iWhether customer and market signal flows back into product and roadmap decisions.
11 / 14Feedback Loop
What Sales and Marketing hear from buyers (objections, gaps, unmet needs) is systematically fed back into Product and Tech roadmap decisions.
12 / 14Shared Market Understanding
Product and Tech have direct exposure to customer conversations: they understand the market problem, not just the feature request.
Leadership → Teams
Is management creating clarity or noise?iWhether leadership communication creates clarity, or conflicting signals across teams.
13 / 14Communication Consistency
Leadership communicates direction, priorities, and decisions consistently: teams don't receive conflicting signals depending on who they report to.
14 / 14Cross-Function Coordination
When priorities conflict between functions (a Sales request vs a Product roadmap decision), there is a clear, trusted process for resolution.