A gift for someone who owns a business

For the owner who never takes a holiday.

Imagine them starting next year knowing what would have to change for the place to run without them, and in what order.

USD $200

Buy it as a gift

Pay by card or crypto (BTC or XMR). The voucher comes to you to hand over, or goes straight to them, saying it's from you.

What follows them on holiday

You can usually tell how much of a business still runs through its owner by what follows them on holiday: the calls, the approvals, the numbers nobody else can produce.

If you're close to one, you know the rest. The phone stays face up at dinner, and the proper break is always booked for after the next busy patch.

Their full report is built from their own answers to 31 questions about how the business runs, read the way somebody standing in for them would. It's about the business, not about them: what would hold for a month without them, what would stop first, and the order to fix it in.

What they'll know when they've read it

How far they could step out today, as a score out of 100, and behind it:

  • Where the business would hold without them, and where it would stop
  • The three answers to deal with first
  • A six-month plan, each action in order, and what done looks like
  • Read by a person before it reaches them, within 72 hours of finishing

It's not a valuation, and it's not financial, accounting, or legal advice.

Full report. What to do about your business. We bake bread and cakes for our own shops and for cafes and delis. Bakery, United Kingdom. GBP 3,100,000 of revenue in the year to March 2026, 52 people, trading since 1998. How far you could step out today: 33.5 out of 100. A job with staff.
A sample front page, for a made-up business.

How the gift works

  1. You buy it here and choose how it reaches them: to you, to hand over yourself, or straight to them by email, saying it's from you.

  2. They take the assessment whenever they're ready. Allow 45 minutes to an hour, most of it looking things up. Their answers save as they go.

  3. Their full report comes to them by email within 72 hours of finishing.

The voucher works once, for three years from the day you buy it.

To give it on the day, have it sent to you. It arrives by email as soon as you've paid, with the code and a short link to write in a card.

If you're stuck for what to write:“Here's a gift. Figure out what it would take to take a holiday.”

Before you give it

What if they take it as a hint?
It is one: that you'd like them to have the time. Everything in the report comes from their own answers, and it ends with a plan.
Will I see their answers or their report?
No. Their report goes to them, and nothing about their answers or their score comes to you.
What if they're thinking about selling, or raising money?
They choose the way in when they start: selling, raising money, or stepping out. Their report then reads the business the way a buyer, an investor, or someone standing in for them would.
What if they don't get round to it?
If it went straight to them, they get one reminder after 30 days, and only one. The voucher works for three years.

Start next year knowing where they stand

A morning in January, their report is open on the table: how far they could step out today, the three answers to deal with first, and the next six months, each action in order.

USD $200

Buy it as a gift

Pay by card or crypto (BTC or XMR). Next, you choose whether the voucher comes to you or goes straight to them.

Gift vouchers are covered by our terms.

Or see what the self-assessment asks