The GLI Strategy Readiness Index
Your business is growing. But is it built to scale?
Most founders are solving the wrong problems. STRATOSCAN shows you exactly what is holding your growth back — with precision, in about 15 minutes, completely free. Powered by the Business Model Engine.
The real issue
You already know something is off — or you're about to bet on an idea.
Most operators we talk to say the same thing. The business is moving. Revenue is coming in. The team is busy. But growth feels harder than it should. Decisions feel heavier. Results don't match the effort being poured in.
And the most frustrating part? You can't quite name what the problem is.
Is it the strategy? The team? The market? The execution? You're not sure — so you keep pushing harder, hoping something shifts. It rarely does. Not without clarity.
If you're at idea stage, the danger is the mirror image: the deck sounds good, the market feels real, and momentum is building — but the model has never been stress-tested. Structural gaps are cheapest to fix before you build on top of them.
The problem is almost never where founders are looking. It lives in the structural foundations of the business — the parts no one audits until growth stalls, or until the first customers reveal what the pitch was hiding. That is exactly what STRATOSCAN was built to expose, whether you're scaling or still validating.
What it is
STRATOSCAN is not a quiz. It is a strategic audit.
Most "business assessments" online are built to tell you what you already know. STRATOSCAN is different. It is a structured diagnostic built on the Business Model Engine — the same framework GLI Consults has used to advise founders across Africa — distilled into a focused set of questions across the eight zones that determine whether a business scales or stalls.
What comes back is not a generic score with vague advice. What comes back is your business, examined clearly — with a personalised dashboard that shows you where you are strong, where you are exposed, and what to address first.
- Precision-calibrated questions
- 8 zones of the Business Model Engine
- Personalised executive dashboard
- Actionable strategic insights
The engine
Eight zones. One causal chain.
The Business Model Engine treats a business as a system. Each zone feeds the next. STRATOSCAN scores all eight, weighted by impact, and surfaces the one that's holding the rest back.
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Founder Engine
The people behind the model and their fit for the problem.
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Context
The environment the business inhabits and the window it enters through.
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Positioning
The gap you own in the customer's mind.
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Value Exchange
What transfers between business and customer — and why it's worth repeating.
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Trust Infrastructure
The moat that makes customers impossible to poach.
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Value Capture
How the business extracts and sustains economics.
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Growth Engine
The self-sustaining mechanism that acquires and expands.
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Operational Core
The internal infrastructure that makes the model repeatable.
How it works
Choose your path
Designing a new venture or diagnosing one already running.
Work the eight zones
Answer focused questions across all eight zones with live AI assist as your canvas assembles.
Get your report
Around 15 minutes end-to-end. Score, canvas, named bottleneck and recommendations — yours to keep.
Work it offline
Download the blank BME Canvas.
Prefer to think on paper first? Grab the blank canvas, fill it out with your team, then run STRATOSCAN to score it and get your bottleneck named.
Download blank canvas (JPEG)
Everything you get. At no cost.
A structural audit at this depth normally costs thousands with a consultant. STRATOSCAN delivers the same strategic clarity — free.
Your overall BME Score
A single, honest number that tells you how structurally ready your business is to scale.
Full zone-by-zone breakdown
See exactly how you score across all 8 zones of the Business Model Engine.
Identified strengths
Know what is actually working — the foundations you can build on and leverage.
Critical constraints report
The specific structural gaps quietly limiting growth right now. Named. Ranked by impact.
Your clear next step
Not five generic recommendations. One clear, prioritised action based on your actual results.
Executive-grade report
Delivered as a clean report you can share with your leadership team, board or investors.
STRATOSCAN was built for two types of people.
Whether you're running a business that's already in motion or validating an idea before you commit, the same eight zones decide whether the model scales or stalls. Pick the path that fits — the diagnostic adapts.
The operator
Existing businessUncover the hidden bottleneck holding growth back.
- ✓Your business is generating revenue but growth has plateaued or feels inconsistent
- ✓You are making decisions mostly from instinct rather than a clear strategic framework
- ✓You have tried new hires, markets or offers — but the results are not compounding
- ✓You know something structural needs to change but you cannot name it precisely
- ✓You are preparing to scale and want to know if your foundation can hold the weight
The new founder
Idea stageValidate the model before you build on top of it.
- ✓You have an idea you're serious about and want to pressure-test it before you commit capital or quit your job
- ✓You've written a deck or business plan but haven't validated the model across all eight zones
- ✓You want a structured second opinion on whether the timing, positioning and economics actually hold up
- ✓You're preparing to raise or pitch and need to spot the gaps investors will find first
- ✓You'd rather kill a weak idea early than discover the flaw twelve months and ₦20M in
STRATOSCAN isn't for you if
- ×You aren't willing to answer honestly about where the business (or the idea) actually stands
- ×You're looking for validation to confirm a decision you've already made, not clarity to inform it
Where do you land?
Every diagnostic places the business in one of five bands. The band is honest, not flattering — it's the starting point for the conversation.
The model is at risk; foundational work is needed before scaling.
Early shape is visible; several zones still need consolidation.
The model works; targeted moves close the remaining gaps.
A capable model with clear leverage points to double down on.
The model is strong and ready for deliberate scale.
Diagnose in 15 minutes.
Free, full report, no upsell. The conversation about what to do next is with you, not a checkout.