The 9D Check
Your team grew. Your week didn’t get any lighter.
More clients, more people, and everything still comes back to you? Nine questions to find what to fix first.
A first look at the method I use with my clients.
- 1You answer nine quick questions, one for each part of your business.
- 2You get your score out of 10 and your map of the nine dimensions.
- 3You get your stage, your priorities, and for each one, what to do this week.
Where is your business today?
Every business sits at one of these four stages. After nine questions, you will know yours.
- FragileEvery decision, every client and every problem comes back to you.
- DevelopingYou have a team and some processes. But you still check most of the work, and things get missed.
- ReliableYour team runs most of the business. You still step in on the few jobs nobody owns yet.
- ScalableYour team runs the business with clear processes and numbers. You work on where it goes next.
You may think this is the price of success. It’s not. It’s just what happens when a business grows faster than its structure.
Clémence Bareth, Fractional COO
Your result is on its way
Your stage, your map of nine dimensions and your three priorities, with what to do for each, are in your inbox now, at .
Nothing after two minutes? Look in your spam or promotions folder. The email comes from Clémence Bareth, hello@clemencebareth.com.
Your 9D Check · your result
Your score
0/ 10
Your stage
Your three priorities
Where to start, and what comes next.
Why in this order
The nine parts hold each other up.
A gap in one shows up as a problem in another. A sales problem is often an ownership problem. A late project is often a process nobody wrote down. Start with the first. The next two get easier.
Your map
Nine dimensions, one shape.
While the gaps stay open, every new client and every new hire lands on you first. The business keeps running, but growth costs more than it should.
Dimension by dimension
What you told me, and what good looks like.
See all nine dimensions
What the check cannot see
This check reads your answers. The Operating Review reads your business.
Your answers are one view: yours. A real diagnosis needs three, because the problem usually sits in the gap between them.
- Your viewOne to one sessions with you, across the nine dimensions.
- Your team's viewShort questionnaires for your team, which you see before they go out.
- How it really runsA look at your tools and your records: who actually decided, who actually did the work.