Answer six plain questions about how your business actually works — what you sell, how customers buy, what makes you hard to copy. You don't need to know the first thing about AI; reading what it means for your model is our side of it.
You'll get two honest readings: where AI could replace part of what you sell, and where AI could cut cost or lift margin — which are very different things, and easy to confuse from the inside. No jargon, no sales pitch, and no pretence that a quiz can hand you the answer.
Capital Dimensions is not regulated to give investment or technology advice, and nothing here is either. This is an indicator to frame a conversation, not a verdict on your business.
Here's how we get there — two readings from how your business works. They pull in opposite directions, which is exactly why they're worth separating.
A buyer prices the next five years, not the last. They discount the part of your model that AI threatens — and, just as important, they treat the cost they could strip out with AI as their margin to capture, not yours. So they pay for the business as it is, then pocket the improvement. Do that work first and the gain is yours; leave it, and you've handed it to them at your own expense.
And the clock isn't yours to set. AI capability and your competitors both move whether or not you do — so the window to reinvent the exposed part, or bank the upside before it's priced as someone else's, is open now and narrowing. This is slow work to do well and fast-moving in its consequences, which is the worst combination to leave late.
The valuable part isn't the score — it's working out which bits of your model to defend, which to reinvent, and which improvements to bank before a buyer does. That's specific to you, and genuinely hard to judge from the inside. It's the conversation.
Thinking further ahead about an exit? Our companion Exit Readiness Scorecard gives you an honest read on whether — and how — a business like yours actually sells. The two work well side by side.
Capital Dimensions architects the exit around the owner's objectives — surfacing every viable route, engineering the value, and keeping the owner in control. This indicator is a starting point, not advice, and the readings are indicative only.