The Reflection Check does not give you one grade. It gives you four readings that together show where your drive is leaking, and a recommended starting point. This page explains what each number means and how it is calculated, so you can read your result like a map, not a verdict.
1. The five-area map (1 to 10 per area)
You rate five areas as they feel today, from 1 (heavy, off) to 10 (light, aligned): Direction & Growth, Business or Career & Challenge, Finances, Environment and Mental Balance. Nothing is preselected, so the map only shows what you actually chose. The result draws the five areas as a shape and lists them from lowest to highest.
How to read it: lower means more load or friction, higher means more alignment or stability. The shape matters more than any single number. A business or career question often absorbs pressure that actually sits somewhere else, in money, in your setup or in your head. The map is there to catch that before you misdiagnose a focus problem.
Health, energy, recovery and relationships are deliberately not asked here: that is personal data a business check has no need for. If you want the full picture across all nine areas of life, QWI Light gives you exactly that in about four minutes, with your three pressure points, a 7-day reset and a personal note.
2. The FOCUS profile (0 to 100 on three axes)
Nine short, concrete questions measure three axes of the method. Direction covers Facts and Outcome (F + O): what the effort is ultimately for, and whether this quarter serves it. Concentration covers Constraints (C): how many things hold a claim on your week, and whether one is protected. Leverage & follow-through covers Upside and System (U + S): whether existing assets and open opportunities actually get worked. How each step works.
There are no “agree or disagree” statements. Every question asks for something you can count or date: how many priorities have a genuine claim on your week, how many open proposals are waiting on you, when you last held a written weekly review. Each answer carries 1 to 5 points, and each axis is converted to a true 0 to 100 scale, where 0 means the weakest answer every time. If you cannot yet name what your effort is for, the follow-up about this quarter is skipped rather than counted against you.
Your lowest axis is your main constraint, and the rest of the result is built on it. If two axes are within five points of each other, the result says so and treats them as one problem rather than a ranking.
How to read it: 80 and above means the axis is largely working. 50 to 79 is workable with visible leakage. Below 50 usually means this is where energy is being lost right now. Fix the lowest axis first, because it caps the others.
3. The role-specific score (0 to 100)
The first eight questions depend on your path. Founder questions test revenue focus: where EUR 50,000 would go if it had to scale one activity, how many real customer conversations you had in the last seven days, which number you steer by, whether you could hit your goal without launching anything new, when you last held one project for 90 days. Executive questions test next-chapter clarity: which of three credible opportunities you would take first, how many conversations you had with people who could open your next chapter, what would be hardest to give up, how often you reopen decisions you already made.
Each answer carries 1 to 5 points, converted to 0 to 100. One question in each path is a fork: it asks whether the real bottleneck is the market (reach, opportunities) or focus (drift, positioning). That answer changes the diagnosis you receive, so a genuine awareness problem is not mistaken for a focus problem.
4. The 90-day leverage area and the three moves
At the end you choose one of the five areas as the lead variable: the area that would create the biggest positive knock-on effect over the next 90 days. It is deliberately your choice, not a calculation, because you know things the questionnaire does not. Based on your main constraint you then get three concrete moves to make before adding anything new.
How to read it: treat the leverage area as an experiment for 90 days, not another large project. Do the three moves in order. They are small on purpose.
5. The recommended starting point
After you leave your email address, four quick questions tailor the recommendation: roughly where the business is (or what monthly investment would feel proportionate), who decides on outside support, when this needs to be solved, and whether you have worked with outside support before. Every question has a “prefer not to say” or “not sure” option.
These answers never change your scores. They only decide which starting point we suggest, and that can honestly be “nothing yet”: if the timing is early, the result tells you to run the three moves for 30 days first instead of buying anything.
What the result is not
It is a structured reflection tool, not a clinical, psychological or financial diagnosis, and not a comparison with other people. Two people can have the same numbers and need different next steps. The value is in the conversation it starts, with yourself or with us.