Startup Readiness Score

About

Most early-stage founders are not failing because they lack effort. They fail because they lack clarity. They build before validating the problem. They raise before understanding their unit economics. They commit serious time and capital to a foundation they have never examined. Startup.Ready. is a startup readiness and decision intelligence platform. It scores early-stage startups across six foundational pillars, surfaces the weak and untested assumptions underneath, and routes founders to the specific work that closes those gaps. Built by Dr. Shaun P. Digan, PhD in Entrepreneurship and 15 years of working directly with early-stage founders.

Key features

• Six-Pillar Readiness Diagnostic. Every startup is evaluated across six foundational dimensions: Founder, Problem, Market, Business Model, Go-to-Market, and Financial.
• Startup Readiness Score. A single structured score that captures the overall strength of your startup foundation. Not your idea, not your effort, your clarity.
• Pillar-Level Diagnostics. Each pillar score comes with a specific diagnosis: what the foundation currently supports and where it breaks down.
• Gap Routing. Your assessment answers trigger flags across the six pillars. Those flags map to specific worksheets to close the gaps

Use cases

• Founders going full-time who need to know if their foundation is ready before making the leap
• Accelerator applicants who want to identify structural gaps before reviewers do
• Founders preparing to raise who need clarity on unit economics, market definition, & model before pitching
• Founders feeling busy but stuck who cannot locate where the real problem is
• Mentors and advisors who want a shared diagnostic to anchor founder conversations
• Incubators and accelerators that need a consistent readiness signal to baseline & track cohorts
• University entrepreneurship departments & programs