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I am building a company

Is my business model aligned with the exponential, and where should it move?

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Five questions place your business on the ladder and in a family, then show the models one rung up. It runs in your browser and nothing is sent anywhere.

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The top of the ladder Rungs 3 and 4: the loop makes its users, or the business itself, more able

ModelRungFamilyLoopRegisterStateCosEvidenceLast
Engineers deployed with the softwareR3 Compounds Selling the finished worklearning RisingScaling 21A 1B2026-08-04
The tiny-team companyR3 Compounds Selling the finished workself-improving RisingScaling 41A 3B2026-05-05
Digital workers priced as laborR3 Compounds Selling the finished workself-improving On watchWatch 42A 3B2025-07-31
The one-person companyR3 Compounds Selling the finished workself-improving On watchWatch 10A 1B2025-06-18
Autonomous businessesR4 Self-improving Selling the finished workself-improving On watchWatch 12A 0B2026

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