What you get, and what it costs you
Your industry results and your cost-impact estimate need no personal details at all. The tools and the roadmap are sent to a work email.
Pillar-by-pillar scores against your sector's median and best-in-class.
A top-level maturity score and an indicative annual value on each gap.
Working models you can populate with your own numbers this week.
A 12-month plan sequenced by value, effort and time to cash.
Context
Tell us about the business, not about you.
These four answers set the benchmarks you are scored against and the scale of the cost estimate. No name, no email, no company.
Pillar 1 of 5
Commercial & Pricing
Your results
Where you sit, and what the gap is worth
Pillar scores against your sector
The gap, and what it is costing you
Indicative, based on your turnover band, your sector's typical cost structure and the size of each maturity gap. A real diagnostic sizes these from your own transaction data; these figures are a starting hypothesis, not a promise.
estimated recoverable value a year, across all five pillars
points of margin, as a share of turnover
of that sits in actions you could start inside 90 days
| Pillar | You | Sector | Best | Gap | Value p.a. | Priority |
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Your three biggest gaps
Steps 3 and 4
Tools, templates and your roadmap
These are the working documents. Four details, and both unlock on this page, with nothing to wait for in your inbox.
How Waterfront Ventures uses these details
Step 3
Tools and templates
Each of these is a working file, not a brochure. Start with the two marked against your weakest pillars.
Step 4
Your roadmap
What a full diagnostic adds
Every line above, rebuilt from your own numbers.
This assessment sizes the gap from twenty answers. A four-to-six week diagnostic rebuilds your P&L by product, channel, customer and site, decomposes the margin waterfall from transaction data, and gives every opportunity a value range, a named owner and a time to cash.
How the score and the cost estimate are calculated
Scoring. Twenty questions across five pillars, four each. Every answer maps to a maturity level from 0 (reactive) to 4 (optimised). A pillar score is the mean of its four answers; the headline score is the mean of the five pillars, expressed out of 100. Sector medians and best-in-class marks are Waterfront's working benchmarks for each industry, not a published index.
Cost impact. Each pillar carries an opportunity pool expressed as a percentage of turnover, calibrated to the cost structure of your industry: labour-heavy operations carry more in productivity, distribution-heavy ones more in network and transport. The estimate is that pool multiplied by the size of your gap to best-in-class, multiplied by the midpoint of your turnover band, with a range of plus or minus a quarter. Multi-site businesses carry an uplift on the cost-to-serve pool.
What it is not. A self-assessment cannot see your transaction data, your contracts or your shop floor. Treat the numbers as a sized hypothesis to test, in the way you would treat any indicative valuation. In a full diagnostic every line is rebuilt from your own figures and carries a named owner and a time to cash.