The architecture layer

The Complete Readiness Model

The full diagnostic framework behind Hexiss. It represents the complete set of business readiness dimensions and how they relate as a system. The Business Stress Test is a condensed screening layer derived from it.

What is the complete structure of business readiness that the Business Stress Test is drawn from?

Seven domains, read as one system. No domain stands alone.

The structure

Seven domains form the complete model.

Each domain represents a distinct dimension of how a business functions as a system. What follows is what each one is, not how it is measured.

01
Financial Health
The stability and flexibility of cash flow and earnings, and whether the business can fund its own continuity without strain.
02
Leadership & Succession
Whether capability and authority exist beyond the owner, so there is someone ready to run the business next.
03
Operational Independence
The degree to which the business runs on documented systems and defined roles rather than specific individuals.
04
Customer & Market Position
The durability of demand and the strength of the business's standing, independent of any single relationship.
05
People & Culture
Whether the team performs and holds together consistently, without constant direction from the top.
06
Direction & Focus
Clarity of priorities, decision alignment, and the governance structure that keeps the business pointed one way.
07
Risk & Continuity
The capacity to absorb disruption, from lost clients to staffing gaps, without losing stability.
How the domains relate

Readiness is structural, not linear.

The domains do not add up to a total. They act on one another. Strength in one area can be held back by weakness in another, and a single strong domain rarely carries a business on its own.

A business that looks stable financially can still be fragile if everything runs through one person. Clear direction means little without the operational independence to act on it. The model reads these relationships together, as a working system rather than a list of separate parts.

No single domain determines the outcome. Readiness is what the domains produce together.

From model to screen

How the Business Stress Test relates to the model.

The Business Stress Test is the fast way into the model. It is not a different framework, it is a focused view of this one.

The screening view

Business Stress Test

Derived from this model. It selects the highest-signal indicators across the domains, built for speed and directional insight. It tells an owner where to look first.

The framework

Complete Readiness Model

The full set of dimensions and how they hold together. Built for structural understanding rather than a quick read. It is the map the screening view is taken from.

What this is not

A framework, not an output.

  • Not a questionnaire
  • Not a scoring tool
  • Not a methodology explanation
  • Not a diagnostic report

It is the structural framework behind the assessment system.

Where to go from here

Two ways to use the model.