THE DURABILITY SCORECARD — how much of this do you actually own? From "The One-Person AI Business — Advanced", Chapter 9 ================================================================ A profitable, growing business is not the same as a STRONG one. Profitability is whether you make money today; durability is whether you survive a shock you don't control tomorrow — a deplatforming, a frozen processor, an algorithm change, a big customer leaving. The more leveraged you get, the more concentrated you tend to become, so score this BEFORE it finds you. Set the bands first; grade against them; fix worst-first. THE BANDS (define before you look) ---------------------------------------------------------------- GREEN = within threshold. AMBER = a breach that hurts a quarter (or one you're already mitigating). RED = a breach that could END the business fast (a true single point of failure, or a dependency most of your revenue/acquisition rides on). SCORE EACH AXIS (g / a / r below = green / amber / red) ---------------------------------------------------------------- CONCENTRATION Largest customer's revenue share g<15 a15-25 r>25 → ____% [ ] Largest product's revenue share g<60 a60-75 r>75 → ____% [ ] Biggest channel's share of NEW customers g<40 a40-55 r>55 → ____% [ ] OPERATIONAL DEPENDENCE (list every platform/account/processor/tool/domain that would sink you if it vanished tomorrow; each needs a <30-day fallback) g = all have a fallback · a = slow/partial · r = a single point, no fallback Single points of failure with NO fallback: ______________ [ ] OWNED-DEMAND SHARE New customers via a channel YOU own g>50 a35-50 r<35 → ____% [ ] WHAT YOU ACTUALLY OWN ---------------------------------------------------------------- Most of what feels like an asset is RENTED (reach, platform, payment rail). Usually only two things are genuinely yours: the OPERATING BRAIN (judgement, archive, rules — your IP) and the AUDIENCE LIST (portable, though not immune — deliverability, consent, domain). Build on those; use them to cut dependence on everything else. PRIORITY & REMEDIATION (reds first; failure that would happen fastest or cause the greatest damage first) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Channel concentration → shift acquisition to the owned list (the flywheel). Operational single point of failure → a SECOND provider set up and tested (a <30-day fallback), plus a monthly export of your list held where YOU control it. Product concentration → a second real revenue line (productised judgement). Fix #1 (worst): ______________ by [date]: ______ THE FORCING COMMITMENT (dated) ---------------------------------------------------------------- "Durability audit, [date]. Customer __% / product __% / channel __%. Single points of failure, no fallback: ____________. Owned-demand share __%. What I actually own: brain + list. Fix order (worst first): 1. ____ 2. ____ 3. ____. First fix by [date]: ____________." ================================================================ Yours to keep — free, and no strings attached. One tool from the ePORTS One-Person AI Business series. This one is from Advanced — compound revenue per hour: leverage, not labour. The full shelf, whenever you're ready: eports.global/one-person-ai-business ================================================================ ePORTS — your ecom source. eports.global.