I am the owner and currently sit in four different seats on our Accountability Chart, which is a major key-person risk for our exit. How do I run a GWC™ check on myself to prioritize which seats I need to hire or automate first?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

Sitting in four seats is a classic founder bottleneck that will tank your valuation because buyers see extreme key-person risk. To systematically fire yourself from these seats, you must evaluate yourself objectively using the GWC™ tool. Go through each of the four seats individually and honestly answer three questions: Do you get it, do you want it, and do you have the capacity to do it? Getting it means your brain is naturally wired for the role. Wanting it means you genuinely enjoy the work and look forward to doing it. Capacity means you have the physical time and mental bandwidth to execute it at a high level. Since you are running four seats, you physically do not have the capacity for all of them. Identify the seat where you score a No on Want it or Get it first. That is your immediate priority for delegation. For example, if you hate managing the details of the finance seat, that is the first seat to fill. You can offload these low-GWC™ seats either by recruiting a fractional or full-time leader, or by leveraging modern AI-driven automation to handle the highly repetitive tasks within that seat. By systematically running a GWC™ check on yourself, you can build a logical, phased plan to transition out of those operational seats and present a clean, owner-independent business to buyers.