Free tool

SaaS maturity check

Answer a short set of yes-or-no questions about your software business and get the stage it is really in, the specific things to fix before the next stage in the order to do them, and the rule that placed you there — a map, not a grade.

Answer each question for where your product is today, not where it will be next month. "Not sure" counts as no, and so does a question you skip.

Can someone who is not you finish the main task in your product, from start to end, without your help? Is the code in version control, with a copy somewhere other than your own computer? Do people who are not friends, family or colleagues use it at least once a week? Is customer data backed up, and have you restored from a backup at least once to prove it works? Do you publish a privacy policy and terms of service that describe what the product actually does with data? Would you find out about an error a customer hit without them telling you? Does at least one customer pay you for the product? Can a customer pay, cancel and get a receipt without emailing you? Do you know what one customer costs you to serve each month, counting hosting, AI calls, email and payment fees? Is most of your revenue recurring (subscriptions or contracts) rather than one-off sales? Do you measure how many paying customers leave each month? Is there one way of finding customers that you can repeat, and that has brought in more than one paying customer? Is there a set way support requests are received, answered and tracked? Could the product run for two weeks without you touching it? Are deploying, restoring a backup, and granting or removing access written down so someone else could do them? Does each person with access to your hosting, database and billing have their own login that can be removed on its own?

No account. No AI call. Nothing is uploaded: this runs in your own browser, so what you answer never reaches us to be kept.

What it reads

This places the answers you chose on a ladder that runs from an idea to a business ready to scale, and lists what stands between you and the next rung in the order to do it. It reads your answers and nothing else.

Working prototype — Someone other than you can use it from start to end, and losing your laptop would not lose the product.
Launched — Strangers use it, and the basics a public product owes them are in place.
First revenue — People pay, the money side runs without you, and you know what a customer costs you.
Repeatable — Revenue recurs, you can see who leaves, and new customers arrive by a route you can run again.
Ready to scale — The business runs without you in the loop, and someone else could operate it from what is written down.

What it does not look at

whether any answer is true: it takes your word for every one, so a yes you cannot back up moves the stage without moving the business
your code, your site or your numbers — nothing is read but the answers you chose, so a backup that exists but is broken reads as a yes here
whether anybody wants what you built, or will pay your price: a product can clear every question here and still not sell
how good each thing is — it asks whether backups exist and have been restored, not whether they run often enough for the data you hold
obligations that depend on what you sell and to whom, such as health, payment-card or children's data rules — those need someone who knows your market

A map, not a grade

The stage is set by the first gap, not by the best answer: a business that takes payments but has never restored a backup is still finishing its launch, and the list above says so in the order to fix it. There is no score to chase and nothing behind a signup — the stage, the list and the rule that placed you are the whole result, and you can download it.

Learning the rules rather than the tool? The Coding Guide works the same way, and Vibe Coder 101 starts from nothing.