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HQ Score is a proprietary operational maturity assessment developed by Headroom HQ, built specifically for professionals working in mid-market companies.

Calculate your HQ Score instantly for free
Get your assessment score instantly for free

HQ Score is a proprietary operational maturity assessment developed by Headroom HQ, built specifically for professionals working in mid-market companies.


HQ Score Measurement Criteria

30 questions. 10 dimensions. 0-100 total score. The ten dimensions and their details are listed below:


D01) Process Documentation Coverage  Are your critical operational processes documented in a form that anyone could follow independently?


D02) Key Person Redundancy  If your most operationally critical people were unavailable tomorrow, what happens?


D03) Vendor Contract Quality  Do your vendor contracts protect your interests at the clause level that actually matters?


D04) Team Structure Clarity  Does every person on your operations team know exactly which decisions they can make without asking?


D05) Measurement Sophistication  Does your operations dashboard include leading indicators or only lagging financial metrics?


D06) Technology Coherence  Is your technology stack architecturally intentional, or has it accumulated through ad hoc problem-solving?


D07) Decision Rights Clarity  Is decision authority explicitly documented, or does every significant decision require an informal negotiation about who has the authority to make it?


D08) Meeting Design Quality  Do your operational meetings consistently produce documented decisions with named owners or primarily produce updates?


D09) Onboarding Effectiveness  Could a competent new hire follow your documented processes independently on their first day?


D10) Operational Leverage  Are your operational costs growing more slowly than revenue or faster?



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