The Business Loop Diagnostic — Customer Centric Solutions LLC

Three layers sit inside every growth engine. Your motion is the system you chose — founder-led, community-led, content-led. Underneath it, the loops are what actually compound: Content, Trust, Skill, User, Capital. And your channels are where the effort goes. Teams argue about the motion and thrash across channels — but the loop is the layer that decides whether anything accumulates, and it's the one nobody looks at.

Loops aren't optional by stage — they're available by stage. Early on you can run two. Most teams spend their months on the three they can't run yet. Funnels transfer value. Loops accumulate it. This check names the loops your motion implies, works out which are structurally available under your conditions, and asks where your effort has actually gone.

Answer the twelve and you will see your answers played back, sorted into the four parts every loop has, with what each one feeds when I run the diagnostic. The diagnostic itself is written by me and comes back the next business day.

A sample result — seed B2B SaaS, 35 customers, spent the quarter on paid referral bounties

Where most of your effort went

Capital

You are investing in a loop before the conditions exist for it to pay you back.

ContentReadyAvailable — intermittently activated

TrustBlockedAvailable — needs borrowed credibility

SkillReadyAvailable — observable at the customer level

UserNot yetUnlikely at this base and usage rate

CapitalNot yetNot yet — returns are not predictable

That much is free and appears the moment you finish. It is calculated from your answers alone. The free written diagnostic is separate work — I look at your company from the outside and test what you told me against what I can actually see.

Part 1 — Your motion

Which of these is closest to how you actually grow?

Pick the one that describes where most of your customers come from today — not the aspiration. This names the loops that should be compounding underneath.

How is the business capitalised right now?

Not a judgement, and not a proxy for size. It sets how many turns your slower loops have had, and which ones anyone can honestly assess yet.

Part 2 — Your current conditions

Roughly how many customers use it in a given month?

Customers, not seats — a 400-person account is one customer here. Estimate is fine.

How often does a typical customer actually use it?

Frequency sets how many times a loop can turn in a year. It matters as much as size.

Three months from now, could you tell me whether one specific customer is still using it?

Not whether retention is good — whether you can see it at the level of an individual customer.

Is there a named customer who would take a reference call this week?

Named. Not "probably someone would."

Does something you've made keep bringing you customers after you stop working on it?

Writing, tools, documentation, data, video — anything that kept working once you moved on.

Part 3 — What each cycle leaves behind

When you put money into growth, whose money is it?

Paid acquisition, sales capacity, inventory, channel incentives. Whether it returns matters — but whose money it is matters more.

When a customer comes back after a gap, do they start from where they left off — or from scratch?

Not whether they return. Whether anything they built up is still there when they do.

Part 4 — What starts the next cycle

Where does a new customer's first contact usually start?

The cue that begins a cycle. Whose surface is it on?

Does the next cycle start on its own, or do you have to start it?

A loop re-triggers itself. A campaign has to be run again.

Part 5 — Where the effort went (your channels)

Over the last two to three months, which channels did your growth effort actually go into?

This is the channel layer — where the work went, not the loop it was meant to build. Select everything that took real time: what you worked on, not what you meant to prioritise.

Of those, which one took the most time?

One answer. This is the only weighting the check uses — without it, ticking a box in passing would count the same as a month of work.

Optional

In one sentence each: what does a cycle of usage leave behind on both sides?

Not scored, and never included in a shared link. A real loop deposits on both sides every cycle — write these before you see the result.

What you end up with What the customer keeps that makes their next cycle better

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Business Loop Diagnostic — your answers

This is not your diagnostic. It is what you told me, arranged the way I will work with it.

Twelve answers and two sentences, played back and sorted into the four parts every loop has, plus what each one feeds when I run the diagnostic. Nothing here is a finding. I have not looked at your company yet.

Your answers, as the four parts of a loop

A loop needs all four. Missing one and what looks like a loop is a funnel, a one-time event, or a vanity metric.

The rest of what you told me

Played back so you can check I read it correctly before I start.

What happens next, and which of your answers feeds it

The method is fixed. What changes is what your answers do to it.

Send three things and I will run the Business Loop Diagnostic on the answers above.

Your name, your work email, and your company URL. The URL is the one that matters most: it is what lets me look at your company from the outside, which is where everything your answers cannot reach gets settled. Written by me, not generated.

I read every request myself and reply the next business day, either way. If the diagnostic will tell you something you don't already know, it's the reply. If it won't, I'll say so and point you somewhere that helps. In before 5pm PT means tomorrow; after that rolls to the next business day, and weekends and US holidays don't count. Sending shares your answers above, including the two boxes.

What this page is not. It does not tell you whether your growth runs on a real loop, a funnel posing as one, or a funnel. That is the verdict, and it needs evidence rather than answers: a real loop leaves behind two things after every cycle, a Compounding Asset you own and Retained Value the customer keeps, and no questionnaire can establish either. The Five Loop Types and the two-stock model are a framework by John Gusiff and Krzysztof Czubak, from The Stacking Moats Playbook: Business Models as Loops.

The Business Loop Stress Test

The free diagnostic is a snapshot. The Stress Test is a time series — it reconstructs your growth curve, dates the point your loop started strengthening or decaying, compares you against the peers running the closest engine, and puts a range on when your binding constraint bites. It starts with a working session, because half the evidence isn't public.

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