StackScore

Which layer is 
capping you? 

Most organizations can see the future coming. Almost none can build for it. The StackScore assessment measures your capacity across all five layers of the Abundance Stack and identifies the constraint holding everything else back.

How It Works

Three steps to clarity.

01
ASSESS

Answer questions about how you scan, interpret, decide, build, and sustain. 10-15 minutes depending on which assessment you take.

02
DIAGNOSE

Your StackScore reveals a layer-by-layer breakdown on two signals — Competence and Conditions — and the named constraint pattern capping your system.

03
ACT

Receive a Constraint Report with three specific moves to make next. From there you can go deeper with a Stack Assessment, an Opportunity Plan, or a full Engagement.

Five tailored versions. About 15 minutes. A diagnostic you can act on immediately.

The Constraint Report

What you get.

Your Constraint Report arrives by email within minutes. No strings. No sales call required.

Your StackScoreAn overall futures-capacity score from 0 to 100%, set by your weakest layer
Five-layer breakdownIndividual scores for Signal, Sense, Shape, Sprint, and Sustain
Your constraint patternA named diagnostic explaining what's capping you and why
What it meansPlain-language interpretation of what your stronger layers could deliver once the bottleneck is relieved
Recommended next stepsThree specific actions tied to your constraint layer
The Patterns

Eight constraint patterns the diagnostic names.

Every organization has a bottleneck. These are the ones we see most often.

The Noise Floor

No systematic scanning practice. Every downstream layer works from incomplete information.

The Signal-Rich, Strategy-Poor Condition

You consume more information than you can interpret. The problem isn't access. It's sense-making.

The Imagination Deficit

Well-informed and analytically strong, but your organization can't articulate the future it wants.

The Interpretation Trap

You can see what's coming and explain what it means, but you can't build for it. Insight outpaces execution.

The Dependency Loop

You build well, but only with outside support. When the consultant leaves, the capacity leaves too.

The Action Deficit

Your vision is clear but your building capacity can't match it.

The Full-Stack Constraint

No single bottleneck. The whole stack is below the line for adaptive capacity. The work is foundational, across all five layers at once.

Balanced and Building

No severe constraint. Your layers are balanced and holding. The opportunity is depth, not a bottleneck.

Who It's For

One framework. Every stakeholder.

Built for the organizations already doing the work. Same five layers, tailored questions for your context.

YOUTH-SERVING ORGANIZATIONS

YMCA chapters, Boys & Girls Clubs, 4-H networks, after-school programs. Find out whether your programming reflects where the world is heading and whether your staff can build what's next without outside help.

HBCUS & HIGHER ED

Innovation offices, department chairs, provosts. Measure whether your institution can track workforce shifts, update curriculum at speed, and prepare students for careers the market hasn't named yet.

COMMUNITY & WORKFORCE ORGS

Workforce boards, CDCs, library systems, United Way affiliates. See whether your programs are aligned with where the economy is headed, or where it's been.

FUNDERS & INTERMEDIARIES

Foundations, CDFIs, government innovation offices. Find out whether the organizations you fund are building lasting capacity, or whether they'll need you again in 18 months.

For the most accurate results, have 3–5 members of your team take it independently. The variance between scores is often as revealing as the scores themselves. A parent/caregiver variant is coming next.

Take the StackScore

Pick the assessment that fits your context.

Same Abundance Stack, five tailored instruments. Pick the one that matches what you're diagnosing.

Go Deeper

From the constraint to moving it.

The Constraint Report is free and complete. The Stack Assessment, Opportunity Plan, and Engagement are how you move the constraint.

Stack Assessment — Solo
$1,500

The full diagnostic, self-guided, for one respondent.

  • ·One respondent
  • ·The full Stack Assessment Report, including competence-versus-conditions per layer
  • ·Self-guided. Take it on your own schedule.
Credits 100% toward the Opportunity Plan if it starts within 60 days.
Stack Assessment — Team
$5,000

The variance between scores is often as revealing as the scores.

  • ·Up to 5 respondents
  • ·Variance analysis across your team
  • ·A 60-minute facilitated readout call
Credits 100% toward the Opportunity Plan if it starts within 60 days.
Opportunity Plan
$12,000 fixed, larger plans scoped

The diagnosis, turned into a costed sequence of moves.

  • ·A costed roadmap to relieve your binding constraint
  • ·The sequence of moves: what to build, buy, or train
  • ·Projected StackScore movement and the ROI behind it
Credits 100% toward an Engagement if it starts within 90 days.
Engagement
$40K–$250K+

We install the capacity and stand behind the result.

  • ·The capacity installed, not just recommended
  • ·Contractually committed to measurable StackScore movement at your binding-constraint layer
What Happens Next

Results in minutes. No strings.

Your Constraint Report is yours — no sales call required. If you want to go deeper, book a free 30-minute Stack Review where we walk through your results and explore whether an engagement makes sense.