Fourteen questions about a company you know from the inside. Ninety seconds. Your three readings and your weakest layer appear in your browser, and nothing leaves your machine.
Approximate is fine. They stay on your device, and they travel with your scores into the Read if you ask for one.
Group revenue.
Operating profit over revenue. Zero or negative is a real answer: the results page then points to the Venture Read.
Contracted and renewing. Not repeat projects.
Where you stand
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The three models · WHY before HOW before WHAT
Fourteen questions, each scored on one five-step scale, across three models: WHY, the business model; HOW, the operating model; WHAT, the technology model. The shape is your readiness; the weakest axis is where the next euro of value hides.
Where you actually stand.
Recommended extensions · the ecosystem
The weakest layer, and who moves it.
Keep your scorecard · no tracking, ever
Opens your own mail app with your scores: you press send, we reply with the read. Nothing is transmitted unless you do.
The peer sentence (“where you stand against companies like yours”) unlocks for everyone when the pool reaches twenty profiles per sector: we publish the live count as it climbs.
Extensions widen MakersOS. The plays that upgrade each term, sized in euros on your own numbers, are the Read (our four-week measurement on your real workflows).
These are the plays your scores trigger. The euro on each one, the owner, the benchmark and the 100-day plan to land it, are the Read.
Pre-EBITDA · the Venture Read
No EBITDA yet? That is a real answer, and it gets a real read.
The Read prices an EBITDA, so it waits until you earn one. Before then, the Venture Read works the revenue line first: who pays, for what, how often and at what price, chosen on purpose with the founders in five days. The Venture Read →
This is the read. The plan is the engagement.
You have seen where you stand.
What moves each number is the work: the plays sized in euros on your own revenue and margin, the non-dilutive capital open to you in Luxembourg (your Sovereign Grants report, sourced to Luxinnovation and guichet.lu), and the Ecosystem partners you can install. That is the paid Read, four weeks on your real numbers, and the workbook is yours to keep whether or not we continue.
Your weakest layer points to a next step. Here is yours.
Technology company in or entering Luxembourg: the Value Map screens the grants open to you, sizes them in euros and months, and dates your filing windows. Allocator or any-sector operator: the Read prices the same gaps on the company’s own numbers.
Computed, never asserted: the model’s identity is published, and the full working, with your own numbers in it, appears inside your Room. The target state is a 12 to 24-month programme commitment, a plan you sign, never a forecast; the grants that fund it arrive on a legal calendar measured in weeks. To stress-test any of it, move the levers with a partner →
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If Makers of New opened a private room for you, enter your room code and these scores land with your operator, reconciled into your room within two working days. Nothing is sent without the code.
Every answer becomes a bar. In your Room, every gap carries a price in your own euros, computed from your own revenue and margin.
03 · The order
Three models. Read in order.
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Why
The reasons the value exists. Market, position, and the story a buyer would pay for.
II
How
The way the value is made. The chain, the operations, and the people who run them.
III
What
The assets it runs on. The systems, the data, and the proof that it all holds.
Why before how before what · a layer that runs ahead of the one beneath it is not worth what it looks like
04 · The Simulator, on a call
Then, price the move, together.
In thirty minutes with a partner, the Simulator takes your own figures and shows what a decision does to the number before you spend a euro on it. It runs on a call and in your Room.
The same questions and the same model at every stage, so a reading before the deal compares with one before the sale.
1 · The first look
Before anybody is asked a question.
The Room opens on our read of the company from public information, each estimate marked. On the fund side, the entry criteria are tested against the book’s own record of past deals.
2 · Diligence
The business behind the thesis.
The questions across the business, operating and technology models, each one priced. The Room says which answer to verify first, by what the answer is worth, and packs the evidence as a bundle a buyer’s advisers can check.
3 · The hold
Where the value is made.
Today’s business runs the present and the new one builds the future. Every move on the plan carries its euros, its months and its owner; the ledger keeps what landed beside what was predicted, and every quarter closes on it.
4 · The exit
What a buyer will test, answered first.
Exit readiness in nine cells, the list a buyer’s advisers ask for, and the sale story: drafted in the first hundred days, and read again at every quarterly close.
06 · Where next
You have your shape. Now choose your door.
If you run a company
What is it worth, and where does it leak.
Answer for your own business. What comes back is your three readings and your weakest layer. The number, your margin, your multiple and the value that follows are computed in the Read, on your own figures.
Answer for one holding before the investment committee. MakersOS for Capital Allocators then puts the whole book on one clock, built only from certificates each company chose to issue. Its record keeps every prediction beside its result, which is the only kind of record that can attribute a margin point to the work that moved it.
The identity is published. The calibration is kept.
Read the model before you answer a single question. Run the questions, keep your readings, and decide in your own time. And where a figure is soft, the room says so itself: every number carries how sure to be, computed from what was actually checked. When you want a partner on it, talk to us →
Cristian Paun · John Lazar · Ted Tanase
The partners · Luxembourg
Sealed · Luxembourg · MMXXVI
We design growth. We engineer value.
By rewriting the operating system for value creation.