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The Investment readiness scan (Dutch: Investeringsscan) answers one question: can the organisation carry the growth plan?

For whom​

Commissioned by an investor considering a scale-up, or by founders preparing a round. The question is the same. Who commissions the scan and who receives the outcome is agreed in the intake, before we start.

What you get​

A verdict on whether the organisation can execute the growth plan, in three parts:

  • In place — the organisational conditions the plan relies on that are demonstrably in place.
  • Not yet in order — the conditions that are not there yet, and what it takes to put them in place.
  • Dependencies — the people, systems and decisions the execution hinges on, and where they can slow it down.

Plus a one-page summary of the whole picture and a change portfolio: what must happen first, what can wait, who owns it. The consultant writes the three-part verdict in the report, from what the workspace shows; the verdict is the consultant's work.

How we get there​

Seven worksheets are how we investigate it: strategy, guiding principles, customers and services, processes and organisation, people and culture, IT, and the change portfolio, with the capability model that connects them. For a scale-up the weight is on strategy (a direction, or only a product), processes and organisation (does it scale without the founders), people (leadership per layer), IT (foundation or legacy) and capabilities (what is still needed for the next step).

Its place in the chain​

The intake comes first: the agreements up front. The seven worksheets follow, with the organisation's documents in the dossier. The outcome is the One-pager of the whole canvas and the change portfolio: what must happen first, what can wait, and who carries it.

What a finding is worth​

In the workspace, every AI proposal says whether it comes from your documents or from general knowledge, before anyone accepts it. In the report the consultant keeps three things apart: what the documents substantiate, what the team said, and what remains an open question. A document can describe an ambition that does not exist yet in practice; the consultant says so.

How we work together​

Full transparency, agreed up front.

  • The AI. It proposes where a worksheet is still empty, or retrieves what the documents say. Every proposal says whether it comes from the documents, from elsewhere on the canvas or from general knowledge, until you decide. A person judges every proposal, and nothing becomes content until a person has accepted it. See AI support.
  • The documents. Your documents go into a dossier that only this engagement can see; they are used for this scan alone, excerpts reach the AI model only to draft proposals and reports, and the dossier is removed when you ask.
  • The founders. The founders do not need an account: Belita runs the workspace, and the founders see every finding in the working sessions and in the documents before anything goes to the investor. Seeing it is not the same as agreeing with it: where founders and consultant read the facts differently, both readings are recorded.

Time​

Two to four weeks, provided the scope is agreed, the documents are available and the people who run the organisation make time for the working sessions.

Alongside due diligence​

It is the organisational verdict alongside the financial, legal and tax due diligence.