We Built a Free Tool That Tells Some People Not to Buy From Us
The Capacity Audit scores whether you can do the work you want to be hired for. If the answer is not yet, it says so and sends you away. Here is why that is the point.
Every diagnostic we have ever published started in the same place: your supply, your CV, your targeting, your interviews. Useful, and incomplete, because it quietly assumed something nobody had checked.
It assumed you could do the job.
Today the Capacity Audit is live, free, and it closes that gap. Ten questions about the work itself, scored out of ten, across fourteen role families — administration, customer support, sales, marketing, writing, finance, data, software, project management, design, HR, legal, teaching and product.
What it answers, and what it refuses to answer
One question only: before we help you find, position for, apply for or win this job, can you perform it at a basic employable level?
It will never score your CV, your LinkedIn, your interview technique, how many applications you have sent, whether you can find remote roles, or where you live. Those are the other four parts of the model and they have their own checkpoints. If capacity were allowed to score them, it would swallow the whole diagnosis and everyone with one fixable problem would be told to go and learn their profession again.
A brilliant accountant with a terrible CV should score capacity nine out of ten and fail at representation. That is exactly the result we want, because it sends them to the repair that would actually change their month.
The uncomfortable part
Score below five and the audit tells you that no ERJ product is the right purchase for you right now. Not Foundation Training. Not the Self-Learn Pack. Not the done-for-you services. It sends you to build the skill and come back.
We are aware of how that reads on a page whose purpose is ultimately commercial. We would still rather write it, for a plain reason: selling training in job-search presentation to someone who cannot yet do the job produces a better-presented candidate who still does not get hired, and then it is our name on the disappointment.
There is also a safeguard inside the scoring. Every role family has one central task — reconciling the account, writing and debugging the code, producing coherent copy, resolving a real customer issue. Score zero on that one and the audit fails regardless of your total. Six out of ten while unable to do the central work of the job is the single result the instrument must never produce.
Why three levels, not yes or no
Every question has three answers: cannot do it, can do it with guidance, can do it alone to a basic professional standard. Yes-or-no questions let people round themselves up, and a diagnostic that flatters you is worse than no diagnostic at all.
The questions describe behaviour rather than asking for self-assessment. Not “are you good at accounting?” but “given one month of bank statements and the records, could you reconcile the account and explain every discrepancy?” You can answer the second one honestly. The first one only measures confidence.
Where it sits
Capacity is the first of five: Capacity, Supply, Representation, Aim, Conversion. Diagnose from left to right and repair the earliest thing that is actually broken, because a person who cannot perform the work does not need application optimisation, and a person who cannot find eligible roles cannot yet know whether their CV is failing.
It runs entirely in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is stored, no email is requested, and closing the tab deletes your answers. Run it here — it takes about ninety seconds.