What is the one thing that, until it changes, makes everything else underperform?

A region can hold every component on the checklist — an incubator, a fund, a pitch night, a university — and still not compound. Programs run, founders appear, capital exists, and nothing connects.

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The Ecosystem Assessment answers the question that precedes every investment decision: the one constraint that, until it is relieved, makes everything downstream underperform.

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Before you commit a budget to a sequence, know whether the sequence is right.

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What it measures

Stage readiness. The full path a founder travels, scored stage by stage — and the gates where journeys quietly end.

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Network presence. Whether the seven roles an ecosystem requires are present and active.

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Connective density. The heart of it. Not who exists, but how well the people who should know one another actually do.

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Successional stage. Where the ecosystem sits: pre-ecosystem, parallel programs, latent, or compounding.

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Trajectory. Where the region is heading, not only where it stands — leading signals read against lagging outcomes, resolved into a direction of travel with the one binding constraint named. Calibrated, not predictive — a read on momentum, not a forecast.

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What you receive

• A scored readiness profile across every stage, with the gates where founders are being lost.

• A map of the seven networks: who's present, who's missing, and who's actually holding the place together.

• A connective-density baseline, built to be rerun and compared year over year.

• A successional diagnosis and the named binding constraint, with the sequence of what to build first.

• A trajectory read — the region's direction of travel and the one constraint most limiting it.

• A findings session with local leadership, in language a community can act on.

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A 60-person survey is a real instrument, not physics. We report calibrated confidence, not certainty.

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