Four questions. Ninety seconds. A calibrated read on your exposure.
The self-assessment is a structured worksheet — not a quiz. Your answers produce a scored exposure indicator and persona-specific next steps. No email required to run it. No commitment attached to your score.
Answer four questions about your current contract
Contract age, whether it's been independently benchmarked, your current operator, and your institution's enrollment profile. Your answers are scored — not stored. Nothing is sent anywhere unless you choose to share your result.
Receive a scored exposure indicator
Three possible outputs: Likely Managed (contract shows few risk signals), Worth Examining (one or more signals present — a closer look is warranted), or Likely Exposed (multiple signals — the gap is probably quantifiable). Each output explains the signals your answers produced.
Get persona-specific next steps
Based on your role — CFO, Provost, Brand Officer, Auxiliary Services, or General Counsel — the output routes you to the resource most relevant to what you're trying to understand and what you're likely to need next.
Run the worksheet
Select the answer that best describes your institution's current situation. You can change answers before submitting.
Your contract appears to have been signed or renegotiated recently and benchmarked against peer institutions. That's the right foundation. The question is whether the benchmark source was independent of your operator and whether market rates have shifted since it was done.
Your answers produced at least one exposure signal — a contract that hasn't been independently benchmarked, a renewal window that's approaching, or operator terms that carry above-average risk at your enrollment level. These aren't certainties — they're signals worth investigating before the next renewal.
Your answers produced multiple exposure signals — a contract that predates current market benchmarks, no independent commission rate comparison, and/or operator terms that carry above-average risk. A gap of this profile is typically quantifiable in a Tier 1 analysis. The exact number depends on your store revenue and your contracted rate.
Your answers are not stored or transmitted. The score is calculated locally in your browser.
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