Hiring readiness tool

Contractor hiring readiness score

Before you add payroll, check the whole growth stack: booked-job demand, pricing, cash runway, training, schedule handoffs, quality control, and owner time. This score shows whether a first hire will create capacity or chaos.

How to use this score

Answer honestly. A "sometimes" is not a yes. The goal is not a vanity grade; it is finding the next bottleneck that stops a homeowner from becoming a booked job.

Best next action

Fix the lowest-scoring habit first, then retake this quiz in 30 days.

1. Do you have enough repeatable booked-job demand to keep another person busy for the next 90 days? 2. Are your estimating, scheduling, job handoff, and callback steps documented well enough for someone else to follow? 3. Do you know whether the next role should be W-2, 1099, apprentice, admin, helper, or lead tech? 4. Can you explain the first 30 days of training without improvising each morning? 5. Do you have a simple scorecard for quality, speed, attendance, callbacks, and customer experience? 6. Can your current pricing and cash runway support payroll burden, insurance, tools, drive time, callbacks, and downtime? 7. Do you have a weekly meeting rhythm to catch margin, schedule, and customer problems before they become expensive?

Role decision

Pick employee, subcontractor, admin, or apprentice before you post the job.

Workflow control

Turn the work into SOPs so your first hire does not learn by guessing.

Margin check

Verify the role can pay for itself through booked jobs, cash runway, and margin, not hope.

Product fit

This tool is a hiring decision aid, not a website pitch.

Webzaz only fits if your score is low because the business lacks enough website-driven qualified leads, service-page proof, or quote-form conversion to keep another tech busy. LocalKit only fits if profile links, reviews, QR destinations, or Google Business Profile routing are part of the hiring bottleneck.