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Startup Chaos Index

How adaptive is your company really — and how much of the roadmap is already created by urgent messages, random ideas and five simultaneous number-one priorities?

Not scientific. It does not judge startups as good or bad. It shows where speed starts turning into operational noise.

12 questions · ~2 minutes

How managed is your chaos?

Answer for a normal recent 4–6 week period. The first option means the structure survives the speed. The last means strategy changes faster than Notion can refresh.

01 How many real “number-one priorities” does the company have at the same time?

02 How many people can realistically change the team's active work without warning?

03 How often does the next-month roadmap change materially?

04 Do major initiatives usually have one person accountable for the outcome?

05 Where does someone learn what the current real priorities are?

06 When a new urgent priority appears, what happens to the old one?

07 How often does the team get a “small urgent request” that breaks the day's plan?

08 When a difficult decision is needed, is it clear who can give the final yes or no?

09 How realistically can the team plan even two weeks ahead?

10 How often does an important decision exist only in a few people's heads or a private chat?

11 How many initiatives stay “almost started” or “almost finished” because attention moved elsewhere?

12 What happens when a founder / CEO / important customer has a new idea in the evening?