The Story Tax Index · Free Diagnostic

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Question 1 of 7

Calibrates your peer cohort.

What is your role?

CEO / Managing Director

CFO / COO

CTO / CRO / CPO

CIO / CISO

VP / Senior Director

PE Operating Partner

Divisional CEO

Director

Other Executive

Ownership structure shapes the cost model.

What best describes your organization?

PE-Backed

Established Private

Public Company

Venture-Backed (Series B/C+)

Bootstrapped

Nonprofit

Government / Public Sector

Venture-Backed (Seed / Series A)

Industry context affects which patterns dominate.

What sector are you in?

SaaS / Tech

Healthcare

Financial Services

Professional Services

Manufacturing / Industrial

Government / Public Sector

Logistics / Supply Chain

Consumer / Retail / Media

Nonprofit / Education

Other

Larger organizations have more legitimate coordination overhead.

How large is your organization?

Under 100 people

100 – 500 people

500 – 2,000 people

2,000+ people

Longer-running patterns take more to interrupt.

How long have you been in senior leadership?

Under 3 years

3 – 7 years

8 – 12 years

Over 12 years

Your bracket is more precise than role title alone.

What is your approximate annual compensation?

Under $200K

$200K – $350K

$350K – $600K

$600K – $1M

Over $1M

Prefer not to say

Scores during high-demand periods are valid but interpreted differently.

Did an unusual organizational event dominate the past 90 days?

No — this was a normal operating period

Yes — board process, M&A, restructuring, or crisis

Your diagnostic is ready.

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This prompt reads your calendar, emails, and meetings from the last 90 days. Nothing leaves your AI.

What you're about to see

Section 1 is your private behavioral mirror — specific patterns from your actual emails, calendar, and meetings, named directly. It stays in your AI. We never see it.

Section 2 is an anonymous signal block. No names, no content — only intensity ratings. That's what you paste here to get your score.

Step 1

Smart instinct to check.

Where it runs

The prompt runs entirely inside your M365 tenant. No external connection. No installation. You’re typing into the same Copilot instance your organization already pays for — Microsoft’s DLP policies and your security team’s guardrails apply throughout, because you never step outside them.

What it reads

90 days of behavioral signal — calendar patterns, send times, delegation threads. Your calendar doesn’t lie. The recurring meeting that never produced a named decision is in there. The thread you rejoined after you already delegated it is in there.

What leaves your system

Section 1 is a private behavioral mirror — specific and named, visible only to you inside Copilot. Section 2 is a completely anonymized signal block: no names, no meeting titles, no project references. Nothing a compliance officer couldn’t read without learning a single thing about your organization.

That anonymized block is the only thing that ever moves — and only if you choose to paste it here.

Your data stays in your house. Microsoft built the guardrails.
You’re just finally using the tool to see what your calendar has been quietly measuring for years.

Runs inside your M365 tenant Nothing leaves Microsoft’s infrastructure Anonymized score block only

At your desk later? Send this to your work email.

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WHAT THIS IS COSTING YOUR ORGANIZATION

per week, in hours your organization cannot recover.

hours lost per week

working weeks lost per year

structural capacity running

IF YOUR SCORE DROPS 15 POINTS

You recover per week — returned to your organization annually.

YOUR STORY TAX SCORE

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YOUR FIVE PILLARS · RANKED BY DRAG

WHY THESE SCORES ARE MORE PRECISE THAN YOUR AI OUTPUT

COMPOUNDING PATTERNS

WHAT YOUR SITUATION TELLS US

HAS THIS SPREAD TO YOUR TEAM?

HOW HARD WILL THIS BE TO CHANGE?

WHAT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING

YOUR 90-DAY TRACK

Your track is open.

Run the 5-pillar check-in prompt at Day 21 and Day 45. At Day 90 run the full diagnostic again. Each run takes under 10 minutes.

✓

Day 0

Baseline complete

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Day 21

Opens —

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Day 45

Opens —

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Day 90

Full diagnostic

Day 21, 45 & 90 milestone prompts — calibrated to your dominant pillar
Weekly behavioral check-in — 5 minutes every 7 days
Before / after cost-recovery calculation at Day 90

DAY 21 PULSE

Copy this into M365 Copilot (select Work, not Web). Paste Section 2 back into the signal field and click Calculate to see if your score moved.

In the last 21 days, did you actively work on this pattern?

Paste into M365 Copilot (Work mode) and run it.

PASTE THE SCORE BLOCK FROM COPILOT:

No names, no meeting titles, no company context.

SEE THE EVIDENCE YOURSELF

M365 COPILOT PROMPT — PASTE INTO BUSINESS CHAT

Open M365 Copilot →

Your data. Your tenant. Nothing leaves your Microsoft 365 environment.

WHAT COMES NEXT

Three checkpoints. Each one under 10 minutes. Each one tells you something the last one couldn’t.

Day 21

5-PILLAR CHECK-IN

Run a single-pillar pulse on your dominant pattern using the prompt above. See whether the intensity score moved. Seven minutes, one number.

Day 45

MIDPOINT CHECK

Second pulse on the same pillar. A flat score here is a signal — the drag may be systemic, not personal. The track above will tell you what it means.

Day 90

FULL DIAGNOSTIC

Run all five pillars again. Your before/after movement is now visible across the entire index — the number you bring to any conversation about where the cost is coming from.

The prompt for each checkpoint unlocks automatically in the track above when the date arrives. Come back, paste your new signal block, and click Calculate.

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What is your role?

What best describes your organization?

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How large is your organization?

How long have you been in senior leadership?

What is your approximate annual compensation?

Did an unusual organizational event dominate the past 90 days?

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What is your role?

What best describes your organization?

What sector are you in?

How large is your organization?

How long have you been in senior leadership?

What is your approximate annual compensation?

Did an unusual organizational event dominate the past 90 days?

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