Most consulting firm owners track revenue and utilisation. Those are lagging indicators. They tell you what already happened. A firm health score measures the structural integrity of your business before problems appear on the P&L.
The Consultancy Health Index (CHI) inside Studio:Blueprint Operate is a composite score derived from five risk axes: revenue concentration, pipeline coverage, delivery margin erosion, founder dependency, and pricing sustainability. Each axis is scored independently using deterministic engines, then weighted and combined into a single number between 0 and 100.
Unlike subjective maturity assessments or AI-generated benchmarks, the CHI is calculated from your real operational data. Enter your clients, engagements, rates, and pipeline, and the engines do the rest. There is no opinion layer. If your top client represents 62% of revenue, that is a concentration risk regardless of how good the relationship feels.
The five axes are not equally weighted. Revenue concentration and pipeline coverage carry more structural weight than pricing sustainability, because a firm with a single client and no pipeline faces existential risk, while a firm with weak pricing faces margin pressure. The weighting reflects three decades of consulting firm advisory experience.
Spreadsheet dashboards show numbers. They do not tell you what those numbers mean in combination. A firm with strong revenue but a thin pipeline and a single dominant client has a structural problem that no revenue chart will surface. The CHI connects these signals. When your pipeline drops below 2x coverage while client concentration exceeds 40%, the alert stack fires a critical warning. That is structural diagnosis, not reporting.
The alert stack recalculates every time your data changes. There is no waiting for month-end. No manual refresh. The moment you mark a proposal as lost or add a new engagement, the CHI updates and any relevant alerts fire immediately.
Every alert generated by the CHI engine includes a single recommended action. Pipeline coverage below target produces a specific gap amount and time horizon. Client concentration above threshold identifies which clients to diversify away from. The system does not generate vague advice. It tells you what is wrong, why it matters, and what to do about it.
The Cockpit tracks your CHI over time through weekly snapshots, so you can see whether your structural health is improving or degrading. Combined with the Economics and Pipeline modules, it gives you a complete operating picture of your firm.
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Start your free trialMost founders who read this page can now define consulting health metrics. Very few know what their own Health Index score actually is. The difference between knowing the concept and holding the number is the gap where margin erodes, pipeline stalls, or risk accumulates undetected. A structured diagnostic gives you the number, calculated from your firm’s actual inputs, not industry benchmarks or estimates.