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Welcome to the NXTUS Fluency Score process
Update your information quickly for NXTUS using this auto-filled form. If this is your first Fluency Score, most entrepreneurs complete this process in 20-30 minutes, depending on the complexity and stage of their business.

You will receive a diagnostic Fluency Score report, a snapshot of your company's progress toward product-market fit. Your Fluency Score report contains personalized recommendations that will be immediately useful to you for strategic decision-making around building your business model. The Fluency Score is not meant to grade how "good" your company is. Rather, a Fluency Score report simply describes your company's business model development at this point in time.

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Please select your highest academic achievement.(Required)
- High school or equivalent, technical or occupational certificate
- Some college coursework completed
- Associate’s degree
- Bachelor's degree
- Master's degree
- Doctorate
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Since you selected "Other", please indicate your preferred pronouns.(Required)
Your Home Zipcode(Required)
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Are you the CEO or a founder of the company?(Required)
- CEO
- Founder in another role
- Not the CEO or a founder
Because the questions in this process focus primarily on the work completed by the company to de-risk foundational assumptions about the business model, this process must be completed by the CEO or a founder of the company.
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Tell us about your business.
Company Name(Required)
Company Address(Required)
City State ZIP Code
Company Logo (optional)
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Date Founded(Required)
Company Website
Company LinkedIn
Company Twitter/X Profile
Company Facebook Page
Company Instagram Page
What is the total revenue your company has generated to date?(Required)
What is your revenue goal?(Required)
What amount of revenue from how many customers would you like achieve and by when?
What is the structure of your business?(Required)
- C Corp
- B Corp
- LLC
- Partnership
- Sole Proprietorship
- Non-Profit
- None yet

Congrats on the traction! For the revenue generated with this revenue model, please describe the current state of these sales.(Required)
- These are all sales - Customers have purchased our product/service and are able to access it now.
- These are all presales - Customers have purchased our product/service and are waiting for us to finish producing it.
- We have a mix of sales and presales.
In a given week, what percentage of company time is being directed to revenue generation?(Required)
- We haven't focused on it yet
- 1-10% - We put a little time into it but not much or we haven't really gotten started
- 11-25% - We put some time and effort into revenue generation on a regular basis but it's episodic and unfocused
- 26-50% - We're actively dedicating time and resources to our go-to-market strategy
- >50% - Driving revenue into our business is our primary focus as a business
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How many subscriptions have you presold?(Required)
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How many total subscription customers have you signed to your platform?(Required)
How many active subscription customers do you currently have on your platform?(Required)
What is the average monthly price of your subscription plan(s)?(Required)
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Congrats on the traction! - For the revenue generated with this revenue model, please describe the current state of these sales.(Required)
- These are all sales - Customers have purchased our product/service and are able to access it now.
- These are all presales - Customers have purchased our product/service and are waiting for us to finish producing it.
- We have a mix of sales and presales.
In a week, what percentage of company time is being directed to revenue generation?(Required)
- We haven't focused on it yet
- 1-10% - We put a little time into it but not much or we haven't really gotten started
- 11-25% - We put some time and effort into revenue generation on a regular basis but it's episodic and unfocused
- 26-50% - We're actively dedicating time and resources to our go-to-market strategy
- >50% - Driving revenue into our business is our primary focus as a business
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Presales Transactions Section
How many presales have you processed?(Required)
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How many sales/transactions have you processed?(Required)
How many refunds have been requested?(Required)
What is the average revenue per transaction?(Required)
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Please write an elevator pitch for this business model, which will be displayed in your Fluency Score report.

This "elevator pitch" quickly summarizes the business model you described in this form.

Here is the easiest way to write the business model elevator pitch:
For [specific target customer segment] who [specific problem], [your business name] offers [solution]. [Your business name] makes money by [revenue model].

For example: For moms need help getting kids' lunches prepared for school, Shoppy offers an on-demand hand-packed lunchbox option that can be customized for each child's preferences. Shoppy generates revenue through a B2C monthly subscription.
Summary Business Model Description(Required)

Team Info
How many founders does your company have?(Required)
Which of the following applies to the founders of your business?(Required)
Important: This question helps NXTUS collect required impact data to the organizations that provide grant funding. Please read through each option and select all that apply.
- Veteran
- Female
- Male
- Transgender
- Non-Binary/Non-Conforming
- Bisexual
- Gay
- Heterosexual/Straight
- Other sexual orientation
- Asian or Asian American
- Black or African American
- Hispanic or Latino
- Native American or Alaska Native
- Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
- White
- Physical or Mental Disability
- Other
How many founders are veterans?(Required)
How many founders are female?(Required)
How many founders are male?(Required)
How many founders are transgender?(Required)
How many founders are non-binary/non-conforming?(Required)
How many founders are bisexual?(Required)
How many founders are gay?(Required)
How many founders are heterosexual/straight?(Required)
How many founders identify with another sexual orientation or prefer to self-describe?(Required)
How many founders are Asian or Asian American?(Required)
How many founders are Black or African American?(Required)
How many founders are Hispanic or Latino?(Required)
How many founders are Native American or Alaska Native?(Required)
How many founders are Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander?(Required)
How many founders are white?(Required)
How many founders have a physical or mental disability?(Required)
Since you selected "Other", please describe the categories you and/or your co-founders identify with below.
Please select all of the roles that are currently active on your team:(Required)
- We have full-time, paid employees.
- We have part-time, paid employees.
- We have paid contractors.
- We have volunteers.
- We have paid or equity-only advisors.
- We are too early to be building the team or paying ourselves yet.
Number of full-time, paid employees currently(Required)
This number is displayed in your Fluency Score report.
Number of part-time, paid employees currently(Required)
Number of paid contractors currently(Required)
Number of volunteers currently(Required)
Number of advisors currently(Required)
Please describe where your team works.(Required)
- In-Person
- Fully remote
- Hybrid (some in-person and some remote)
In the past two weeks, have you completed any of these People/Team activities:(Required)
- Interviewed someone for a role on the team
- Other task(s) related to recruiting or hiring a new team member
- Worked on onboarding a new team member
- Team training
- Payroll or other HR admin
- Other
- None of the above
Since you selected "Other", please describe other People/Team activities you've completed in the past two weeks:(Required)
Please select any of the following Admin/Mgmt activities you've worked on in the past two weeks.(Required)
- Accounting, such as taxes, invoices, bookkeeping, banking
- Legal, such as contracts, incorporation, meetings with attorney etc
- HR, such as insurance, benefits, payroll
- Networking/coffee meetings
- Internal team meetings
- Professional development/training
- Other
- None of the above
Since you selected "Other", please describe the Admin/Mgmt activities you've worked on in the past two weeks.(Required)
Funding Info
How have you funded the business?(Required)
- Investments
- SBIR/STTR awards
- Accelerator grants/investments
- Pitch competitions & other grants/awards
- Other funding
- None of the above
How much has your company raised in equity financing?
For example: Convertible note, SAFE, Priced round etc. This field accepts numbers only, no other characters. This number is displayed in your Fluency Score report.
Please list investments for this business.(Required)
Date Amount Raised Type of Round
Please list the SBIR/STTR awards for this business.(Required)
Date Awarded (MO/YEAR) Type of Award (SBIR or STTR) Granting Agency Grant/Contract Amount
Please list accelerator programs you've received investment or grant funding from(Required)
Date Funding amount Funding type
Please list pitch competitions, grants and other awards.(Required)
Date Amount awarded Type of award
You indicated you funded this business in other ways. Please elaborate.(Required)
In the past two weeks, please select any of the funding activities listed below you have worked on:(Required)
- Pitched to investors/funders
- Worked on pitch deck or other fundraising materials
- Applied to an accelerator or other business support program
- Researched and/or reached out to potential funders
- Worked on securing funding through non-investor capital sources (bank, lender etc)
- Worked on a grant or SBIR/STTR proposal
- Other
- None
Since you selected "Other", please describe what other funding activities you worked on in the past two weeks.(Required)
Product Info
At what stage of development is your product/service/solution?(Required)
This product development stage is displayed in your Fluency Score report.
- Idea
- Conceptual prototype, mockup
- Lightweight prototype, theoretical
- Prototype, partially functional
- Functional and sellable prototype
- Product in the market, produced on demand and/or using third party solutions
- Flagship product in the market iterating as needed
- Custom developed/produced product fully baked and scalable
- Multiple scalable product offerings
- Complex array of product offerings available at scale
In the past two weeks, please select any of the product development activities listed below you have worked on.(Required)
- Worked on product designs/mockups
- Worked on product development
- Worked on bug fixes
- User testing
- Other
- None of the above
Since you selected "Other", please describe any other product activities you worked on in the past two weeks.(Required)

Thank you for completing the Fluency Score process for NXTUS
The answers you provided in this process will be calculated through the Fluency Score algorithm to create a numerical score as well as analysis and recommendations specific to this business model.

Upon submission of this form, your score will be processed and prepared as quickly as possible. You will receive an email when your Score Report is ready to view.

Thank you for taking the time to share the work you've done to build your business!
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Welcome to the NXTUS Fluency Score process

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Tell us about your business.

Let's begin by learning more about your business model.

Alerts and Errors on Revenue Model selection

Great. The Fluency Score is designed to measure and show the good work you have already done, even at the earliest stages. You'll have an opportunity to share any pre-revenue traction you have in a few minutes.

Great. You'll have a place to share more about this traction in a few minutes.

Now let's talk more about the customer segment you are targeting.

Please describe your approach to learning about the problem from .

Please describe what you learned in these interactions.

5 - Validation Velocity

5 - Validation Velocity (last two weeks)

Presales SaaS Section

SaaS Sales Section

Presales Transactions Section

Sales - Transactions Section

Hidden (Grow 2) B2B>10, B2C>100

Grow Part 3 Gate - B2B>100, B2C>1000

Sales Velocity

Grow Part 1 Gate - More than 1 Sale or Presale

Grow 3 Gate Referrals - B2B>100, B2C>1000

Marketing Velocity - no gate

Please write an elevator pitch for this business model, which will be displayed in your Fluency Score report.

Team Info

Funding Info

Product Info

Thank you for completing the Fluency Score process for NXTUS

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Date Awarded (MO/YEAR)	Type of Award (SBIR or STTR)	Granting Agency	Grant/Contract Amount

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Date	Amount awarded	Type of award