Step oneAnswer fifteen questions.
Three questions per dimension, four options each, multiple-choice throughout. No free-text fields.
Frontier Index
Export Readiness Scorecard
A fast export readiness assessment across five pillars, built to show what is already strong and what needs attention before a market decision is made.
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Models You Keep.Advanced analytical frameworks, yours to re-run and audit.
Adversarial Review.Every verdict challenged and verified before delivery.
The decision
Are our foundations strong enough to begin exporting with control?
Use this first when expansion is still an ambition, or when the organisation needs an honest export readiness diagnostic before committing time, money or board attention.
The overall result is built from five pillar scores, so you can see which foundations already support export readiness and which ones would weaken it.
What you walk away with
- Strategy readiness.
- Operational readiness.
- Commercial readiness.
- Resourcing position.
- Market intelligence.
What you keep
Outputs built to travel beyond the project.
The result is delivered with the score, priority gap and route logic needed for a leadership conversation.
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Readiness profile.
A clear view of the strengths and gaps across five export-readiness pillars.
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Priority gap.
The capability most likely to weaken the next market decision.
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Recommended next step.
A plain-English route based on the result.
04
Portable result.
A PDF sent to your mailbox, so you can keep the result and share it with the leadership team.
How the answer is built
A method fitted to the shape of the decision.
The scorecard uses a fifteen-question diagnostic built from Cavusgil's CORE framework and the Uppsala internationalisation model.
The output is a fast readiness read: it highlights the foundations already in place, the gaps that could weaken a market decision and the best next step if the score shows concern.
That makes it more useful than a static export readiness checklist. The result does not just record whether items exist. It shows where the next market decision may be exposed.
Read the full methodologyReadiness questions
A scorecard should lead to the next decision.
An export readiness assessment tests whether the organisation has the strategy, capacity, commercial readiness, resourcing and market intelligence needed before choosing a foreign market.
A checklist records whether items exist. The scorecard shows which readiness gaps could weaken the next market decision and which Frontier step fits the result.
The result points to the next useful Frontier step. That may be a single-market assessment, a market comparison, an entry decision or later entry planning.
No. It is a readiness diagnostic. If a market is already on the table, Frontier Brief or Frontier Reckoning may be the better next step.
Good fit when
- Businesses are considering export for the first time.
- Leadership teams are testing whether the basics are in place.
- Export plans need an objective starting point.
Not designed for
- Selecting a final target market.
- A legal or customs opinion.
- A substitute for company-specific market research.
How the work runs
Three steps. Five minutes.
Step twoStudy your score.
The result lands immediately, with your readiness band, per-dimension narrative and next-step logic.
Step threeShare the route.
Use the recommendation with the leadership team and return to it when the timing changes.
Commercial clarity
Free. 3-5 minutes.
Start with a quick score before you commission anything. The result gives you a structured view of the question and helps you choose whether a deeper service is needed.
Use the result to choose the route.
Complete the scorecard and receive a tailored result you can keep, share and come back to when the timing changes. If one market is already on the table, move toward Single-Market Assessment. If several markets are plausible, move toward Market Comparison. If the board is ready to decide, move toward Market Entry Decision.
Next step
Start a conversation.
Bring us a market question the leadership team cannot yet answer. We will tell you whether it fits a defined product, what evidence it needs, and what the fixed fee would be. If it does not fit, we will say so.