12 questions across 6 dimensions of disaster recovery and business continuity maturity — recovery objectives, backup resilience, redundancy, documentation, testing, and governance. Find out where you'd actually land if a real incident hit today, not where you hope you'd land.
Useful for sharing with a co-founder, ops lead, or whoever owns continuity planning.
Twelve questions, two per dimension, each scored on a 0–3 maturity scale and interpreted by AI against a model built from established disaster recovery and business continuity frameworks — not a generic checklist:
The four maturity levels (Ad Hoc, Developing, Standardized, Resilient) are a simplified version of the five-level Ad Hoc → Fragmented → Standardized → Proactive → Adaptive progression commonly used in industry DR maturity models.
This is a directional self-assessment, not a formal audit. The AI interpretation is based entirely on your own answers — there's no independent verification of your actual infrastructure, backups, or documentation. Treat the score and narrative as a prioritization aid, not a certification of compliance or resilience.
If recovery objectives, compliance posture, or cyber insurance requirements are on the line, pair this with a formal Business Impact Analysis and DR test — not a substitute for one.
Most informal checks stop at "yes/no, we have a plan." This scorecard breaks disaster recovery into six dimensions that tend to fail independently of each other — you can have a written plan and still have untested restores, or tested restores and still have a single person who's the only one who knows how to execute them. The AI report is built to surface exactly which of those gaps is yours.
Ad Hoc — recovery depends on improvisation and tribal knowledge in the moment. Developing — some pieces exist but are inconsistent or undocumented. Standardized — documented, repeatable processes exist for critical systems. Resilient — tested, redundant, and not dependent on any single person, system, or site. These map onto the commonly used Ad Hoc → Fragmented → Standardized → Proactive → Adaptive industry progression, condensed to four tiers here.
Neither — the six dimensions (objectives, backups, redundancy, documentation, testing, governance) apply regardless of where your infrastructure actually lives. A few questions mention cloud concepts like multi-region failover, but the underlying maturity question — "is there a fallback, and has it been tested?" — is the same whether that fallback is a second AWS region or a second physical site.
No. It's a free, directional starting point you can complete in a few minutes using only what you already know. A real Business Impact Analysis or DR audit reviews your actual systems, backup logs, and recovery test evidence — book a discovery call if that's the next step.
No. Your answers are sent to our AI service solely to generate your report and are not stored. Nothing is saved anywhere unless you explicitly ask to have the report emailed to you.