The missing step in business decisions: proper pre-diagnosis

Many business decisions fail not because of bad ideas, but because the problem was never diagnosed properly. Teams jump straight into strategy, execution, or tooling without validating where the real constraints actually are.

In my experience, an early third party business assessment can dramatically improve decision quality. Not to replace judgment or expertise, but to challenge internal assumptions and surface blind spots across finance, operations, and governance before serious resources are committed.

This is where structured approaches, whether a lightweight business diagnostic tool online or a broader Business Strategy Toolkit, become useful. They force uncomfortable questions early, when course correction is still cheap.

I’ve seen platforms like Business-Tester used in this way, not as a solution engine, but as a pre-diagnostic layer that helps teams agree on what is actually broken before debating how to fix it.

Curious how others here approach pre-diagnosis before major strategic or investment decisions.