Business Resilience Assessment UK | The Resilient SME
Only 38.4% of UK businesses survive 5 years  ·  ONS Business Demography 2024

How resilient is
your business?

Most SME failures are preventable. They're driven by vulnerabilities in cash flow, governance and operations that business owners could have addressed — if only they'd known where to look. The Resilient SME shows you exactly where to look.

Grounded in ONS & OECD data 11 resilience domains Report in under 25 minutes AI-assisted throughout
Why this matters

Financial reports tell you what happened.
We tell you what's likely to happen next.

Your accountant's reports are essential — but they're lagging indicators. They measure what already happened. The Resilient SME uses leading indicators across 11 operational domains, benchmarked against ONS, OECD and sector data, to give you a forward-looking picture of your business's true resilience.

Traditional financial reporting

Lagging indicators

Tell you how your business has performed. Useful for compliance and tax. But by the time problems appear in your accounts, you're already managing consequences — not preventing them.

  • Annual accounts and P&L statements
  • Management accounts and balance sheets
  • Bank statements and overdraft levels
  • Tax returns and VAT submissions
  • Historical cash flow statements
RSME Resilience Assessment

Leading indicators

Show how your business is likely to perform. Benchmarked against 363,825 UK enterprises tracked by ONS, these signals identify vulnerabilities months before they appear in the numbers — when action is cheapest.

  • Cash flow forecasting quality and frequency
  • Governance structure and risk register maturity
  • Leadership depth and succession readiness
  • Customer concentration and pipeline confidence
  • Cyber posture and operational documentation
Benchmarked against
ONS Business Demography 2024 OECD SME Performance Review 2025 EC Annual SME Report 2024/25 UK Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2025 British Business Bank Finance Survey 363,825 UK enterprises tracked · 5,200+ research studies · 11 domains · Updated quarterly
See it in action

Three tiers. One intelligence layer.

Every assessment produces an instant, benchmarked report. Choose the depth that fits your situation.

Resilience Pulse Check — £24.99
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Three assessments. One clear picture
of your business.

Choose the depth that's right for you. Every tier includes an AI assistant to help you answer accurately — and a benchmarked, branded report delivered by email within minutes.

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RSME Sections 2 and 3
For business owners

Your report is the start.
Not the end.

Most diagnostic tools give you a score and leave you alone with it. The Resilient SME gives you a benchmarked report — then puts an AI coach alongside it to help you understand what it means and what to do next. The complete loop, in one platform.

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Choose your assessment

Select the tier that fits your situation — a quick 4-domain Pulse Check, a full 11-domain Business Resilience Report, or a board-level Strategic Advisory. All AI-assisted.

8 – 25 minutes
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AI guides you through

Not sure what a question means? Click the AI assistant on any question. It explains what's being asked, gives examples from your sector, and helps you find the most accurate answer.

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Receive your benchmarked report

Your branded HTML report arrives by email within minutes. Scores across every domain, benchmarked against ONS and OECD sector data, with a prioritised 90-day action plan.

Delivered by email
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Ask anything about your results

Upload your report to the Digital Coach. Ask any question — "What does my cash flow score mean?", "Which domain should I prioritise?", "How do I improve my governance score?"

Available anytime

11 domains.
One clear picture.

The Resilient SME assesses your business across 11 operational resilience domains — the same areas that ONS data shows are most predictive of 5-year business survival. Scored, benchmarked, and actioned.

Cash Flow
Deal Confidence
Customer Loyalty
Operational Resilience
Risk & Governance
Cyber & AI Security
People & Leadership
Communications
Decision & Data
Growth & Change
Energy & Sustainability
38.4% UK 5-year business survival rate ONS Business Demography 2024
60% of failures driven by preventable operational weaknesses U.S. Bank / OECD 2024
80% survival rate for businesses doing monthly cash reviews Novuna Business Finance 2025
30–50% lower failure rates for SMEs scoring above 7/10 OECD / EC Meta-analysis 2024

The Digital Coach
for your report

Once you have your report, the conversation doesn't end. Upload it to the RSME Digital Coach and get instant, context-aware answers to any question about your results — as a business owner or as an advisor reviewing a client.

  • "What does my cash flow score of 5.5 actually mean?"
  • "Which domain should I prioritise in the next 90 days?"
  • "How does my governance score compare to my sector?"
  • "What quick wins can I act on this week?"
  • Two personas — business owner or advisor — same report, different lens
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RSME Digital Coach AI
👤 Business Owner Understand your results and what to do next
💼 Advisor Prepare for a client conversation
My cash flow score is 5.5 — what does that mean for my business?
A score of 5.5 in Cash Flow puts you in the Stabilising band — you're above the danger zone but below where you need to be. The main signal here is that your forecasting cadence is probably monthly rather than weekly, and you may have less than 6 weeks of cash visibility. The most impactful action is moving to a 13-week rolling forecast...
Ask anything about your report...

Ready to see where
your business actually stands?

Choose your assessment, complete it honestly, and have your benchmarked report in your inbox within minutes. The AI assistant is with you throughout.

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For advisors, accountants & sponsors

Know which clients need attention
before they do.

The Resilient SME gives professional advisors, accountancy firms and financial institutions a live intelligence layer across their entire SME client base — surfacing fragility signals before they show up in the numbers, and opening structured conversations at exactly the right moment.

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Pre-qualified client conversations

Your clients complete an assessment before your meeting. You arrive knowing their cash flow score, their weakest domains, and exactly which questions will open the most valuable conversation. No guesswork.

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Live portfolio intelligence

Every completed assessment feeds your live dashboard automatically. Your entire client base — scored, banded, and tracked over time. See who needs attention before they call you in a crisis.

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White-labelled as your own

Deploy the platform under your brand. Your clients see your name, your logo, your colours. The RSME engine runs behind the scenes. You look like a firm with proprietary intelligence capability.

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New billable mandate hooks

A Tier 3 Strategic Advisory report gives you a scripted conversation opener for every weak domain your client scored. That's four to six pre-qualified engagement opportunities per assessment.

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Evidence for credit decisions

Non-financial resilience data — governance, leadership depth, operational documentation — informs lending and relationship decisions in ways balance sheets can't. A more complete picture of repayment capacity.

Zero overhead to activate

Your clients get a branded survey URL. They complete it. The report generates automatically. Your dashboard updates. Your advisor brief arrives. No manual analysis, no data entry, no waiting.

The Portfolio Dashboard

Every assessment your clients complete feeds this live dashboard automatically. Clients scored, banded, and tracked over time — with alerts for score declines and sector comparison. This is what your Monday morning looks like with RSME.

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25 SMEs assessed in portfolio
68 Average portfolio resilience score
3 Clients need immediate attention
11 Domains tracked per client
Band distribution
Fragile 2
Exposed 4
Stabilising 7
Resilient 10
Robust 2

How the
partnership works

Onboarding a new advisory partner takes under an hour. Your clients see a seamless branded experience. You get intelligence, dashboard access, and a bespoke advisor brief for every completed assessment.

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    We set up your white-label instance — your branding, your survey URL, your Make.com automation scenario. Takes under an hour.
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    You share the link with your SME clients — with your own discount code if you're funding access. Clients complete the survey in 8–25 minutes.
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    Reports generate automatically — your client gets their report, you get an advisor brief with scripted conversation openers, your dashboard updates.
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    You arrive at the meeting knowing exactly what to talk about — which domains are weak, what the data shows, and where the billable opportunities are.
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    Reassess quarterly — score improvements tracked over time become your most powerful client retention and upsell mechanic.

Interested in a partnership?

Every partnership is tailored to the firm — size, client base, and how you want to deploy the platform. Pricing is discussed directly and kept confidential between us.

We start with a 60-day onboarding period — enough time to run assessments across a sample of your client base, see the dashboard in action, and hold a review session together before committing to anything longer term.

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Accountancy & Advisory
Accountants & Business Advisors

White-label the platform under your firm's brand. Use Tier 3 advisor briefs to open pre-qualified client conversations. Deploy Tier 1 as a client engagement and retention tool.

Pays for itself on the first billable mandate it opens
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Local Authority & LEP
Councils & Growth Hubs

Sponsor free assessments for your local SME community. Receive anonymised aggregate data as a "State of SME Resilience" intelligence snapshot — evidence-based policy and economic development intelligence.

50-SME pilot from £2,500 · Aggregate report included
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Banks & Lenders
Banks, Lenders & Insurers

Portfolio risk intelligence at lending and relationship review stage. Non-financial resilience data — governance, leadership, operations — informs credit decisions in ways balance sheets can't.

Lender-ready report format · Contact us to discuss volume arrangements

Ready to bring this to
your client base?

Start with our 60-day onboarding package — 10 assessments, your branding, your dashboard, and a review session at the end. The fastest way to see what this looks like across your portfolio.