Key-Person Dependency Checklist

• Is every business-critical login in a shared password manager
• Does at least one other human have admin access to your domain, bank, accounting, and primary infrastructure
• Is there a documented continuity plan for the hour after a key person disappears

Paper this down. Most businesses find they are one laptop theft away from chaos, and don't know it until it happens.

• For every top-10 customer, does at least two people on your team have a direct relationship with them
• Can anyone else lead the next QBR if you're unavailable
• Are key supplier relationships named and shared

Single-threading the top-value relationships is the fastest business suicide — customers stay with the person, not the brand, unless you deliberately engineer the opposite.

• Can the team describe, in writing, how you would make the top 10 recurring decisions
• Pricing exceptions, discount approval, hiring signoff, major vendor changes, customer escalations
• The goal is not to make you unneeded

If not, those decisions will freeze when you disappear — and the business will freeze with them. It's to make the business temporarily OK without you.