AOC Partnership X-Ray™ Diagnostic Experience
$1,250

AOC Partnership X-Ray™ Diagnostic Experience

For business partners, co-founders, and leadership pairs whose decisions affect revenue, growth, people, risk, and the future of the business.

A partnership does not have to be in conflict for misalignment to become expensive.

Two capable people can communicate well, care deeply about the business, and still carry different assumptions about growth, risk, trust, roles, or who gets to make which decisions.

What can that cost actually look like?


A major decision never fully gets settled.
You discuss it, move toward a decision, then circle back again. Expansion, hiring, investments, or financial decisions slow down while the business waits for both partners to feel comfortable moving forward.

You agree on the goal but not on the level of risk.
One partner sees growth as the way to protect the business. The other sees restraint as the safer path. Neither person has to be wrong, but unresolved differences can delay opportunities and make every major decision take more time and energy.

A business decision becomes a question of trust.
The conversation may start with hiring, spending, or expansion, but underneath it is a bigger question: Do you trust my judgment? When that remains unresolved, the same tension can return in decision after decision.

That is where partnership misalignment becomes expensive — in delayed decisions, missed opportunities, repeated conversations, leadership time, stalled growth, and important choices that take longer than they should.

The AOC Partnership X-Ray™ is designed to help you understand where your partnership is strongly aligned, where your perspectives may differ, and what may be worth clarifying around roles, trust, communication, growth, risk, and decision-making.

Your Experience Includes


  • Your first AOC Partnership X-Ray™ — establishes your starting benchmark
  • Personalized Partnership X-Ray Report — shows your Partnership Alignment Score, Alignment Gap, dimension scores, areas of strength, emerging areas of strain, and the patterns affecting how you operate together
  • Geoffrey Schmidt’s personal review of your results
  • Private 60-minute Results & Interpretation Session — connect the findings to the actual decisions, conversations, growth questions, and situations you are navigating together
  • Companion Interpretation & Implementation Guide
  • 90-Day Growth Plan
  • Practical tools and exercises to help you apply what you learned
  • Your second AOC Partnership X-Ray™ at 90 days — compare it with your original benchmark and see what improved, how much changed, and what may still need attention

How It Works

1. Take the first X-Ray.
This establishes the benchmark for how the partnership is operating today.
2. Put the findings to work for 90 days.
Use your Growth Plan, tools, and exercises in real conversations, decisions, roles, and areas of shared responsibility.
3. Take the X-Ray again.
Compare the two results and see what actually changed.
You have a benchmark. You have a plan. And 90 days later, you have a comparison.

Investment: $1,250 · One-Time Purchase

When partnership decisions can affect tens of thousands of dollars, hiring, expansion, investments, revenue, and the direction of the business, greater alignment does not need to improve many decisions before the investment can become meaningful.

For founder teams, partner groups, leadership teams, or organizations interested in multiple AOC X-Ray™ experiences, inquire about custom team options and pricing.