4CAP Leadership Capacity Assessment | 323 Ocean
4CAP Leadership Capacity Assessment

Twelve minutes.
One private diagnostic.

Answer 40 items and receive a private diagnostic of your current leadership capacity across four dimensions, your placement on the Capable / Able / Prepared ladder, and the single Leverage Point where focused work moves the whole system.

Some questions ask how often something is true for you. Others ask how strongly you agree. Read each one carefully before you answer.

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40 items About 8 to 12 minutes Private
What you receive
Example Diagnostic
Your Results
Thank you, Robert.
Here is what we heard.
You wrote “I do not know whether I am scaling the company or outgrowing the role” and then described what you want to fix next quarter. That is not a planning question. That is a capacity question, and you already answered it.
Your Stage
Capable
Capable / Able / Prepared
Anchored By
Purpose and Alignment
Composite 2.72 · Leverage 2.00
Physical Foundation
3.45
Mental Resilience
3.10
Emotional Intelligence
2.81
Purpose and Alignment
2.00
Example diagnostic. Yours will read differently.

About the 4CAP Leadership Capacity Assessment

The 4CAP Leadership Capacity Assessment is a private leadership diagnostic from 323 Ocean, an advisory firm in Indianapolis, Indiana, founded in 2022 by Michael Crafton. Michael created the 4CAP leadership methodology. A company cannot outgrow the capacity of the person running it, and 4CAP exists for exactly that.

The assessment has 40 items and takes about 8 to 12 minutes. It reads your current leadership capacity across four dimensions: Physical Foundation, Mental Resilience, Emotional Intelligence, and Purpose and Alignment. The dimensions do not average out; the lowest one caps the rest.

When you finish, your results place you on the Capable, Able, Prepared ladder and name the single Leverage Point where focused work moves the whole system. Your results appear on screen, and your full personalized report follows by email.

The 4CAP methodology is guidance, not coaching. It did not come from a textbook. Michael pursued deliberate development across the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual dimensions. The methodology also underpins 323 Ocean Leadership Guidance for CEOs and founders. Questions: godeep@323ocean.com.

4CAP questions, answered

What is the 4CAP Leadership Capacity Assessment?

It is a leadership diagnostic of 40 items from 323 Ocean in Indianapolis. It reads your current leadership capacity across four dimensions, places you on the Capable, Able, Prepared ladder, and names the single Leverage Point where focused work moves the whole system.

Who created 4CAP?

Michael Crafton, Founder and Principal of 323 Ocean and founder of 360 Services (later Nelbud Services Group), created the 4CAP leadership methodology. 323 Ocean is the trade name of Flex Alpha, LLC, at 6332 Guilford Ave, Indianapolis, Indiana. The methodology is 323 Ocean’s own. It did not come from a textbook; Michael pursued deliberate development across the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual dimensions.

What does 4CAP stand for?

The 4 is the four dimensions the framework develops: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. CAP is the three outcomes it builds toward: Capable, Able, Prepared. On the assessment, the four dimensions are named Physical Foundation, Mental Resilience, Emotional Intelligence, and Purpose and Alignment.

How long does the assessment take, and what do I receive?

It takes about 8 to 12 minutes to answer 40 items. Some items ask how often something is true for you; others ask how strongly you agree. Your results appear on screen when you finish, and your full personalized report follows by email.

The Four Dimensions
Physical Foundation
Executive endurance under load.
Mental Resilience
Strategic clarity under pressure.
Emotional Intelligence
Stakeholder influence at scale.
Purpose and Alignment
Values-aligned leadership.

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About Ann

Ann Marie Moorman serves as the operational backbone of 323 Ocean, coordinating complex engagements and ensuring seamless client experiences. With experience spanning financial services and hospitality, she brings exceptional organizational capability and client relationship skills to every project.

Ann Marie manages large-scale initiatives, supports executive operations, and leverages advanced AI technologies to optimize processes and drive strategic initiatives. Her ability to coordinate across multiple workstreams while maintaining attention to detail makes her invaluable to 323 Ocean’s delivery excellence.

She ensures that the practitioner experience Michael brings to strategy translates into flawless execution.

About Michael

Michael Crafton is the Founder and Principal of 323 Ocean. He built and sold companies before he ever advised one, and he founded 323 Ocean in 2022, after 17 years of building, to help other founders navigate what he had lived through.

He is best known for turning $800 of his own startup capital into Nelbud Services Group. He started in 2005 with a pickup truck and handwritten invoices, no investors, and no systems. Over 17 years he built a national footprint of more than 20 offices serving 40,000 customer locations. Across his career he has led 11 acquisitions and 5 exits, on both sides of the table.

He has led through two downturns. In 2008, while competitors retreated, he automated field operations and signed national contracts. When the pandemic took 70% of revenue in a quarter, he rebuilt the business model from the ground up. Nine months later the company posted record earnings, and the rebuilt company went on to exit at a multiple the old model could never have carried.

Through every cycle Michael held to Employees First, Customers Second. Take care of the people and they take care of the customer. The approach lowered customer acquisition cost, raised customer lifetime value, and earned 9 Top Workplace awards.

He puts discipline before technology. Fundamentals come first, because automation and AI amplify the operation you already have, for better or worse.

Michael created the 4CAP leadership methodology from a simple recognition: business success without personal alignment is hollow, and a company cannot outgrow the capacity of the person running it. The framework develops the leader across the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual dimensions, making them Capable, Able, and Prepared. It grew from his own deliberate development, through crucibles chosen on purpose and through the harder internal work of reconciling with the past.

This is not coaching. Coaching implies someone who knows your path better than you do. The 4CAP methodology is guidance from someone who has walked it.

Michael is a past Chapter Chair of YPO Indiana and serves as an Area Officer on the YPO Mid-American Region Board. He also serves on the boards of four companies.

He holds a BS in Business from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, earned in 2003. Today he takes a limited number of advisory engagements across the mid-market, principal led from diagnosis through execution.