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You've just discovered The Gig Solution — a proven, viable alternative to throwing 200 resumes at the wall to see if any stick. For a deeper look at what TGS is and how it works, the main page is here. But if you already know what it means to spend six months sending out countless applications hoping for one offer at less money with even less job security — you'll just end up back here anyway.
This is where The Gig Solution begins for everyone.
TheGigSolution.com — Step One
TheGigSolution.com — Step One
Before anything else —
do this first.
The Solution Vendor Viability Assessment (SVVA) is the single entry point to the TGS program ecosystem. It's free, it takes about ten minutes, and the picture it gives you is one you build yourself — dimension by dimension, without anyone handing you a verdict.
Why This Comes First
The program works when
the fit is real.
The program was built for people who are ready. Every Partner who enters represents a commitment — eight weeks of focused work, Spunk's attention, and the momentum of every other Partner in the room. A poor fit doesn't just affect the individual. It costs the whole room.
The SVVA exists to protect everyone in that room — including you. It doesn't hand you a verdict. It gives you a structure. You rate yourself across six dimensions, and what emerges is a picture you built — which means you can trust it, argue with it, and act on it. The gaps it surfaces are ones you identified yourself. That's not incidental. That's the point.
This is not a marketing quiz. There are no wrong answers that get you disqualified by a bot. Every result is reviewed by the TGS team. And the results themselves — the per-dimension breakdown — are genuinely useful regardless of what you do next.
"Know where you stand before you take a step. That's not a delay — that's how you get there faster."
What Starting Without This Clarity Costs
- → Eight weeks in the wrong room. Gaps that weren't identified before you started can't be closed fast enough once you're in. The program builds on a foundation — it doesn't lay one from scratch.
- → Other Partners absorb the gap. When the program has to cover ground that should have been a prerequisite, every Partner in the room pays for it in lost focus and momentum.
- → A missed signal you gave yourself. Because you score each dimension, the picture that emerges is yours — not a bot's read, not an outside opinion. The dimension where you scored lowest is the one you already know needs work. The SVVA makes that visible before anything else does.
What the Assessment Covers
Six dimensions.
Thirty-two questions.
The SVVA measures readiness across every dimension that determines whether an independent project contractor wins engagements — or doesn't. One of those dimensions, new for 2026, assesses your situation, not your readiness. It doesn't count against you. It gives TGS context.
Dimension 0 — New 2026
Role & Career Vulnerability
Not about readiness. About your situation — right now, as a factual snapshot. High vulnerability plus high readiness is the profile of TGS's most motivated Partners. This dimension gives us context. It does not penalize you.
5 questions — 25 pts
Dimension 1
Experience & Expertise
The depth and specificity of what you bring to market. Not general competence — specific, deployable expertise that a company would pay to access for a defined project.
5 questions — 25 pts
Dimension 2
Market & Positioning
Whether you know who buys work like yours, why they'd choose you over an internal hire, and how to lead with the deliverable instead of the résumé.
5 questions — 25 pts
Dimension 3
Sales & Business Development
Your comfort with outreach, qualifying, objection handling, and the fundamental truth that independent project contracting is relationship-based selling — full stop.
5 questions — 25 pts
Dimension 4
Delivery & Operations
Whether you can scope, deliver, and manage a project without an employer's infrastructure — including the ability to navigate procurement inside a large company.
5 questions — 25 pts
Dimension 5 — Most Predictive
Mindset & Identity
Résumés describe what people have done. Mindset determines what they'll do next. The single biggest predictor of success is whether you see yourself as a business owner with expertise to sell — or an employee between jobs.
7 questions — 35 pts
On Dimension 0: Your vulnerability score does not count against your overall readiness total. High urgency combined with strong readiness is the profile of TGS's most motivated Partners. Dimension 0 gives TGS context about your situation — it does not penalize you for being in one.
Dimension 0 is new for 2026. It was added because the employment landscape has shifted in ways that demand an honest accounting of situation alongside readiness. A professional under genuine urgency, if they're ready, moves faster and with more purpose than almost anyone else. That urgency is not a liability. We wanted to see it.
"I spent three decades watching talented professionals walk into rooms they weren't ready for — and rooms they were more than ready for but talked themselves out of. This assessment was built to cut through both of those mistakes before they happen."
Spunk Burke with James Ivor Kuhn — TheGigSolution.com
The Three Outcomes
Honest results.
All three paths forward.
The foundation is real.
Your expertise is specific and deployable. You understand the difference between a skill and a deliverable. Your mindset is oriented toward ownership, not dependency. That distinction matters more than any single credential. The program is designed to build on exactly what you already have.
A clear starting point.
The gaps the assessment surfaced are not deal-breakers. They are areas where focused work produces real results. TGS Partners who begin with a clear-eyed understanding of their gaps arrive at their first engagement faster — not slower. The starting point is right here.
Not a door closing.
This is an honest read from an imperfect instrument. Audits miss things. You know yourself better than 32 questions do. If you believe the SVVA is missing the most compelling reasons why you are indeed a good fit for working with TGS, feel free to shoot us an email describing what you think the SVVA missed or misread, and why. We read everything, and tenacity in pursuit of an important goal is one quality we regard highly among our Partners. The ones that give reason to look harder reach Spunk's desk directly.
All three outcomes include a specific next step. The assessment is not a gate that closes without explanation. Whatever your result, you leave with a clear picture of where you stand — and what the most useful thing to do next actually is.
What you'll see
when you finish
- A score across all six dimensions — built by your own answers, so the dimension where you scored lowest is one you already know about. The assessment just makes it impossible to look past.
- Which of the three candidate profiles fits where you are right now
- A specific recommended next step based on your result
- A clear picture of your readiness — assembled by you, not handed to you
Where This Fits
Step One in
the full path.
The SVVA is the entry point to the TGS program ecosystem. Every level of the program credits 100% toward any level above it within 12 months — no dead ends, no restarting from zero. But none of it starts until you've done this.
You Are Here — Free
Solution Vendor Viability Assessment
The diagnostic. Three outcomes — strong candidate, candidate with potential, or not the right moment. Fast, free, and private. Your per-dimension breakdown is yours to keep regardless of what you do next. This is where everyone starts.
Take the Assessment →Next Step — Unlocks After Assessment
Expertise Excavation Workbook
A structured, robust process for identifying, articulating, and packaging your expertise for the project market. Available to qualified candidates following the Assessment.
Available after Assessment →Core Program — TGS Program Options
The TGS Program
From a self-paced curriculum to a limited-seat group with Spunk present every week, to direct one-on-one work at critical inflection points. Every level credits 100% toward any level above it within 12 months.
Learn About the Program →Step One
Find out where
you actually stand.
This is where everyone starts — before any other conversation, before any other step.