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Six decisions
that compound.

We are deliberately narrow about what we sell. We measure traits that predict behaviour and we make those measurements actionable at the points in the employee lifecycle where the cost of a wrong call is the highest.

Below: how we deploy in each, what we deliver, and — important — what we will not be used for.

u.01

Pre-employment screening

Add a defensible signal to your funnel without slowing it down.

Assessments fire from your ATS the moment a candidate moves to phone screen. They are blind to the candidate's CV and the recruiter's notes. Reports surface trait percentiles, role-fit composites, and structured interview prompts tailored to the candidate's profile — so the hiring manager has a better conversation, not a different decision.

How it deploys

  1. 01

    Candidate moves to phone screen in your ATS. Our webhook fires a personalized assessment link by email. Administration: ten to fourteen minutes on phone or laptop, no candidate sign-up required.

  2. 02

    Scoring runs as soon as the candidate submits. Hiring managers get a one-page summary keyed to the role's competency model; recruiters get a longer view including confidence intervals.

  3. 03

    Behind the scenes we maintain an adverse-impact monitor per requisition. Any time the four-fifths rule trips we surface it to your DEI lead before the next hire is made.

What we deliver

  • Candidate-facing assessment link, mobile-first
  • Hiring-manager summary (one page, plain language)
  • Recruiter view with confidence intervals and validity stats
  • Structured interview prompts generated from the profile
  • Adverse-impact dashboard per requisition
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u.02

Internal mobility & succession

Decide who's ready — not just who's available.

Most succession programs work from manager nominations and the org chart. They miss the people one or two roles away from a stretch promotion who never get into the conversation. We add a defensible, scoreable, longitudinal layer that sits alongside the qualitative input from skip-level leaders and HRBPs.

How it deploys

  1. 01

    Define the leadership composite — usually 3 to 5 weighted Big Five and HEXACO inputs against the level you're hiring into.

  2. 02

    Run the assessment across the eligible population. Re-administer annually so movement on the composite is visible quarter over quarter.

  3. 03

    Build the talent dashboard. Skip-level leaders see anonymized distributions; HRBPs see named profiles with consent.

What we deliver

  • Custom leadership readiness composite + technical manual
  • Anonymized talent-pool dashboard for skip-level reviews
  • Named profiles for HRBPs (opt-in only)
  • Manager coaching playbooks per profile
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u.03

Team composition

Engineer the team you actually need.

Most team-formation decisions are made on availability and seniority. Personality diversity, stress-profile complementarity, and chronotype overlap are usually left to luck. They don't have to be. We provide team-level dashboards so that the people who put teams together can see what they're putting together.

How it deploys

  1. 01

    Each team member completes the standard battery once. Results are tied to the person, not the project, so they don't need to re-test for the next initiative.

  2. 02

    Project, on-call, or leadership-pair candidates show up as team-level views: trait diversity index, stress-vulnerability overlay, chronotype distribution.

  3. 03

    We don't decide the team — we surface the trade-offs of each candidate composition and let the team lead make the call with eyes open.

What we deliver

  • Team trait diversity index
  • On-call & shift-rotation modelling
  • Pair-compatibility scoring for leadership pairs
  • Team-lead-facing dashboard with confidence bands
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u.04

Leadership development

Move from generic 360s to evidence-grounded coaching.

360 surveys collect impressions. Personality measurement collects signal. The two are complementary — but most leadership programs run them separately, and the resulting incoherence is one of the most common reasons executive coaching plateaus. We pair the instruments and provide a longitudinal view so progress is visible over quarters, not just at the next off-site.

How it deploys

  1. 01

    Baseline assessment at programme entry. Full Big Five + HEXACO, plus the JDC/ERI stress battery for executive contexts where time pressure is structural.

  2. 02

    Coach sees the same profile the leader sees. Sessions are scheduled around the high-leverage facets, not the entire trait space.

  3. 03

    Re-measure quarterly. We surface change in facets where coaching is being applied — and surface the absence of change where it isn't.

What we deliver

  • Coach-facing profile views
  • Programme-entry technical briefing
  • Quarterly remeasurement
  • Behavioural-change tracking over four-quarter rolling window
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u.05

Onboarding & integration

Turn the first 90 days into a measurable program.

Voluntary attrition concentrates in the first year, and disproportionately in the first 90 days. Most onboarding programmes are run on the same checklist for everyone. Personality data shifts that — not into 'types' or coffee-mug labels, but into specific conversation starters and risk flags for managers who often meet their new hire in fifteen-minute increments.

How it deploys

  1. 01

    Day-0 assessment, framed as part of onboarding, not as a re-test. Results sent to the candidate and (with consent) to the hiring manager.

  2. 02

    Manager receives a profile-specific conversation guide for the first three 1:1s. This is the deliverable that actually changes manager behaviour — not the report.

  3. 03

    An attrition-risk model runs in the background. Where applicable, we flag profiles that historically correlate with first-year attrition in your population.

What we deliver

  • Day-0 baseline assessment
  • Manager conversation prompts (per profile)
  • Attrition-risk early warning model
  • Six-month re-check
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u.06

M&A and reorganization

Reduce the people risk of structural change.

Use restriction

Not used for involuntary separations. We do not sell, package, or recommend personality measurement as a redundancy criterion under any circumstances.

When two teams or two companies combine, culture risk is the single largest source of value destruction. It is also the part of the deal nobody owns. We provide measurement frames pre- and post-integration so leadership can act on signal, not anecdote — and so the people whose careers are most affected by the change get a fair hearing.

How it deploys

  1. 01

    Pre-close culture diagnostic across both sides. Highly confidential, executive-only access, with named individuals never identifiable in distributions below n = 12.

  2. 02

    Day-zero integration framework: which trait-diversity gaps are likely to surface in the first 90 days, which leadership pairs are most likely to strain.

  3. 03

    Post-close measurement on a 90-day cadence, with executive dashboards and a confidential reporting line for HR and integration leads.

What we deliver

  • Pre-close culture diagnostic
  • Day-zero integration framework
  • Confidential executive dashboards
  • Post-close 90-day rolling measurement
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/ Start with one

Pick one use case.
We'll deploy it in 30 days.

Most engagements start with one team, one requisition, or one cohort. Once the first measurement cycle ships we expand inside the organization at your pace.

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