Structural Clarity
Clear responsibilities and decision authority
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Q²-SODI™Beta· Platform Brief
Examine responsibilities, process work, decisions, and delivery.
Q²-SODI is advanced organizational diagnostic software for understanding how your organization works. Four Diagnostics examine responsibilities and decision authority, operational systems, decision flow, and reliable delivery. Synthesis brings eligible participant results together; the Workspace supports focused action and repeat comparison.
Structural ClarityOperational SystemsDecision VelocityInstitutional Performance
How work gets done
Understand how work is organized and where delivery becomes difficult.
Examine who is responsible, which processes require extra work, how decisions move, and how reliably commitments are met.
Structural ClarityOperational SystemsDecision VelocityInstitutional Performance
Visible outcomesResults, delivery, cost, performance
Operating signalsActivity, reported experience, workflow symptoms
How work is organizedHow work and decisions are organized in practice
Two kinds of evidence
Reported experience and operating structure answer different questions.
Sentiment and engagement measures show how people report their experience. They can locate strain. They do not, by themselves, identify the ownership, approval, handoff, and process conditions beneath it.
Reported experienceEngagement, morale, and confidence
Operating mechanismsOwnership, authority, handoffs, routing, process load, and performance discipline
Q²-SODI examines responsibilities, approvals, handoffs and recurring process work through structured questions. Save the result as a baseline and compare it with a later run on the same basis.
Published research supports examining management practices and organizational mechanisms alongside reported experience. The studies cited here did not test or validate Monderman’s instruments.
Evidence: Read the short evidence page or the full research paper.
The product
Four diagnostics. Four questions about how the organization works.
Each Diagnostic is scored separately and retains its own evidence. Select a card to read the method and scope for that instrument.
Operational Systems
Unnecessary process work
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gets done
gets done
Decision Velocity
Delays in making decisions
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Reliable delivery and response to change
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Structured answers produce the score. AI interpretation is separate.
Monderman's engine calculates the score and sets the rules for interpreting the evidence and recommending action. Anthropic supports research and writes explanations within those rules. The report keeps the supporting evidence visible for review.
ContextDefined scope, sector, role, and run length
DiagnosticStructured responses
ScoreVersioned scoring rules
Saved resultScore and basis saved before AI interpretation
ReportAI-assisted explanation when enabled
Comparison requires version control. Within the same instrument and scorer version, identical structured answers produce the same score. A like-for-like comparison also requires a compatible scope.
Where AI is used
Monderman calls this separation Deterministic AI Infrastructure (DAII). Versioned systems handle scoring. When enabled, AI helps explain the completed result using selected evidence. AI explanations can contain errors and should be reviewed alongside the supporting evidence. The current diagnostic uses guided questions; interview mode is not available. Read the DAII brief →
Repeat measurement
A first run creates a baseline. A later compatible run shows whether the responses changed.
Save the baseline
Preserve the score, result band, version, scope, and supporting answers.
Make a change
Address one reported constraint and record what the organization did.
Repeat the measure
Use the same version and a comparable scope to examine how responses changed.
Repeat measurement provides a consistent comparison with the organization’s earlier result.
A score difference does not, by itself, explain why responses changed or prove that an intervention caused the difference.
From one run to a wider view
Bring individual responses together for a broader view.
01 · RUN
One Diagnostic
One person completes a diagnostic for the work and perspective they know. Participation is counted separately for each diagnostic. Each person counts once, even if they complete that diagnostic more than once.
02 · CAMPAIGN
Invite participants
A campaign gathers structured responses from people who do or oversee the work.
03 · DEPTH
Depth Synthesis
Eligible runs from one Diagnostic are summarized by median, spread, and participant group.
04 · CROSS-LENS
SCDVOSIPComparison
checks
checks
Cross-Lens Synthesis
Eligible results from different Diagnostics are compared while each measure remains distinct.
A Cross-Lens Composite Score is published only when the selected evidence meets the platform’s coherence rules. Otherwise, the score is withheld and the report explains why.
Readiness is based on the declared scope and population, compatible inputs and missing evidence, not a universal headcount. Monderman draws on selected AAPOR participation-reporting guidance; this is not instrument validation. Campaign and Synthesis capacity vary by plan. See Plans & pricing.
What the platform provides
Move from one scored result to ongoing work.
01Scored ResultSaved score, band, answers, scope, and version
02Executive ReportA plain explanation of the result and its basis
03JSON ExportA portable record of the result and its basis
04Plan featuresSynthesis, Analysis, and Action Plans
05Matched later runsComparison when version, scope, and retained history permit it
Current product examples
Sample ReportsView complete examples of the current Diagnostic and Synthesis report formats.
Operational scenarios
Separate operational scenarios from diagnostic scores.
Document measured activity hours, their sources, proposed change assumptions, and costs. Compare low, central and high cases without treating staff-time value as cash savings.
What the scenario does not claim
Source records are declared by the customer, not independently audited by Monderman. Selected practices from GAO’s Cost Estimating and Assessment Guide inform scope, source and assumption documentation; this is not full compliance or validation. Sensitivity cases are not forecasts or confidence intervals. Potential capacity is not a measured cash saving.
RecordsMeasured activityTotal activity hours for the recorded people and period, with source references.
DocumentedScope and assumptionsProposed reduction and adoption ranges, loaded labor rate, and separate cash and staff-time costs.
measured hourspeople and periodchange assumptionscost basis
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Low, central and high casesOperational planning scenarioNo diagnostic score or participant percentage supplies a financial factor.
TimePotential hourscapacity that may become available
Capacity valueStaff-time valuenot payroll or cash savings
Separate cash effectCash avoided minus cash costsAbsorbed staff time is excluded from cash effects. Subscription and implementation costs remain explicit.
Measured activity + change assumptions + costs → separate capacity and cash scenarios.
Sensitivity cases are not forecasts, confidence intervals, or guarantees.
Design principles
Stable scoring, versioned comparison, and distinct evidence.
Deterministic
Within the same instrument and scorer version, identical structured answers produce the same score. AI does not calculate or set it.
Versioned
Saved results support later like-for-like comparison when the instrument version and operating scope remain compatible.
Across your organization
Campaign results can be summarized by participant group to compare teams, departments or divisions within a defined scope, without treating different Diagnostics as the same measure.
Method detail is published alongside the product, including the scoring architecture and the limits of capacity modeling.
Ways to begin
Evaluate with your organization. Decide from the results.
Define what you want to improve.
Anyone can request an invitation. Tell us which workflow, department, division or organization you want to examine.
Use the full Pattern experience.
Activate your invitation, invite participants and use all four diagnostics. Combine eligible evidence through Depth Synthesis and Cross-Lens Synthesis, then assess potential time and capacity gains with operational inputs.
Continue when you see the value.
Save the findings, assign practical actions and compare later results. Choose a subscription separately if you wish to continue. No credit card or automatic renewal during the evaluation.
Q²-SODI
Platform Brief
Examine operating conditions. Save the results. Compare them later.
Available by invitation. Evaluate Q²-SODI free for 60 days. No credit card. No automatic renewal.