The bones: what the company files
SEC filings, annual reports and incentive plans show the plan design: who is eligible, the performance conditions, how awards vest. Plan design and pay amounts. Works before a single employee takes part.
Independent · Evidence over opinion
Every company is graded on what it says it rewards and what actually happens, using public filings and verified employees, whether it takes part or not. This isn’t an ESG score. We don’t grade intentions, we grade results.
Company profiles and the Pulse are open to everyone. Your own organization's internal audit is by invitation.
Sample company
01 / Open grade ledger
Grades from public evidence are opinions, not statements of fact. Employee grades count verified employees only.
The public-evidence score is its own measure: how fully a company discloses its performance and pay plans in its filings. It is not an average of the pillar letters, so it can sit above or below them. Pillar cells are an early, provisional read of public evidence; — means there isn't enough to grade that pillar.
02 / Inside the platform
Every reviewer is a verified employee, and their name is removed before anything is published. For each question we ask how the process is supposed to work and what actually happened. The score is the gap between the two. Management, the board and the public see the same numbers.
Real screens from the platform, on a sample company (Northwind Systems).
03 / Method
SEC filings, annual reports and incentive plans show the plan design: who is eligible, the performance conditions, how awards vest. Plan design and pay amounts. Works before a single employee takes part.
We ask employees how the process is supposed to work, then what actually happened to them. A small gap means the system works. A lean system that delivers beats a heavy one that doesn’t.
Grades are set against a published bar, so adding companies never moves anyone's grade. Employee grades publish at three verified people. Too little evidence means no grade. Read the full method →
04 / Free diagnostic
Ten questions about what actually happens where you work: do top performers win, do low performers leave, and how fast do decisions get made? You get an instant read with no email and no sign-up. Your answers feed your employer’s Pulse. Only verified employees count toward the A to F grade.
Take the Pulse →Currently by invitation
We survey your whole workforce, verify every respondent, and compare what policy says with what people actually experience. You get a private report built for operators and boards. Buying an audit never changes your public grade.