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Board readiness intelligence

See the judgment behind readiness.

boardiqo assesses director judgment through open-ended governance scenarios, holds every score to the quality of the evidence behind it, and issues a bilingual report a nomination committee can actually read.

Confidentiality by design. Human review before any report is released. No score is ever published without evidence.

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Twelve competencies, scored 1.00 to 5.00 on open-ended scenarios.
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What if the evidence for Risk oversight were strong?
The twelve competencies

The grammar

Evidence is a ceiling, never a score.

A confident answer without proof cannot outrank a documented one. Each competency shows what you argued, what the evidence allows, and the headroom that stays unproven until you can show it.

EXHIBIT 1

The same quality of answer earns 4.32 with strong evidence and 3.25 with weak evidence: the difference is a ceiling, not a deduction

C1Strategic judgment4.32 / 5.00
Evidence: Strong · cap 5.00
C3Risk oversight3.25 / 5.00
Evidence: Weak · cap 3.25Response quality 4.1: capped at 3.25 by weak evidence.
C10Independence and conflict resilience2.75 / 5.00
Evidence: Missing · cap 2.75
Red flag detected.Locked pending mandatory human review before any report is released.

Basis: evidence cap table. Strong 5.00 · Good 4.50 · Moderate 4.00 · Weak 3.25 · Missing 2.75. Illustrative figures.

The process

How an assessment becomes a report

EXHIBIT 2

Six steps between an answer and a report; a critical red flag leaves the pipeline for human review before it can re-enter

Open responseyour own wordsRubric scoring12 competenciesEvidence capceiling per scoreFailure-pattern screen10 patternsWeighting and verdict1.00 to 5.00ReportPDF · DOCX · XLSXHuman reviewmandatory on red flagred flag

Basis: boardiqo scoring architecture. Rubric scoring is automated; red-flag findings are human-reviewed before release.

What makes boardiqo different

Failure-pattern intelligence

Responses are screened for early signals of the ten governance failure patterns documented in board failures: filtered information, deference, groupthink, incentive blindness and six more.

Human review on red flags

A critical red flag locks the affected competency and triggers mandatory human review before any report is released. Automation never has the last word on a serious finding.

Reports built for the committee

PDF, DOCX and XLSX deliverables in English or French, structured the way nomination committees and search partners actually read: verdict first, evidence next, development plan last.

Your report is yours

boardiqo sells to you, not to your board. Results are never shared with boards, search firms or employers unless you choose to share them, and you can delete your data on request.

See the artifact before you pay

A redacted sample report, in full

Nobody at this level buys an assessment without seeing what it produces. Read a complete illustrative report: verdict, twelve competency scores with their evidence caps, failure-pattern screen and development plan.

Two directors, two questions

Aspiring director

Am I appointable, and what exactly is missing? You get a readiness verdict, the competencies constraining you, the evidence gaps behind them, and a dated development plan.

Sitting director

Where do I add the least value on this board, and which committee actually fits? You get an effectiveness profile, a committee-fit reading and a renewal-readiness verdict.

Trust

AI-assisted, not AI-decided.

  • §Open-ended governance judgment only: never yes/no questionnaires, never keyword matching.
  • §Rubric versions and model outputs are recorded with every score so a result can be reproduced.
  • §Mandatory human review on critical red flags before any report is released.
  • §Your evidence is access-controlled, logged, exportable and deletable on request.
How confidentiality works

Better evidence. Better boards.