Put an independent reality check
inside your engagement.
Octant delivers the AI Reality Diagnostic as an independent third party on your engagement. You own the client relationship and the implementation. We build nothing and never compete for the delivery work, and we identify the organizational conditions most likely to constrain value before they become delivery risk.
An independent diagnosis, from outside your deal.
Scores carry more weight when they do not depend on the sale of software or implementation work. Octant produces them. Any later work is a separate client decision, and we disclose any material referral or commercial relationship. We work with the people who own growth and portfolio value: CEOs, Chief Growth Officers, and deal partners.
Three things a partner gets from the diagnostic.
A differentiated pursuit
De-risked delivery
Stronger adoption and renewal
A scope you position your way
One diagnostic, structured
around your engagement.
Every partner comes to us with a different deal and a different reason for bringing in an independent evaluation, so we don’t run one model. The scope, the eight dimensions and the evidence standard do not change. Where it sits in your engagement, whose logo is on it, and who the client hears it from are yours to set. A few of the shapes it has taken:
Subcontractor on your deal
White-labeled evaluation
Independent referral
Joint pursuit
Whatever the structure, the scope stops at the diagnosis. The build is yours.
Built to sit in front of your engagement.
Where you sit changes what an independent evaluation does for you. A few of the ways partners put it to work:
PE firms
Consultancies
Systems integrators
Platform providers
Executive search firms
What a placed leader
runs into at month six.
A new CEO, COO, or CAIO walks into a story the incumbents wrote. Early on they commit to people and plans based on it. An independent AIR-O℠ scores the organization your placement inherited: what’s real, what’s stalled, and what to fix first. When it fits, we pair it with an AIR-L℠ evaluation of the incoming leader, how they are positioned to succeed against what the diagnosis found.
Early failures are your exposure. A diagnosis that helps the leader land well protects the placement and gives you a reason to stay in the relationship past the start date. We don’t do search. Nothing here competes with you.
- An evaluation of the organization before the leader commits to a plan built on the incumbents' account of it.
- The first ninety days spent on the binding constraint instead of on discovery.
- A reason to be in the room at month six, when the placement is most at risk and you are usually gone.
Where delivery partners lose programs.
Every delivery partner we work with has lost a programme to something that had nothing to do with the technology. Unclear ownership. A governance process nobody could move. An independent diagnostic in front of the build is how you get ahead of it.
What the partner receives
- An independent AIR-O℠ score across eight organizational dimensions.
- The binding constraints most likely to limit value.
- A Transformation Plan the client can act on.
- A documented, independent evaluation you can put in front of the client.
“Every delivery partner we work with has lost a program to something that had nothing to do with the technology. Unclear ownership. A governance process nobody could move. The work was sound and the organization could not absorb it. That is what we are hired to find before you build.”
Dr. Ian McCulloh · Co-Founder
Bring the AI Reality Diagnostic
to your next deal.
Add an independent AI Reality Diagnostic to your next pursuit, in whatever structure fits the deal. Twenty minutes with a founding partner is enough to see whether it fits.