Methodology
You are buying judgement. Here is how ours works.
An executive tool earns trust by being explicit about what it knows, what it is guessing, and what it refuses to do. Everything on this page is enforced in the product, not stated as an aspiration.
Three tiers, never blended
Confirmed
Stated in a source we retrieved, or told to us by you. Quotable in the room once you have checked it.
Research-based observation
A pattern across sources — hiring, announcements, published priorities. Reasonable to raise as a question. Not a fact about the person.
Strategic hypothesis
Our interpretation of what the pattern might mean. Never said out loud as if it were known. It exists so you can test it, not repeat it.
The objective is the next step, not the close
Every brief carries exactly one primary objective, and it is the right next step for the stage the relationship is actually at. When nothing should be recommended, the brief says so plainly and the deck becomes a discussion deck. A tool that always finds a reason to pitch is not advising you.
Research is public, cited and dated
We read publicly available material, normalise it into sources with title, type, publication date, retrieval date and the excerpt used, and attach those sources to the findings drawn from them. You can inspect the evidence behind any line before you say it. Identity is confirmed by you before anything is merged into a person's record.
Scores are earned and explainable
Rehearsal metrics — talk ratio, monologue length, question counts — are computed from the transcript in code, not guessed by a model, and handed to the evaluator as evidence. Every score comes with the line that cost you and a stronger version of it. The coach will tell you when you are not ready.
Your profile only says what it can evidence
The Executive IQ profile has sixteen dimensions and each stays empty until scored work exists for it. Development stages are awarded against stated thresholds on real scored items — never for clicking through lessons.
Nothing generated is deleted
A Prep buys thirty days of intensive preparation. When that window closes, everything already produced stays permanently readable and downloadable; only new AI-intensive work is locked. Cancelling a subscription never destroys history.
What we will not do
- 01No inference of health, religion, politics, sexuality, ethnicity or disability — for any purpose, including targeting.
- 02No speculative psychological labels or personality diagnoses attached to a named person.
- 03No invented proof, pricing, case studies or customer names.
- 04No manufactured urgency, and no script designed to pressure a decision.
- 05No claim that a score predicts revenue, a close, or how the meeting will go.
A generated coaching output that breaches these rules is caught by a compliance check before you ever see it. If something slips through, tell us at support@executeliq.com and we will correct or remove it.