PRIVATE BETA · WORKFORCE PERFORMANCE INTELLIGENCE

Most leaders can see performance problems. OrbitalQ shows which workforce factors are driving them.

OrbitalQ connects workforce evidence to revenue, cost, productivity, quality and retention — showing leadership teams what is happening, which populations are affected, and what decision the evidence should trigger.

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11 capability drivers · 6 executive risk indicators · one shared evidence base

Avoidable Cost
ELEVATED RISK
Process Clarity: 35 · Evidence confidence: Strong
Risk concentrated in new starters
Why? → View evidence trail
OrbitalQ Performance Intelligence dashboard showing the six executive risk metrics with risk index scores and confidence levels
The Leadership Gap

Every function sees part of the problem. Nobody sees the full cause.

Finance sees cost. Operations sees missed targets. HR sees engagement. L&D sees activity. OrbitalQ connects the evidence so leaders can make one decision from one shared view.

COO
Why are teams performing differently despite following the same process?
CFO
Which workforce issues are creating avoidable cost or commercial exposure?
CHRO / CLO
Where should we intervene — and which population actually needs support?

The data exists. What is missing is the connection.

Not an LMS. Not another engagement survey. Not another disconnected people dashboard. OrbitalQ is the evidence layer connecting workforce capability to business performance.

Why The Average Lies

Same score. Completely different problem.

Knowledge score
60
Established employees
82
New starters
28
OrbitalQ finding

The overall score suggests a general Knowledge gap. Segmentation shows the weakness is concentrated in new starters.

Decision implication: Fix onboarding. Don't send the whole organisation through training.

Illustrative example, not client data.

The Proof Architecture

How OrbitalQ works

01
Evidence
Measure the workforce conditions influencing performance.
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02
Segmentation
Identify which population is creating the exposure.
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03
Business Risk
Translate the pattern into six executive risk indicators.
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04
Explanation
Trace each status back to its drivers, rules and evidence confidence.
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05
Action
Trigger the right decision for the right population.
The Executive Metrics

The six executive metrics

Revenue at Risk
Where are workforce weaknesses increasing commercial exposure?
Time to Productivity
What is delaying people from becoming effective?
Business Performance Gap
Where is capability falling short of performance expectations?
Avoidable Cost
Where are capability weaknesses generating rework and waste?
Workforce Stability Risk
Where are we at risk of losing the capability we need?
Capability Health
Do we have the workforce capability to execute the strategy?
Avoidable Cost — Elevated Risk
ELEVATED RISK
Risk Exposure Index32 / 100
Evidence confidenceStrong
Primary driverProcess Clarity — 35
Affected populationNew starters

Why the status changed: High-influence driver below threshold.

Decision implication: Review onboarding process guidance before commissioning training.

Illustrative example, not client data.

The Explanation Layer

AI that explains the evidence — without inventing it.

Manager
Why is Avoidable Cost under pressure?
AI Performance Coach
What is happening
Process Clarity is the largest contributor, scoring 35 with High influence.
Why you should believe it
Evidence confidence is Strong. Based on 82% participation across 94 responses.
What this does not prove
It does not prove every reported error was caused by process clarity.
Question to explore
Where are teams interpreting the process differently?
Suggested next move
Compare the process guidance used by the two most affected teams before commissioning training.
Retention Risk drill-down panel showing What's Driving This and Why This Status in agreement, both flagging Elevated Risk

Illustrative AI Performance Coach response.

Governance

Trust by design

Managers see patterns. They do not see personal responses.

OrbitalQ depends on honest evidence. That means confidentiality can't be a promise buried in a policy — it has to be built into the platform.

Aggregated reporting
Leaders see organisational and team patterns, not individual answers.
Minimum population controls
Small groups are suppressed where there's a risk of identification.
Visible confidence
Every finding shows participation, response count and evidence confidence.
Bounded AI
The AI Performance Coach explains approved evidence. It does not judge employees or generate scores.
About the Founder
For more than 20 years, I kept seeing the same problem. Organisations could see that performance was slipping, but they couldn't reliably prove which workforce conditions were driving it.

OrbitalQ is the evidence layer I wished leadership teams had.
Rob K
Founder, OrbitalQ
20+ years across learning, capability, quality and business performance
Private Beta

Help shape the shared intelligence leadership teams have been missing.

OrbitalQ is inviting a small number of organisations to explore a real business performance question using workforce capability evidence.

Selected beta partners receive

  • Access to the structured capability diagnostic.
  • An executive view of the resulting business-risk indicators.
  • A guided evidence and segmentation review.
  • Direct input into the development of OrbitalQ.

Designed for organisations of approximately 200–5,000 employees. Applications are reviewed individually.