AXIOM diagnoses where your organisation stands across ten meta-dimensions, quantifies your transformation gap in euros, and proposes a programme calibrated to your sector — in about two to three hours.
Precision Tier · Industry × Function Depth
AXIOM, sharpened to your scale.
Generic AXIOM reads transformation across ten cross-sector dimensions. AXIOM Caliber reads it across your industry, your function, your specific cell — with the calibration of a sector-native diagnostic.
Investor Tier · Portfolio × Diligence
One engine, across the portfolio.
AXIOM Capital runs the full Core + Caliber diagnostic on every company in a portfolio, then layers valuation, peer benchmarking and IC-ready analysis on top — the standalone diligence engine for funds.
AXIOM Core · Secure entry
Welcome.
The cross-sector ten-dimension diagnostic — profile, gap in euros, board-ready programme. Opens the Core platform.
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Free · 2–3 hrsGDPR · NDA-protected
AXIOM Caliber · Secure entry
Enter your Caliber workspace.
New from your Core session or returning to a saved engagement — enter your code and introduce yourself.
Access code
Your details
Precision Tier · ~15 minGDPR · NDA-protected
AXIOM Capital · Investor access
Enter Capital.
Your suite key opens the fund cockpit — pipeline, portfolio and per-company diligence. Runs Core + Caliber across every holding.
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Suite · per-partnerGDPR · EU-hosted
AXIOM Caliber Payroll
Precision tier
Payroll Pulse · a fixed list, not a live feed
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Your sectorHCM & Global PayrollFrom Core
From cross-sector to your sector.
Your generic ten-dimension reading, refined under one industry's conditions — with specialist dimensions calibrated to the publishers, benchmarks and failure patterns of payroll.
+10
Specialist dims
37
Sources cited
100+
Ref. vendors
45–60 min
Session
Begin→
Sector-calibrated
Inherits your cross-sector readingfrom Core
Adds specialist payroll dimensionscalibrated
How it works
1Calibration scan52 adaptive
2AI Deep Scanvs failure patterns
3Live diagnosismarket search
What you get
Board-defensible € gapCFO-grade
Quadrant placement vs vendorspositioning
Signed-grade programme18 months
Live Portal & saved gapcockpit
⊙ HCM & Global Payroll · competitive landscape · live
The provider footprint, at a glance.
Hover any provider chip to see their own-delivery countries (gold arcs) and ICP partner network (cyan arcs with named partners). Every coordinate verified against company filings, Google Maps, and partner-network disclosures. 120 providers · 85 countries · 1,022 relationships · 143 partner-edges mapped.
120
providers in scope
85
unique countries
21
ICP partners visible
1022
delivery routes mapped
HQ
Own delivery
ICP partner
⊙ Hover or click any provider
Showing all 120 providers
Hover a chip below or a pin on the map to see that provider's footprint. Click to lock the selection.
Sources · cross-verified
Provider HQs from corporate filings (10-K, annual reports). Country footprints from NelsonHall NEAT 2025 · Gartner MQ Cloud HCM Suites 2024 · ISG Provider Lens 2024 · individual partner-network disclosures. ICP relationships verified against signed reseller agreements where public. Selection rolls into your profile (Stage 3).
Stage 02 of 09 · HCM & PAYROLL VERTICAL · arrival
Stage 2 of 9
5%Generic AXIOM
The ten Caliber dimensions · sector calibration
What we'll diagnose
Each dimension carries 5–7 questions tagged Strategic · Tactical · Operational — every figure source-traced and clickable.
Programme dashboard, dimension tracker, compliance pulse, saved gap report and dialogue transcript. Take it to your board.
Stage 01 of 09 · ~12 minutes · pause anytime — your state saves continuously
Stage 02 · Baseline
STG_TMP_2_TOP
15%Generic AXIOM
We start where Generic AXIOM left off.
Caliber is calibrated against your actual scale, geography and sector. We pre-fill from your Generic AXIOM session. You confirm or correct what doesn't match reality.
✓
Generic session inherited
Pre-filled from your AXIOM Deep Scan session — confirm or edit any field below.
Company
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Sector
Public sector & NGO
Annual revenue
€2.6M
Headcount
65
Geography
Spain · Catalonia
Your role
Director General
1
Baseline block 01
Company identity
Pre-filled from Generic. Edit if anything has changed.
Trading or legal entity name as it should appear on the proposal cover.
Drives sector-calibrated benchmarks for all seven dimensions.
Latest fiscal year. Drives CEO and CFO €gap formulas.
All employees on payroll. Drives COO €gap formula.
2
Baseline block 02
Geographic footprint
Each country adds a jurisdictional perimeter to multi-jurisdictional compliance (Dimension 02).
Determines complexity weighting for Dimension 02.
3
Baseline block 03
Function role & payroll model
Tells us which lens to lead with — CEO, CFO or COO — and which delivery model is in place.
Anchors vendor-strategy questions in Stage 04 Positioning.
Recipient of the proposal & portal access.
Stage 02 of 09 · all fields auto-saved
Stage 03 of 09 · Provider Profile
Stage 3 of 9
25%Self-reported · 90 seconds
Your operating profile.
No two HCM/Payroll providers run the same business. Caliber's diagnostic intelligence depends on profile precision: service mix × country tier × operating model × GTM segment × volume. The profile up-front determines which questions appear, the severity each answer signals, and which benchmarks calibrate the answers. This is the gating layer.
STEP ONE · OPTIONAL · ~30 SECONDSLet AXIOM research the provider firstLive web evidence — revenue, peer set and sector pulse. AXIOM pre-fills what it can verify; you confirm the rest.
Service portfolio
Footprint · country tiers
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your own count · AXIOM holds no sourced figure for this
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your own count · AXIOM holds no sourced figure for this
#
your own count · AXIOM holds no sourced figure for this
delivery footprint model
Total country footprint ·
Scale · economics
#
payslips per year · mid-market 8,000,000–25,000,000
#
segment median by tier × GTM
€M
cost-per-payslip recoverable
%
top-10 clients · share of volume
Delivery · model & segment
how delivery is weighted
benchmark cohort
working-capital · currency exposure
service intensity
Unit · economics
drives your €gap
€
Your own blended cost per payslip. AXIOM holds no sourced sector figure for this.
€
Your own target cost per payslip. AXIOM holds no sourced sector figure for this.
Growth · unwon pipeline
a year
Optional. Empty means not given.
€K
Optional. Empty means not given.
%
Optional. Empty means not given.
%
Required for the growth pillar. Empty means not given.
Risk · expected loss a year
€K
Optional. Empty means not given.
€K
Optional. Empty means not given.
€K
Optional. Empty means not given.
Errors
per 1,000
Optional. Empty means not given.
%
% of revenue · illustrative 17%
%
your own blended gross margin · AXIOM holds no sourced sector figure for this
Profile signature
● tailors the scan
Service profile
0 of 10 services
Single-line provider
Country profile
— countries
footprint
Operating model
Hybrid · direct-led
delivery weighting
GTM segment
Mid-Market
benchmark cohort
Annual volume
— payslips/yr
scale metric
Scan depth
—
profile-gated
Stage 06 of 09 · Positioning
Stage 6 of 9
63%Multi-analyst
Where you sit vs 17 reference vendors.
Your Magic Quadrant placement, triangulated from Gartner MQ + Forrester Wave + IDC MarketScape + customer-side reviews. Two axes — Completeness of Vision & Ability to Execute — same methodology your CIO already cites.
Computed live from your profile and 52-question scan.
Market lens · Gartner-criteria—
AXIOM payroll-native lens—
The delta · what the market misses—
Model calibrationcalibrated against the reference vendor set
The reference market · 17 vendors you're plotted against
A fixed competitive set (Gartner MQ · Forrester Wave · IDC MarketScape). Tier reflects each vendor's market position — your placement on the quadrant is computed live from your profile.
Caliber will surface cross-dimension failure patterns from the 12 codified signatures, then move to the AI Deep Scan stage where Claude probes the highest-confidence patterns in plain language. Most providers complete the full scan in 14–18 minutes.
Stage 05 of 09 · AI Deep Scan
The AI interviews you to pinpoint the failures.
Keep answering — unlocks at 70% confidence
Before you move on
You've reached —% confidence.
The AI has probed enough of your operating signature to compute a defensible gap. You can keep going to sharpen it further, or continue to Positioning now.
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Confidence
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Dimensions
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Exchanges
How the AI works
Real Claude, doing the analyst's job — not a script.
The AI Deep Scan is the live model reasoning against your data. It replaces the junior analyst who would normally read your diagnostic, interview your team and assemble the findings — done in minutes, grounded in current evidence, and traceable end-to-end.
1
Reads your scan
Your 24 calibration scores are tested against 12 codified HCM & payroll failure patterns to find where the real leakage concentrates.
2
Interviews you like a senior practitioner
One targeted question at a time, with adaptive follow-ups. Tap an option or type your own — it probes the way a 20-year operator would.
3
Grounds every finding in live evidence
As it reasons it searches current sources — benchmarks, regulators, analyst notes — so conclusions cite real, dated evidence rather than assertion.
4
Sharpens your numbers
Each answer adjusts a specific pillar of your €-gap and the programme. You watch the dimensions update live in the left rail as you talk.
5
Stays accountable
Figures carry the method that produced them, and say where a bar is AXIOM calibrated rather than published. You can challenge any finding in the conversation.
This is the real model. Offline you see a representative walkthrough; connected to your Worker it is Claude reasoning live against your session.
Stage 07 of 09 · The Reframed Gap
Stage 7 of 9
78%Cost-per-payslip · growth · risk
Three numbers, one boardroom narrative.
For an HCM/Payroll provider the gap isn't one figure — it's three the boardroom already speaks: margin recoverable, growth unlocked and risk avoided. Each is sized from the figures you entered and nothing else. Where a dimension has a published reference level it is shown beside your score; where none exists, none is shown.
THE REFRAMED GAP · AT A GLANCE
Margin recoverable
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cost-per-payslip compression · EBITDA uplift
Growth unlocked
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revenue your platform can win, gross-margin weighted
Risk avoided
—
regulatory horizon × tier-1 continuity
Total envelope
—
sized · stress-testable by your CFO
Where the gap livesYour scoreReference level, where one is published
01
Margin recoverable · cost-per-payslip
The cost compression available through Caliber programme
EBITDA UPLIFT
Annual margin recoverable=(your current cost per payslip − your target cost per payslip) × annual payslips × recovery share
Current €/payslip
Your own entered figure. Nothing is derived from it and nothing is assumed in its place
not set you enter this
AXIOM reference level €/payslip
Your own entered target. No sourced sector cost per payslip exists, so none is shown
not set you enter this
Annual volume
Annual payslip volume · your own figure, captured in Profile
not set you enter this
Recovery share
Share of the unit-cost gap closed by month 18 · AX_CONST.MARGIN_RECOVERY · not adjusted by anything
not set —
Recoverable margin · 18-month window
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Not priced until you enter your current and target cost per payslip, the annual payslip volume, revenue and EBITDA margin.
02
Growth unlocked · revenue capacity
Revenue your platform could win but operations cannot deliver yet
REVENUE UPLIFT
Growth unlocked=unwon deals × average revenue per deal × your win rate × (1 − deliverable now) × gross margin
Unwon deals a year
Deals you did not win in the last twelve months · your own figure
not set you enter this
Average revenue per deal
Annual revenue of a typical deal · your own figure
not set you enter this
Your win rate
The share of those deals you would expect to win · your own figure
not set you enter this
Deliverable now
Share of won work the operation can already deliver; the programme unlocks the rest · your own figure, entered above
not set you enter this
Growth unlocked · 18-month window
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Not priced until you enter unwon deals, average revenue per deal, your win rate, your gross margin and revenue.
03
Risk avoided · continuity & compliance
Probability-weighted exposure your current operating model carries
RISK MITIGATED
Risk avoided=(tier-1 client loss + partner or vendor failure + regulatory penalties) × (1 − residual)
Tier-1 client loss · expected a year
Your own stated annual expected loss, in € thousands. No base rate is applied
not set you enter this
Partner or vendor failure · expected a year
Your own stated annual expected loss, in € thousands. No risk model is applied
not set you enter this
Regulatory penalties · expected a year
Your own stated annual expected loss, in € thousands. No sector multiplier is applied
not set you enter this
Residual after the programme
Share of the stated annual expected loss that remains afterwards · AX_CONST.RISK_REMAIN
not set —
Risk mitigated · 18-month window
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Not priced until you enter your annual expected losses and revenue.
The Caliber gap · 18-month combined
Total EBITDA-equivalent value the diagnostic identifies
Margin recoverable
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+
Growth unlocked × GM
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+
Risk mitigated
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=
EBITDA-equivalent value
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What this anchors
The envelope is not a sales pitch number — it's a sized envelope your CFO can stress-test, your COO can stage-gate, and your CEO can present to the board. Caliber's programme architecture (Stage 8) breaks this into five workstreams over 18 months, each with its own scope, milestones, and signed-off success criteria. Engagement fee referenced against this envelope, with success-fee structure referenced against actual realisation in the Portal cockpit (Stage 9).
Stage 08 of 09 · Programme proposal
Stage 8 of 9
90%Auto-fit logic
A signed-grade programme.
Three tiers, twelve work streams, eighteen-month timeline, vendor alignment, five board-grade deliverables. Recommended tier auto-fitted by your weakest dimensions. Live builder lets the user select streams and watch the programme assemble in real time.