Kureos Labs
Instruments that measure how leadership actually works.
We build measurement instruments for the people who run organisations. Each one asks the leader, asks three to five people who work with them, and reports the distance between the two answers.
The same question, about the same leader, in the same fortnight. That distance is not a scoring error. It is the finding.
The Time and Authority Audit
Two and a half minutes, on the real instrument.
Made for one senior leader at a time, and for the organisation that needs to know what is actually holding them back. Every finding tells you whether to act on it or go and test it first.
What it produces
One chart carries the whole finding.
Four dimensions, read as a loop. Unclear expectations push decisions upward. Decisions held too high eat the calendar. A calendar with no room is where standards go unsaid. And that feeds the first one again.
A worked example on synthetic data. We do not show you other people’s leaders.
What it measures
Four things, in the order they cause each other.
Expectation clarity
Do people know what good looks like without asking.
Decision location
Are decisions held at the level that can carry them.
Time integrity
Does where the time goes match what is said to matter.
Consequence follow-through
Does anything happen when a standard slips.
Not one questionnaire
Nine questions decide which audit you get.
A leader three months into a bigger job is not carrying the same problem as one drowning in detail. Each version pulls different evidence, and only one of the four opens a calendar at all.
The Overloaded Operator
Time consumed by decisions that should have settled below them.
The New Scope
Recently promoted. The calendar is not full, it is undefined.
Influence Without Authority
Delivers through people who do not report to them.
The Standards Gap
Has the time. The team does not deliver.
How it runs
About ninety minutes of the leader’s time.
- Nine questionsRoute the leader to the version that fits their situation.
- Twenty-four statementsScored by the leader about themselves.
- Three to five peopleScore the same twenty-four statements independently. No answer is ever stored against a name.
- The readOne constraint named, every finding saying whether to act on it or test it first, and three commitments tied to real moments in the leader’s week.
- At thirty daysThe person named against each commitment confirms whether it happened. Not the leader.
- At ninety daysThe same people score the same statements again, against the baseline they set. Improved, held, gone backwards, or not separable from noise.
Where the data lives
What we do with the data.
- Where it is storedA Postgres database in Frankfurt, Germany, run by Neon on AWS eu-central-1. The code that reads it runs in Frankfurt too, so responses are not sent outside Europe to be scored.
- What we collectNames and work email addresses for the leader. Scores and free-text answers from everyone. No special category data is asked for.
- What we never storeRespondent answers are not stored against a name or an address. The system holds no link between a person and their responses.
- Who can see whatBelow four respondents, no individual row is shown to anyone, including the practitioner and us. Row order is shuffled.
- PasswordsThere are none. Access is a single-use link plus a one-time code by email, so there is no password to steal or reuse.
- When it is deleted365 days after the audit starts, or 180 days after the read is delivered, whichever comes first. Calendar detail goes at 45 days. A job enforces this daily. No soft delete, no recovery bin.
- Sub-processorsVercel for hosting, Neon for the database, Resend for email. Listed in full, with locations, in the security statement.
Enquire
Book an audit for one of your leaders.
Tell us who the leader is and what you are trying to find out. We will reply with whether the instrument fits, which of the four versions applies, what it costs and how long it takes. If it is the wrong tool for the situation we will tell you that instead.