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.
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Your details
Precision Tier · sector depthGDPR · 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
2026EU Pay Transparency — Directive 2023/970, transposition deadline 7 Jun 2026◆2026ADP — The Potential of Payroll in 2026: 68% of organisations incur compliance penalties at least once a year◆2025Mercer — Global Pay Transparency Report: pay-equity readiness ahead of the directive◆2026EU Pay Transparency — Directive 2023/970, transposition deadline 7 Jun 2026◆2026ADP — The Potential of Payroll in 2026: 68% of organisations incur compliance penalties at least once a year◆2025Mercer — Global Pay Transparency Report: pay-equity readiness ahead of the directive
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
30
Sources cited
4
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 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 as each provider publishes them. No analyst placement is used. 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.
Three lenses — CEO, CFO, COO. Each formula coefficient traced to a named source. Defensible in your next budget conversation.
Artefact 02
AXIOM Position Map
Where you sit in two views: the market view of your profile, on the criteria families analysts publish, and the AXIOM view of your operation, from your own scan. Your positioning in one chart.
Programme dashboard, dimension tracker, compliance pulse, saved gap report and dialogue transcript. Take it to your board.
Stage 01 of 09 · 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
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Annual revenue
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Headcount
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Geography
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Your role
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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
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 · OPTIONALLet 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
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your own count · AXIOM holds no sourced figure for this
delivery footprint model
Total country footprint ·
Scale · economics
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payslips per year · mid-market 8,000,000–25,000,000
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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.
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Optional. Empty means not given.
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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
%
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
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profile-gated
Stage 06 of 09 · Positioning
Stage 6 of 9
63%Two views
Where you sit: two views, one map.
The AXIOM Position Map places you twice. The market view scores your profile on the criteria families analysts publish, weighted by AXIOM. The AXIOM view scores your operation from your own scan answers. No analyst firm has placed you; only an analyst firm can do that.
AXIOM Position Map · HCM & Payroll
Market view and AXIOM view
Market view: criteria families analysts publish, AXIOM weights AXIOM view: your own scan answers
Your placement · two views
Edge of challenger, near niche
Computed live from your profile and 52-question scan.
Market view—
AXIOM view—
Distance between the views—
Market-view weightsAXIOM's stated weights
Stage 04 of 09 · Calibration Scan
0%
Live scan progress
Your operating maturity across 10 dimensions
1–3 · Reactive
4–6 · Defined
7–8 · Strategic
9–10 · Optimised
When all 52 questions are answered
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.
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.
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Reads your scan
Your 52 calibration answers 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.
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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.
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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
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regulatory horizon × tier-1 continuity
Total envelope
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sized · stress-testable by your CFO
Where the gap livesYour scoreReference level, where one is published
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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.
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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 work streams, 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.