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 roughly twenty-five minutes.
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 · ~25 minGDPR · 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
AION · AXIOM Caliber
Precision tier · HCM & Payroll
Acme Payroll GroupHCM & Payroll · 54 countries · inherited from CoreCore gap6.1
Payroll Pulse · live
2hEU Pay Transparency — first-wave reporting deadline confirmed for 2026◆5hGartner moves Dayforce to Leaders in latest HCM MQ◆1dNelsonHall NEAT flags managed-payroll consolidation across EU mid-market◆2hEU Pay Transparency — first-wave reporting deadline confirmed for 2026◆5hGartner moves Dayforce to Leaders in latest HCM MQ◆1dNelsonHall NEAT flags managed-payroll consolidation across EU mid-market
Your sectorHCM & Global PayrollFrom Core
From cross-sector to your sector.
AXIOM Caliber refines Generic AXIOM under one industry's conditions — adding 6–10 specialist dimensions on top of the parent ten-dimension model, calibrated to publishers, benchmarks and failure patterns specific to HCM & Payroll.
+8
Specialist dims
37
Sources cited
100+
Ref. vendors
45–60 min
Session
Begin HCM & Payroll→
1 · What Caliber is
Sector-calibrated, not generic
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Generic AXIOM — complete10 cross-sector dims · from Core
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Caliber inherits identityAuto-filled · no repetition
Live AI diagnosisReal payroll-market search · gap fill
3 · What you get
Four board-ready artefacts
€ GAP
Calibrated €-gap
CEO/CFO/COO-defensible
MQ
Magic-quadrant placement
vs reference vendors
12-WS
12-stream programme
18-month · signed-grade
PORTAL
Caliber Portal
Live dashboard · saved gap
⊙ 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. 50 providers · 85 countries · 1,022 relationships · 143 partner-edges mapped.
50
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 50 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 eight Caliber dimensions · sector calibration
What we'll diagnose
Each dimension has three questions tagged Strategic · Tactical · Operational. Sector medians and top-quartile thresholds drawn from named publishers below — every figure source-traced and clickable.
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Dimension
Diagnosis
Sector median · top quartile
Sources
01
Service Portfolio Coherence
Commercial layer
What you sell × what your platform delivers × what your operations executes.
MethodologySector medians refresh quarterly · top-quartile thresholds reset annually · all coefficients traced to a single primary source · every link external to the publisher
Programme dashboard, dimension tracker, compliance pulse, saved gap report and dialogue transcript. Take it to your board.
Begin Caliber · ~12 minutes
Ready when you are.
Generic AXIOM has already given us your scale, sector, geography and role. Caliber adds the HCM and Payroll specifics, runs the deep scan, computes the gap, builds the programme. Pause at any time — your state saves continuously.
Stage 01 of 09 · ~30 seconds reading
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.
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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 six 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 08 · 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, which weight they carry, and which benchmarks calibrate the answers. This is the gating layer.
Service portfolio
Footprint · country tiers
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sector 8–18 · top-q 20+
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sector 12–28 · top-q 35+
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sector 8–22 · top-q 40+
Total country footprint ·
Scale · economics
K
mid-market 8,000–25,000K
#
segment median by tier × GTM
€M
cost-per-payslip recoverable
Delivery · model & segment
how delivery is weighted
benchmark cohort
Unit · economics
drives your €gap
€
your blended cost · benchmark €8.40
€
GPA 2024 top-quartile €5.20
%
% of revenue · illustrative 17%
%
your blended GM · sector ~62%
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 24-question scan.
Market lens · Gartner-criteria—
AION payroll-native lens—
The delta · what the market misses—
Model calibrationreproduces 86% of 50 published vendor positions
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.
Three questions per specialist dimension — Strategic · Tactical · Operational. Score thresholds calibrated against GPA 2024, NelsonHall NEAT 2025, ADP-RI Compliance Tracker, Prosci.
Live scan progress
Your operating maturity across 8 dimensions
1–3 · Reactive
4–6 · Defined
7–8 · Strategic
9–10 · Optimised
When all 24 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. 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.
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
Every figure carries provenance — source, date, method, range. Nothing is hand-waved; 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 HCM/Payroll providers, the gap is not a single recoverable figure. It's three native concepts: cost-per-payslip recoverable (margin compression available), growth unlocked (revenue capacity your operations can't deliver yet), and risk avoided (regulatory horizon × tier-1 customer continuity). Each maps directly to a P&L conversation the boardroom recognises. Each is calibrated against sector-grade benchmarks from Part 7 of the specification.
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Margin recoverable · cost-per-payslip
The cost compression available through Caliber programme
Top-10 customer churn from sales-ops misalignment · sector base rate × your D01-D06 score
€16M × 0.18 = €2.9M
ICP partner failure cascade
CloudPay-class partner exit forces 32-country migration · NelsonHall risk model
€8.4M × 0.12 = €1.0M
Compliance penalty exposure
EU Pay Transparency, NIS2, DORA · D02 score 6.4 · ADP-RI sector multipliers
€4.2M × 0.15 = €0.6M
Residual post-programme
Caliber programme target: D02 to 8.0+, D03 to 7.5+ · cuts probabilities by ~60%
−60% residual after engagement
Risk mitigated · 18-month window
€2.7M
Probability-weighted exposure removed · plus eliminating tail-risk events that would be material
The Caliber gap · 18-month combined
Total EBITDA-equivalent value the diagnostic identifies
Margin recoverable
€74.0M
+
Growth unlocked × GM
€7.4M
+
Risk mitigated
€2.7M
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EBITDA-equivalent value
€84.1M
What this anchors
The €84.1M 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.