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Edgy® External Analysis Products
Diagnose your operating state from the outside in
Fast, evidence-based assessments using public information — no survey required
Operating State Platform
Edgy®
Dynamic collective intelligence

Reveals your operating state and the forces driving it — accelerators building toward synergy and arrestors pulling away from it. Edgy® measures the organizational capacities that determine whether AI adoption strengthens or hollows out an organization. Family I products use publicly available information; no survey required.

Every Edgy® external analysis tests what a company publicly claims against what its public footprint can support — revenue, headcount, hiring, product evidence. Each claim receives an evidence-based reading: Aligned, Overclaimed, or Indeterminate where public evidence cannot yet settle it.

The same test now extends one layer deeper, to Judgment Displacement: when a company says AI "handles the routine work while people make the calls that matter," is that actually true — or are decision-critical capacities being quietly handed to systems that can't hold them?

Family I — Lite
ExoScan
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Fast, directional, high-altitude snapshot
Purpose
Rapid directional orientation — answers: "What is this company's operating state, are there obvious structural risks, and do its headline claims hold up against public evidence?"
Depth
High-altitude: operating state, key ecosystem attributes, and top-level fragility signals
Length
4–6 pages
Best for
Deal screening, initial competitive scans, board briefings, executive education
Key Outputs
Operating State placement (Resilience × Ingenuity map)
Ecosystem attributes: structure and power snapshot
Top 2–3 VSC fragility signals, including Judgment Displacement evidence where automation claims outpace visible capacity
Credibility Gap reading on the headline public claim
Directional drift indicator
Operating State Ecosystem Fit Credibility Gap No survey required Standalone
Family I — Full
ExoAnalysis
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Thorough, evidence-based, intervention-ready
Purpose
Thorough evidence-based evaluation — answers: "What exactly is limiting or accelerating this company, and what interventions are required?"
Depth
Comprehensive: full VSC alignment, leadership archetypes, drift vectors, CXO shift recommendations, scenario outcomes, and a Credibility Gap assessment that tests both market-leadership claims and claims that human oversight survives automation
Length
12–20 pages
Best for
Full diligence, 100-day planning, exit readiness assessment, transformation roadmap
Key Outputs
Full Resilience × Ingenuity mapping with narrative rationale
Strategic fragility indicators — full VSC vulnerability assessment
Leadership archetypes: Mogul / Crusader / Orchestrator / Harmonizer
Drift vectors and scenario outcomes across 3–4 strategic scenarios
Credibility Gap assessment — each major public claim tested against public footprint and read as Aligned, Overclaimed or Indeterminate
Judgment Displacement axis — whether decision-critical judgment is keeping pace with expanding automated execution, carried through to Accelerators & Arrestors
VSC Alignment Drift Vectors Scenarios Credibility Gap Judgment Displacement No survey required
More External Analyses
Family I — Supplement
ExoRisk
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Forward-looking upside–downside risk across three horizons
Purpose
Forward-looking risk assessment — answers: "What could move this position over one, three and five years, in both directions?"
Depth
Valuation baseline, three time horizons, and a paired upside–downside matrix, written for a portfolio-manager audience
Horizons
One, three and five years — each tied to an observable event rather than a sentiment
Best for
Portfolio monitoring, investment committee, diligence supplement, risk horizon review
Key Outputs
Valuation baseline: share price, consensus rating, P/E and PEG
One, three and five-year horizon assessments
Upside–downside matrix — the asymmetry at a glance
Judgment Displacement as a 3- and 5-year risk — governance evidence as a procurement and regulatory exposure, plus an ongoing watch on regulation and the company's own automation language
Named signals that would confirm or falsify the assessment
Risk Horizons Valuation Credibility Gap Judgment Displacement No survey required
External · Independently purchasable
ExoCLA
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Sector-mapped competitor intelligence within your ecosystem

A structured analysis of your main competitors — placed within the same ecosystem framework, assessed on operating state, and benchmarked on relative fitness and strategic differentiation.

Key Outputs
Sector Mapping
Competitors placed within ecosystem context
Comparative Operating States
Cross-company operating state comparison
Fitness Analysis
Relative fitness vs. ecosystem peers
Strategic Differentiation
Structural advantage and vulnerability analysis
Automation & Oversight Positioning
How each peer publicly frames automation versus human-governed decisioning, and where verifiable human oversight becomes a differentiator
ExoScan + Lite pairing
ExoAnalysis + Full pairing