AXAT is live. Turn an assessment into a defended diagnosis.
Most assessments tell a client where people think they are. AXAT tests that view against what can be shown and what still goes wrong, then turns the gap into root causes, recommended action and a stronger basis for the next decision. Built from your firm’s own expertise.
AI has made consulting faster. What comes next?
Your firm has already invested in AI for productivity. This is how TheAX builds on that to take the next step: a more scalable, more valuable firm, with AXAT as the diagnostic engine inside it.
See one assessment run end to end.
The demo from our launch webinar: one example assessment taken end to end in TheAX, from the Product Book through to a client-ready report. Eighteen minutes, on YouTube.
Half an hour of consultant time on the platform. Every score traces back to why, and the consultant decides what the client sees.
AI has made consultants faster. AXAT helps make the consultancy more scalable and valuable.
Clients can get plausible answers and outputs from any LLM faster than ever. The opportunity is not to produce more analysis they could get for themselves. It is to make your firm’s expertise visible in the diagnosis, and turn that diagnosis into a stronger commercial conversation with outcomes you can evidence.
Bring a stronger point of view into discovery and proposals. Move beyond “tell us about your problem” to a structured diagnosis of what is happening, what supports it and what needs resolving.
Make the value sit in the expertise and the decision, not the hours spent running a survey. The client can see the evidence, confidence, logic and root cause behind the recommendation. 100% traceability behind every recommendation.
Do not finish with a score. Baseline the outcome KPIs at week zero, then remeasure the same way: same model, same rules, same panel. The movement is evidenced capability by capability, so the next phase is a natural conversation and the follow-on is earnt rather than re-tendered.
One useful question. AXAT adds two more: what can you show, and what still goes wrong?
Which lens is holding the capability down, what to investigate, and how far the reading can be relied on.
The failure mode underneath the score, and the actions that address it.
Expertise the client can test.
Most firms sit in one of two places: the trusted expert whose judgement rests on reputation, or the workshop where everybody agrees a number. Both are hard to defend when the client pushes back. AXAT is the combination: the expert’s judgement, and data the client can check it against.
We held a workshop, and everyone agreed we were a three.
Here is where you stand, how sure we are, and where your own people disagree.
Trust me. I have seen this before.
The data says you are a two, whatever your people think.
AXAT does not replace the expert. It strengthens the judgement, and frees up the diary.
The consultant still interprets, challenges and recommends. They are now doing it from a reading that can be explained, tested and improved.
Not another score. An outcome-led client conversation.
AXAT turns the assessment from something useful into something more commercially valuable: a defended diagnosis, a clear route to action, and evidence you can return to and measure progress against as the work progresses.
Give the client a position you can defend.
Show the assessed position, capability floor and confidence, not just an average rating.
Turn the finding into what should happen next.
Connect the diagnosis to the actions that address the root cause and create the bridge into follow-on work.
Come back with evidence of movement.
Remeasure capability and track the KPIs that matter, so the consultancy can show what changed rather than simply report what was delivered.
Three assessment modes. Different jobs.
With AXAT we have added a third assessment option to TheAX, so you can match the depth to the situation. Nothing you already run has changed.
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| 01 · Lead MagnetQuick self-assessment | 02 · StandardMaturity assessment | 03 · AXAT · newTriangulated diagnostic | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The job | Starts the conversation. | A quick read across a group. | Work that has to survive challenge. |
| Who answers | One person | Anyone invited | A panel, routed to what each is qualified to answer |
| Respondent time | A few minutes | 5–20 minutes | 20–90 minutes, by scope |
| Consultant input | None | None | An evidence validation session |
| Result | A score, and a lead | Maturity profile and general advice | Corroborated level, with confidence and targeted advice |
| Can it be disputed? | Yes | Yes. Nothing is named. | Findings name the missing artefact. |
The same maturity score can hide very different problems.
Two restaurants, one street. The menu looks fine, the kitchen looks fine, the difference is underneath. A rating tells you there is a gap. The pattern across the three lenses tells you what kind, and therefore what to do.
Corroborated at 1.67: the evidence floor. The diners are happy, but nothing is written down and nothing would survive Mario taking a week off.
Corroborated at 2.33: the symptoms cap it. The recipe book, the certificates, the trained staff are all real. The service is not.
Same score on a standard assessment. Opposite advice. That is the difference between a rating and a diagnosis. The long version is on the AXAT page.
Move from a rating to a traceable diagnostic position.
The analysis makes disagreement visible rather than hiding it. That gives the consultant something to resolve, not noise to average away. This is the Overview tab of a completed AXAT assessment, top to bottom.
See agreement and disagreement
The assessed position, and beside it the confidence: how many respondents, how far they agreed, how much evidence was validated. “Usable but not yet firm” is the platform being honest about the reading.
Investigate the gap
The open questions still to settle, and which are being investigated. Flag an artefact, check it, record the outcome.
Update the assessment
Completed investigations feed back in. The position as assessed and after investigation sit side by side, so the reading gets better supported without losing what was originally found.
Diagnose the kind of problem
Every root cause sorted by the change it asks for: build it, make it land, write it down, or leave it. Nothing in place is a different job from in place but still happening, and the advice differs accordingly.
See what progression takes
The next level and what it asks for, with the recommendations split into ready to start, validate first, and sequence behind. The logic stays visible: the consultant can see why the result changed and which inputs underpin it.
Analytics & Insights, Overview tab. Demo tenant, illustrative.
Adds to your workflow. Replaces none of it.
Your firm has already invested in AI tools, agentic workflows, GPTs and Claude projects built around your practice. AXAT does not ask you to change any of it. It puts a defensible diagnosis at the front, then hands the result on: a client-ready report, or structured data your existing tools carry forward. Better inputs, not another closed system.
The report
Built from the sections you choose, in your branding. Export as an editable Word document or a self-contained web page, or share a link.
The workbook
An Excel workbook with capabilities, level attainment, root causes, recommendations, every answer, and the state of the investigation.
The AI-ready data
Shareable structured JSON so the agents, GPTs and workflows you already run can continue from the assessment, with no calculation details exposed.
Watch it. Try it. Or get in early.
Three ways in. Start with the one that suits you.
The live demo
Eighteen minutes from the launch webinar: one example assessment taken end to end, from Product Book to client-ready report. Plays on YouTube.
Speak to us
If you already run assessments, diagnostics or audits, show us what you do today. We will map AXAT onto your method and tell you quickly whether it fits.
Get in early
Join the AXAT Early Adopter Programme for major launch discounts, hands-on support and the chance to get commercial ROI within a month. Best suited to firms already selling expertise through assessments, diagnostics or audits. Talk to us and we will walk you through it.