The Role Fit System™

Workplace intelligence for
roles where judgment matters.

Popular employment assessments measure who a person is.

Not how they decide.

The Role Fit System™ reads how a person actually makes decisions — and whether that fits the role.

What we actually read

Traditional assessments show you what a candidate says they do.

The Role Fit System shows the pattern underneath.

When the answer isn’t clear, people navigate uncertainty in repeatable ways – across situations, under pressure, when the stakes rise.

That’s what we read.

How the Role Fit System™ works

We map the person.
How someone navigates uncertainty — the pattern behind the résumé.
We map the role.
What this specific seat demands when the answer isn’t clear — because the same strength reads differently in different seats.
We read the fit.
Where the two meet, and where they don’t.

Backed by research. Built for the workplace.

A century of research shows that people respond to uncertainty in consistent, individual ways.1 2

Our patent-pending Role Fit System applies that insight to the work itself — measuring how a person navigates uncertainty, and comparing that pattern to what a specific role actually demands.

The result isn’t a personality label. It’s workplace intelligence for roles where judgment matters.

1 Knight, Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit (1921). 2 Budner (1962); McLain (1993, 2009).

The cost of misfit

What does a wrong fit actually cost?

50–200%of salary to replace someone.

That’s the range the research puts on replacing an employee — and it isn’t a flat number. The low end is frontline roles. Senior, judgment-heavy roles — exactly the seats we read — sit at the top of the range.3 4

Replacing a $175k seat can run to roughly $300k once you count the search, the ramp, the missed decisions, and the disruption around it — about 1.7× salary, squarely inside the range for senior roles.

And that’s just the obvious failure. A capable person in a misdrawn role can cost you quietly, and for longer.

3SHRM; Gallup — the widely cited 50–200% of salary range to replace an employee. 4 Center for American Progress (2012): up to 213% of salary for senior, skilled positions (30 case studies across 11 research papers).

It rhymes with how I feel but have never articulated.
John Moss
John MossAttorney, Steel & Moss LLP
The system knew how people always misread me.
Nick C.
Nick C.C-Suite Strategic Advisor, Ursim Consulting
I want one for each of my adult kids. They should know this about themselves.
William Scott Downs
William Scott DownsChief of Staff, Merative

See it for yourself.

Take our shortened survey and we’ll read how you navigate uncertainty — the same kind of read, abbreviated, that we generate for a candidate.

See your pattern →