A 360 shows you a moment.
Orbit shows you the movement.
Orbit is continuous feedback for managers. A baseline, a small experiment, a light question every few weeks and a matched follow-up, so a manager can see whether what they are trying is being noticed.
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Baseline 360
The manager and their stakeholders rate observed behaviour in a chosen set of everyday situations, looking back over the past three months. Results release when the round closes, and any group too small to protect confidentiality stays hidden.
An illustrative programme. Real cadence, thresholds and question wording are set per programme.
Same idea of feedback from colleagues. A different job.
Lead 360 is the photograph: a detailed picture of how someone is seen, and how that compares with their psychometric profile. Orbit is the film: does the picture change when the manager changes how they work? They answer different questions, and a client can run both.
Six moving parts, each one small.
Nothing in Orbit asks a colleague to do a lot. The value comes from many small, well-timed observations adding up.
Baseline 360
Self, line manager, peers and direct reports rate observed behaviour in a chosen set of everyday situations, looking back over three months. Results release only when the round closes.
One experiment
Orbit recommends up to three small experiments from the baseline, ranked by lowest stakeholder score and by where self-view differs from how others see it. The manager picks one primary.
Light pulses
A scheduler sends each stakeholder one short question about a real situation, about every three weeks. There are hard caps on frequency, a send window, quiet days, and no repeat question within 60 days.
Events and observations
After a real moment the manager can send an event pulse. Any colleague can leave an open observation covering situation, behaviour and effect. Each is its own source.
Private reflection
Reflections are private by default. The manager can share one with a coach, and that sharing is recorded.
Matched post-360
The baseline is repeated with the same groups. Results show Higher, Similar or Lower with how many people answered, and never claim the programme caused the change.
Every question is about a moment a colleague could actually have seen, not a trait. A programme uses between three and eight of these.
Orbit will not say more than the evidence allows.
A single comment is not a pattern, and one person repeating themselves is not a pattern either. Advice unlocks in four steps, and the wording at each step is limited to what that step can support.
Observation
One eligible observation.
A question, not an answer. Orbit suggests what to notice next time.
Emerging signal
Two or more observations, on more than one occasion, from at least two different people.
Something may be recurring. A small experiment would help find out.
Supported pattern
Three or more observations from more than one source or stakeholder group.
A specific action is now justified. Where sources differ, that is worth exploring too.
Trajectory
Comparable evidence across three periods, with enough people having seen the behaviour.
Orbit can describe how something is moving. It still does not claim what caused it.
AI words the advice. The evidence decides whether there is any.
The evidence level is set by fixed rules first. Only then is AI asked to write advice, and only for the level the evidence has reached.
Advice in plain language. AI drafts the wording, limited to the permitted level. If the AI is unavailable, a template is used instead.
An overreach filter. Anything that labels a trait, implies a diagnosis, claims Orbit caused a change, guesses who said what, or points to an employment decision is rejected.
Question review. AI can suggest improvements to draft questions. A person accepts or rejects them, and both the original and final wording are kept.
No raw comments leave Edge. Only aggregate, de-identified counts and draft question text are sent to the AI provider. Stakeholder comments never are.
People will only be honest if they trust the process.
Orbit is designed so that candid feedback is safe to give. These protections are enforced by the system, not left to policy.
Confidential, not anonymous
Peers and direct reports are shown only in groups of at least four by default, and never fewer than three. Groups are also hidden if they could be worked out from another cut.
No one is exposed by their answers
The manager never sees who has or has not responded. Administrators see counts only. Free-text comments are held for 48 hours, redacted, and released only when a group is large enough.
Stakeholders stay in control
Anyone can withdraw and all contact stops immediately. Their responses are de-linked from them. Data is kept for a defined period, then reduced to anonymised aggregates.
Their own results, experiments, evidence and advice, and their own reflections.
Only the reflections the manager has chosen to share.
Programme setup, counts and governance data. Not individual results, evidence or reflections.
See Orbit in a real evidence walkthrough.
Tell us a little about what you're trying to solve and we'll come back with a walkthrough of the evidence model, the adaptive engines, and the reports it produces.
Demo walkthrough
See the candidate journey, assessment modules and reporting flow.
Pilot planning
Map the right assessments to roles, levels and decision points.