Thirty-five items in two depths, administered on this site under an access code. Responses are collected by department, role level and experience; the results build as they arrive and can be followed from round to round.
Codes starting with R open OPTIC Rapid. Codes starting with D open OPTIC Deep. Your assessment lead will have sent you one.
The assessment is run by invitation. Each round has its own code, issued by Praveg, and the question set is shown only to people who hold one.
Praveg reads the four drivers with the leadership team and records the Target Maturity Profile, plus the departments and role levels results will be read by.
A round is opened and its access code shared. The code fixes the depth, the closing date and whether names are collected.
Each respondent gives a few details about their seat in the organisation, then rates each dimension on its ladder, pillar by pillar.
Results are read against the target profile: by pillar, by dimension, by department, by role level and against earlier rounds.
Rapid tells you where to look. Deep tells you what is there.
First encounter with the model, and quarterly pulse-checks between full assessments.
Rapid tells you where to look. It is never presented with the authority of a Deep result.
Annual assessment, pre-transformation baseline, inspection readiness review.
Deep tells you what is there. Most of the elapsed time goes on gathering evidence, not on answering questions.
Each dimension has a behavioural anchor ladder: five one-sentence descriptions of what that dimension looks like at each level.
Respondents start at the bottom and read upward. The organisation sits at the highest level whose description is true of it and for which every lower level is also true. You cannot be measuring a process that is not consistently followed.
In a Deep assessment, “true” means evidenced: by a named artefact, a record, or a practice the assessor has watched happen.
The illustration shows the five general levels. The twenty-five ladders themselves, and the ten red-flag checks, appear only inside an assessment round and in the book.
Rating: 3, the highest level that is true with every lower level also true.
Current maturity against the Target Maturity Profile, at pillar level and across all twenty-five dimensions, with the limiting dimension of each pillar named.
Results by department, role level, experience and time with the organisation, including where leadership and teams see things differently.
The Priority Lens scored on the results: which pillar leads, which support it, which are stabilised and which can be simplified.
Each new round adds to the timeline. Rapid and Deep rounds are shown as visibly different series, because they carry different authority.
Exports for assigning owners and tracking actions in the systems you already use.
| Exec | Senior | Mid | Lead | Team | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| O | 3.6 | 3.2 | 2.9 | 2.7 | 2.5 |
| P | 3.6 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 3.0 | 2.8 |
| T | 3.6 | 3.4 | 3.3 | 3.3 | 3.2 |
| I | 3.1 | 2.7 | 2.4 | 2.3 | 2.2 |
| C | 3.2 | 2.9 | 2.8 | 2.5 | 2.0 |
Shaded by distance from all responses
They are what separate this instrument from a self-congratulation exercise. Scores compress as a result: most organisations land their pillars at two or three, and the differentiation that matters lives at the dimension level.
Deep adds ten yes-or-no checks, two per pillar, that test for the critical failures a maturity rating alone can hide: an outcome nobody is accountable for, a critical process run from two versions of its procedure, a regulated system that was never validated, a leadership KPI fed by data nobody owns, a step-change in scale with no assessment of what it will demand. A brilliant dashboard fed by data nobody validates is not a four.
Tell us a little about the organisation. We will reply with how a Rapid pulse or a Deep assessment would run for you, and what it involves.
OPTIC is calibrated and tested for organisations of 50 to 500 people, often founder-led, in or adjacent to regulated industries: project-driven firms, pharmaceutical and clinical research, growing professional services, and organisations in transformation.
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Access codes are issued by Praveg for each assessment round, as part of an OPTIC engagement or a standalone Rapid pulse. Use the form on this page or write to info@pravegcs.com.
OPTIC Rapid takes most respondents 20 to 30 minutes. OPTIC Deep takes longer, because every level claimed must be supported by a named artefact, record or observed practice. Progress is saved on the respondent's device, so they can pause and return.
The assessment team at Praveg Consultancy Services LLP. Results are reported to the organisation in grouped form, for example by department or role level. A round can also be run anonymously, in which case names are not collected at all.
The instrument is administered, not browsed: ratings are more useful when respondents meet the ladders in the context of a calibrated, facilitated round. The complete instrument is printed in the book.
For Rapid: a provisional radar against the Target Maturity Profile, dimension-level detail, comparisons across departments and role levels, and a lead-pillar hypothesis. For Deep: reconciled pillar and dimension radars, limiting dimensions, red-flag determinations and a scored Priority Lens. Repeat rounds add progress over time.
Yes. The gap register, results summaries and progress data export as CSV, so actions can be assigned and monitored in whatever system the organisation already uses.
Start with a half-day OPTIC Rapid, or go straight to an evidenced OPTIC Deep.