What we need from you, what we'll deliver, and how the next eight weeks will unfold. A simple roadmap for Phase 1.
By the end of Phase 1, you will have a complete, scoreable Speaking Powers assessment on paper. Every question defined, every score calculated, every type fully written, every word of the participant experience mapped out. It will be ready to hand to any assessment platform.
Think of Phase 1 as writing the complete recipe. Phase 2 is cooking it. We cannot cook until the recipe is written, regardless of which kitchen we choose.
Margreet, you mentioned wanting to handle the assessment platform and automatic reports through an external provider. That is a perfectly valid route to explore, and Phase 1 gives you exactly the assets you need to evaluate any platform fairly. Once we have the finalised item set, scoring model, and complete content library in hand, you will be able to show it to any vendor and ask, simply, can you build this. If yes, great. If the answer gets complicated, you will understand why, and we can talk about alternatives then.
The work in Phase 1 is platform-agnostic on purpose. Nothing we produce is locked to a specific tool.
A short list. Most of this already exists on the Stage Heroes side in some form, so the first week is largely about gathering what is there and sharing it cleanly.
Everything else can be figured out as we go. The two most important things to line up in week one are, honestly, your calendar and your content files.
Phase 1 splits into four parallel streams of work. Each stream ends in a deliverable, and by week eight all four deliverables come together into one complete specification.
Collapse the current seven blocks into a single unified questionnaire. Decide what stays, what merges, what goes. Target a coherent instrument that a participant can complete in 15 to 20 minutes, with one or two consistent answer formats rather than the current mix.
Build the logic that takes raw answers and produces a Core, Learned, and Hidden profile. This is where the complexity of layer attribution lives, hidden from the participant. Document it in a way that any developer or platform can implement.
Finalise all 12 type descriptions, blind spots, superpowers, and development exercises. Work from your existing practitioner material, fill in the gaps, and bring everything to a consistent voice and depth.
Draft the language that frames Speaking Powers as a self-discovery tool, the user-facing disclaimers, the welcome and results copy. This is what the participant actually reads. It matters for the experience and for legal positioning.
A week-by-week breakdown showing what happens on each side. Weekly working sessions anchor the rhythm, usually 60 to 90 minutes, with asynchronous work in between.
The Phase 1 deliverable package. Everything is produced in formats that transfer cleanly to any platform, AI report tool, or developer team you choose to work with next.
The complete list of items in the unified questionnaire, every item mapped to powers and layers, response format documented. Delivered as a structured spreadsheet and as a clean reference document.
Step-by-step documentation of how raw responses become a Core, Learned, and Hidden profile. Written so any developer, or any AI report prompt, can implement it without interpretation.
All 12 powers with full descriptions, blind spots, superpowers, and development exercises. Consistent structure, consistent voice, ready to drop into a report template.
The master document. Walks through the participant experience from welcome screen to results, includes all positioning and disclaimer copy, and serves as the brief you can hand to any assessment platform to scope build and cost.
The collaboration only works if the rhythm is sustainable on both sides. Here is what each week looks like from your end.
Heavier in weeks 5 and 6 during the content sprints, lighter in weeks 3 and 4.
Total for Phase 1 covered in the agreed fee.
If a week gets messy on either side, we flag it early and reshuffle. The timeline has a bit of give built in. The one thing to protect is the weekly session, because it is where decisions actually get made.
A transparent note on pricing, so we are on the same page from the start.
Covers all four workstreams, weekly working sessions, and the complete deliverable package at week eight. VAT charged at the standard Dutch rate (21%) on the final invoice.
Phase 1 sits below our usual rate for an IO psychology-led assessment design project of this scope, and that is entirely deliberate. Stage Heroes is a partnership we believe in, and Speaking Powers is the kind of framework that deserves to be out in the world. We would rather invest in helping you bring it to life well than price the project at a rate that slows the launch down.
So think of this fee as our way of backing the work, not a favour to keep score of. You focus on making Speaking Powers succeed. That is the only return we are looking for.
Scope, timeline, and deliverables are all as described above. No strings attached.
Three concrete things to line up before our first working session.
Pick a 90 minute slot in week one that works for both of us. This is where we walk through the plan together, agree the weekly rhythm, and get the workspace live.
Send across the latest workbook, presentation drafts, any half-written type content, and workshop notes. A shared folder works well. Do not worry about tidiness, we want everything, messy or not.
A recurring calendar hold, same time each week. Easiest way to keep the momentum and means we never have to schedule from scratch.
Once these three are done, Phase 1 is underway.