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Leadership hiring that learns from every decision you make.

Most leadership hires fail not because you hired the wrong person — but because you had no system for knowing what 'right' looks like at your stage. Prelim closes that loop: behavioral evidence in, outcome data back, AI that learns your definition of leadership excellence.

Stop buying confidence. Start building evidence.

Executive search finds candidates. It cannot prove they will lead well at your stage, your culture, or your next inflection point. Leadership Intelligence replaces the gut-feel verdict with role-specific behavioral simulations, a closed outcome loop, and AI that learns what actually predicts performance — at your organization, not just across generic benchmarks.

  • Behavioral simulations built for your role, stage, and risk profile
  • Closed-loop AI: post-hire outcomes feed back into the model
  • Every hire creates institutional memory your search firm can't take with it
  • 360° multi-rater from direct reports, peers, manager, and stakeholders
  • Psychometrics validated against outcomes — not self-report alone
  • Board-ready reports that explain every score in plain language
63%faster leadership shortlists

Astraflow cut a 9-week executive search to under three weeks without lowering the bar.

What Leadership Intelligence measures that panels miss.

Each signal below is behavioral evidence — not what a candidate says about themselves, but what they do under the situations that break average leaders.

Behavioral simulations

Decision scenarios built for your stage and sector — not generic question banks.

Closed-loop AI

Post-hire outcome data feeds back. The model learns your definition of leadership excellence.

Judgment evidence

What candidates do under realistic pressure — not what they claim they'd do in an interview.

360° signal layer

Multi-rater from direct reports, peers, manager, and external stakeholders. Blind spots surfaced before the final round.

Succession intelligence

Promotion readiness, flight risk, and bench depth — forward-looking, not retrospective.

Dark triad & advanced screening

Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy, humility index, learning agility — the signals most platforms don't surface.

Psychometric depth

Big Five, Hogan, 16PF — validated frameworks correlated with outcomes, mapped to your competency model.

Institutional memory

After ten hires, your org owns a leadership pattern library. Your definition of great, codified.

Roles commonly assessed.

A sample of the job titles teams use this for.

CEOCOOCFOCTOCHROCMOVP of EngineeringVP of SalesVP of ProductDirector of OperationsGeneral ManagerHead of ProductChief of StaffRegional DirectorManaging Director

The full Leadership Intelligence matrix.

Every leadership hire can run any combination of the eight signal types below — configured to your role, your competency model, and your stage.

Signal typeWhat Prelim surfaces
Behavioral SimulationsDecision scenarios built for your stage, sector, and risk profile — not generic SJT banks. Candidates respond to the situations that actually break leaders at your level.
Closed-Loop AIPost-hire outcome data feeds back into the model. After each hire, the system learns what actually predicted success at your organization — not just industry averages.
Judgment EvidenceWhat candidates do under realistic pressure, not what they say they would do. Every response is behavioral evidence, not self-report.
360° Signal LayerMulti-rater input from peers, direct reports, manager, and external stakeholders. Competency gaps and blind spots surfaced before the final round.
Psychometric DepthBig Five (OCEAN), Hogan, 16PF — validated personality frameworks correlated with leadership outcomes, mapped to your competency model.
Succession IntelligenceLeadership potential score, promotion readiness, flight risk, and bench depth — forward-looking verdicts, not backward descriptions.
Dark Triad & Advanced ScreeningMachiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy, humility index, learning agility, and digital fluency — the signals most platforms don't surface.
Institutional MemoryEvery leadership hire creates data. After ten hires, your organization owns a pattern library competitors cannot buy. Your definition of great leadership, codified.

Questions teams ask us.

An executive assessment is a snapshot. Leadership Intelligence is a system. It runs behavioral simulations before the hire, tracks what happens after, and feeds that outcome data back into AI that learns what actually predicts success at your organization — not just generic benchmarks.

Six months after a leadership hire, Prelim prompts your team to log outcome data — performance, retention, team growth. That signal feeds back into the model. After ten hires, your Leadership Intelligence system knows what 'strong VP of Sales' looks like at Series C with a 60-person team — not at a generic enterprise with different stakes.

Yes. Prelim maps every simulation and score to your existing competency framework so results speak your organization's language rather than a generic taxonomy.

No. Personality is one of eight signal types, not the output. The final verdict combines behavioral simulations, psychometrics, 360° input, and outcome-calibrated AI — weighted to your role profile. A single personality type never blocks or advances a candidate.

For sourcing, no. For evaluation and institutional memory, yes. Executive search firms find candidates — they cannot prove fit, and they take their knowledge with them when the engagement ends. Prelim's Leadership Intelligence stays with your organization, getting sharper with every hire.

Evaluations run in your chosen deployment — cloud, VPC, or on-prem. Candidate data is never used to train models and never shared across organizations. Outcome data stays in your account only.

Make your next leadership hire the one that teaches you.

Bring one open VP role. We'll design the evaluation and show you what the outcome loop looks like on your data.