The job description is the scorecard.
Most hiring runs on a gut read and a resume, and the standard changes with whoever is in the room. Quadrant puts the job description at the centre: it sets the behavioural targets for the seat, every applicant is scored against those same targets, and the review a year later runs off the same lines.
The Driver
Decides fast, pushes for results.
The Spark
Energizes the room, sells the vision.
The Anchor
Steadies the team, keeps the promise.
The Craftsman
Gets the details right, every time.
Four numbers that are already costing you.
Keep your crew
Losing one good hand costs half to two times their salary. For a $70K lead, that's $35K–$140K out the gate.
See how
The weekly check-in gives every person fifteen minutes with the one who runs their work: how their capacity is, what moved, what they need. Burnout shows up as a flag on your dashboard while it's still fixable — before the sick days, before the resignation.
Gallup, replacement-cost research 2019
Stop paying the reputation tax
A shop with a bad name pays at least 10% more per hire just to get a yes. A good name hires at market.
See how
Culture is built in the boring weeks: people managed the way they're wired, told the truth at every hiring stage, reviewed against a job they can read. Your applicants are your crew's cousins — word gets around, and the wage premium swings with it.
Harvard Business Review / ICM, 2016
Hire right the first time
Screening against the seat instead of the vibe roughly doubles what you can predict about a hire.
See how
Your job description sets the targets; every applicant is scored against those lines — half working style, half character. A bad hire costs up to 30% of first-year earnings, and the yardstick that prevents it is a document you wrote and can argue with.
Schmidt & Hunter meta-analysis; US Dept. of Labor
The 15-minute fix
The manager is 70% of the engagement equation. A short weekly check-in moves more than any perk.
See how
Engaged crews aren't a feel-good story: Gallup's 183,000-business-unit analysis puts them at 23% more profitable, with 63% fewer safety incidents and 78% less absenteeism. Quadrant makes the weekly meeting the path of least resistance — who runs it, what's on it, and a Monday digest so nothing gets dropped.
Gallup Q12 meta-analysis, 2024Map your team
One link, forwarded to your crew. Ten minutes each, on their phones. No accounts.
Sit down together
We walk the whole map with you — who fits which seat, where the friction comes from.
Run the rhythm
Check-ins, reviews, hiring — one system. Your crew can be in it by Friday.
The wrong seat quietly wears people down.
The great interview that wasn't
The resume matched the job. The person didn't match the seat. Nobody ever wrote down what the seat actually needed, so every interviewer graded on a different yardstick.
The review nobody can defend
A year in, the review form asks about teamwork and communication. It never asks about the job you actually hired them to do, because the job description went in a drawer on day one.
The friction that never resolves
Two good people who grind on each other cost you output every single week. It's not attitude. It's translation.
One document, running the whole seat.
Every seat starts with one, on file
Attach the job description you already have, or upload it and Quadrant pulls the text out. It is not paperwork. It is the thing the score, the interview questions and next year's review are all built from, which is why the software will not let a seat run without one.
Applicants scored against your job description
Quadrant reads that job description and works out the behavioural targets the seat needs. Every applicant takes a ten-minute assessment and is scored against those targets, half on working style and half on the five character measures. The yardstick is your own document, so you can read it, argue with it, and edit it.
The same questions, for every candidate
You get standardized screening, interview and reference scripts plus questions built from where each person differs from the target. Same process for everybody, so you are comparing straight across instead of comparing memories.
The org chart, and the review off the same lines
Seats, reporting lines and who sits where. A year later the review will not open without a job description on file: Quadrant pulls the ratable responsibilities straight out of it and freezes them, so nobody can move the standard after seeing the performance. The person and the manager rate the same lines and neither sees the other before the meeting.
And you keep the job description itself
Rendered in your own logo and colours: the mission, an outcome and how it is measured table, what the seat owns, how the seat runs. Download it for Word, or save it as a PDF and hand it to the person on their first day. Most owner-operators do not have these written down, and they know it.
“I cannot replace him.” So move the seat instead.
Everybody thinks of this as fitting people to jobs. Quadrant will also do the reverse: hold one person's assessment up against the job description for the seat they already hold, and tell you what to lean into, what to rewrite, what would be better off with somebody else, and where you are quietly carrying retention risk.
$30 a month, plus $7 a month for each person on your roster.
You pay for the people who work here. Not for the people you are still deciding about. Assess a hundred applicants for one seat and it costs you nothing extra. The bill moves the day someone starts, and it moves back the day they leave. That is the only number that changes.
$30 + $7 per person
CAD, per month, billed on your roster. Twenty people is $170 a month. A hundred people is $730. Pay yearly and you get two months back.
Job descriptions to reviews
Job descriptions on file, postings and applications, DISC and character assessments, the org chart, and reviews. Every login your team needs is included, at any size. No tier you have to upgrade into halfway through a hire.
Always free
Applicants are not on your roster, so assessing them costs nothing, however many apply. You start paying for a person the day they start working for you.
Two free tools. See it work on your own people.
How you lead
Ten minutes, no gate, no card. A straight read on how you actually run things: how you decide, how you run a room, where it bites you, and what your people wish you knew. Nothing is saved or sent unless you ask us to email you a copy.
Find out how you lead →Map your team
One link, forwarded to your crew. Everyone takes a ten-minute assessment on their phone, and we sit down with you to walk through the whole picture: who fits which seat, and where the friction comes from.
Get my team link →How it actually goes.
Your company, your login
A private workspace for your company. Results live in your own area, open to the people you invite in and to Quadrant, which runs the platform.
Your team takes the assessment
Ten minutes each, on their phone, off one link you forward. No accounts, no card, nothing to install.
We sit down and go through it
A working session on your calendar. Who is in which seat, where the friction is, and which job description to get on file first. Not a same-day promise, a real conversation.
A short series, one a week.
How owners write the job description, hire against it, and hold a review a year later they can actually defend. Eight emails, a week apart, and then they stop on their own — there is no endless newsletter behind this box. Short, plain, and useful. Unsubscribe with one click, any time.
They go out Tuesdays. If you unsubscribed from us before, this form will not put you back on. Write rod@people-purpose.com and ask.
The questions owners actually ask.
What does this cost for my crew of 40?
$30 + $7 each = $310 a month, CAD, everything included. The calculator above does your exact number. No setup fees, no add-ons, no tier you get pushed into later.
Will my guys actually use it?
Taking the assessment needs no account at all — ten minutes on their own phone off a link you forward. After that, every team member gets their own login, included: their profile page, their full report, and the five-minute weekly check-in. If they can text, they can use it.
How fast does it do something for me?
Your crew can be mapped by Friday — the assessment link goes out today, results land as they finish. Then we sit down together and walk through what you've got. The first weekly check-ins run the week after.
I don't have time to run another system.
Your part is minutes: a Monday-morning digest of who said what and who needs you, and the fifteen-minute sit-downs you already know you should be having. Quadrant doesn't add meetings — it gives the ones you owe your people a spine.
What happens when the 14-day trial ends?
Cancel any time in the first fourteen days and you pay nothing. Stay and the subscription just continues — no contracts, month to month, and the bill only ever changes when your roster does.
Who sees my people's data?
Each person sees their own results; managers see what they need to manage. Nothing is sold, rented, or shared with other companies — and nothing in Quadrant ever auto-rejects anyone. Our privacy policy is written in plain English, including the unfinished parts.
Am I locked in?
No. Month to month, cancel anytime, and your data is yours — ask and you get it. The job descriptions are real documents you can download and keep whatever you decide.
Do I need an HR person for this?
No — it's built for owner-operators who do their own hiring. If you have an HR person, there's a role for them; if you don't, you won't miss one.
Who helps me if I'm stuck?
You get a person — the one who built it. Support is founder-run, and the sit-down that starts your account is with a human, not a video course.
Write down what the seat needs. Hire against it. Review against it.
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