Talent & Leadership

Leadership due diligence

Combines a leader's document evidence with live external research into a scored assessment of leadership strength and risk.

  • Talent & Leadership
  • Traceable reasoning
  • Runs anywhere
Preview methodology

3–4 days ~10 minutes

Including the external research pass

No coding required

Input
The leader's CV, profile and supporting documents
Output
A scored assessment of leadership evidence and risk
Runs in
Skillsize · ChatGPT · Claude · Copilot
Export
SKILL.md · MCP
Time saved
~3–4 days per run

— USE CASES

What people use Leadership due diligence for

Pre-appointment diligence

Assess evidence and public track record before an executive offer is made.

Investor or transaction diligence

Produce a scored, evidenced read on management strength for a deal file.

Board-level appointment support

Give a nominations committee a consistent risk view across candidates.

What it works from

  • The leader's CV, profile and supporting documents
  • Any specific risk questions to test
  • The role and context they are being assessed for

What you get back

  • A scored assessment of leadership evidence and risk
  • Externally researched context alongside document evidence
  • A written diligence output ready for review

— HOW IT BEHAVES

How Leadership due diligence produces its result

The mechanics behind this specific template — what it reads, what it calculates, and where a human stays in the loop.

Scored against your criteria

Assessment happens against criteria you control and weight, so the same standard applies on every run.

Live external research

Current external sources are researched during the run rather than recalled from training data, and the sources travel with the output.

Composed as work product

Findings are written up as a document that reads like professional output rather than raw model text.

Why this is expensive by hand

Every talent & leadership team needs leadership due diligence — and almost none of them do it the same way twice. In practice it shows up as pre-appointment diligence: assess evidence and public track record before an executive offer is made. It is the kind of work that decides whether a recommendation survives scrutiny — and the kind that quietly eats 3–4 days of senior time whenever it comes round.

How this Skill produces it

Here the same job runs as a Skill. Your material goes in; a scored assessment of leadership evidence and risk comes out, alongside externally researched context alongside document evidence. What sits between input and output is the codified method: thresholds, sequencing and the points where a human confirms a call — all of it visible and editable in the Skill. The practical effect: 3–4 days of manual work becomes a ~10 minutes run, held to an identical standard on the tenth engagement as on the first.

Who it's for

  • Independent consultants codifying their own methodology
  • Strategy and transformation teams standardising delivery
  • Internal advisory functions under pressure to produce faster
  • Operators who need defensible output, not a one-off chat answer

Run it in Skillsize — or export it anywhere

Leadership due diligence exports as a structured SKILL.md file and is MCP-ready, so the same method runs in ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot or your own AI products. Adapt it to your methodology, and the intelligence stays yours — not locked to one vendor.

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