A structural diagnosis, administered by a practitioner.
Tier 1 gives you a signal in five minutes. Tier 2 is the engagement behind it: five to seven structured interviews, thirty-six structured probes, a computed scorecard and a written report — the reading a renewal, a scale-up or a transition decision actually needs.
What a Tier 2 engagement is.
A G-ART Compass (Government Adoption Readiness and Transition Compass) diagnostic engagement led by a senior practitioner from Catalytic Corps Private Limited, typically four to eight weeks from scoping to delivery and administered across five to seven interviews and thirty-six structured probes. It produces an honest structural reading of one partnership: an overall verdict — Strong, Mixed or Significant Gaps — a stage reading for each of the seven dimensions, the patterns detected, and the sequence of interventions that would matter most.
It is not a workshop, not capability-building and not advisory accompaniment. Those are different pieces of work, and where one of them is the right answer we say so.
Who it is for.
The instrument is calibrated to the chair you sit in.
An NGO delivering a reform in partnership with government, whose senior leadership wants to know whether the partnership will hold when the funding cycle ends.
A foundation deciding on renewal, scale or scoping, which wants to know whether its grantee is delivering into a system that can absorb the work.
A department or mission hosting a reform, which wants to see what has actually been absorbed — in budget, in role descriptions, in records — and what survives the next transfer.
Government engagements are read across senior, operational and implementation levels. They may be commissioned by the department itself or sponsored by a philanthropy with the department’s participation; the scoping conversation settles which, and who sees the findings.
The process.
Scoping. A conversation about the question you are actually asking, who needs to be in the room, and whom the findings may and may not be shared with. The engagement is scoped, contracted and opened.
Interviews. Five to seven structured sessions with the people who hold the structural picture — typically two to four senior leaders per session, ninety minutes to two hours, in person or on a call. Consent is captured before any interview is recorded; recordings are optional and are held privately by the practice. Practitioners capture ratings and evidence live, in the respondent’s own words, rather than reconstructing them afterwards.
The instrument. Thirty-six structured probes across the seven dimensions, each rated 1 to 4 — or N where a dimension is genuinely premature for the reform’s stage — with an evidence statement behind every rating and a practitioner judgement of how strong that evidence is. Anchor questions carry 1.5 times the weight of the others in their dimension, and critical dimensions 1.5 times the weight of the rest.
Scorecard. Once every question has a rating and its evidence, the scorecard is computed: dimension scores, the overall reading, the verdict and the patterns whose signatures are present. The reading is reviewed inside the practice before it is written up.
Report. A written diagnostic report — findings by dimension, the patterns, what to do first — reviewed and approved inside the practice, then delivered in a working session with your leadership. Clients read and download delivered reports through a sign-in portal; time-limited share links can be issued where a wider group needs to read the shareable body. Government engagements carry a second, internal-only layer for findings that need protective circulation.
What you receive.
A verdict you can act on, a reading of each dimension with the evidence behind it, the patterns identified and what they mean structurally, and an intervention sequence prioritised for your circumstances. The report does not make the decision for you — continue, strengthen, redesign or wind down — but every finding is written so that it can be read against that decision. Findings are stated in structural terms, never as judgements of individuals.
How to start.
Write to contact@catalyticcorps.com with a few lines on the reform, the partnership and the decision in front of you, and a practitioner will reply to arrange a scoping conversation. If you have not yet taken the free Tier 1 assessment, it is a good first step: the scorecard and the written interpretation give both of us a shared starting point.