Self-Assessment

ISEE Health Diagnostic

Twenty questions across four domains. Score your organisation's structural health — not just delivery outcomes. Takes about five minutes.

Based on Appendix B of Ghost Decisions by Suzanne Daniels.

0 of 20 questions

Are the rules still connected to the intent behind them?

Can you name 3–7 operational commitments your organisation will not trade — even under speed, pressure, or commercial urgency?

How many of your critical architectural decisions are enforced — not documented, not recommended, but enforced as pipeline gates?

When was a spine rule last challenged by a cell — and what happened?

Do spine rules have expiry dates? Is anyone reviewing whether old rules still apply?

Can you trace a spine rule back to the Intent principle it serves — in under two minutes?

Are signals flowing — and is anyone reading them?

What percentage of your teams emit the signals they've committed to in their evidence contracts?

Does every emitted signal have a named reader-of-record — someone responsible for the constitutional read?

When evidence contradicts something leadership believed, what happens?

How quickly does a structural signal — something the spine should respond to — produce a change?

Can you identify ghost signals — decisions that should have generated evidence but didn't?

Is work happening within constraints, or around them?

If a new cell plugs into your organisation today, what constraints does it inherit automatically — without anyone sending a Slack message?

How do your teams coordinate — primarily through artefacts or through meetings?

Can you find a decision from last week that nobody remembers making? (A ghost decision.)

What is the agent-to-human action ratio for routine work — and is it what you'd expect?

If your most senior spine author left tomorrow, which decisions would become unmade?

Is ISEE making the organisation faster, safer, and more traceable?

What percentage of engineering time goes to coordination versus execution?

How long does it take a new cell to ship its first change?

When an incident occurs, can you trace it to: a spine gap, an evidence gap, or an execution failure?

What percentage of your customer-facing agents operate inside an explicit spine — rather than ad-hoc prompt rules?

Is your ghost-decision count trending down over time?