A score anyone can check.
Three pillars, one number. The pillar weights are configurable per organisation, with a tenure ramp and a documented data confidence level on every score.
The Execution Index reads task completion, on-time delivery, and the velocity pattern. The Network Influence & Trust Index reads how widely peers recognize the person across team boundaries. The Cultural Adherence Index reads how often those recognitions map to your Company Values. The three pillars combine into a single PVS, with weight redistribution when a pillar has no data, never zero-fill.
What the engine ships today, and what is shipping in Q3.
Train a replacement first.
When a manager is up for promotion, Wudd holds the paperwork until they show they have trained someone on their team to take over. The Succession side ships the four-layer metric-binding-required architecture today: catalog allowlist, validator, definition prompt, and persistence. The promotion side gets the same enforcement parity in Q3.
Check both sides.
The manager writes what their report accomplished. The report writes the same thing separately. Wudd compares them against the task data and flags mismatches before anyone signs. The dual-answer dossier model, manager draft, manager sealed, blind employee answer, variance flagging, is procurement-grade today on the Succession side.
Frozen weights, logged overrides.
Pillar weights for AI-suggested role profiles are pinned via gpt_snapshot_id so model drift never re-scores anyone retroactively. Every override is logged with mandatory reason and approver columns at the data-model level, on a 22-case audit-action enum, on top of an append-only event log on custom_kpi_value_events. Canonical-path snapshot wiring, the employee-visible snapshot UI, and the model-level append-only guard ship with the Q3 governance pack, we say that here, instead of marketing it as shipped.
A promotion path people can trust.
Every decision is documented down to the individual recognitions behind the PVS. Idempotent point minting via DB unique index. Three-stage approval chain on Strategy KPIs. The audit story is real today; the parts that are not are listed honestly above.