This is the Research Edition of the Resonance Scan — the quantitative evolution of the tool used in practice, designed to measure coherence, map trust and energy flow, and reveal alignment stress across a leadership system.
The Research Edition is the analytical expansion of the Resonance Scan used in practice. Instead of relying on sensing or narrative interpretation, it uses structured data, network analysis, and quantitative indicators to measure the leadership field with precision.
Its purpose is simple: to make coherence quantifiable and leadership fields research-visible. Where the Architecture Audit maps form and the practical Scan maps lived flow, the Research Edition measures how coherence, trust, and energy actually move across a system.
What the Research Edition measures
- Coherence distribution — how aligned the system is across roles, layers, and functions.
- Energy flow — where energy accumulates, diffuses, or bottlenecks in the architecture.
- Trust pathways — how trust moves, where it concentrates, and where it thins.
- Signal flow — how messages travel, where they distort, and which nodes amplify or dampen them.
- Alignment stress — where teams or layers pull in different directions under pressure.
Together, these signals form a coherence map — a research-grade visualisation of how the organisation processes complexity, distributes load, and holds itself under pressure.
How the Research Edition works
The Research Edition uses a structured, multi-layer method to measure how coherence behaves inside a leadership system. It draws on three categories of input:
- Language analysis — examining transcripts and artefacts for pattern alignment, shared metaphors, and tone shifts.
- Network and geometry mapping — modelling how information, authority, and emotional weight move across the organisational network.
- Flow indicators — quantitative measures of trust flow, energy concentration, signal dampening, and alignment stress.
The analysis uses AI to process language patterns and network data, but interpretation remains entirely human. AI identifies statistical signals — shifts in tone, clustering patterns, relational load — while the architectural meaning is derived through structured review. The Scan does not rate people. It measures how the field behaves.
These inputs produce a coherence map that shows where trust flows or thins, where energy amplifies or scatters, how decisions anchor or wander, and where the architecture carries weight or leaks it.
What leaders use it for
The Research Edition is used when leaders need clarity beyond sentiment or intuition. It informs major organisational redesign, transformation programmes, leadership transitions, questions about future complexity, and tracking the impact of architectural change.
It does not diagnose individuals. It measures the field — the underlying coherence, trust flow, and energy distribution that shape the organisation’s real performance capacity.
Why this matters
Coherence is measurable. When coherence is high, the architecture carries weight cleanly, teams align quickly, and leaders work at the right altitude. When coherence is low, effort rises and the system compensates through emotion, interpretation, and bureaucracy.
The Research Edition quantifies what leaders often sense but cannot show: the real behaviour of the leadership field beneath the surface of strategy, structure, and culture. This is where architectural insight becomes data — and where the science of the We begins.