Latent Variables

AI organizational ethnography: using an AI interviewer to conversationally interview an entire organization, then reading the accounts for how work is done.

The five full-service applications of the instrument, and the one-time diagnostics that run before and during a transformation.

Release notes and product changes for the Latent Variables platform, newest first: what shipped, what changed, and when.

Product documentation for Latent Variables: how an engagement works, what the workforce is told, how findings are read, and how data is handled.

Organizational metrics distort the working level in a predictable direction, because the fact that predicts failure dies on the way up the org chart.

Mean fidelity rose from 6.9 to 9.4 of twelve method moves across five development stages, and blinded human coders scored 1,104 move decisions. Full text and limitations.

Blinded scorers recovered the engineered ADKAR barrier in 20 of 40 cases (50.0%) against a 20% chance baseline, p < .001. Full text, method and limitations.

Research from the lab on how large organizations absorb change: formal papers on conversational measurement, plus shorter field notes.

Announcements from the Latent Variables lab: partner cohorts, research releases, and notes on where the instrument is being applied.

AI organizational ethnography compared with engagement surveys, focus groups, exit interviews and listening tools, including where each is better.

Common questions about Latent Variables: what the instrument is, how it differs from a survey, how the data is handled, and how to begin.

Latent Variables is an applied research lab developing agentic systems for organizational change.

Every cookie and similar technology set by latentvariables.com and app.latentvariables.com, what each one does, and how to accept or reject them.

How Latent Variables collects, uses, discloses, and safeguards personal information across its workplace survey services and this website.

Representative copy of the workplace survey SMS opt-in consent form: recurring text invitations, reply STOP to opt out, reply HELP for help.

The Terms and Conditions governing the Latent Variables workplace survey messaging and calling program operated by Transformation, Co.