Aggregated, anonymized data on decision-system health across industries and organization sizes. The first reference point for what "healthy leadership architecture" looks like at your stage.
The fit between your organization’s decision-coordination demand (DCDI) and your current architecture capability (LAI) determines whether your leadership system can handle your complexity.
| Low Demand | Moderate Demand | High Demand | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Capability | Structured Simplicity | Scalable Execution | Scalable Execution |
| Moderate Capability | Founder Control | Architecture Stress | Structural Chaos |
| Low Capability | Founder Control | Structural Chaos | Structural Chaos |
Updated yearly once first cohort publishes.
Each cell on the matrix corresponds to one of five operating archetypes.
Your architecture is stronger than your current complexity demands. This is a stable, efficient state — leverage it as a platform to scale.
Low organizational demand allows informal, founder-driven decision making to work. Effective early-stage, but creates scaling risk as complexity grows.
Moderate capability is being stretched by moderate demand. Structural gaps are manageable but accumulating — investment in clarity is needed before scaling.
Even moderate organizational complexity exceeds low architecture capability. Decision failures are frequent and execution is unreliable.
High architecture capability is handling high demand effectively. This is the target state for complex, high-growth organizations.
The dimension-level decay rate as organizations scale past their first redesign. Higher percentages = faster drift, higher need for Governance Maintenance cadence.
Sample data. Indicative direction, not a finalized measurement.
All benchmark data is aggregated and anonymized. We use only data from organizations that have completed the LA Fit or LA OS, with explicit consent for anonymized inclusion. Source data is normalized by organization size, industry, and stage to make cross-sample comparisons valid.
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