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People Intelligence: the Insight dashboard for your organisation

A closed catalogue of Insights, authored by GFoundry, that you assemble into your own dashboard. Every Insight carries a versioned metric contract, an honesty classification and server-side privacy protection.

People Intelligence: the Insight dashboard for your organisation

A closed catalogue of Insights, authored by GFoundry, that you assemble into your own dashboard. Every Insight carries a versioned metric contract, an honesty classification and server-side privacy protection. Your organisation's data stays in your organisation.

What it is

People Intelligence is the analytics page of the GFoundry backoffice. Instead of a fixed dashboard that everyone gets, or a blank report builder where you assemble metrics yourself, it gives you a catalogue of ready-made Insights. You pick the ones that answer the questions you actually have, and they become your dashboard.

Each Insight is one question with one answer: which teams are most fragile, who is furthest behind on mandatory training, where the succession pipeline thins out, how the current review cycle is progressing. The Insight states what it shows and what it does not show, and its classification tells you how much weight it can carry.

Where to find it and who can see it

Open People Intelligence in the backoffice sidebar, then Add Insight to browse the People Intelligence Catalogue. The entry appears only when People Intelligence has been enabled for your organisation, and only for platform administrators and people who hold the Gi assistant manager permission (the same people who can use the Data Analyst Agent).

There is a second page, the Talent Insights tab on an employee's profile, covered in Talent Intelligence: Insights on an employee's profile.

Why the Insight catalogue is closed

You cannot author an Insight, and that is deliberate.

A self-service metric builder lets two people in the same organisation produce two different turnover rates and argue about which is right. Worse, it lets someone build a number that looks authoritative and is quietly wrong, because nobody wrote down which population it covers or what it excludes. In people analytics that is not a cosmetic problem: the numbers end up in conversations about individuals.

So GFoundry authors every Insight, and every Insight needs a written metric contract before it can be offered to you. If you need an Insight the catalogue does not have, that is a conversation with us, not a field you fill in. See the note at the end of this article.

People Intelligence and the Data Analyst Agent

The Data Analyst Agent answers questions in natural language and can draw charts and produce Excel files. It is a separate tool: charts you pin there are kept in the agent's own Pinned charts list, not on your People Intelligence dashboard.

The line between the two is worth stating plainly: you can ask the agent for facts; intelligence is authored by us. A crossing such as exit risk against manager effectiveness is not self-service by design. It carries assumptions that need writing down and validating, so it enters through the catalogue with a contract attached, or it does not enter at all.

What every Insight carries

  • A metric contract: the decision it answers, the formula, the population it covers, what it excludes, its grain and lookback window, the data sources it reads, its thresholds and its known limitations. The contract is versioned: when the meaning of an Insight changes, cards built on the old version ask to be refreshed rather than silently showing a different number.

  • An honesty classification: Factual, Diagnostic, Predictive or Experimental. You see it in the catalogue. It tells you how much weight the Insight can carry. See How to read a People Intelligence Insight.

  • A data date: each card shows the date of the data it is built on, taken from the source snapshot rather than from the clock. A card is never presented as current when its source is a week old.

  • Server-side privacy protection: the rules about what may be shown are enforced where the data is computed, not in the browser.

Your catalogue is not the whole catalogue

Two organisations open the same catalogue and can see a different number of Insights. There are two reasons for it.

  • Data sources switched off. When a data source (Pulse Surveys, Mood, Recognition, Learning or Evaluation) has been switched off for your organisation's People Intelligence, the Insights that depend only on it are not offered.

  • What your data actually carries. Some Insights need specific fields in your evaluation and talent-review data, for example a potential review, a critical-role marker or an open review cycle. If those fields are not there, those Insights are not offered.

Other Insights are offered even when your organisation has no data for them yet. They say so on the card instead of disappearing, so you can see what People Intelligence could show you.

At the time of writing, the catalogue holds 37 organisation-level Insights across eleven categories, and 13 person-level Insights for the employee profile.

The categories

Insights are grouped by the decision they support: Engagement, Talent, Wellbeing, Leadership, Recognition, Retention, Overview, Learning, Training, Performance and Succession. The full list, with what each Insight answers and what it deliberately does not answer, is in The People Intelligence Insight catalogue.

Language

Insights are shown in your organisation's default language. Portuguese and English are supported; any other language shows English. Names of your teams and people are never translated.

Who it is for

  • HR directors and CHROs: a defensible read of the organisation, with the caveats attached rather than discovered later.

  • People analytics teams: a set of documented starting points, each with its population and exclusions written down.

  • HR business partners: the operational lists that turn a pattern into a next conversation.

What People Intelligence does not do

  • It does not decide anything about a person. No Insight produces an outcome for an employee. Promotion, exit, pay and development decisions stay with the people accountable for them, informed by evidence that goes well beyond a dashboard.

  • It does not compare your organisation with other organisations. Behavioural measures are normalised within your own organisation. A score of 70 in your organisation and a 70 in another are not the same number, and we do not present them as one.

  • It does not let you author an Insight. What you cannot do is give your own measure a metric contract and an honesty classification, because those mean something only when somebody documented and checked them.

  • It does not show a control that does nothing. If an Insight has no real time window, it has no period filter.

If the catalogue is missing what you need

New Insights are designed with clients and documented and checked by GFoundry before they are added to the catalogue. Talk to your customer success contact to start one. A question you already ask the Data Analyst Agent every month is a good way to make that conversation concrete.

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