Calibrated for the work you actually do.
A utility, a clinic, an agency, and a plant should not be assessed as if the same pattern is correct for all of them. The standard is governed; the calibration is contextual.

Same standard. Different operating reality.
Ask for Dex does not claim every company should become the same kind of company. The claim is narrower and stronger: every company should prove its capability system fits its actual operating demands. Calibration is governed — not arbitrary, and never a loose interpretation.
Domain accents mark context only and appear a few at a time — never as a graded ranking or a wall of colour. The label always carries the meaning.
The standard holds. The reference point moves.
Define the operating reality
The roles, risks, and demands the business model actually runs on.
Calibrate the standard to it
The six pillars are assessed against that reality, not a generic template.
Govern the boundary
Calibration is documented and reviewable — so the signal stays comparable and honest.




