Company

Making execution risk clearer, earlier, and more actionable.

Many business decisions fail not because the strategy was wrong, but because the organization could not execute it. IntegrisIQ makes that part visible — before capital is committed or strategic dependence is created.

Why we're different

An uncommon combination, hard to reproduce.

Most existing approaches fall short in one of three ways — and the gap between them is exactly where IntegrisIQ sits.

Traditional diligence

Focuses on financial, legal, and technical questions — not on how the organization actually operates.

Consulting

Provides insight, but slowly, expensively, and heavily dependent on individual judgment.

Generic AI tools

Process information fast — but without a strong model of how organizations really work, speed alone doesn't produce judgment.

IntegrisIQ bridges the gap: a proprietary measurement framework for something the business world has long known matters but struggled to quantify — whether an organization can actually execute — built on management science, network analysis, and a disciplined agentic pipeline.

The founding team

Three capabilities the company requires.

Commercial scaling, platform engineering, and the measurement method — in the room from the start.

Shirish Hardikar
Shirish Hardikar
Founder & CEO

30+ years in software, strategy, and company-building. CEO of four venture-backed software companies, all exited (including M&A with SunGard and Cisco) — five exits and $500M+ of enterprise value created. Expert in PE/VC-backed scaling, M&A diligence, and B2B product strategy.

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Christopher Davis
Christopher Davis
Co-Founder & Head of Method

One of the original developers of Commitment-based Management — among the major management innovations of the past 30 years. Published in Harvard Business Review and the Wall Street Journal; has taught 20,000+ people; guest lecturer at LSE and London Business School.

Harald Raetzsch
Harald Raetzsch
Co-Founder & CTO

Deep software-architecture and scalable-systems background. Multiple terms on Microsoft's ISV Partner Advisory Council and IBM's Center for CIO Leadership; founder of TTAGroup and a fellow of the Workflow Management Coalition.

Advisory panel

The science, anchored.

The measurement method rests on rigorous management and network science — not sentiment.

Dr. Thomas W. Valente
Dr. Thomas W. Valente
Network Science

Professor at USC and Director of the Center for Applied Network Analysis; developer of the network threshold model. His work directly underpins the Network Health Index.

Rodrigo Flores
Rodrigo Flores
Enterprise GTM

Ex-CTO of Cisco, Managing Director at Accenture, and Associate Partner at McKinsey. 20+ years scaling enterprise software; brings the go-to-market and operational-scaling playbook.

Dr. Charles Spinosa
Dr. Charles Spinosa
Management Science

Philosopher and management consultant; MIT Press author ("Disclosing New Worlds," "Leadership as Masterpiece Creation"). Co-author of the HBR paper that canonized Commitment-based Management.

The platform today

A proven method, now an instrument.

IntegrisIQ operationalizes a discipline with decades of validation — Commitment-based Management, canonized in the Harvard Business Review and taught to more than 20,000 leaders. What was once the province of expert judgment is now a measurable instrument: nine execution indices, standardized decision artifacts, and four Signal products live in market.

Engineered to the evidence standards of private equity, corporate development, and procurement, the platform is deployed today and extending across the full deal cycle — from pre-LOI triage to post-close governance.

4
Signal products live today
9
execution indices, one model
3
markets, one underlying job
$40–60B
substantiated addressable market

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FounderShirish Hardikar
BasedSan Francisco, California