Evidence carries a grade
Every finding is labelled by how much weight it can bear, so leaders can tell a verified fact from a working hypothesis before acting on it.
About us
A strategic intelligence platform for HR transformation.
71%
of leaders say fragmented workforce data pushes them back onto gut instinct, and only 34% trust their organisation's talent insights.
Korn Ferry
83%
of HR leaders agree all people decisions should be data-based — but only 37% actually use data to solve people problems.
SHRM
Academic work on evidence-based HRM finds practitioners typically reach for popular, less reliable sources rather than the research base, and that managers largely do not consult scientific evidence when deciding.
Evidence-based HRM research
MBT exists for one reason: too many workforce decisions still rest on instinct, vendor narrative or a deck written for someone else's organisation. MBT assembles the available evidence on your organisation, your markets and your workforce — and grades how strong each piece is, with its source and date — so the decision stays yours and the reasoning holds up under scrutiny.
Our position
A platform, not an agency.
Consulting sells judgement by the hour and leaves when the engagement closes. MBT is licensed capability: your team runs the analysis, keeps the evidence and can rerun it whenever the question changes.
What MBT is not
- A consulting engagement with a fixed team, day rate or statement of work
- A benchmarking database that tells you how you compare to an average
- A vendor marketplace, reseller or affiliate of any HR technology provider
- A generic chatbot that answers from an unnamed, unsourced model memory
What MBT is
- A platform your own team operates, at your own pace, on your own context
- Live, sourced research assembled per organisation and geography
- Evidence-graded outputs your leadership can interrogate line by line
- A repeatable instrument, so the second and tenth question cost far less than the first
What we hold to
Four commitments that shape every output.
The platform never diagnoses for you
Possible problems and scenarios are presented for your teams to confirm or reject. Interpretation stays with the people accountable for the decision.
Context is geographic
Labour markets, regulation, payroll practice and talent supply differ by country and city, so research is scoped to where your workforce actually sits.
Technology is a consequence, not a starting point
Capability and outcome questions are settled first. Platform and AI choices are then evaluated against those priorities rather than the reverse.
Who we are
Built by practitioners, for practitioners.
MBT is the organisation behind the Much Before Transformation platform (MBT).
MBT — Much Before Transformation. The platform grew out of repeated frustration inside real transformation programmes: the analysis that mattered most was the hardest to assemble, the least traceable and the first thing to go stale. MBT turns that work into an instrument rather than a one-off effort.
Who it serves
- CHROs and HR leadership teams
- Transformation and strategy functions
- Advisors preparing client recommendations
Governed access
Access is granted to verified business accounts and approved individually. Each organisation's research, documents and reports stay isolated to that organisation.
How it works
A guided instrument, not a blank prompt.
Your team defines the organisation, geographies and industry context. The platform then runs live research, surfaces possibilities to confirm or reject, and assembles the outcome into executive-ready outputs — each claim traceable to a graded source.
The internal methodology, factor library and prioritisation logic are proprietary and stay inside the platform. What you see is the reasoning and the evidence behind every conclusion, in the order a leadership team actually needs it.
Claims we deliberately do not make
We do not promise a guaranteed saving, a certified benchmark or a compliance verdict. Where evidence is thin, the platform says so and shows the gap instead of filling it with confident language.
Start with a conversation about your context.
Tell us what you are trying to decide. We will walk you through how the platform would approach it — and be direct about where it would and would not help.