Decodeme vs. Surveys — Complementary, Not a Replacement
Validated psychosocial surveys like COPSOQ and PROART are scientifically grounded and accepted by auditors. Decodeme does not replace them — it fills the eleven months between assessments with a continuous, message-level signal. The strongest program runs both.
Where Each Approach Is Strong
We are direct about this: surveys win on scientific validation and auditor acceptance today. Decodeme wins on continuity, granularity, and lead time. They solve different halves of the same problem.
Stronger Together
Decodeme is positioned as a continuous psychosocial risk signal that complements periodic validated assessment. The survey gives you a scientifically grounded baseline; Decodeme keeps that baseline alive between cycles.
Validated baseline
Keep your COPSOQ or PROART as the auditor-accepted, scientifically validated photo of psychosocial risk.
Continuous signal
Decodeme reads real communication between assessments — catching drift the moment it starts, not at the next survey.
Audit-ready evidence
Trend history and mitigation trails, anchored in ISO 45003, turn the gap between surveys into documented, defensible action.
The Questions Buyers Actually Ask
Validated instruments set the bar with Cronbach α and construct validity. We are running the same playbook for the Behavioral Drift Index — establishing convergent validity against COPSOQ III / HSE-IT, internal consistency, and test-retest stability, for peer review. Until then, Decodeme runs alongside a validated instrument, not in place of it.
No. If you need the auditor-accepted compliance photo, keep your survey. Decodeme adds the continuous signal the survey cannot produce — the eleven months it does not measure.
More frequent surveys raise fatigue and still depend on self-report. Decodeme reads communication that already happens, with no added burden on employees and no recall bias.
Text is analyzed ephemerally — read and discarded, never archived — with no facial or voice biometrics. Reporting is aggregated to the team level, and individuals consent.
Frequently Asked Questions
Should I cancel my engagement or psychosocial survey if I adopt Decodeme?
No. The two are complementary. Validated surveys remain the scientifically grounded, auditor-accepted baseline for psychosocial risk. Decodeme adds a continuous, message-level signal in the months between assessments, catching drift early and documenting mitigation. The strongest program runs both.
Is Decodeme scientifically validated like COPSOQ?
Validated questionnaires have decades of psychometric studies behind them. Decodeme is establishing the same kind of evidence for its Behavioral Drift Index — convergent validity against instruments like COPSOQ III and HSE-IT, internal consistency, and test-retest stability — for peer-reviewed publication. In the meantime, we recommend running Decodeme alongside a validated instrument, never as a replacement for an auditor-required assessment.
Why is continuous measurement better than a more frequent survey?
A survey, however frequent, is still periodic and self-reported, and more surveys increase response fatigue. Decodeme reads communication that is already happening, continuously, with no added burden and no recall bias — so it surfaces rising risk weeks before the next survey would, and well before it shows up in turnover or incidents.
Keep Your Survey. Add the Signal It Can't Give You.
The continuous psychosocial risk signal that complements your validated assessment — already operating compliance in Brazil under NR-1.