Where does your design function actually stand?
Fifteen questions produce a scored profile of your design function across two axes — Practice Maturity and Decision Influence — and place it in one of four quadrants. It takes about twenty-five minutes and asks for evidence, not opinion.
Begin the Assessment"My design team isn't performing."
"I'm considering hiring a design leader."
"I want structured language for the conversation with my CPO."
What the assessment produces
The Factory
Soko Digital's design function is well-organized and productive — and structurally excluded from the decisions that shape what it builds. Design executes briefs it was never invited to shape.
Followed by two ranked interventions specific to the session answers, and what remaining in the current quadrant costs the organization.
The evidence places your function in one of four states
The Engine
Target state. Documented, repeatable systems plus structural embeddedness in organizational decision-making.
The Oracle
Influence is real but person-dependent. When the leader leaves, the capability leaves with them.
The Factory
Well-organized, productive, and marginalized. Design executes briefs it was never invited to shape.
The Ghost
Design exists in name. One departure away from collapse. The most common state in early-stage African tech.
The assessment asks for evidence.
The output names what it costs you.
Practice Maturity measures whether the team operates from defined systems or individual heroics. Decision Influence measures whether design shapes decisions or executes them.