Culture intelligence for leaders

Measure and improve your team culture with Bestwork

Bestwork turns 60 to 90 second employee check-ins into a continuous view of culture, leadership, participation, and the barriers that need attention.

Your culture this week

Live view

Culture health

74+4

Participation

82%+7

Open Pebbles

12-3

Culture health

Last 8 weeks

This week

Belonging is rising.

Workload friction remains the clearest Pebble to act on.

A continuous culture signal

Lead culture with a clearer weekly signal.

Culture10 score

Weekly check-ins

Bestwork replaces the occasional snapshot with a lightweight weekly rhythm leaders can understand and act on.

How Bestwork works

A small weekly rhythm makes culture easier to see and easier to lead.

01

Listen

People answer a few rotating questions in about a minute, with space to share an optional Pebble.

02

Understand

Bestwork connects weekly signals to the Culture10 elements and shows where patterns are changing.

03

Act

Leaders choose a focused response, make follow-through visible, and watch what changes next.

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Direct Message
BestworkApp9:00 AM

Weekly Touchpoint

Question 2 of 4

I feel safe speaking up when something could be better.

Anything getting in the way of your best work?

Share an optional Pebble...
Your reflection stays private.
Illustrative private Slack direct message from Bestwork. The check-in controls shown here are a preview.

Introducing Touchpoints

A one-minute check-in for your team - a clear look at culture for your leaders

Each Touchpoint rotates questions across the Culture10 framework, building a fuller picture without another long survey.

Check in through

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Pebbles turn recurring friction into visible change.

Each week, people can share an optional Pebble about a process, policy, or workflow getting in their way. Bestwork brings recurring Pebbles together so teams can act on the pattern, not just collect feedback.

Pebbles

New Pebbles this week

Too many approvals for simple requests

In progress

Customer requests waiting on sign-off

In review

Standup meetings are slowing devs down

Reported

Reoccurring theme

Approval delays

12

similar Pebbles

Owner

Operations

Action

Simplify approvals for small customer requests.

Visible update

The team sees the new approval path and what changed.

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Culture10

Bestwork does not treat culture as one generic score. It reads each weekly signal through a connected set of ten elements.

The culture framework from a Harvard instructor.

Created by Lorne Rubis, instructor at Harvard's Division of Continuing Education.

01

People first and customer obsessed

02

Inspiring purpose and story

03

Intentional values

04

Great, not perfect, leadership

05

Psychological safety and belonging

06

Acute listening and talking back

07

Growth and disruptive mindset

08

Peer-to-peer power

09

Play and experimentation

10

Personal equity promise

See what is changing, not just what is loud.

Follow the signals that matter, connect them to the Culture10 elements, and choose the next practical action with context.

Culture overview

12 weeksAll teams

Culture health

74

6 points

Culture10 signals

Psychological safety78
Great leadership71
Peer-to-peer power66
Purpose and story82

The clearest next action is improving how workload changes are communicated.

Track culture across teams and leaders.

Team culture

Culture score
  • Engineering78Up 12 points over 12 weeks
  • Operations69Down 5 points over 12 weeks
  • Customer success83Up 7 points over 12 weeks
  • Product66Up 4 points over 12 weeks

Leaders

Team
  • Maya ChenEngineering
  • Alex MorganOperations
  • Sam RiveraCustomer success
  • Jordan LeeProduct

Trust by design

Built for candor, not surveillance.

Bestwork is designed to help people speak honestly and help leaders respond responsibly. The current product concept uses a five-person reporting threshold for small groups.

Group signals

Leaders see patterns at the group level rather than individual answers.

Private reflection

Personal reflection is designed to stay private so employees can answer honestly.

Visible follow-through

Feedback only builds trust when people can see what leaders chose to do next.

Lorne Rubis

The expertise behind Culture10

Built from culture work in the real world.

Lorne Rubis developed Culture10 from decades of leading teams, teaching executives, and studying what helps people do their best work together.

Former Chief People Officer at ATB Financial during its recognition as Canada's number one Best Workplace

Harvard Division of Continuing Education educator since 2019

2018 Canadian Lifetime Achievement Award and 2020 HRD Global 100 recipient

Explore Lorne's work

Bestwork turns that framework into a practical weekly rhythm.

Early access

Ready to start listening to your culture?

Join the early access list for Bestwork. We will follow up with next steps for bringing a weekly culture rhythm to your organization.

60 to 90 second weekly check-in

Culture10-powered signals

Practical next actions for leaders

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