No type labels, no workshop that fades by Friday. We stay with people through the work itself.
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Traditional assessments
Measure once, hand over a report, and stop.
One profileCoached every weekPrivate by defaultProgress you can seeBuilt for real momentsOne profileCoached every weekPrivate by defaultProgress you can seeBuilt for real moments
ReflXnt
Understand, practise in real moments, and see what changed.
The idea at the centre
Everyone adapts. Few talk about the cost.
Every role asks you to work a little differently from how you naturally would. ReflXnt makes that stretch visible, so it can be chosen and supported, not quietly carried.
The Adaptation Gap
The distance between how you naturally work and how your role asks you to work.
StyleProfile rates every item twice, once for each. Small gaps are normal. Wide ones, carried every day, are what wear people down.
A test gives you a label and stops. ReflXnt keeps going, Rubi helps you use what you learn in real moments, and we check whether anything actually changed.
No. Your conversations are private. Your organisation only sees team-level patterns, never individuals.
Weeks, not months. A first team is usually up and running in two to three weeks.
The employer, per seat per year. Never the individual.
Book a demo
See what your team is carrying.
A 30-minute conversation. We'll show you the platform, a live integrated profile, and what a focused first deployment could look like.
The full battery takes about an hour and can be taken in parts. The Natural-versus-Adapted distinction has a long history in behavioural science, we didn't invent it. What happens next is the difference.
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Integrate into one story
Most assessments stop with separate results. ReflXnt reads the four together and names each person's growth edge: the one or two moves that change everything else, not 27 things to fix.
A single instrument gives you one true fact about a person and no way to know why it matters. Four, read together, show how someone works, what it costs them, what fuels them and how they think. That synthesis is what a stack of separate tools can't produce, however good each one is.
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Coach, continuously
This is where other assessments end and ReflXnt begins. Rubi carries the full profile into the real moments of work.
Negotiations & conflictNavigating disagreement and hard conversations toward resolution.
CollaborationWorking with and through others, teaming, partnering, cross-functional work.
Gaining buy-inPersuading, influencing and building support for an idea or change.
Decision makingMaking the call, weighing options and deciding under uncertainty.
Developing peopleCoaching, growing, giving feedback to and delegating to others.
Self-reflectionOn demand: your patterns, named and worked.
Energy & engagementOn demand: check-ins on strain and fuel, the burnout signal, caught early.
Development measured once is a promise. Every instrument is re-administered on a cadence agreed with your organisation, and each profile is reported as a comparison, then versus now.
The Adaptation GapRe-checked, not assumed, did the stretch become conscious and sustainable, or did it deepen?
CORE27 competenciesRe-scored against the same standard, so growth on the named edge is visible rather than self-reported.
Drivers and lensesRe-ranked, so a starved driver that's finally fed, or a lens that has widened, shows up as movement.
Behaviour changeThe qualitative half: what the person is actually doing differently in the situations they worked on.
Nothing is re-measured without the individual's consent. Comparisons stay private to the person; the organisation sees movement only in aggregate. If a gap hasn't moved, what changes is the coaching approach, not the target.
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For HR leaders: insight without surveillance
What you get
The distribution of adaptation load across teams, manager readiness on CORE27, drive alignment and early strain signals, and gap-closure velocity, patterns that may surface earlier than periodic engagement surveys alone.
What you never get
An individual's coaching content, transcripts or raw answers. People develop honestly only when they trust the room. The privacy wall isn't a feature; it's the foundation.
What it's never for
Selection, interviewing, promotion or evaluation. Development only, by contract.
StyleProfile maps your Natural and Adapted behavioural style on a two-axis circumplex, and measures the Adaptation Gap between them.
24 items, each rated twice
~15 minutes
Feeds all seven coaching areas
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Two axes. Four styles.
StyleProfile reads behaviour along Pace and Focus, across four styles: Pacesetter, Connector, Anchor and Refiner. Every item is rated twice, once for how you naturally operate, once for how you operate at work.
No good styles, no bad styles, just an accurate map of where you sit, and where your role has moved you. Each of the twelve cross-style patterns has its own strain signature and its own coaching path.
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The gap worth understanding
AlignedThe role fits how you already work.
FlexingEveryday, sustainable adjustment.
StretchedReal effort, worth making conscious.
StrainedUnsupported adaptation, carried too long.
“The goal is not zero gap. It is a stretch made conscious and chosen.”
Dr. Ranjit Nair
The distinction between natural and adapted style is well established in behavioural science; we make no claim to have discovered it. What ReflXnt adds is coaching the gap continuously through Rubi and reviewing it periodically.
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The same geometry, between two people
The distance between your style and a colleague's is measurable too. Style Distance powers Rubi's person-specific coaching, turning “why are they like that?” into a practical way to collaborate, persuade and resolve conflict with a specific person.
DriveMatrix reveals what gives you energy at work, and where your role may not be giving an important driver enough room.
48 items
~20 minutes
Powers Energy & engagement coaching
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Eight drivers, one honest ranking
Connection, Growth & Learning, Purpose, Autonomy, Achievement, Influence, Mastery and Recognition, ranked from primary to suppressed. Not the story you'd tell in an interview: the fuel you actually run on.
Driver rankingIllustrative
ConnectionStarved
Growth & LearningHigh
PurposeHigh
MasteryMod.
AutonomyMod.
AchievementMod.
InfluenceLow
RecognitionSupp.
Connection is primary, and this role feeds it least. That is the early-warning signal.
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Design work around what gives you energy
The most important finding is often the starved driver, a primary motivation your role never feeds. Rubi helps you notice the pattern and explore what may need to change.
It also makes you better at motivating others: a Recognition-driven colleague and an Autonomy-driven one need different things from you, and guessing wrong costs you both.
ClarityLens shows which perspectives dominate your thinking, and which narrow under pressure.
42 items
~15 minutes
Powers Decision making and Gaining buy-in coaching
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Your natural lens, and the ones you overlook
Evidence, People, Systems, Contextual, Possibility, Pragmatic and Principled. Most people lead with one or two, until pressure narrows the view further.
Lens profileIllustrative
Principled is used least, a perspective that may help in some situations. A less-used lens isn't a weakness.
Lenses are not fixed traits. They widen with practice. That is the developmental promise.
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Meet people where they think
Before a high-stakes call, Rubi walks you through your least-used lens, the Systems view you skip, the Evidence check you rush.
And because colleagues have lenses too, ClarityLens makes you persuasive in their terms: feasibility for a Pragmatic thinker, data for an Evidence thinker, meaning for a People thinker.
CORE27 maps 27 learnable leadership capabilities, your signature strengths, and the areas where focused growth could matter most.
162 items
Condensed version available
Can be taken in sittings
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Four dimensions of how you lead
Self-Mastery, Clear Thinking, Relational Intelligence and Authentic Presence. Each competency is scored against a standard, not against other people: a mirror, not a leaderboard.
Low scores aren't verdicts. In ReflXnt's language they are dormant or emerging, your richest ground to grow.
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One growth edge, not 27 fixes
Nobody develops 27 things at once. CORE27 names the one or two competencies where growth changes everything else, and puts your strengths to work.
A 94 in Developing Others isn't just a compliment; in Rubi's hands it becomes the lever for delegation that lowers your load. Rubi attaches each development zone to live moments, the feedback conversation, the delegation you keep deferring, and the scores are taken again on a regular cadence.
Sunny leads with the Evidence lens, enthusiasm without data reads as hand-waving to him. Send the numbers the day before, lead with feasibility, and give him room to analyse before you ask for the yes.
Illustrative sample · persona is fictional
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What people actually ask
“I need to give difficult feedback.”
“Help me prepare for tomorrow's meeting.”
“Why am I struggling with this colleague?”
“I'm losing motivation.”
“Role-play this conversation with me.”
Rubi answers from your profile, not a generic script. Same question, different person, different advice.
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Context, not just a prompt
Rubi coaches from your measured profile, StyleProfile, ClarityLens, DriveMatrix and CORE27, understood as one person.
Its method isn't improvised. It's grounded in Dr. Ranjit Nair's body of work, Potluck Culture and Growing the Human, established coaching principles, and 25 years of leading people at Fortune 500 scale. A real point of view on leadership, not a neutral mirror.
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Seven areas of real work
Negotiations & conflictDisagreement and hard conversations, toward resolution.
Gaining buy-inPersuading and building support for an idea or change.
Decision makingWeighing options and deciding under uncertainty.
Developing peopleFeedback, coaching and delegation.
Self-reflectionOn demand: your patterns, named and worked.
Energy & engagementOn demand: the strain signal, caught early.
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What happens with Rubi stays with Rubi
Your coaching conversations are yours, like a coach's notebook. Your organisation sees only aggregate insight, never sessions, transcripts or raw answers.
That boundary is contractual and enforced in the system. People only develop honestly when they trust the room.
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Graded on growth, not chat volume
Progress is reviewed periodically, your Adaptation Gap and competency movement, not how often you chatted. Either the coaching worked, or it adjusts.
Disagree with Rubi? Push back, try it your way, the next review is a more honest referee than either of you.
Eight people across Austin, San Francisco, Hyderabad, Kochi, Surat and Vishakhapatnam, led by Dr. Ranjit Nair. Each of us took our own instruments first.
Mapped on our own instrument.
StyleProfile reads everyone on the same two axes your team would be read on: pace and focus. This is where it put us. Pick a style to see who sits there, or open anyone's profile.
Built from a career spent understanding why people work differently.
25 years leading people in complex global organisations, two books, one question.
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Three cultures. One question.
Dr. Nair is an Indian American, raised in Hong Kong, who came of age in the United States, a lifelong education in how differently people work, and how much is lost when they can't read each other.
Companies invest in systems, finance, markets, now AI. The human being who navigates the meeting, carries the team and makes the call gets a training day and a report. None of it appears on a dashboard. All of it decides whether a company wins.
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Two books, one method.
Dr. Nair holds a Ph.D. in Organization & Management, studied Strategic HRM at Harvard, and is Professor of Practice at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Potluck Culture won a North American Book Award: culture is built through dialogue, meaning and fit, not mandate. Growing the Human argues the inner work comes first: you cannot lead from a self you haven't met.
Those books aren't marketing for ReflXnt. They're its operating system, the method Rubi works from.
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Texas roots. India build.
ReflXnt is built by RefleXant Solutions India Pvt. Ltd., operating across India and the United States, launching first in India, where the need for scalable coaching is sharpest, with the US as its parallel market.
Where Dr. Nair led people
Career credentials. These organisations are not ReflXnt customers.
GlobalFoundriesChief Human Resources Officer
MicronHead of Talent Strategy
Bank of AmericaSVP, Global Compensation
Becton DickinsonVP, Worldwide Total Rewards
PricewaterhouseCoopersA decade in people & advisory
“I built ReflXnt so that becoming finally has a home.”
Dr. Ranjit Nair, Ph.D. · Founder & CEO
Mission & values
What we hold ourselves to.
The same principles we coach. We hold ourselves to them first.
Our mission
We help people see themselves clearly and act on what they see, in the workplace moments that matter.
Our vision
A world where every person knows who they are at work, and chooses how to grow.
Our values
01We stay curious
Understand before solving; admit what we don't know, then go find out.
02We own it
Full responsibility for our work, decisions and development.
03We lift others
Share what we know and coach without being asked.
04We raise the bar
Better thinking, better solutions, comfort doesn't set the standard.
05We create impact
Outcomes over activity. We measure what we changed.
06We lead with truth
Honest with clients, each other and ourselves, including about what isn't working.
07We walk it first
Every principle we coach, we hold ourselves to first.
Resources
Thinking you can use on Monday.
Essays and field notes from Dr. Nair and the ReflXnt team, practical thinking on adaptation, energy, leadership, and working with people who are different from you.
A short guide for HR and L&D leaders: what the Adaptation Gap is, how to recognise strain, and the questions to ask in your next one-on-one.
It's on its way.
Check your inbox for the Field Guide. If it doesn't arrive, write to contactus@reflexant.ai.
Questions, answered.
For the curious individual, the careful buyer and the healthy sceptic. Still unsure? Ask us directly.
Traditional assessments measure and stop, a type, a report, and a workshop that fades by Friday. ReflXnt starts where they end: four proprietary instruments build one integrated profile, Rubi coaches you through real situations against it, and progress is reviewed on a regular cadence to confirm behaviour actually changed. A label tells you what you are; ReflXnt works on why, and what to do next. (StyleProfile is our own instrument, developed independently and unaffiliated with any other assessment product or publisher.)
Yes, and we say so plainly. The distinction has a long history in behavioural science, and other tools report it. What we do differently is treat the gap as the work: coach it continuously through a companion that knows your whole profile, and review it periodically to see whether it resolved. The measurement isn't the moat. The loop is.
The real product begins. Each person gets one integrated profile, not four reports, with their Adaptation Gap and growth edge named. Rubi starts coaching within their real work: the negotiation, the stalled proposal, the one-on-one going sideways. HR sees aggregate signals, and progress is reviewed on a regular cadence. The assessment is the intake, not the deliverable.
No. A chatbot answers anyone's question with generic advice. Rubi coaches from your measured profile, style, competencies, drivers and lenses understood as one person, grounded in Dr. Nair's body of work, and revisited as you grow. Push back on it, ignore it, try your own way: the next review is an honest referee.
No. Your sessions with Rubi are private, like a coach's notebook, that boundary is contractual, not cosmetic. Your organisation sees only aggregate analytics, never session content, transcripts or raw answers. You may choose to share selected development insights with a manager, coach or team.
The platform is built for it. Processing is consent-based with clear purpose limitation; individuals can access and correct their data; organisational reporting is aggregate-only; and RefleXant Solutions India Pvt. Ltd. supports India data residency. We scope the specifics with your security and legal teams during onboarding, bring your hardest questions.
Weeks, not months. Standard onboarding is lightweight: seat setup, a launch session for participants, and the assessment window (the full battery takes about an hour and can be split). A focused first deployment for a 100 to 150 person cohort typically stands up in two to three weeks.
Not by activity. Usage tells you a platform is being opened, not that anyone grew. Two numbers matter: Adaptation Gaps resolved, stretches made conscious, chosen and sustainable, and observed behaviour change across each review cycle. If usage is high and behaviour didn't change, we haven't succeeded, and the product is built so that difference is visible.
The employer, always. Per seat, per year, never the learner, never per usage, so nobody is metered out of their own development. Pricing depends on cohort size and deployment; we'll quote against your headcount on the demo call.
StyleProfile is built on the well-established two-axis circumplex model of interpersonal behaviour, and all four instruments are in an active validation and norming programme, reliability testing (Cronbach's alpha), retest correlation, and growing India-population norms. Until norms are finalised we report directionally rather than overclaim. If validation evidence matters to your buying process, it should, ask us for the current data on the demo call.
It ends the rationing. Human coaching works and remains available through certified coaches, but it has only ever reached the top few percent. Rubi brings profile-grounded coaching to everyone else, every day, and handles the moments a monthly session can't reach.
Yes. RefleXant Solutions India Pvt. Ltd. supports India data residency and GST invoicing alongside US contracting. India-first, US-parallel is our own operating model, your cross-border deployment is our home ground.
The Adaptation Gap: the cost of being someone else all day
The construct explained: Natural style, Adapted style, and why the distance between them is the most useful number in HR.
Dr. Ranjit Nair, Founder12 August 20267 min read
Every role asks a person to work differently than they naturally would. A methodical engineer is handed a team and told to be decisive by Thursday. A natural connector inherits a compliance function and learns to lead with the checklist. Neither is being mistreated. Both are adapting.
StyleProfile measures both patterns. Natural style is how someone works when the pressure is off and nobody is watching. Adapted style is how they work in the role they hold right now. The distance between the two is the Adaptation Gap.
A gap is not a problem
This is the part most people get wrong on first hearing. A wide gap is not a diagnosis and a narrow gap is not a virtue. Adaptation is how people grow into roles they have not held before. Someone with a wide, well-supported gap may be having the best year of their career.
What matters is whether the adaptation is chosen, and whether it is sustainable. Those are two different questions, and neither one shows up in a score.
Where it turns costly
Adaptation carries an energy cost. Holding a posture that is not your default takes attention that would otherwise go to the work. For a quarter, that is a stretch assignment. Held for two years without acknowledgement, it may contribute to fatigue, reduced energy, or disengagement.
The uncomfortable detail is that strained adaptation rarely announces itself. The person carrying it is usually performing. They are often the one you would name if asked who is doing well. They are meeting the standard by spending more to meet it, and the spending is invisible on every dashboard you have.
Nobody resigns because their Adapted style differed from their Natural style. They resign because the difference went unnamed for two years.
What to do with the number
The goal is not to eliminate adaptation. Roles are not built around behavioural preferences, and they should not be. The goal is to make the gap visible, chosen, and supported. In practice that means three things.
Name it. A person who knows they are adapting, and why, experiences the same effort differently than a person who assumes something is wrong with them.
Decide it. Some gaps are worth carrying because of where the role leads. Some are a sign that the role, not the person, needs to change.
Support it. Adaptation that is recognised and resourced is a development path. Adaptation that is assumed to be free is an attrition risk.
Why this is a first sentence
Measurement tells you the gap exists. It does not tell anyone what to do on Monday morning, in the meeting where the pressure actually lands. That is the work Rubi does: carrying the profile into the specific conversation, the specific decision, the specific week.
A gap measured once is a fact. A gap measured, worked on, and measured again is a practice.
Strained adaptation, and the patterns engagement surveys can be slow to show.
Dr. Ranjit Nair, Founder4 August 20265 min read
Engagement surveys are good at finding people who have already decided to leave. They are poor at finding the people who are still trying.
The pattern looks like this. Someone whose behavioural style has shifted a long way from their natural one. Strong competence, so the output holds. A driver the current role does not feed. On a survey they score in the middle, because the middle is what you get when somebody is honest about being tired and loyal at the same time.
The middle of the distribution is where you lose people
Mid-range scores get read as neutral. They become the population nobody acts on, because the detractors are louder and the promoters are better company. But a mid-range score from a high performer under strained adaptation is not neutral. It is a person spending down a reserve.
The signal is never the score on its own. It is the combination: a wide adaptation gap, an unmet driver, and a competence profile strong enough to hide both.
A survey asks how you feel about the company. It never asks what it costs you to work here the way you currently work here.
What managers see instead
Managers usually notice something, and they usually mislabel it. The person seems less forthcoming in meetings. They have stopped volunteering. Replies take longer. Read as attitude, this becomes a performance conversation. Read as strain, it becomes a different conversation entirely, and a much shorter one.
Managers account for roughly 70% of the variance in team engagement, which means the same information produces a good outcome or a bad one depending on the frame the manager brings to it. Giving them the frame costs less than replacing the person.
Five minutes, not a programme
This does not need a new initiative. It needs the manager to know which of their people are carrying a wide gap, and to ask about the cost rather than the output.
Ask what part of the week takes the most out of them, not what part is hardest.
Ask which meeting they would hand over if they could, and listen to why.
Say out loud that the way the role is being done is not the way they would naturally do it. Most people have never heard anyone name it.
None of that retains anyone by itself. It does tell you, twelve months before the resignation, which conversations you still have time to have.
We'll walk you through the platform, show you a live integrated profile, and explore what a focused ReflXnt deployment could look like for your organisation.
What happens next
01We talk
30 minutes with our team. Your context first, product second.
02You see it
A live walkthrough: the instruments, one integrated profile, and Rubi coaching a real scenario.
03We scope a deployment
A focused first deployment for one cohort, baseline, coaching, re-measure. You decide on evidence, not a pitch.
Expect one email from our team within a working day to find a time. In the meantime, the Adaptation Gap essay is a good primer.
Privacy, security & terms
The rules we hold ourselves to.
ReflXnt is operated by RefleXant Solutions India Pvt. Ltd. This page summarises how we handle personal data, how the platform is secured, and the terms on which it is used.
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Privacy: what we collect, and what we never share
ReflXnt processes personal data on the instruction of the employing organisation that provides your seat, and always on the basis of your consent. Processing is limited to a single declared purpose: your development. We do not sell personal data, and we do not use it to train models for anyone else.
What we collect
Account details (name, work email, organisation, role), your responses to the four instruments, the resulting scores and profile, and your conversations with Rubi.
What the organisation sees
Aggregate patterns only, distributions across a team, function or manager population. Never an individual's results, session content, transcripts or raw answers.
What stays private to you
Your Rubi conversations, raw responses and private reflections. You may choose to share selected development insights with a manager, coach or team; nothing is shared without that choice.
Your rights
Access, correction and withdrawal of consent, in line with India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023. Withdrawing consent ends further processing; existing aggregate reporting cannot be reversed out but contains no identifying data.
Retention and residency
Data is retained for the duration of your organisation's subscription and a defined wind-down period thereafter. India data residency is supported; specifics are agreed with your security and legal teams during onboarding.
Sub-processors
A short, reviewed list of infrastructure and model providers, each under contract with equivalent confidentiality and purpose-limitation obligations. The current list is available on request.
Website analytics
One analytics cookie, set only if you accept it, to understand which pages people find useful. Nothing is used for advertising, and no assessment or coaching data is involved.
Security: the privacy wall is enforced in the system
Access to individual data is structurally restricted rather than merely discouraged. Organisational reporting is generated from aggregates, so there is no view in the product through which a manager, an administrator or an account team can read one person's sessions.
Encryption
Data encrypted in transit and at rest, with key management separated from application access.
Access control
Role-based access with least privilege, single sign-on support, and audited administrative actions.
Isolation of coaching content
Rubi conversations are stored separately from reportable profile data and excluded from every organisational view and export.
Aggregation thresholds
Aggregate reporting is suppressed wherever a distribution could identify an individual.
Vendor and model handling
Model providers operate under no-training and no-retention terms for customer content.
Incident response
A documented response and notification process, with timelines agreed in the customer agreement.
Security reviews, questionnaires and DPIA support are part of onboarding, bring your hardest questions.
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Terms: development only, by contract
ReflXnt is licensed to organisations under the commercial terms agreed for each deployment. The employer pays; the individual never does, and usage is never metered against the learner.
Permitted use
Individual and team development, coaching, and aggregate people-analytics reporting.
Prohibited use
Selection, hiring, interviewing, promotion, compensation, performance review, disciplinary action, or any other evaluative decision. This restriction is written into the customer agreement, not left to good intentions.
Nature of guidance
Rubi provides developmental coaching. It is not medical, psychological, legal or financial advice, and it does not replace clinical care where that is needed.
Instruments and interpretation
The four instruments are developmental, not clinical or diagnostic tests. Results describe patterns; they do not predict outcomes or determine a person's worth.
Intellectual property
ReflXnt, Rubi, StyleProfile, DriveMatrix, ClarityLens and CORE27 are trademarks of RefleXant Solutions India Pvt. Ltd. Reports are licensed for internal use by the customer and the individual.
Term and termination
Subscriptions run annually. On termination, individuals may export their own profile, and organisational data is deleted or returned per the agreement.
The full contractual terms are provided with the customer agreement; this page is a plain-language summary and does not replace it.
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