Platform Overview

Two Layers. One Platform.
Every Assignment Covered.

Bearings is not a coaching app with a dashboard bolted on. It is a platform built from the ground up with two equally important layers — one that coaches the person, one that tells the manager what is happening and what to do about it.

Layer One — The Coaching Layer

For Every Person You Send

Always-on. Personalised. Available at 11pm before a high-stakes client meeting in a different time zone. The coaching that traditional providers deliver once and never follow up on.

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AI Cultural Mentor
24/7 coaching. Decode meetings, debrief friction, simulate conversations. 190+ countries, 4 languages, 8 cultural domains.
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Calendar Coaching
Automatic cultural briefing before every meeting, synced from Google or Outlook. Specific phrases, risk flags, do's and don'ts.
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Weekly Field Missions
One mission per week — AI roleplay, scenario simulations, real-world tasks. Cultural Points and streaks drive 12-month engagement.
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Family Seat Bundling
Employee and accompanying partner under one licence. Dedicated partner track covering daily life, community, and career.
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Relocation Checklists
Phase-based dynamic checklists for every destination. Before departure, first week, first 90 days.
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Safety & Identity Layer
Opt-in guidance for LGBTQ+ employees, solo women, and visible minorities. Fully walled from employer dashboards by design.
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Counterpart Intelligence →
Relationship mapping, register translation, and rehearsal against the specific people who decide whether the assignment works.
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Situation Debrief →
One sentence from a corridor gets a real read on what just happened and the repair move to make today.
Daily Dispatch →
Under five minutes a day, aimed at the one weakness this person keeps hitting — and retired when the behaviour changes.

Layer Two — The Intelligence Layer

For the Managers Who Send Them

The data your RMC doesn't have. The predictions your HRIS can't make. The reports your CFO needs but your team spends three days compiling manually.

City-Level Intelligence

Six Micro-Culture Dimensions Per City.
Country Profiles Average All of This Out.

city profile is a new database entity — one per city in the destination database. AI-synthesised from primary sources, independently reviewed for accuracy through a two-cycle pipeline, refreshed annually. Every coaching prompt in the platform draws from the city, not just the country.

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Formality Register
A 0–100 score + country delta. Berlin: 46 (−28 vs German average). Munich: 82 (+8). Observable signals specific to this city. Formal exceptions even in informal cities. The most immediately actionable dimension.
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Social & Political Attitudes
Progressive/conservative lean relative to national average. International orientation. Attitude to newcomers. Social fault lines where significant (East/West Berlin identity is still culturally active). LGBTQ+ visibility at city level.
Pace and Directness
Separate pace and directness scores. Punctuality expectation. Urgency culture narrative. Tokyo is high-urgency in delivery but slow in decision-making. Berlin operates at a Mediterranean tempo. Frankfurt moves fast on everything.
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Expat Community Profile
Expat density. English workability (FULLY FUNCTIONAL to NOT WORKABLE). Integration expectation from locals. Expat community character. Local reaction to expats. The difference between Berlin and Munich on this dimension is significant.
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Industry Cluster Culture
Dominant industries per city. Per-industry cultural notes. Cross-industry norms that bleed from the dominant sector. Frankfurt's finance culture shapes how even creative agencies run meetings. Berlin's startup ethos shapes professionals across all sectors.
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Historical & Identity Context
What actively shapes daily interactions today — not just history. East/West Berlin identity. Bavarian regional identity strength in Munich. Cultural touchstones locals expect you to know. City-specific taboo topics.

How the Coaching Stays Sharp

Every Coaching Response Draws on Three Sources of Context.
Not Generic. Not Guesswork.

When the master template is updated — adding a new constraint, updating cultural knowledge modules, adding a new city — the change propagates to every tool simultaneously. No drift between what the AI Mentor says and what Calendar Coaching says about the same situation.

Layer 1 — User Context
Who Is Asking
Origin city, destination city, motivation track, seniority, industry, languages, family composition, time in destination, self-reported cultural calibration. The baseline every response is built on.
Layer 2 — Who They're Dealing With
Who They're Dealing With
Path A: contact notes + interaction history (known contacts). Path B: everyday situation coaching (strangers, session-only). Path C: Empty — coaching is purely about the user's own adjustment.
Layer 3 — Cultural Knowledge
What the Cultures Say
The city you're based in. The city where today's meeting is happening (which may be different). Where you're from, so comparisons make sense. Cultural research from established frameworks. All assembled before every response.

See the Full Platform in 30 Minutes.

We'll walk through both layers — live population dashboard, an early warning scenario, and a programme ROI calculation built from your numbers.

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