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Applies to Enterprise. Foundation is part of the full configuration set, guided during Enterprise onboarding. Starter and Growth don’t configure this. See Configure Overview.

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Purpose

Foundation sets the org structure every evaluation is scored against. You define it once, in business language, and it shapes everything downstream.

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What Foundation covers

Departments

Your top-level organizational structure.

Job Families & Roles

Your role library: the roles candidates are evaluated for.

Bands

Seniority and responsibility levels.

Skills Taxonomy

Technical, functional, behavioral, and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

What strong candidates should own at each level.

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What Foundation informs

Once set, Foundation becomes the context for the rest of the platform:

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The hyper-calibration layer

Foundation is where Exterview builds your organization’s hyper-calibration layer, the scoring context unique to your organization. It’s set up once, taken through a staging journey, and then frozen, so results stay consistent and reproducible.
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Capture

Your competencies, role definitions, bands, and responsibilities are captured in business language.
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Stage

The calibration is assembled and validated in staging before it goes anywhere near live hiring.
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Freeze

Once signed off, the calibration baseline is frozen to your organization. Every evaluation is scored against it the same way, every time.
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Compound

Post-hire outcomes (D30, D60, D90) feed back in, so your calibration sharpens over time, and stays yours.
This layer is Enterprise-only and unique to your organization. It is never pooled into a shared model. Starter and Growth run on standard and light department-based configuration without it.
Next, Operations turns this foundation into how evaluations actually run.

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FAQs

No. Foundation is described in business language: your departments, roles, levels, and skills.
Yes, through change control. Changes that affect scoring re-baseline to a new version.
Yes. Your Foundation is specific to your organization and never shared or used to build a shared model.

Operations Setup

Turn structure into how evaluations run.

Governance Setup

Control access, privacy, and oversight.