Assessment Methodology
What an Enterprise Governance Assessment measures
An Enterprise Governance Assessment measures governance posture across six dimensions of the maturity vocabulary: Structural Awareness, Decision Integrity, Execution Coherence, Risk Governance, Identity Stability, and Agentic Readiness. Each dimension captures a distinct aspect of how governance is structurally enforced within the organization.
Assessment evidence comes from architecture artifacts — organizational charts, system inventories, process documentation, policy frameworks, data governance records, and technology integration maps. Artifacts are the correct evidence source because they represent the governance structure as it is actually implemented, not as it is perceived or reported.
Surveys measure perception. Artifacts measure structure. OntoRamp measures structure.
What the three outputs represent
Governance Assessment Report (GAR)
A snapshot of current governance posture across six dimensions. Expressed in the five-tier maturity vocabulary. Point-in-time measurement. The GAR answers the question: where does this organization sit today?
Readiness Certificate (RC)
A certification of whether the current governance structure can sustain a specified transformation. Binary outcome with supporting evidence. The RC answers the question: can this organization execute the transformation it is planning?
Transformation Roadmap (TR)
A sequenced roadmap of governance changes required to reach a target maturity tier. Prioritized by structural dependency, not by organizational politics. The TR answers the question: what must change, and in what order?
What the assessment does not do
An Enterprise Governance Assessment does not produce a compliance score. It does not certify regulatory adherence. It does not compare the organization to a benchmark database. The output is specific to the organization's own governance structure and transformation intent. There is no percentile ranking and no industry comparison — because governance posture is structural, not relative.
Timeline and delivery
Assessment engagements are measured in days, not months. Evidence is submitted digitally. Outputs are delivered as structured documents. No on-site requirement.
The role of governance simulation in scoring
Assessment outputs are not produced by static rules alone. OntoRamp runs a physics-driven governance simulation — thousands of autonomous agents* whose behavior is parameterized by the evidence you submit. The simulation reveals structural relationships that surveys and spreadsheets cannot detect: which systems cluster naturally, which resist governance alignment, and where transformation friction will emerge. Maturity scores incorporate both static evidence evaluation and simulation-derived structural signals.
*Agent count scales with assessment scope. Typical enterprise assessments simulate 500 to 2,000+ governance entities.