Benefits Decision Intelligence

Turn benefits complexity into decisions people can trust.

CHARLES™ connects plan information, employer strategy, employee circumstances, and governed decision logic — so every audience can understand not only the answer, but the reasoning behind it.

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Benefits Decision Intelligence

Decision intelligence

Evidence, assumptions, and confidence stay attached to the decision.

The problem

Benefits decisions are connected. The information rarely is.

A plan can look competitive on paper and still be difficult for employees to understand. An employer can make a thoughtful strategy change and still struggle to see how people experience it. A consultant can assemble the analysis and still spend valuable time reconciling documents, assumptions, and audiences.

The missing layer is not more administration. It is decision intelligence.

Plan information lives in documents

Costs, coverage details, and assumptions are often scattered across files, systems, and review cycles.

Each audience needs a different answer

Consultants, employers, and employees see the same benefits decision from different — but connected — perspectives.

The reasoning is hard to trace

A recommendation without its evidence, assumptions, and confidence leaves decision-makers unable to act with conviction.

One connected intelligence layer

From scattered inputs to a decision everyone can understand.

CHARLES brings the information that shapes a benefits decision into a governed path — then presents the result appropriately for each audience.

CHARLES flow from plan and employer information through validation, Benametrics, Clarity Score, and Forward Modeling to audience-specific experiences
A governed flow keeps source information, assumptions, and audience boundaries visible.
01

Benametrics™

Structures the factors used to evaluate benefits strategy and plan fit. Rules and versions remain visible, governed, and reviewable.

A consistent analytical foundation

02

Clarity Score™

Translates complex comparisons into understandable guidance while keeping alignment and data confidence distinct.

An explanation layer, not a black box

03

Forward Modeling

Lets teams compare structured scenarios and document assumptions before a strategy becomes a real-world decision.

A governed view of possible directions

Three connected experiences

One decision. The right perspective for each person.

Every role works from the same governed platform, while seeing only the information appropriate to its responsibility.

Consultants

Bring employer context, plan information, governed analysis, and client-ready findings into one engagement view.

  • Structured plan-data review
  • Scenario comparison
  • Explainable deliverables

Employers

Understand participation and decision patterns in aggregate while preserving the privacy boundary around individual inputs.

  • Workforce-level visibility
  • Aggregate decision signals
  • Strategy-to-outcome context

Employees

Compare plans against household preferences in plain language, with assumptions and missing information clearly stated.

  • Guided information intake
  • Plan-fit explanation
  • Visible confidence and unknowns
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Illustrative employee plan results with explanations and confidence details

Clarity without oversimplification

The recommendation is only useful when the reasoning travels with it.

CHARLES gives employees plain-language comparisons and keeps assumptions, missing information, and confidence visible. It supports an informed benefits decision without giving medical advice or predicting a diagnosis.

Trust is part of the result

Intelligence with guardrails, not a black box.

CHARLES is designed so that privacy, evidence, and governance are not afterthoughts. They shape how every result is produced and presented.

One governed platform

The three decision experiences share a controlled foundation rather than operating as disconnected tools.

Privacy by role

Employers and consultants receive aggregate insights — never an employee’s individual health inputs.

Versioned decision logic

Rules, assumptions, and configuration are traceable. Unvalidated weights cannot silently create a result.

Confidence stays visible

Alignment and data confidence are reported separately, and unavailable values are never presented as zero.

CHARLES™ Insights

Evidence for better benefits decisions.

Clear, source-backed perspectives on decision intelligence, responsible AI, privacy, and interoperability.

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A better benefits decision begins with a connected view

See the strategy, the experience, and the evidence in one place.

Helping consultants, employers, and employees make informed, confident benefits decisions.

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