Question 1

What is The E-mployer's Instrument?

Accepted Answer

The E-mployer's Instrument is a decision instrument by Dr. Jonah Tebaa that takes a chief executive from a candidate AI role to a single named next step. It asks about one specific piece of work across seven gates — whether it is a role at all, what is at stake, who checks it and whether they can, whether it pays, readiness, and portfolio context — and returns a directive such as commission at a stated control level, name a reviewer first, measure the baseline first, rescope to a supervisable volume, or do not commission.

Question 2

Why is it not a maturity score?

Accepted Answer

Because scoring models are compensatory: a strong result in one column silently buys forgiveness in another, so a compelling business case can paper over the absence of a reviewer. The Instrument is non-compensatory by design, following the principle that necessary is not sufficient. Certain conditions veto regardless of every other answer, harm is taken as the maximum across dimensions rather than the average, and control ceilings are taken as minimums.

Question 3

What is oversight feasibility?

Accepted Answer

Oversight feasibility divides the reviewer's genuinely available hours by the hours of checking a role actually requires at its mandated control level. Below one, the reviewer cannot keep up and begins approving without inspecting, so detection collapses while the control remains nominally present on the organisation chart. It is the arithmetic signature of accountability theatre, and it is measurable from three numbers: volume, available reviewer hours, and minutes per competent review.

Question 4

Is my data sent anywhere?

Accepted Answer

No. Every question, calculation and result runs in the browser in JavaScript. Nothing is transmitted, stored or logged, and there is no server-side component.