The platform behind Radical Appreciation
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The platform behind Radical Appreciation.

Culture Economy helps organizations understand how their people really show up at work. We designed and built the software that powers the methodology, from custom assessments to the baseball-card-style Radical Profile each participant keeps and coworkers collect.

One platform, many organizations, built ground-upCustom assessments with conditional logicPersonalized Radical Profiles, with PDF reportsRun by Brennan's team, no developer needed
01 The challenge

Workplace culture is hard to measure.

Culture Economy, led by Brennan Burns in Noblesville, helps organizations understand how their people actually show up at work. Brennan's methodology, Radical Appreciation, turns something most companies treat as fuzzy into a structured, repeatable process. Participants work through a series of assessments, discover their own most authentic self, and learn to recognize and celebrate that in the people they work with. The whole approach is built on a simple idea: come as you are.

To bring that methodology to more organizations, Brennan needed software to run it end to end: a place to onboard organizations, guide participants through the assessments, and turn the results into something people could actually keep and use. No off-the-shelf tool fit the process, so he partnered with us to build it.

The Radical Profile

A card worth collecting.

Every participant's answers generate a baseball-card-style profile of their most authentic self. Coworkers collect and reference each other's cards, and each one exports as a clean PDF.

  • The photo. Something you value, or the realest version of yourself: friends, family, a favorite place.
  • The descriptors. The heart of the profile: six values that capture the most real you.
  • A, B, and C. Your own reflections from the assessments: strengths, working style, and where you're still growing.
  • What brings me joy. The person behind the work, in your own words.
A sample Radical Profile card showing a personal photo, six descriptors, three reflections, and a what-brings-me-joy section
A Radical Profile, generated by the platform
02 What we built

A platform built for the methodology.

We designed and built the platform that runs Radical Appreciation, from onboarding an organization to generating each participant's Radical Profile.

Assessments

A survey engine the team controls

Custom assessments with conditional logic, so questions adapt to earlier answers. Brennan's team builds and edits them without a developer.

The Radical Profile

A snapshot of your most authentic self

Each participant's answers generate a personalized, baseball-card-style profile. People collect their coworkers' cards and reference them to learn who they work with at their most authentic. Exportable as a clean PDF report.

One platform

Many organizations, one platform

Built from day one to run many organizations: each one's people and data stay separate, while Brennan's team runs them all from one place, and the practice can grow without a rebuild.

Self-managed

Run without developers

Built-in content management lets Brennan's team update assessments, activities, and program content on their own, no ongoing development required.

We designed and built the platform in phases across 2025 and 2026, from the core application to the survey engine to the Radical Profile reports, and launched it to production in 2026. It is built, tested, and ready for Brennan to take Radical Appreciation to the organizations he works with.

03 Under the hood

Proven technology, chosen on purpose.

Almost everything we ship runs on the same modern Microsoft stack: proven, supported, and easy to hire for years from now. Cutting edge but never bleeding edge.

.NETAngularMSSQLAzure

Each Radical Profile renders through a dedicated HTML-to-PDF engine, so the report prints clean every time. Hosted in Azure.

04 The long run

Built to grow with the practice.

Radical Appreciation runs many organizations at once, each with its own people and data kept separate, all administered from one place. Brennan's team manages the assessments and content themselves, and the platform is ready to scale as the practice does.

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organizations on one secure platform, each with its data kept separate
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build phases: core app, survey engine, and profile reports
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developers needed for Brennan's team to run it day to day
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