Cardinality.ai People Handbook
The Cardy Way
Not a statement on display.
Lived in our everyday behavior, decisions, and actions.
Ten values, one way of working together at Cardinality.ai — how we hire, how we appraise, and how we decide when it's hard.
If a value never changes what we do or how we do it, it isn't a value — it's decoration.
This handbook is written for the people who join, grow, and lead at Cardinality.ai. Every value below is testable in a real Tuesday — not a poster. Read it once end-to-end, then come back to it when a decision is hard.
Section 01 · The Ten
Ten values. One test:
does it change what we do?
Section 02 · How it shows up
Hired for. Appraised on.
Practiced daily.
01
Hiring
- Two or three values per interviewer, probed with behavioral questions.
- Values evidence scored alongside skills.
- A bar-raiser safeguards the values in every loop.
- Candidates walk the ten values before signing.
02
Appraisals
- Half what you delivered and half how you delivered it, with written evidence.
- Behavioral anchors per value: below, meets, exceeds.
- Promotions show the values at the next level of scope.
- Living the values is what earns the top ratings.
03
Every day
- Reviews open with customer impact.
- Decision docs name the values trade-off they make.
- A monthly peer-nominated value-in-action story, with names.
- Leaders set the tone. What they model becomes culture.
Culture is what we repeat.
Not a statement on display. Lived in our everyday behavior, decisions, and actions.
The Cardy Way · Cardinality.ai · People Team