Daylight™

What you scoped. What you rely on. What you pay for. And whether any of it's landing.

Eight minutes, on one advisor relationship. Free, and it won't tell you to change firms.

Most advisor relationships don't fail. They drift.

A service gets added and never written down. A fee gets reset against a scope that has since moved. Work arrives every month from one consultant nobody has named out loud. None of it is a crisis, and none of it shows up in a stewardship report — so it accumulates quietly until a renewal forces the question.

Daylight is a way to ask the question before the renewal does.

Every advisor relationship runs on three things, and when it's healthy they describe the same work.

What you scoped — what the agreement actually obligates the firm to do.
What you rely on — what your organization has come to depend on, including work that appears in no document.
What you pay — total compensation reaching that firm from every source, not only what you invoice.

Most problems live in the distance between them. Underneath sits a question no structure can answer: is the work any good? Daylight reads both.

What you get

Twenty-five questions, about eight minutes.

At the end you'll see which distances have opened, whether the substance is landing, whether anything is maintaining the relationship between reviews — and five questions worth putting to your advisor at your next meeting.

You can take the report away as a PDF, built on your own device.

Why it won’t push you to switch

In most outcomes it says the opposite. Most of what looks like a firm problem is a drift problem, and drift is recoverable.

We can say that plainly because of how we're built. Docent is independent — we place nothing, we take no commissions, and we have no stake in whether you stay or go.

Answer honestly. It's anonymous.

We keep an unnamed record of the pattern — no name, no company, no email — so

we can build benchmarks across organizations. If you'd like us to know who you

are, there's a place to say so at the end. It's optional, and nothing about the

diagnostic changes either way.

Better with company

The strongest use of Daylight is comparative.

Have two or three colleagues answer independently and compare where you disagree. The divergence between two honest accounts usually says more than either one alone — and the sharpest version is the one where your advisor answers the same questions from their side.

We facilitate that session. [ Ask us about it → info@docentpg.com ]

Responses pool without names. We keep the pattern — role, answers, readings — so we can build benchmarks across organizations, and we don't ask who you are. If you'd like us to know, there's an optional place to say so at the end. Nothing about the diagnostic changes either way.