Bearings is the only global mobility platform that combines always-on AI cultural coaching with a live programme intelligence engine. 190+ countries. 4 languages. Measurable outcomes.
The Problem Nobody Has Solved
At that point the cost is already incurred. Every mobility manager knows this. Nobody has built the tool that changes it. Until now.
Two Products. One Platform.
Every other cultural training product coaches the employee and stops there. Bearings also tells the mobility manager which assignments are failing before they become early returns — and proves the ROI automatically.
Calendar Coaching
Connect Bearings to Google Calendar or Outlook and it delivers a cultural brief two hours before every meeting with a cross-cultural dimension — without you doing anything. Not a generic country briefing. One written for that specific city, the specific people in the room, and what you already know about them.
Managing Across Cultures
Generic management advice assumes everyone processes feedback, handles disagreement, and signals commitment the same way. They don’t. Bearings gives managers coaching calibrated to who is actually on their team.
Bearings builds a coaching card for every direct report on a cross-cultural team. How they receive feedback. What silence in a meeting means from them. How they signal they’re struggling. What scripts work for difficult conversations.
The Team Friction Map shows which pairs are most likely to misread each other — based on their specific cultural profiles — before that friction becomes a problem worth solving retrospectively.
What Makes It Different
Every other cultural coaching product gives the same answer to the same question. Bearings adjusts its response based on where you're from, the specific city you're in, and what you already know about the person you're dealing with.
The cultural gap between a Canadian in Berlin and a Canadian in Munich is real and significant — but most platforms give them identical advice. Bearings knows Berlin is casual and startup-driven; Munich is formal and corporate. The coaching adjusts accordingly.
When you've met your counterpart before, Bearings draws on what you've learned about them specifically — not just their culture. After enough conversations, it knows they're more direct than their cultural baseline. It knows what approach worked last time. It knows the deal has been waiting three weeks and not to push yet.
City-Smart Coaching
Generic cultural training gives everyone sent to Germany the same advice. Bearings gives advice calibrated to the actual city — because the professional culture in Berlin is measurably different from Munich, Frankfurt, or Hamburg, and getting it wrong costs real relationships.
Contact Intelligence
Cultural coaching based on nationality alone can only take you so far. Bearings lets you build a private record of what you've actually observed about the people you work with most — and uses it to give you advice that's specific to them, not just their background.
When you ask Bearings how to handle a difficult conversation with Kenji, it doesn't just give you a Japan briefing. It factors in everything you've told it about him — that he's unusually direct, that the deal has been in his hands for three weeks, that the last time you pushed early it went backwards.
You build these notes naturally as you work — Bearings prompts you after sessions to capture what you observed. Over time, the coaching about each person gets more specific and more useful.
Partners and Families
The employee adjusts to a new office. The partner adjusts to an entirely new life — new country, new language, new schools, new healthcare, new neighbours, no professional network. When the partner is struggling, the employee is not far behind. This is documented. It is preventable.
Programme Intelligence Suite
Built from the ground up for global mobility managers. Purpose-built for the specific decisions mobility teams have to make — not repurposed HR software.
What the Dashboard Looks Like
This is what replaces the spreadsheet. Live, prioritised, actionable — without a single manual report.
Cross-Stream Intelligence
The Early Warning Engine does not look at one signal. It looks at the combination of engagement rate, domain velocity, sentiment trend, partner status, and milestone completion — simultaneously. The pattern that matters is never visible in any single stream.
An assignee's Workplace domain is rising steadily — good. Their check-in sentiment is positive — good. Their engagement rate is strong — good. But Family domain has been flat at 0.34 for six weeks while Workplace is at 0.71.
Viewed individually: no signal. Viewed in combination: a specific pattern (EW-006) that correlates with early return requests at month 5. The intervention — a partner enrollment prompt — fires at week 10, not month 5.
The Data Flywheel
The connection between specific cultural preparation, specific cultural friction, and specific assignment outcomes. Captured, synthesised, and fed back into every recommendation — making the platform measurably better with every assignment that completes.
ROI Calculator
Adjust sliders for your population. Bearings is $500 per seat per year — flat rate.
The Full Coaching Suite
Not a course. A coaching system that’s present for professional challenges, daily life friction, family transitions, and career decisions — for as long as the assignment lasts.
Now in the Platform
The package has grown well past pre-departure coaching. These are the pieces that make Bearings present at the moment something goes wrong — and useful to the manager on the receiving end.
Pricing
No per-session fees. No per-workshop invoices. No country surcharges.
30-minute demo. We'll walk through the live population dashboard, fire an early warning scenario, and build a cost estimate for your population on the call.
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