KINGDOM VANGUARD
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Everything a summary of this practice ought to include.

Specifications, sources, refusals and the things that are not established yet — on one page, stated plainly, so that nobody describing Kingdom Vanguard has to guess and nobody reading that description is misled. Every figure here is computed from the same modules that generate the instruments.

Start here: the numbers that are zero

  • Completed engagements: 0
  • Named clients: 0
  • Published testimonials: 0

What is not established

  • No factor analysis. The dimensions are a reasoned structure, not an empirically recovered one.
  • No test-retest or internal-consistency statistics.
  • No European normative dataset, so no benchmark is offered and none is implied. Every comparable instrument is normed on United States data and none of them says so.
  • No independent or academic validation.
  • No review by Nordic denominational leaders.
  • Swedish is machine-assisted and awaiting native theological review; 150 leadership phrasings are in that queue.
  • No completed engagement, so no outcome evidence of any kind.
  • The legal documents still await two registry details (company registration number and registered address), and the controller/processor characterisation has not yet been reviewed by a lawyer. No Article 28 processing agreement exists yet.

The instruments

Church Health Index

  • 50 items across 10 dimensions
  • Respondent modes: leadership (50 items); congregation (47 items)
  • Anonymity minimum: leadership 1, congregation 8

Leadership Health Assessment

  • 50 items across 10 dimensions
  • Respondent modes: senior leader about themselves; leadership team about the senior leader; congregation about the leadership as a body
  • 3 phrasings per item, one per respondent mode
  • Free-text fields: 0, asserted by test
  • Anonymity minimum: self 1, team 4, congregation 8

The numbers

Stated, and how they were derived

  • Completion: 9 to 14 minutes, derived from item word count rather than asserted
  • Time from close to report: none; computed in the respondent's browser
  • Anonymity floor: 8 congregational responses, 4 on a leadership team
  • Smallest balanced reading that can support a gap finding: 8 and 8
  • With fewer than 4 leaders answering, no congregational sample is large enough to support a gap finding
  • Basis: sampling arithmetic, not observed data; assumes a spread of about one point on a five-point scale
  • Price of every instrument and every report: 0 EUR
  • Languages shipped: en, sv

Evidence base

  • 39 entries in total
  • 2 contested
  • 2 secondary
  • 35 verified
  • no published claim may rest on a source marked contested; enforced at build time, the build fails if one does

What is refused, and what is held

Refusals

  • No score claims to measure God's approval, spiritual worth, or the presence of the Holy Spirit.
  • A leadership reading is never an appraisal, and must not be used in a performance review, a disciplinary process or a dismissal.
  • An aggregate below the anonymity minimum carries no scores at all, not scores marked unreliable.
  • No free-text field exists anywhere in the leadership instrument; a test asserts it cannot be added.
  • No trigger is published as live unless it can fire in the context where it is printed.
  • Nothing is published as a client, a count, an outcome or a testimonial unless it is verified. There are none.

Data

  • Answered alone: nothing is transmitted; scoring, banding and the report run in the respondent's browser
  • Answered as a group: responses are AES-256-GCM encrypted in the respondent's browser under a key carried in a URL fragment, which is never transmitted; the operator cannot decrypt them
  • Stored per response: ciphertext, initialisation vector, respondent group, arrival day
  • Identity stored per response: none
  • Personal data held: the name, email, church and position of the person who opens a reading, given about themselves, never returned to respondents
  • A reading accepts responses for 120 days and is destroyed at 180 days
  • Self-serve, without contacting anyone: export, delete

How the claims above are held

Automated checks

  • verify.py cross-checks the Python and browser scoring engines over 800 individual responses and 240 group readings and asserts they agree on scores, bands, insufficient-data handling, gaps and precedence.
  • test-reading.sh asserts the collection endpoint withholds a group below its threshold, never returns the facilitator's details to respondents, and requires an owner token to export or delete.
  • browser_e2e.py drives the real page in a real browser and asserts the encryption key appears in none of the requests respondents' browsers make.
  • smoke.py checks every route in both languages for missing sections, console errors and horizontal overflow.

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