I'm Carlo Perfetto. For over twenty years I've worked inside ICF coaching credentialing — as an MCC-level coach, an assessor, and a trainer of coaches. I've read, scored, and given developmental feedback on more coaching sessions than I could count.
Calibrate came out of a simple observation: rigorous, marker-by-marker feedback on a real session is one of the most useful things for a coach's growth — and one of the scarcest. Good mentor coaching is costly and hard to access. I wanted to widen that access, without pretending a tool can replace a human mentor.
So Calibrate is built to be a mentor, not a judge. It recognises linguistic and behavioural patterns against the ICF competencies, rigorously — but it cannot perceive silence, sense presence, or hear what was left unsaid. Its reports are mirrors for reflection, never verdicts, and carry no certificatory value.
It has no institutional affiliations and is owned by no certifying body — one practitioner building for practitioners, regardless of accreditation path, school of origin, or approach practised. To keep it honest, an independent panel of five ICF MCC coaches is being established to review its evaluations on a semi-annual basis.