Trust Engineering
Maturity Model.

Measure your organization's ability to build, validate, observe, govern and improve trust — continuously.

Not another compliance checklist. A maturity model for organizations moving from reactive compliance to continuous trust engineering.

Governing Score

TEMM reports two numbers, not one. The average score communicates overall posture. The Governing Score, the lowest of the five dimensions, is the honest number, since an organisation is only as trustworthy as its weakest area, not its best one.

The dimensions of trust maturity.

TEMM measures capability across five dimensions. Each dimension is scored 0–5. The overall TEMM score defines your current maturity level.

D1
Build

How software, infrastructure and controls are designed. Security by construction — not retrofit.

D2
Validate

How quality, security and compliance controls are tested. QA is the evidence-generation engine.

D3
Observe

How operational signals and evidence are continuously collected, stored and made queryable.

D4
Govern

How ownership, accountability and risk decisions are structured, versioned and enforced.

D5
Improve

How organizations continuously reduce trust debt — the gap between what is claimed and what can be proven.

From undocumented to adaptive.

L0
Undocumented

No consistent process, evidence, or ownership. Trust is anecdotal.

L1
Reactive

Teams respond after incidents, audits, or regulatory requests.

L2
Documented

Processes exist but evidence collection remains manual and inconsistent.

L3
Structured

Controls, ownership, and evidence workflows are connected and mapped to frameworks.

L4
Continuous

Engineering activity continuously generates trust evidence. Audit-ready every day.

L5
Adaptive

The organization anticipates trust challenges before they surface, identifying emerging risk and declining controls ahead of time.

Where is your organization on the trust maturity curve?

15 questions across five dimensions. ~4 minutes. Get your TEMM score, current maturity level, biggest gap, and the specific path to the next level. Senior-engineer review of your result within 24 hours.

TEMM, explained.

What is the Trust Engineering Maturity Model (TEMM)?

TEMM is StackWeaver's proprietary maturity model that measures an organization's ability to continuously build, validate, observe, govern and improve trust. It scores five dimensions across six maturity levels — from Undocumented (L0) to Adaptive (L5).

How is TEMM different from a compliance checklist?

A checklist asks "do you have this control?" TEMM asks "how consistently do you generate evidence of this control from the way you build and operate software?" TEMM measures capability, not paperwork.

Who is TEMM for?

CTOs, heads of engineering, heads of compliance, and founders of regulated software companies — particularly African fintechs preparing for SOC 2, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, NDPA or CBN AML/CFT.

How long does the assessment take?

About four minutes. Fifteen questions across the five dimensions. You get your TEMM score, current level, biggest gap and recommended path immediately.

What happens after I get my score?

A senior StackWeaver engineer reviews every submission within 24 hours. If the fit is right, we book a confidential, NDA-bound Trust Readiness Assessment to map the specific path from your current level to the next.