What is the name of your organization?
diverSCInnova
What is the name of your solution?
AIA
Provide a one-line summary or tagline for your solution.
AIA is the first gamified, accessible cognitive assessment to map diverse talents and drive inclusive workforce opportunities.
In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?
Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil
In what country is your solution team headquartered?
Brazil
What type of organization is your solution team?
For-profit, including B-Corp or similar models
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What specific problem are you solving?
The global workforce operates on outdated, exclusionary assessment methods that fail to recognize diverse cognitive abilities, limiting economic opportunities for millions of people. Traditional hiring and skill development tools rely on rigid standards that exclude individuals with disabilities and neurodivergent profiles, preventing their fair integration into the workforce.
Currently, 15% of the world's population—over 1 billion people—live with disabilities, and only 20% of them are employed. This exclusion is not due to a lack of talent, but due to biases in skill assessment and limited access to inclusive career-matching tools.
Additionally, informal workers and individuals with lower technological literacy face similar barriers when seeking employment, as existing assessments fail to capture their full skill potential. Without inclusive, data-driven tools, these groups remain locked out of economic mobility.
AIA solves this by offering a digital, gamified, and universally accessible cognitive assessment that maps individual strengths without relying on traditional, exclusionary evaluation models. By shifting focus from limitations to abilities, AIA enables businesses to tap into untapped talent pools, fostering workforce diversity, economic inclusion, and sustainable employment growth.
What is your solution?
AIA - Accessible Intelligence Assessment, is the first gamified, universally accessible cognitive skill mapping tool, designed to bridge the gap between talent and opportunity through data-driven insights.
Unlike traditional assessments that rely on standardized tests with right or wrong answers, AIA uses interactive digital tasks to evaluate cognitive strengths through real-time performance tracking. The solution is designed with universal accessibility, allowing individuals to complete assessments using either visual or auditory stimuli—ensuring inclusion for people with disabilities, low literacy, and neurodivergent profiles.
AIA leverages artificial intelligence to analyze cognitive patterns, generating insights into an individual’s unique learning and problem-solving abilities. Employers, educators, and workforce development programs use these insights to match individuals with roles, training, or career paths that align with their cognitive strengths—ensuring a more inclusive and efficient labor market.
By focusing on how people think rather than what they know, AIA eliminates biases in talent evaluation, unlocks hidden potential, and expands economic participation. It is a scalable solution that transforms workforce development, recruitment, and education, creating more equitable hiring and career growth opportunities worldwide.
Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?
AIA serves individuals who are systemically excluded from the workforce due to biased skill assessment models, including:
- People with disabilities – Over 1 billion people globally face barriers to employment, not due to lack of skills, but due to assessment methods that fail to recognize their cognitive abilities. AIA ensures they are evaluated fairly based on their actual cognitive strengths, not their limitations.
- Neurodivergent individuals – Traditional hiring methods often overlook autistic individuals, those with ADHD, and other neurodivergences who excel in unique cognitive patterns. AIA unlocks their potential and connects them to compatible roles.
- Informal and underrepresented workers – 2 billion people worldwide work in informal economies. Many lack formal education credentials but possess valuable skills. AIA provides them with a validated cognitive profile, enabling better career matching based on neuroscience.
- Employers and Workforce Development Programs – Companies seeking inclusive hiring and data-driven talent acquisition use AIA to access a broader, more diverse talent pool.
By eliminating barriers and biases, AIA empowers individuals, strengthens businesses, and drives economic inclusion on a global scale.
