Business decisions, read at the level the role needs.
Two scales in one assessment: how well someone solves business problems, and how well they make commercial and financial decisions.
Every question is a business decision, never a matter of reading a value off a chart. Business Reasoning covers finding the real cause, testing claims and choosing a course of action, from tactical problems to strategy. Commercial Reasoning covers margins, cash, performance data, budgets, option comparisons, investment cases and financial statements. Each scale places the candidate on 6 proficiency levels and compares them with people at the same role level, so a junior can stand out among junior roles.
Eight per scale. Every question is built on one move, from diagnosing a problem to appraising an investment.
6 proficiency levels per scale, compared within 4 role bands: Entry & Operational, Professional & Supervisory, Management, Senior & Executive.
How the assessment works
A focused form matched to the role, scored so that every result carries its own precision.
Matched to the role
- The role level, from entry and operational to director and executive, selects a form pitched at that band, overlapping with the bands either side.
- Shared linking questions put every form on one common scale, whichever form a candidate took.
Two focused sections
- 12 Business Reasoning questions, then 12 Commercial Reasoning questions, in about 40 minutes.
- Untimed, with an on-screen calculator: the arithmetic is everyday business arithmetic, not a speed test.
Scored for precision
- Each scale is scored with item response theory: a proficiency level from 1 to 6 and a score with a 90% confidence band.
- Validity checks flag rapid guessing, below-chance answering, inconsistent response patterns and lost focus before anyone relies on the result.
- Item difficulties and role-band norms are being set from live calibration data; until then, levels are reported as provisional.
Why it is different
The important distinction is not only what the assessment is called. It is what kind of evidence it collects and how that evidence can be explained.
Decisions, not data reading
- Every question asks what to conclude or do in a business situation, across retail, manufacturing, healthcare, logistics, finance, technology and more.
- Cases use no currency symbols or local references, so the same assessment works in any market.
Wrong answers carry meaning
- Each wrong option is written around one of 19 known reasoning errors, such as anchoring on the most visible number, confusing profit with cash or counting sunk costs.
- The report shows which errors recur, which gives development a specific starting point.
Level-referenced by role
- Six proficiency levels describe what someone can reliably do, from reading a simple work problem to judging strategy and investment when the evidence conflicts.
- Results are compared within 4 role bands (Entry & Operational, Professional & Supervisory, Management, Senior & Executive), so strength is read against the role, not against everyone.
Built to resist test-wiseness
- Every question is audited so that picking the longest, shortest or most cautious option is no better than chance.
- Question and option order are randomised for each candidate.
What it measures
16 reasoning moves, eight per scale. Every question is built on one of them.
Business Reasoning: tactical to strategic
Commercial Reasoning: margin to investment
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