For organisations

See capability, not credentials.

Decide on evidence, not pedigree. Defensible to your board, your regulator, and your nationalisation commitments.

158
Gov-sourced role profiles · Saudi ICT
5
Instruments · One pipeline
EU
Data residency · Frankfurt
COGEX Match ScoreSenior Risk Analyst
91
Match
L4
Ceiling
78
Match
Candidate scores · Illustrative
DSF aligned · D33Decision: assessor
Decisions you can defend

Architecturally aligned to national workforce standards.

The compliance architecture is structural, not bolted on. Hiring, promotion, succession, and nationalisation decisions become defensible against regulatory expectation because the framework they rest on is the regulator's own.

UAE · Dubai Skills Framework
DSF · D33
Roles, competencies, and cognitive demand profiles aligned to the emirate's own workforce taxonomy. Emiratisation decisions that stand up to scrutiny.
Saudi Arabia · ICT Classification
158 role profiles
158 government-sourced role profiles including a deep cybersecurity vertical. Aligned to Vision 2030 and Saudisation / Nitaqat requirements.
Data residency
EU / Frankfurt
Data resident in the EU. Specific UAE and Saudi data-residency requirements are addressed at the enterprise-agreement level.

MindSync claims framework alignment, not government certification. The distinction matters.

How it works in practice

From role to decision. Evidence at every step.

Illustrative scenario · pre-launch example
A Dubai bank. A Senior Risk Analyst role. Fourteen candidates.

COGEX translates the role into a precise cognitive demand profile. METIS assesses each candidate under identical adversarial pressure, calibrated for Gulf communication norms. ARCADE returns a Cognitive Ceiling and a COGEX Match Score for each. The hiring manager sees who can actually do the reasoning the role requires, and can demonstrate to the Dubai Government that the process aligns to the emirate's own framework.

Step 1
COGEX profiles the role
Step 2
METIS assesses 14 candidates
Step 3
ARCADE scores each
Step 4
Decision: the assessor
01 · Translate

Define roles with precision.

COGEX turns a job description into a cognitive demand specification: what the role genuinely requires across reasoning, professional competency, and character. The output is a locked profile with an Interview Guide and a Reference Guide. Calibration Intelligence builds after five or more assessments.

MindSync does not replace your interview. It writes you a better one.

Full COGEX detail →
LOGOS

How they reason

The cognitive modes the role demands: probabilistic, causal, generative, and more.

48 modes · 8 nominated per role
PRAXIS

How they act

The professional competencies required under real conditions and consequence.

27 competencies · 8 nominated
ETHOS

Who they are

Character observed under pressure, across 8 clusters, auto-weighted.

33 qualities · 8 clusters
On lock
Interview Guide
Role-specific questions that probe capability, not charisma.
On lock
Reference Guide
A structured audit trail for every decision.
After 5+ assessments
Calibration Intelligence
Pattern insight across your talent pool and cohort.
02 · Assess

Reveal reasoning, not rehearsal.

METIS conducts an adversarial conversation that surfaces how a person reasons under pressure. It adapts in real time and calibrates for Gulf communication norms. There is no script to prepare for.

Phase 1 · Contextual
It reads the background
The CV sets context, never a score. METIS forms hypotheses about where reasoning is strongest.
Phase 2 · Adversarial
It applies pressure, live
Four positions applied dynamically. Each question arises from the last answer. Depth scales: 12, 17, or 22 exchanges by stakes.
Sanctuary
Challenge from within the comfort zone, where the genuine approach shows.
Pressure
Direct confrontation of assumptions.
Distortion
Contradiction and complexity, introduced to test how thinking flexes.
Resolution
A demand for synthesis under sustained pressure.

No right answers, no keywords, nothing to coach. Calibrates in real time for how people reason across Gulf communication styles, so candidates are assessed on reasoning, not manner of expression. An optional Professional Self-Portrait (ETHOS self-reflection) is never scored.

03 · Score

Four dimensions. Validity is the gate.

ARCADE scores the structure of reasoning, not the vocabulary. Each of the 48 cognitive modes is read across four dimensions simultaneously. Validity carries the greatest weight: without it, the upper Ceiling levels cannot be reached.

V
Validity
Is the reasoning genuine, or performed?
The quality gate · greatest weight
S
Sophistication
Is it complex, nuanced, and multi-layered?
 
P
Precision
Is it accurate, targeted, and specific?
 
D
Depth
Does it reach the underlying structure of the problem?
 

The 48 modes aggregate through four Cognitive Sets into the Cognitive Ceiling: the highest level at which a person sustains rigorous reasoning under pressure.

L1
Foundational
L2
Operational
L3
Tactical
L4
Strategic
L5
Architectural
Turn evidence into action

Organisational intelligence you can act on.

ARCADE's outputs for organisations go beyond individual scores. Six intelligence surfaces let you manage capability at cohort and workforce scale.

People
Succession Quadrant
Map readiness and cognitive ceiling across your leadership pipeline.
Roles
Gap Analysis
See where the cognitive demand of a role exceeds the current pool.
Teams
Cohort Insight
Understand the cognitive spread and development needs of a group.
Workforce
DSF Workforce View
Your talent pool, mapped against the Dubai Skills Framework taxonomy.
Risk
Bench Depth Alert
Early warning when critical roles have insufficient coverage.
Trend
Cognitive Pulse
Track the direction of capability across your organisation over time.
04 · Verify

Bridge records and evidence.

VERITAS stores ARCADE Credentials alongside verified career histories and attested capabilities. When a candidate shares their record, you see only what they permit. No hidden fields. No CV inflation. Each experience is confirmed through the GRADUS verification tiers.

INTEGRA is the apex: a Gold-Verified history with a current ARCADE Credential. For an employer, the clearest evidence that both the record and the reasoning are real and current.

Unverified
Partially Verified
Verified
Gold Verified
INTEGRA
UnverifiedSelf-entered, not yet confirmed.
Partially VerifiedAt least one node confirmed.
VerifiedEach role confirmed by manager and HR.
Gold VerifiedEvery node confirmed, with documents and identity.
INTEGRAGold-Verified history with a current ARCADE Credential.
05 · Connect

Match capability to opportunity.

In PLURITY you publish COGEX profiles and query a pool of professionals who hold ARCADE Blueprints and VERITAS records. The first filter is always cognitive. Matching is anonymous until both parties consent. Identities are disclosed simultaneously and never before.

Publish

COGEX Profiles

Set the cognitive demand specification for each opportunity. The benchmark drives every match.

Match

Cognitive-First

Never on keywords, titles, or demographic signals. The pool surfaces by cognitive compatibility, not CV keywords.

Consent

Simultaneous Disclosure

Introductions require mutual consent. Identities are revealed at the same moment, to each party at once.

Fairer because the information is better

Designed to reduce bias. Not to replace judgment.

MindSync calibrates its conversations and scoring to Gulf communication styles, because fairness requires understanding how people express reasoning differently.

It is designed to reduce bias, not to eliminate it, and parts of that validation programme are ongoing. Better information, not generic policy, is what creates fairer decisions. Every intelligence output carries the same line: the hiring or development decision rests with the assessor.

The seven non-negotiables
Trust & governance

Seven principles that cannot be traded away.

01
The decision rests with the assessor
Every intelligence output is evidence. The hiring or development decision is always human.
02
The self-assessment is never shared
A Cognitive Self-Assessment belongs to the individual. No organisation can see it, ever.
03
No cross-organisation data transfer
An individual's data from one assessment does not transfer between organisations.
04
No demographic signals in PLURITY
Matching is cognitive-first. Demographic data is never a matching signal.
05
Simultaneous identity disclosure
In PLURITY, identities are revealed at the same moment to both parties, never before.
06
Raw bias codes are never shown
Bias and leadership codes are processed internally; they are never displayed to an assessor.
07
The individual can revoke and erase
Any share can be withdrawn. A full erasure request covers every organisation that has ever assessed that individual.
Assessment measures the performance. MindSync surfaces what cannot be performed.
Where performance ends, the truth begins

See capability, not credentials.

MindSync empowers decision-makers with evidence to act, decide and thrive.

The hiring or development decision rests with the assessor.