What is ACIS 3.0?
ACIS is a scientifically-grounded system that measures and develops your creativity over time: not just once during hiring, but continuously throughout your career.
The Science Behind ACIS
Most organisations assess creativity once during hiring, and never again. This assumes creativity is fixed, but decades of research prove otherwise. Studies involving over 60 peer-reviewed trials show that structured creativity training produces measurable improvements, with trained individuals performing better than 74% of untrained peers.
ACIS uses Ocsai, an AI-powered scoring system developed by researchers at the University of Denver, to assess your creative responses with the same accuracy as human experts. This enables consistent, unbiased measurement at scale.
The Five Dimensions of Creativity
Creativity isn't one thing. It's a combination of different skills that can each be measured and developed independently.
Divergent Thinking
Your ability to generate multiple, varied ideas when given an open-ended challenge. This includes fluency (how many ideas you can produce), originality (how unique your ideas are), and elaboration (how detailed your ideas become).
Practical Creativity
Your skill at finding novel solutions that actually work in the real world. This means balancing innovation with constraints like budget, time, and resources, turning creative ideas into workable plans.
Situational Judgement
Your ability to recognise the best creative approach for different workplace scenarios. This combines emotional intelligence with creative problem-solving to navigate complex situations.
Collaborative Creativity
How effectively you build on others' ideas, bring diverse perspectives together, and help your team reach creative breakthroughs. Great ideas rarely come from working alone.
Domain-Specific Innovation
Creative approaches differ by field: technical, scientific, artistic, or scholarly. This dimension measures how well you apply creative thinking within your specific area of expertise.
Your 24-Month Development Journey
ACIS combines regular assessment with personalised development to help you grow your creative capabilities over time.
Baseline Assessment
Complete a 60-minute assessment to establish your starting point across all five creativity dimensions.
Micro-Assessments
Brief 15-minute focused assessments that track your progress on one dimension at a time, rotating through all five.
Checkpoint Reviews
Full 60-minute assessments at months 6, 12, 18, and 24 to measure your comprehensive progress.
Personalised Development
AI-recommended activities, exercises, and interventions tailored to your unique creativity profile.
How ACIS Works
Assess Your Current State
Complete the AHA (ACIS Hiring Assessment) to establish your baseline creativity scores across all five dimensions. This 60-minute assessment gives you a detailed picture of your creative strengths and areas for growth.
Receive Personalised Recommendations
Based on your assessment results, ACIS recommends specific activities and exercises tailored to your profile. These draw from a library of 300+ evidence-based interventions proven to develop creative skills.
Track Your Progress
Monthly micro-assessments (just 15 minutes each) measure your improvement in one dimension at a time. Quarterly checkpoint assessments provide comprehensive progress reports and celebrate your growth.
Earn Recognition
As you develop your creativity, earn badges and climb leaderboards. Research shows that recognition and gamification significantly increase engagement and learning outcomes, making your development journey both rewarding and enjoyable.
ACIS methodology is based on peer-reviewed research including meta-analyses of 60+ creativity training studies. The Ocsai scoring algorithm achieves r = 0.78 correlation with human expert raters. For the full scientific foundation, please contact us for the ACIS CDP research paper.