Aptrova measures personality, motivation and aptitude — then matches people to the roles they'll actually thrive in. Normed for Africa, engineered for how work really gets done here.
Every scientific component is public-domain or built in-house. Three assessment modules, each anchored in a framework with decades of cross-cultural evidence — then adapted for the African context rather than imported wholesale.
The most replicated framework in organisational psychology. Items drawn from the public-domain IPIP pool and reviewed for African linguistic context — never from any commercial instrument.
What actually drives engagement and retention — autonomy, mastery, relatedness and more. Original, in-house items written from the theory's constructs, not copied from any published scale.
Verbal, numerical and abstract reasoning delivered adaptively with Item Response Theory — written for contextual neutrality, and roughly 30% shorter without losing precision.
Scored against a European norm group, a Nigerian manager gets percentiles that misrepresent her standing. Priced for European budgets and built desktop-first, those tools exclude most of the market. Aptrova is engineered against all three failures.
Building the first commercially deployed African professional norm base — the strategic asset no later entrant can shortcut. Every assessment makes matching more accurate.
Progress saves locally and syncs when connectivity returns. The whole assessment fits in a data budget under 5MB, on a mid-range Android phone.
No fields for ethnicity, religion, or health status — they don't exist in the product. Anti-discrimination safeguards and consent are designed in, not bolted on.
A 25–35 minute assessment on any Android phone — personality, motivation and aptitude — that resumes cleanly if the connection drops.
A deterministic, auditable engine scores each candidate against the specific role's archetype — minimum and optimal bands per dimension, weighted.
The employer gets a ranked shortlist with plain-language insight. Every candidate keeps a professional report — an asset, not just a hurdle.
Our founding panel of senior HR practitioners is now reviewing every assessment item for relevance, clarity and fairness in African workplaces. Every score is documented — the review itself is part of the science.
You'll need the name and reviewer slot we assigned to you. Your scores stay on your device until you export them.
Open the review portalConfidential — for confirmed founding panellists only. Questions? hello@aptrova.com
Thank you for lending your judgement to Aptrova's founding item bank. Your scores decide which items proceed to build — this is the layer imported tests have never had.
Each card shows one draft assessment item, the module it belongs to (PERSONA = personality · DRIVE = motivation · APTITUDE = cognitive ability), and the specific construct it is meant to measure — with a plain-language definition of that construct shown directly under the tags. Judge every item against its own construct definition, not against your general impression.
Five reviewers score every item independently. An item passes when at least four of five reviewers rate it 3+ on both relevance and clarity with no bias flags; items short of that are revised or retired, and any bias flag sends the item to panel discussion. Your answers save on this device as you go — review in as many sittings as you like — and when you finish, tap Submit my scores.