How People Are Wired to Work
Acumax Index shows you how someone processes information, communicates, makes decisions, and solves problems, before you hire them, and once they are on your team.
Most hiring goes wrong for the same reason. The resume was right, the interview went well, and six months later the person is struggling in a role that does not fit how they actually work.
Acumax measures the wiring underneath that. Not personality, not mood, not how someone is feeling this quarter. The way they are built to process work.
What it measures
Acumax reports two things, and the gap between them is often the most useful part.
Natural Self
Natural Self is innate wiring, formed in the first eighteen to twenty-four months of life. It does not change. It tells you the environment where someone will do their best work.
Adjusted Self
Adjusted Self reflects how someone has been operating for the last ninety to a hundred and twenty days. It moves.
When the two are close, a person is working in a way that fits them. When they are far apart, they are pushing against their own wiring to meet what the job demands, and that is what burnout looks like before anyone calls it burnout.
What it is not
It is not a personality test. It is not a mood or engagement survey. It is not a measure of intelligence, skill, or work ethic, and it does not tell you whether someone is good at their job.
It tells you how they are built to work. What you do with that is a management decision, and we help you make it.
The two products
Acumax Essential
For deciding who to hire. A candidate completes the assessment in about five minutes, and you see their wiring before you make the offer.
Use it to confirm a candidate fits how the role actually works, to compare finalists on something other than interview performance, to build interview questions around what the assessment surfaced, and to onboard someone in the way they will absorb fastest.
Acumax Pro
Everything in Essential, plus your existing team.
Pro maps how everyone on a team is wired and shows you the dynamics that follow from it: why two strong people keep colliding, why a team is slow to decide, where the communication actually breaks. It includes Acumax's AI layer for interpreting team patterns.
Use it when a team is underperforming without an obvious cause, when you are restructuring, when you are deciding who to promote into leadership, or when a manager and a direct report are not working.
Why get it through us
You can buy an assessment from anyone. What you cannot buy from a software vendor is someone who knows what to do with the result.
We interpret it, not just deliver it
A wiring report is data. Knowing that a candidate's profile means they will need written follow-up after every verbal instruction, and telling their future manager that in week one, is the part that changes the outcome.
It feeds the work we already do for you
If we run your executive search, the shortlist comes with wiring data and we tell you what it means for fit. If we are your fractional HR team, it informs how we coach your supervisors and how we structure your teams. If we are building your performance review system, it shapes how managers are taught to give feedback to different people.
We sit on your side of it
We are not here to sell you more assessments. If the result says do not hire this person, we say that.
One invoice
It comes on your Newland invoice with everything else.
How this is different from Valitron
We offer two tools in hiring and they do different jobs.
Valitron is an AI interviewer. It runs a structured, conversational interview on the candidate's own time and gives you a scored shortlist. It tells you what a candidate knows, how they reason, and how they communicate under questioning. It replaces the first-round screen.
Acumax tells you how they are wired. Not what they know, how they are built to process work. It takes five minutes and it does not replace anything; it informs how you interview, how you onboard, and how you manage.
Use Valitron when you have volume and need to screen. Use Acumax when you have finalists and need to pick. Use both when the hire really matters: Valitron narrows the field, Acumax tells you who will thrive in the role once they are in it.
Where it fits with our other work
Executive search
Wiring data on finalists, and a fit read before you make the offer.
Fractional HR
Team mapping, manager coaching, and structuring teams around how people actually work.
Leadership development
A starting point for coaching that is specific to the person rather than generic.
Succession planning
Understanding whether someone is wired for the role you are planning to move them into.
Who this is for
Employers hiring, restructuring, or trying to understand why a team is not working
Where we work
Nationwide
How it's priced
Request a quote, on your Newland invoice. Request a quote