For schools and youth organisations
Offer it to a whole year group, without deciding first who is neurodivergent.
Brightwire is built around traits — things every young person has — rather than diagnostic labels, which only some young people are ever given access to.
No diagnosis required, and none inferred
Access to diagnosis is shaped by waiting lists, bias, and family circumstances. Any support gated behind a label therefore excludes the young people most likely to benefit from it. Working at the level of traits removes the gate entirely.
- It can be offered to a class or year group at once, with no prior sorting.
- A young person without a diagnosis gets the same picture as one with it.
- Nothing in the portrait names, implies, or infers a condition.
- It cannot be used for selection, streaming, or grouping — and says so in the product.
A shared language for self-employment as a real, supported option
For young people
A portrait that belongs to them. It stays private by default, and nothing reaches an adult unless they choose to share it.
For schools and advisors
A non-diagnostic shared language for discussing self-employment credibly — and, when a young person chooses to share their portrait, a companion guide explaining what it means and how confidently it can be read.
For research and policy
Evidence on how neurodivergent traits relate to entrepreneurial activity at the trait level, and a working model of trait-based, strengths-first support.
An advisor is never left to improvise. When a young person chooses to share, the adult receives the same picture the young person has, translated into terms they can act on — and governed by the same rule: a teacher should not read anything about a student that the student could not safely read about themselves.
How it reaches your students
Three portals
An admin portal to manage cohorts, a portal for advisors and school staff, and the young person’s own portal — each showing only what that role should see.
Entry is by invitation only
Your team invites each young person by email. There is no public sign-up, and nobody can take the assessment by finding the website.
No direct identifiers in the research data
No names and no dates of birth sit alongside results — an age and an age band, and nothing more. The email address lives only where the sign-in code needs it.
Hosted in the EU
The whole platform runs in EU infrastructure, and students control access to their own results.
Where the project is
An initial pilot begins in secondary schools and youth organisations in the North East of England. The platform grew out of a year-long participatory research programme with young people, educators, career practitioners, and organisations supporting neurodiverse workers in the North East of England.
A technical annex covering the instruments, scoring, and generation pipeline is available under confidentiality agreement to schools considering adoption, commissioners, ethics committees, and data protection officers.