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Custom reports

Your framework. Your language. Your platform.

Most assessment reports speak the publisher's language. Yours should speak your competency language. Bring us your framework. We map it to the assessments already on Podium, build a report engine that writes the way your organisation talks about people, and switch it on inside your own platform.

Typically live within three to four weeks. You pay for the credits. Above 5,000 credits, the build is on us.

Personality questionnaireExpert report · page 4 of 19
Primary scale profile
ScaleLow1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10HighSten
Factor AReservedOutgoing7
Factor EDeferentialDominant9
Factor FSeriousLively6
Factor GExpedientRule conscious3
Factor MPracticalAbstract7
Factor Q1TraditionalOpen to change8
Factor Q3Tolerates disorderPerfectionistic4

The respondent's sten 9 on Factor E suggests a forceful, assertive interpersonal style, which, combined with a sten 3 on Factor G, may indicate a preference for expedient over rule governed approaches. Readers should consider these results alongside the second order factors on page 7...

Normed against the general populationInterpretation requires a qualified test user
A standard publisher report. Accurate, normed, and a translation job for every hiring manager who reads it.
Northwind Medical · Feedback report · ProfessionalSample candidate · Regional Sales Lead
Your profile at a glance

One page with the whole picture. The five competencies are the ones Northwind uses for commercial roles, read against a large working population.

The five competencies, against the working population
Commercial acumen7.8more than most
Building trusted relationships7.2more than most
Leading change6.1in line with most
Analytical thinking5.4in line with most
Delivery under pressure4.3less than most
Commercial acumen7.8A clear strength
Spotting and advancing the opportunities that matter.

You tend to spot an opening early and move on it, and to keep pushing until it closes. Energy and initiative are likely to be visible in how you sell.

Evidence: PQ10 Drive 9 · Power 8 · GCAT numerical 6
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Your report. Same candidate, same scores, written in your competency language, with the evidence behind each one.

Illustrative. "Northwind Medical" is a fictional organisation; competency names, bands, colours and page structure are yours to define.

What changed

Bespoke used to be an enterprise luxury

A custom report meant a large publisher, a six figure budget and months of lead time, so only the largest organisations ever had one. Three things have changed, and together they put a truly bespoke report within reach of a 500 person company.

The psychology

Mapping and narrative were always the hard part

Knowing which scales measure "commercial acumen" in your context, and writing narrative that holds up in front of a candidate, a hiring panel or a works council. That is psychologist's work, and it is what we do.

The engineering

We build modular engines, not one off documents

Scoring logic, bands and narrative blocks are built as components. Your report is assembled from them and tuned to your framework, so the build takes weeks rather than quarters, without the cost of starting from nothing.

The platform

Deployment used to be the barrier. It is now days.

Our engines deploy directly into the Podium platform. Your report appears inside your own environment, linked to the assessments, visible only to you, and your team runs it with the credits they would buy anyway.

How it works

From your framework to a live report

STEP 1

Bring your framework

A competency model, a leadership framework, a set of values, or just the question you keep asking about people. Any shape is fine.

STEP 2

Mapping session

We map each element to the scales that measure it, across GCAT, PQ10, the Resilience Profile, Derailers, 15FQ+ and the rest of the catalogue, and tell you plainly what cannot be measured.

STEP 3

We build the engine

Scoring logic, bands and narrative in your language. Deterministic, every line written by a psychologist, with the evidence behind each statement.

STEP 4

Validate on a pilot group

A small group runs the assessment. You read the reports and tell us where the language lands and where it does not. We adjust.

STEP 5

Live on your platform

Switched on in your Podium environment, linked to the assessments, for your organisation only. Your certified team runs it from day one.

Typically three to four weeks from receiving your framework to the report being live. The platform step takes days; the time goes into the mapping, the writing and the validation.

What a custom report contains

Built from the pages your people actually read

Every custom report is assembled from proven page types and tuned to your framework. A typical feedback report runs to twelve or thirteen pages. These are the ones clients ask for most.

Profile at a glance

Your competencies scored against the working population, with the agility grid beneath. One page, the whole picture.

Your competencies

One card per competency: the score, a plain verdict, your definition in your words, and narrative that explains how it shows up.

What drives you

Motivation read separately from capability: what makes the effort feel worth it, and what will land flat.

Agility profile

How readily the person learns and grows, across thinking, people and self. Optional, and the most requested add-on.

When the pressure is on

Which strengths tip over under sustained stress, kept separate from the competency scores and never used as a verdict.

What happens next

Four things to do with the report, a reflection prompt and, for selection, the interview questions the profile raises.

Selection reports add a readiness read, a pre-interview brief and a 90-day onboarding plan. Development reports add the agility toolkit and a personal plan.

The mapping

Your words, their evidence

Every competency in your framework is backed by specific scales from validated instruments, and the report shows that chain. A hiring manager reads "Leading change: Solid" and can see exactly which measures produced it.

Where a competency cannot be measured psychometrically, say domain knowledge or a technical certification, we say so and leave it to the interview, rather than inventing a score. That honesty is what makes the report defensible.

Hover a competency to see what feeds it.

Commercial acumen Analytical thinking Customer focus Leading change Delivery under pressure Numerical reasoningGCAT Abstract reasoningGCAT DrivePQ10 InquisitivenessPQ10 CompassionPQ10 PersistenceRESILIENCE PROFILE

Illustrative mapping. Your framework, your weightings, your bands.

Ownership and architecture

Clear lines, stated up front

Buyers ask three questions before they commit to a custom report. Here are the answers, in writing.

What you own

  • Your framework. The competency model, values or leadership model you bring stays yours.
  • Your data. All assessment data is yours as controller; it lives on the Podium platform, ISO 27001 certified.
  • Your report, exclusively. Only your organisation can access it. It is never offered to anyone else.

What stays with the Studio

  • The engine and algorithm, licensed to you for as long as you use it.
  • The narrative library, written by psychologists and tuned to your language.
  • The method, which is why we can build the next one in weeks too.

How it is built

  • Deterministic. Same input, same output, every time. Every statement traces to its source.
  • Human authored. No generative AI scores a person or writes their report. AI speeds up our build; it never touches a candidate's result.
  • Ready for scrutiny. Built for EU AI Act and GDPR Article 22 contexts, where reports support hiring decisions.

The build is modest. At volume, it is on us.

Assessment usage on Podium is credit based, so the real cost of your programme is the credits your team uses, and those you would buy anyway. Order 5,000 credits or more and the report build is included. Below that, a modest build fee applies.

We quote after a short scoping call, once we have seen your framework.

5,000 creditsbuild fee waived
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Who this is for

Two kinds of organisation, one engine

HR and talent teams with a framework they actually use

You have a competency model your managers know, you run assessments in house or want to, and you are tired of reports that need translating. Your report arrives in your language, in your platform, for your team to run.

How the in-house path works →

Consultancies and search firms who want their own product

Your method, your brand, our engine behind it. We built the Agility Quotient platform this way for Hydrogen Group and Argyll Scott, and it is live in market today.

Read the Hydrogen case study →

Questions

The ones we get asked first

Can you build a report around our own competency framework?

Yes. You bring your competency model, leadership framework or values. We map each element to the scales that measure it, build a report engine that writes in your language, and deploy it inside your own Podium environment. Where something cannot be measured psychometrically, we say so rather than pretend.

How long does it take?

Typically three to four weeks from receiving your framework to the report being live. The platform step takes days; the time goes into mapping, writing the narrative and validating it on a pilot group.

What does it cost?

Usage is credit based. With an order of 5,000 credits or more the build is on us. Below that a modest build fee applies. We quote after a short scoping call.

Who owns the report?

You own your framework and all your assessment data. The engine, algorithm and narrative library are the Studio's and are licensed to you. Only your organisation can access your report.

Is AI writing these reports?

No. Scoring is deterministic and every narrative line is authored by occupational psychologists. AI tools speed up our build process; they never score a person or write their report. That matters when reports support hiring decisions under the EU AI Act.

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