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Acuity Insights is the leading provider of admissions assessment, program management, and analytics solutions for higher education. Acuity’s solutions help post-secondary institutions deliver on their mission holistically, considering the whole student, widening pathways into higher education, and ensuring both student and program success. We are holistic success advocates – we believe in the power of education, and support the movement towards a more inclusive, equitable approach to admissions for universities and colleges. Our Reach: • Trusted by over 600 higher education programs across the globe, from medical schools, teacher’s education programs, business education, and beyond. • Our Casper situational judgment test (SJT)—the foremost open-response SJT in higher education—is taken by over 150,000 applicants annually. • The Casper test is backed by nearly 20 years of research and evidence. 280,000+ learners access our platforms annually. Distinctions: • Featured on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 list (2021 & 2022). • Recognized as one of Canada's top-growing companies by The Globe and Mail Report on Business for five consecutive years (2019-2023). For a deep dive into how we're shaping the future of higher education, please visit acuityinsights.com.

Our Mission: Capture and apply human and world knowledge to support the important missions of our customers, when and where they need it. We developed “A new kind of AI” (REPS) addressing the challenges of DARPA’s Third Wave AI initiative. REPS (“Real-time Experience-based Prediction/Prescription Simulator”) provides true explainable AI for condition-based prediction and prescription in real-time. We developed SIRA to extract machine actionable information form natural language text as accurately and fast as possible. We wanted to capture not only "what a text was talking about", but "what the text was saying about it", not just “sentiment” but “who, what, when, where and why it is happening”. We wanted to enable true “Natural Language Understanding” (NLU).

Intentional Design Inc. is a privately-held company headquartered in Silicon Valley, south of San Francisco. Our core competencies are organizational design and development and strategic change management. While evolving in form, our practice has been in continuous operation for more than 21 years. We integrate practical business methods with compassion and concern for the people who devote their lives to their jobs, their companies and their customers. We commonly work on projects throughout North America. We have also undertaken extensive organizational development and change management assignments in Africa and across Europe.