Neuroinclusive employer readiness

Every mind has untapped strengths. We help UK employers build workplaces that are genuinely ready.

We assess and certify whether your workplace is genuinely ready, and show you exactly how to improve.

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Assesses the workplace, never the individualHelps in neuroinclusive talent managementAccess to the Neuroinclusive MarketplaceIndependently certifiable StandardPatent pending

A diverse team collaborating in a modern workplace

1 in 7people are neurodivergent, and bring real strengths to a team

Limited time

Become a founding partner.

A short, non-binding letter of intent secures your place in the first cohort, at a founding-partner rate.

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The short version

Assess. Certify. Connect.

A demand-side Standard that measures whether your workplace is genuinely ready, certifies it independently, and connects you onward. It assesses the workplace, never the individual.

Assess readiness

Attune™ scores whether your workplace can genuinely hire and keep neurodivergent talent.

Certify the standard

Evidence-based and AI-assisted, we certify your readiness tier and set a prioritised roadmap.

Connect and improve

We connect certified employers to vetted providers and talent, and advocate for wider social impact.

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Why now

The talent is already there. The hiring process just can’t see it.

Most employers aren’t unwilling, they’re unequipped. Attune gives you a credible, measurable way to change that, and to prove it.

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34%

of people with autism are in work, against 82% of non-disabled adults

DWP, 2024/25

£14.5bn

lost to the UK economy each year through the autism employment gap

Buckland Review, 2024

Asmara Nomani, Founder and Chief Executive

Meet the founder

“The talent was never the problem. The process was, so I built the fix.”

Asmara Nomani

Founder & Chief Executive, Mettlebridge™

24-plus years in global talent and organisational transformation across the Coca-Cola system, ADNOC, Standard Chartered and USAID. A recognised Top 100 Powerful Global DEI Leader, 2024.

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Be first to certify.

Founding-partner pilots are open for a limited time. Send a short, non-binding letter of intent.

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The opportunity

A willing, capable talent pool the market keeps overlooking.

The evidence is unambiguous: the talent exists and wants to work. What is missing is employer readiness.

34%

of people with autism are in work, against 82% of non-disabled adults

DWP, 2024/25

3 in 4

unemployed autistic people want to work; the barrier is the workplace, not the person

National Autistic Society

£14.5bn

lost to the UK economy each year through the autism employment gap

Buckland Review of Autism Employment, 2024

1 in 7

UK adults, around 10 million people, are estimated to be neurodivergent

City & Guilds / ONS

The real problem

Most employers aren’t unwilling, they’re unequipped.

The market is full of services that prepare candidates. Almost no one prepares the employer, yet that is where hires succeed or fail. Managers are untrained, processes screen out capability, and support falls away right when it is needed.

The blind spot is after onboarding

Our employer research found the hardest part is not hiring, it is progression and retention.

A willing, capable pool

Around three-quarters of unemployed autistic people want to work. The barrier is the workplace.

A cost to everyone

An employment gap measured in billions a year, and capable people kept out of good work.

A prize worth winning

Neurodivergent talent brings real, measurable strengths to the right, ready environment.

Why now

The demand is rising, and it is a productivity story.

This is not only a social responsibility. Ready employers unlock measurable productivity, retention and brand value, against a projected global shortfall of 85 million skilled workers by 2030 (Korn Ferry). The pressure to act is building on every side.

£14.5bn

Lost every year

The annual loss to the UK economy from the autism employment gap alone.

£712m

Access to Work by 2030

The forecast public spend on Access to Work support, a signal of how fast this agenda is growing.

£1.2bn → £2.6bn

Cost against benefit

A UK employment-support programme is estimated to cost £1.2bn over 2025/26 to 2029/30, for expected benefits of £2.6bn.

1 in 7

And rising

Around 1 in 7 UK adults are neurodivergent, with identification, disclosure and employer scrutiny all climbing.

Sources: Buckland Review of Autism Employment, 2024; DWP Access to Work forecasts; UK employment-support programme impact assessments; City & Guilds / ONS.

This is a gap you can close, and prove.

Start with a short, non-binding letter of intent.

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How it works

One connected flywheel, each turn makes the next stronger.

We assess the employer, certify genuine readiness, and connect onward. The model compounds with every assessment.

Assess readiness

Attune™, our readiness Standard, scores and certifies whether a workplace can genuinely hire and keep neurodivergent talent. It assesses the workplace, never the individual.

Certify the standard

Evidence-based and AI-assisted, we certify the employer’s readiness tier and set a prioritised roadmap to improve, grounded in the organisation’s own evidence.

Connect and improve

We connect certified employers to vetted providers and talent through the Neuroinclusive Marketplace, and advocate for wider social impact as the Standard spreads.

The flywheel

One connected flywheel. Click each turn.

Each turn makes the next stronger. Explore the six stages.

Assess & certify

Attune scores genuine readiness and certifies a tier. The demand-side front door.

1 · Assess & certify

Attune™ scores genuine readiness and certifies a tier.

2 · Readiness gate

Certification begins only where the workplace has genuinely changed.

3 · Act on the roadmap

The employer acts on a prioritised set of improvements.

4 · Connect to support

The Marketplace connects to vetted coaching, training and recruitment.

5 · Outcomes improve

Readiness, retention and progression improve, measured over time.

6 · Data compounds

Every assessment sharpens the Standard, a compounding advantage.

Mettlebridge is the demand-side front door: we assess and certify the employer, then connect onward. We never recruit, place or deliver.

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See where your workplace sits today.

A short letter of intent starts the conversation.

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Our hero product · core IP

Attune™, the Enabling Employer Readiness Standard.

A proprietary, scored instrument that measures and certifies whether an organisation can genuinely hire, enable and retain neurodivergent talent. It assesses the workplace, never the individual, and is the subject of a filed UK patent application.

Attract & Select

Reaching and fairly selecting neurodivergent talent

Role & Environment

Designing roles and spaces where people do their best work

Manager & Team

Equipping managers and teams to enable, not just accommodate

Retain & Progress

Keeping and progressing talent across the lifecycle

What sets the Standard apart

Demand-side. It assesses the employer, not the individual.
Evidence-weighted. Every input is graded by how reliable its source is.
Confidence-rated. Each score carries a computed confidence, so you know how far to trust it.
Contradiction-aware. It surfaces the gap between what is said and what is evidenced.
Early-warning. Leading indicators flag drift before it becomes attrition.
Independently accreditable. Built on an ISO/IEC 17065 pathway; AI-assisted, with predictive analytics as the Standard matures.

Attune™ readiness profile · live prototype

The Attune readiness dashboard, shown blurred to protect the underlying method

Readiness gradient

Evidence confidence

Say-do contradiction flags

Early-warning layer

Shown from the working prototype, blurred to protect the underlying method.

What makes it unique

Five capabilities. One combination no competitor offers.

Plenty of tools score employers. What no one else brings together is this disciplined combination, and it is deliberately hard to replicate.

Evidence-weighted

What an employer does outranks what it says.

Say-do gap, computed

The distance between stated intent and lived reality, measured.

Forward-looking early-warning

Signals that flag drift before it becomes attrition.

An outcome loop

The Standard grows more predictive the more it is used.

Independent certification

On an ISO/IEC 17065 accreditation pathway.

No single element is unprecedented. The combination is. That, plus a dataset no competitor holds, is the moat.

Rigorously developed, and independently validated

Not a questionnaire. A technical evidence-intelligence Standard.

Two decades codified

Built on the founder’s 20-plus years leading global talent and organisational development.

Working prototype

A functioning prototype demonstrates the full assessment, scoring and certification flow.

Independent review

A staged validation programme with occupational psychologists and design-partner employers.

Patent pending

A UK patent application has been filed for the underlying technical architecture.

See Attune applied to your organisation.

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For employers

Talent you’re missing. Readiness you can prove. Risk you can see and reduce.

Built for organisations that want to hire well from a wider talent pool, without a large in-house DEI function, and without carrying the uncertainty alone.

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Proven, productive, and ready

The right environment turns a wider talent pool into measurable performance.

Talent you’re missing

Capable people your current process silently screens out, and the specific practices that stop it.

Readiness you can prove

The Standard measures retention and progression, along with hiring, so you can prove genuine change over time.

Risk you can see and reduce

Independent, evidence-based certification replaces guesswork with a defensible, measured position.

Where it matters most

The talent war is on, and your competitors are already building for it.

Technology

High neurodivergent representation; receptive to evidence-led tools.

Finance

Large, complex workforces; mature DEI and ESG pressure.

Professional services

Talent-scarce, reputation-sensitive, budget ownership clear.

Pharma & public sector

Values-driven, with live procurement for neuroinclusion.

Questions

Straight answers to the real hesitations.

Isn’t assessing this way a legal or data risk?

No. Attune assesses the workplace, never the individual, and uses aggregated, anonymised data. It is designed to be data-protection-compliant by design, removing the special-category-data risk that stops many people-analytics tools.

What does certification actually involve?

A structured assessment of your organisation’s own evidence across four domains, producing a readiness tier, a confidence rating, and a prioritised roadmap. Evidence-based and AI-assisted, built on an ISO/IEC 17065 pathway.

Do we need a big DEI team to do this?

No. Attune gives organisations without a large in-house DEI function a credible, guided way to become genuinely ready, and to prove it.

What does it cost us?

A core readiness assessment priced by organisation size, with certification and recurring elements on top. Founding-partner pilots are available at a founding-partner rate for the first cohort. Register your interest to find out more.

Find out how ready you really are.

A short, non-binding letter of intent.

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Where certification leads

The Neuroinclusive Marketplace.

Certification is the beginning, not the end. As the network of certified employers grows, it opens into a trusted marketplace that connects employers, specialist providers and neurodivergent talent.

We connect; we never recruit, place or deliver.

A connected ecosystem

Assess, certify, then connect onward to the people who can help.

What it means for you

One marketplace, three kinds of value.

Act with confidence

Move from your roadmap to real improvement with specialists already vetted against the Standard.

No new procurement maze

Trusted, pre-qualified providers in one place, rather than a cold market search.

Proof you can show

A certified position, plus the support to keep improving it over time.

Warm, qualified demand

Reach employers who have already proven genuine commitment, not cold leads.

Supply, not competition

Adjacent providers become part of a growing network rather than rivals for the same work.

A credible shop window

Vetting against an independent Standard raises the whole field, and your standing in it.

A measurable mechanism

The marketplace turns a social goal into measurable action, employers to support to outcomes.

Channels committed employers

It directs organisations that want to do better towards the services and programmes that help.

Structured, not scattered

A clear pathway from a certified employer to the right support to a person in sustained work.

Our role

We strengthen the system, we don’t compete with it.

Attune certifies the employer, then connects onward to the specialists who do the delivery we deliberately do not do. Providers, charities and programmes become supply to a growing network, not competitors.

A business advantage, and a social one

For business: a wider talent pool, measurable retention, and a defensible, certified position. For society: committed employers turned into real pathways to good, sustained work.

Be part of the network from the start.

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Founding partners

Help shape it, and be first to certify.

We are selecting a small number of founding-partner employers whose early input shapes the Standard, and whose interest helps demonstrate that this is a need the market wants solved.

Shape the Standard

Your real-world input directly influences how the Standard works.

First to be certified

Early design partners are first to earn and display the Standard.

Founding-partner recognition

Recognised publicly as a founding partner when we launch.

We do the heavy lifting

A light, guided process designed around your time, not ours.

Become a founding partner →

A brief, non-binding letter of intent. No cost, no obligation, just a signal of interest in a pilot.

Where certification leads

And it opens into the Neuroinclusive Marketplace.

Certified employers gain access to a trusted network of vetted providers and talent. We connect; we never recruit, place or deliver.

Explore the Marketplace →

Our impact

A business advantage, and a social one.

Value for business: a wider talent pool, measurable retention, and a defensible, certified position on inclusion.

Value for society: the Marketplace turns committed, certified employers into real pathways to good, sustained work for neurodivergent people.

We strengthen the system, we don’t compete with it.

Adjacent providers, charities and programmes become supply to a growing network, not competitors. Attune certifies the employer, then connects onward to the specialists who do the delivery we deliberately do not do.

Join the founding cohort.

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About the founder

Built by someone who has run these systems at global scale.

Attune was not deduced from theory. Its architecture was mapped backward from where neuroinclusion demonstrably breaks, observed across more than two decades of senior, employer-side practice. The founder expertise that produced the Standard is the asset a competitor cannot buy cheaply.

Asmara Nomani

Founder & Chief Executive, Mettlebridge™

“The talent was never the problem. The process was, so I built the fix.”

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A senior global people leader

Asmara Nomani is a senior global talent and organisational-transformation executive with more than twenty-four years of experience across over twenty markets, including regional HR leadership within the Coca-Cola system and roles across ADNOC, Standard Chartered and USAID, alongside her own advisory firm.

Hogan-certified, with advanced psychology training from Oxford
ICF executive-coaching credential and PMP project-management certification
Recognised as a Top 100 Powerful Global DEI Leader, 2024

Grounded in real practice

The readiness dimensions map to failures the founder has seen and fixed inside large employers, which is why they are measurable on the employer side, not abstract.

Psychometrically literate

Hogan certification and Oxford psychology training underpin the evidence weighting and the separation of magnitude from confidence.

The demand side, from the inside

The founder knows how employers buy, what they will evidence, and where willingness to pay sits, because she has been the buyer.

Beyond the product

A forthcoming book

Asmara is writing on neurodiversity and the future of work in the age of artificial intelligence. The book is a separate personal project, independent of the Attune product.

Talk to the founder.

Send a short letter of intent to start the conversation.

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Letter of intent · about a minute

Let’s talk about your workplace, and how ready it really is.

Pick the letter that best reflects what matters to you, add your details, and send. There is nothing to write. It is non-binding, it costs nothing, and it secures your place in the first founding-partner cohort.

Founding-partner rate for the first cohort
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