Our vision
Imagine a world in which the talents of every single person are recognised and put to their best use.
That is what we work on, with flynne, the operating system for assessments. Nationality, age, gender or a CV with gaps should disqualify nobody. What counts is potential, and it only becomes visible in procedures that are worth something.
From the operation, not from the lab.
flynne comes out of two decades of running selection procedures in a large group: thousands of assessment days and tens of thousands of candidates, planned, run and documented.
Every feature has a reason
Disruption management, the qualification matrix, internal cost allocation, supervision ratios: none of it came off a whiteboard. Every feature exists because it was missing in a real selection operation. That knowledge now sits in flynne.
The highest standards
Structured procedures in the sense of DIN 33430, AGG-proof documentation, a co-determination process actually completed, GDPR deletion concepts as standard. flynne is built for the German-speaking market, not translated for it.
Where the name comes from
Named after James R. Flynn.
Flynn (1934–2020) was a political scientist at the University of Otago in New Zealand who became famous in a field that was not his own. He compared IQ data across decades and found that scores rise from one generation to the next — so markedly that a result from 1950 and one from 1990 do not mean the same thing, even though the same number sits underneath. The finding carries his name today: the Flynn effect.
His point was uncomfortable and simple at once: a test result is worth no more than the conditions it was produced under. Anyone who wants to compare people has to make the conditions comparable first — the same tasks, the same time, the same observation, properly documented.
That is exactly our work. flynne measures nothing and judges no one. flynne creates the frame in which human judgement holds up.
Our product carrying his name is our nod to that stance — there is no connection to him or to his estate.
What drives us
What we stand for
Why we do this
Working life is changing fast, through new technology but also through changed attitudes and ways of working. What counts is the ability to learn, to collaborate, and potential.
Structured assessments make that visible, but only when they are run properly: with the right people, at the right time, cleanly documented. That is exactly where we come in.
Our mission
To work against the skills shortage and help organisations find the best talent, with selection procedures that are fair, well founded and traceable.
flynne makes sure people can concentrate on people rather than on organisation. The platform takes over appointments, resources, deadlines and disruptions. The judgement stays with those who have been trained for it.
Our commitment
We want to make undiscovered talent visible: to open up opportunities for people with potential, to help shape careers and to help organisations recognise that potential.
That conviction is stronger today than when we started, and we feel bound to align what we do with it.
Four disciplines, one project team
Aptitude diagnostics & recruiting
People who have run selection procedures themselves and know where they fail.
Software engineering
The platform is built in house. Whoever builds it sits in the same project as you.
Data science
Figures, forecasts and pattern recognition for the operation, not for judging people.
Project management & support
Implementation, interfaces, training and day-to-day operations, with named contacts.
Built for the German-speaking market and the world.
Much of flynne is not a feature but a matter of where it comes from: built for German selection practice, with its rules and its committees.
Co-determination, actually completed
flynne has many full works council processes in large groups behind it. We bring the reasoning and the documentation for your committee rather than leaving you alone with it.
What the works council asksData in the EU, contract in Germany
Hosting in Germany, with a German contracting party.
EU AI Act: a position, not a retrofit
flynne deliberately contains no AI that judges people, while AI screening elsewhere triggers high-risk obligations for which you are liable as the deployer.
Why our AI does not judgeGerman legal standards as product logic
Standardised procedures in the sense of DIN 33430, evidence for merit-based selection under Article 33 of the constitution, and procurement readiness as standard.
DIN 33430 day to dayDepth in aptitude diagnostics
The qualification matrix, supervision ratios, report deadlines, internal cost allocation: flynne speaks the language of German assessment teams, not that of interview tools.
Support, short paths
You get the product and the documentation in German, English, Spanish and French. Support is available in your time zone. We also offer individual data processing agreements and bring experience with German public procurement terms.
ISO 9001:2015
Quality management
ISO 27001:2022
Information security
Research the product has learned from
Brandmonks has worked on the AI future of HR with these universities and institutes. Results we test against one question: does it help to organise procedures, or would it judge people? Only the former goes into flynne.
DFKI
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
FZI
FZI Research Center for Information Technology, Karlsruhe
Hochschule RheinMain
Wiesbaden / Rüsselsheim
Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg
Sankt Augustin
Hochschule Trier
Trier
PFH
Private University of Applied Sciences, Göttingen
MemberAll logos and names are trade marks of the respective institutions and are used to indicate the collaboration.
News & press
Articles on AI in recruiting, the skills shortage and digitalisation, published in Digital Business Cloud, IT-Finanzmagazin, BigData-Insider, IT-Zoom and Silicon.de.
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