Frequently Answer Questions
FAQ
General Overview & Platform Mission
What is Supsindex and what does it measure?
Supsindex is an assessment framework designed to measure the “soft power” or human capabilities of founders. It evaluates cognitive understanding, behavioral judgment, and ecosystem awareness to provide data-driven insights that help prevent startup failures.
Why does the entrepreneurial ecosystem need indices?
Without standardized indices, founder evaluation relies heavily on intuition, subjective methods, and gut feelings. Indices transform complex human factors into objective, comparable data, helping to reduce the massive venture capital churn caused directly by founder-related decisions.
What exactly is "founder soft power"?
In the context of Supsindex, “soft power” refers to the non-technical capabilities that materially influence entrepreneurial outcomes. This includes a founder’s cognitive understanding of market mechanics, behavioral judgment under pressure, and their fit with their specific operating ecosystem.
The Core Assessments (FPA, GEB, EEA)
What is the Founder Public Awareness (FPA) index?
The FPA measures a founder’s cognitive readiness and entrepreneurial literacy. It evaluates your ability to distinguish meaningful business signals from noise and dynamically adapts questions based on your specific startup’s stage and industry.
What does the General Entrepreneurial Behavior (GEB) index assess?
The GEB evaluates how founders think and act under real entrepreneurial pressure. It measures decision-making quality, resilience, ethical judgment, adaptability, and susceptibility to cognitive biases using situational judgment scenarios.
Who should take the Ecosystem Environmental Awareness (EEA) assessment?
The EEA is ideal for founders entering a new market, immigrant entrepreneurs applying for startup visas, and investors conducting due diligence on cross-border teams. It quantifies familiarity and strategic fit with target geographies and local market dynamics.
How does the scoring methodology differ from traditional quizzes?
Supsindex uses advanced psychometric models rather than simple right-or-wrong counting. It employs Item Response Theory (IRT) for ability-weighted scoring, Signal Detection Theory to measure judgment, and Thurstonian modeling to recover latent decision preferences without forcing artificial trade-offs.
Test Preparation & Proctoring Rules
What are the technical requirements to take an assessment?
You need a laptop or desktop computer with a stable internet connection with no disconnections lasting longer than 30 seconds. Your webcam and microphone must remain active, and you must use full-screen mode on a single monitor. Virtual machines, VPN connections, and secondary devices like phones or smartwatches are strictly prohibited.
What does the proctoring system monitor during a test?
A combination of AI and selective human review monitors for prolonged looking away from the screen, switching tabs or minimizing the window, additional people entering the frame, significant background noise, and unusual typing or mouse movements.
What happens if I violate the proctoring rules?
If a violation is detected, your test will be immediately canceled and you will not be eligible for a refund. Additionally, your account will be permanently flagged as a “Rule Breaker,” which may restrict your ability to take future assessments or participate in the SupsHub community.
Can I take a break during the assessment?
Yes, you are permitted one emergency pause during the test for a short break. Clicking the “Pause for Emergency” button starts a 300-second timer, which can only be used once and cannot exceed 5 minutes
Scoring, Reports & Certification
How are Supsindex assessment scores categorized?
Scores are benchmarked against peers in your specific industry, stage, and ecosystem, and placed into one of four quartiles. Q1 (Top 25%) is considered “Investable Grade,” Q2 is “High Potential,” Q3 is “Developing,” and Q4 indicates foundational risk areas.
What is the difference between a Test Report and a Partner Report?
An Individual Test Explanatory Report is a personalized document belonging to the founder that details their performance profile and growth areas. Partner Reports are accessed via the Partner Dashboard and provide organizations with aggregated cohort trends or macro-level intelligence, usually unlocked when founders share their results via affiliation codes.
How do I earn a Supsindex Certificate?
Certificates are not given out automatically; they are earned. To receive a certificate, you must achieve distinction-tier performance, meaning you answer more than 75% of the assessment correctly to reach the top quartile (Q1).
Do Supsindex Certificates expire?
Yes, our certificates utilize “Dynamic Validity”. GEB certificates are valid for 5 years because behavioral traits are relatively stable. FPA and EEA certificates expire based on your industry’s growth pace: 2 years for rapid growth (e.g., AI), 3 years for normal growth, and 5 years for slow growth industries.
Scoring, Reports & Certification
How much do the assessments cost?
The FPA and GEB assessments cost €59 each (excluding VAT), while the EEA assessment costs €49 (excluding VAT). A Premium Package bundling all three is available for €130. Payment is only required when you decide to unlock your test report.
Is there a way to take the FPA test for free?
Yes! If you invite three new users to register on Supsindex using your personal referral code, your FPA report and potential certificate are unlocked automatically at no cost.
Are there any discounts available?
Yes. If you register or check out using a unique affiliation code provided by a Supsindex partner (like an accelerator, VC, or university), you will automatically receive a 10% discount on your assessment.
Does Supsindex offer financial aid?
Yes, we are committed to ensuring financial constraints do not hold back promising founders. Founders from Least Developed Countries (LDCs), award-winning teams, or those demonstrating genuine need can apply for financial aid. Entity partners can also sponsor scholarship frameworks for their cohorts.
Entity Partnerships & Dedicated Indices (DI)
How do organizations use Supsindex affiliation codes?
Functional Partners, like accelerators and investors, provide unique affiliation codes to founders. When founders use this code, they securely link and share their assessment reports with the referring partner, enabling the organization to review verifiable capabilities for selection, mentoring, or due diligence.
What is a Dedicated Requested Index (DI)?
A DI is a custom-built, proprietary assessment framework designed exclusively for official Supsindex Entity Partners. It translates an organization’s specific investment thesis, values, or decision logic into a scientifically designed assessment index.
Who owns the intellectual property of a Dedicated Index?
Supsindex retains ownership of the underlying assessment technology and platform framework, but the partner organization receives exclusive rights to use the custom-built DI. The DI’s structure, scoring logic, and resulting data are treated as confidential and proprietary to your organization.
What are Strategic Reports?
Strategic Reports are high-level analyses built from aggregated, platform-wide assessment data. They help governments, investors, and policymakers understand ecosystem health indicators, human capital trends, and founder capability distribution to support long-term planning and policy design.
The SupsHub Community & Web3 Integration
What is SupsHub?
SupsHub is an exclusive online community where verified founders, mentors, and experts exchange knowledge and build connections. Access is automatically unlocked by registering and completing at least one Supsindex assessment.
Who is allowed to reply to questions in SupsHub?
While any member can post questions, only “Starred Members” possess the “Reply Privilege”. Starred Members are elite founders who have achieved Q1 Status (Top 25%) in a specific assessment, ensuring that all advice comes from a statistically proven source of excellence.
What is the Supex Token?
Supex is the native utility token of the Supsindex ecosystem, used to reward meaningful contributions and align incentives. Tokens can be earned by ambassadors, faculty members, and community members maintaining high “Helpfulness Rates” in SupsHub.
Are Supex tokens financial securities?
No. Supex tokens are utility tokens designed solely for use within the Supsindex ecosystem. They are not financial securities, they have no cash value outside the platform, and they cannot be redeemed for fiat currency by Yanus Solutions.
The Supsindex Leaderboard & Badges
How does the Supsindex Leaderboard work?
The leaderboard is a public, merit-based ranking of founders who demonstrate exceptional capability. It includes a Seasonal Leaderboard for recent performance over a 90-day window, and an All-Time Leaderboard “Hall of Fame”.
Why do leaderboard scores decay over time?
Entrepreneurial capability is not static; knowledge decays and markets shift. To ensure the leaderboard reflects current readiness, certified assessment scores use a time-based validity coefficient that slowly decays over a three-year window, encouraging continuous growth and reassessment.
What does "The Supsindex 1%" badge signify?
“The Supsindex 1%” is the highest honor on the platform, awarded exclusively to founders who achieve top-quartile (Q1) status in all three core assessments (FPA, EEA, and GEB) simultaneously. It marks a perfectly balanced, elite founder with no significant weaknesses.
What is "The Zero to One" badge?
“The Zero to One” badge celebrates extraordinary growth and resilience. It is awarded to founders who start in the lowest quartile (Q4) of an assessment and eventually achieve the highest quartile (Q1) in that same assessment.
Operational Roles: Ambassadors, Faculty & Index Studio
What does a Supsindex Ambassador do?
Ambassadors are regional operational partners who act as local champions for Supsindex. They establish ecosystem trust by organizing events, recruiting Faculty Members, forging partnerships with entities like VCs and accelerators, and nurturing local SupsHub communities.
What is the role of a Faculty Member?
Faculty Members form the intellectual backbone of our methodology. They validate assessment questions, co-create indices, and ensure ongoing scientific rigor. In exchange for reviewing content and participating in research, they receive Supex tokens and access to anonymized datasets.
What is the Index Studio?
The Index Studio is an open, collaborative program where researchers, industry experts, and policymakers can co-create new entrepreneurial indices. Contributors submit proposals, defend their scientific rigor, and utilize Supsindex’s infrastructure to build, validate, and launch the index globally.
Data Privacy, Security & Account Management
Why does Supsindex require a government ID (KYC)?
To ensure the integrity of our assessments and the validity of certificates, all test-takers must complete an identity verification process using a government-issued ID. Once your identity is successfully verified, the document image is permanently deleted from our active systems, leaving only a secure record of verification.
Are my assessment results and proctoring videos kept private?
Yes. Psychometric data and proctoring recordings are classified as Sensitive Personal Data and are handled with high security and encryption. Your individual test reports belong to you and are only shared with partners if you explicitly choose to share them via an affiliation code.
How does Supsindex use aggregated data?
Supsindex anonymizes and aggregates data to create Strategic Reports, Ecosystem Pulse Reports, and industry benchmarks. This aggregated data may be shared with partners, researchers, or policymakers to improve the ecosystem, but it will never personally identify you.