About IQ+ Beta

What is IQ+ Beta?

IQ+ Beta is a cognitive assessment built for a moment when the standard definition of intelligence no longer tells the whole story. AI can now outperform humans on most conventional tests: on speed, on recall, on pattern-matching under controlled conditions. That changes what an honest assessment should measure.

Across eight domains, IQ+ explores how you think: how you reason about emotion, generate original ideas, work with verbal and logical relationships, reflect on your own thinking, and navigate ambiguity without a fixed right answer. These are the qualities AI finds hardest to replicate. Your Cognitive Signature Index is a map of where they live in you.

This is an exploratory tool, not a clinical assessment. It is designed to surface strengths that conventional tests overlook, and to give you a richer, more honest picture of what your mind does well.

Our Mission

IQ+ exists because we think the most important question about intelligence has changed. It is no longer who scores highest on a fixed test. It is what each person brings to a world where AI is increasingly a cognitive partner.

• Help people understand what they contribute in a world where AI handles more of the routine work of thinking
• Build an assessment that is genuinely resistant to being gamed, whether by humans or machines
• Surface the forms of reasoning, empathy, and insight that are most distinctly human
• Contribute to an honest, non-anxious conversation about what AI changes and what it does not

About Spark Space

Spark Space is built by Layla Foord. IQ+ began as a conviction: that the qualities which make people remarkable are precisely the ones most cognitive tests ignore, and that building an honest measure of those qualities matters more now than it ever has.

We work at the intersection of technology, cognitive science, and human curiosity. We believe that understanding your own mind, clearly and without flattery, is one of the most useful things you can do. IQ+ is an attempt to make that possible.

Research and Collaboration

We are actively seeking collaboration with academic researchers, cognitive scientists, and educational institutions. As our dataset grows, it offers a genuinely unusual window into human cognition at scale: collected under conditions designed to resist gaming and reward authentic engagement.

• Validating and improving our assessment methodology
• Analysing our anonymous dataset for cognitive research
• Exploring how cognitive profiles relate to performance in human-AI collaboration
• Developing next-generation models of human intelligence assessment

If any of that interests you, we would be glad to hear from you.