SimplifiedIQ, a technology company building integrity infrastructure for assessment, certification and compliance, has been named among BusinessDay's 2025 Top 100 Fastest Growing Small and Medium Enterprises in Nigeria, placing it among businesses recognized for innovation, scalability and institutional impact.
SimplifiedIQ works at the intersection of education technology, workforce certification, and regulatory compliance, providing systems designed to protect trust in high-risk decision environments. The company focuses on ensuring that assessments are secure, processes are auditable, and records are verifiable, thereby addressing long-standing challenges around credibility and accountability in Africa's institutional ecosystem.
Founded to respond to inefficiencies in manual assessment and fragmented certification workflows, SimplifiedIQ provides an end-to-end integrity platform that supports secure exam delivery, automated grading, and traceable audit processes. According to the company, its systems are designed to generate defensible results that institutions can verify, defend, and transfer across regulatory and business contexts.
The company's solutions include tamper-proof exam delivery with full session monitoring, automated and explainable grading for essays, multiple-choice questions, coding challenges, and paper-based exams, as well as digital certification and compliance systems that issue verifiable records. Its scan-to-grade technology converts handwritten scripts into digitally graded and traceable results, combining Africa's paper-first assessment environment with modern integrity standards.
SimplifiedIQ also offers audit-ready dashboards and reporting tools that support accreditation, regulatory oversight, and institutional compliance. These capabilities are intended to reduce disputes, improve processing efficiency, and strengthen confidence in assessment and certification results.
The company works with organizations responsible for high-level professional, regulatory and workforce decisions. Its partners include the Chartered Institute of Project Management of Nigeria (CIPMN), Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency (LASEPA) and SeamlessHR, showcasing its application in education, regulation and corporate recruitment environments.
SimplifiedIQ was founded by Founder and CEO Sam Obi, who leads the company's strategy and product vision. According to the company, its mission is to design and scale intelligent systems that make assessment, certification and compliance processes tamper-proof, automated and verifiable across Africa.
The BusinessDay Top 100 Fastest Growing SMEs ranking is based on criteria including revenue growth, innovation, scalability, market expansion and business sustainability. The inclusion of SimplifiedIQ reflects its growing role in strengthening institutional trust and digital integrity across the continent.
SimplifiedIQ said it will continue to expand its integrity infrastructure, deepen partnerships and support Africa's transition towards trusted, transparent and technology-enabled assessment and compliance systems.
