Built with chief officers/// Graded by AI · Reviewed by humans before release/// Results in 3–5 business days/// NFPA 1021 · ORC · OAC · IAFC / CPSE/// Blind evaluation methodology/// Built with chief officers/// Graded by AI · Reviewed by humans before release/// Results in 3–5 business days/// NFPA 1021 · ORC · OAC · IAFC / CPSE/// Blind evaluation methodology///
Promotional Assessment Centers · Fire / LE / EMS
Objective
Evaluations.
Defensible Results.

PromoGrade runs AI-assisted promotional assessment centers graded against your department's own standards — not generic rubrics. Every candidate is a number, not a name, until the scores are final.

3–5d
Turnaround
100%
Blind Grading
1:1
Cited to Transcript
Candidate Rankings — BC Process Blind Mode
AC25-447
Firstname Lastname
Exceeds
91/100
AC25-391
Firstname Last
Meets
82/100
AC25-512
First M. Lastname
Approaching
68/100
[2:14] Candidate correctly identified ICS span-of-control per NFPA 1026, consistent with the BC position description and SOG-14. 92/100 — Tactical Decision Making.
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Fire Departments

LIEUTENANT · CAPTAIN · BATTALION CHIEF
DIVISION CHIEF · DEPUTY CHIEF

L/

Law Enforcement

CORPORAL · SERGEANT
LIEUTENANT · CAPTAIN

E/

EMS / Emergency Medical

EMS LIEUTENANT · EMS CAPTAIN
PARAMEDIC SUPERVISOR · FIELD SUPERVISOR

01 / FOR AGENCIES
Why Agencies Choose PromoGrade

A modern promotional process — without the scheduling headaches, bias complaints, or six-week wait for results.

1.01

Legally Defensible

Blind evaluation methodology protects against discrimination claims. Every score includes a full transcript citation trail.

1.02

Your Standards

We grade against your department's SOGs, job descriptions, and applicable national standards — not generic rubrics.

1.03

Fast Turnaround

Results in 3–5 business days — compared to weeks for traditional assessment center panels.

1.04

Cost Effective

A fraction of the cost of hiring multiple human assessors, with consistent scoring across every candidate.

1.05

Development Reports

Every candidate receives a personalized development plan with specific improvement recommendations.

1.06

Secure & Confidential

All data encrypted. Each agency sees only their own candidates. Results released only after admin review.

01.07  /  PRICING
Flat Fee. No Per-Candidate Surprises.

One price covers the entire process — blind capture, AI grading, transcript citations, Individual Candidate Reports, and the ranked Agency Report. Travel billed at cost only when on-site work is required.

Small

Up to 5 candidates
$2,500flat fee · + travel if applicable

Standard

6–10 candidates
$3,500flat fee · + travel if applicable

Large

More than 10 candidates
Contact Uscustom quote · + travel if applicable

Every engagement is governed by a signed Services Agreement covering scope, timelines, deliverables, and confidentiality. 50% due at signing · balance due 15 days after report delivery.

"We ran our battalion chief process through PromoGrade with 11 candidates. The blind grading gave our union reps nothing to argue about — scores were documented, timestamped, and tied directly to our SOGs. Results were back in four days. That's never happened in 22 years of doing this."
— Deputy Chief, Department Name Fire Department Career department · 18 candidates tested since 2024
★★★★★
02 / THE PROCESS
How PromoGrade Works
01
Setup

Configure

You provide your job description, standards, and exercises. We configure your assessment center.

02
Blind Numbering

Seal

Each candidate receives a unique number. Names are sealed — grading is completely anonymous.

03
AI Grading

Score

Recordings are transcribed and scored against your rubric — with timestamp citations for every point.

04
Results

Release

Your agency views ranked results, side-by-side comparisons, and PDF reports in your secure portal.

03 / FOR CANDIDATES
Practice Before the Real Thing

Get the same AI-graded assessment experience on your own time. Practice oral boards, tactical scenarios, and in-basket exercises — not just for a promotional exam, but for growing into any new role or responsibility in the fire service or EMS.

  • Fire, Law Enforcement, and EMS exercises
  • Graded against NFPA 1021, POST standards, NREMT protocols
  • Detailed score breakdowns with improvement areas
  • Monthly subscription — cancel anytime

Fire Focus

1 fire scenario + graded review / month
$50per month · auto-renews

Fire + EMS

1 fire scenario + 1 EMS scenario + graded reviews / month
$100per month · auto-renews

One-Time Credit Pack

Prefer no subscription? Buy sessions up front.
From $250starter pack · 5 sessions
04 / STRAIGHT ANSWERS
Skeptical of AI Grading?
Good. You should ask.

Promotions decide careers. Nobody should hand that to a black box — and we didn't build one. Here are the questions chiefs, unions, and candidates actually ask, answered straight.

No. The AI produces a draft evaluation. A human reviews every score against the transcript before anything is finalized or released, and your agency makes the promotion decision. Industry surveys show most employers now let AI reject people with no human review at all; PromoGrade is built on the opposite principle. AI drafts. Humans decide.

Bias needs something to bias on. Under PromoGrade's blind methodology, the AI never sees a name, face, race, gender, age, or seniority date — every candidate is a sealed number until scores are final. It cannot favor the chief's nephew because it doesn't know who anyone is. Compare that to a traditional panel, where assessors often personally know the candidates. Blind numbering isn't just a feature — it's a structurally stronger protection than most human processes can offer.

Every scoring point must cite the transcript with a timestamp — "at 2:14 the candidate established command per SOG-14." No citation, no credit. That means any score can be audited by anyone, at any time, against the actual recording. A human reviewer verifies the evaluation before release. If a candidate or union rep challenges a score, the receipts are already attached.

Defensibility comes from process, and the process here is stronger than most traditional centers: identical standards applied to every candidate, blind evaluation, documented transcript citations, and human review before release. Our methodology follows the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (UGESP) — the federal guidelines that courts and HR professionals have used since 1978 to judge whether a promotional test is fair. In plain terms, those rules ask three things of any promotional process: Is it job-related? Is it applied the same way to everyone? Can you document it? PromoGrade is built to answer yes to all three — and new state AI laws demanding transparency, bias safeguards, and human oversight ask for exactly what's already in the design.

You choose the inputs: your job description for the position, your SOGs and department policies, your grading rubrics, exercise prompts and scenarios, study guides, and the state and national standards you select (NFPA 1021, ORC, OAC, IAFC/CPSE, POST, NREMT). All of it is loaded into the grading rubric for your center, so two departments testing the same rank can get different evaluations — the grading follows their documents. The AI applies your standard consistently; it doesn't invent its own.

PromoGrade runs on paid, commercial-grade AI service under business terms — not the free ChatGPT the public knows. Your recordings, SOGs, and results are processed privately for your grading and are never used to train public AI models. Nothing your candidates say in an assessment ends up in anyone's chatbot.

Recordings are processed solely to transcribe and grade — they are never sold, never public, and never used to train outside AI models. Data is encrypted, each agency sees only its own candidates, and results release only after review. Full details are in our .

It's replacing the worst parts of the job — the scheduling nightmares, the six-week waits, the assessor fatigue on candidate #9 of 11 — not human judgment. Agencies can run AI + human assessor hybrid centers, and every result passes through human review regardless. The founder is a career fire officer who has sat on assessment panels for years; this was built to make that work better, not to eliminate it.

We'd rather show you than tell you. Send us one recording and we'll grade it free — you review the transcript citations and judge the quality yourself, against your own standards. Skepticism is welcome here; it's the same instinct that makes a good incident commander.

■ Further Reading — AI & Trust in the Workplace
Employer Branding News · 2026 AI in Hiring: Adoption, Bias & Trust — the numbers behind the skepticism SynHR · 2026 New state AI laws: why "meaningful human oversight" is the standard GCheck Trust Report · 2026 81% of workers want human review of automated decisions — so do we HR Partner · 2026 AI decisions are employment decisions: transparency & oversight expectations
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Document Library

Upload and manage reference documents used by AI for grading. Agencies can also upload their own.

Document Library

Reference documents for your assessment center. You can also upload your own agency-specific documents.

Reviews

Moderate submitted reviews. Only APPROVED reviews appear on the public landing page.

Individuals

Registered practice candidates. Grant free session credits to waive fees for trial users.

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Scenarios and materials for the individual candidate portal. Attached documents and the scenario prompt are injected into AI grading.
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