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As an autistic-majority company, we’re a resource for talent. We integrate our technology consultants into client organizations, performing as software developers, data analysts, QA engineers, and more. Clients experience our outstanding autistic professionals first-hand, opening minds and achieving diversity goals.
Our model improves the economic and social conditions of the autistic community with quality careers, unlocking opportunity, and empowering client organisations through actionable neurodiversity training and advisory services. Here, our employees build lifelong careers in technology, discovering personal autonomy and improved self-esteem.
Through auticon Labs, we utilize an entrepreneurial mindset to develop commercial technology solutions to social and environmental challenges faced by autistic professionals, helping them to succeed in the workplace.
We believe affecting change in one life is the starting point for changing society. We therefore measure our social performance through the difference Unicus makes to the lives of our autistic colleagues, the impact on our customer organisations, and the role we play in creating awareness of neurodiversity in society.
Between 15-20% of the global population are neurodivergent. 2% are estimated to be autistic. Despite many autistic people being talented, qualified and keen to work, only 29% of autistic people are in full time work. Within the autistic workforce, a vast majority are under-employed, working in jobs that they are over-qualified or over-skilled for.
To build a more inclusive world.
Address the inequalities in employment for neurodivergent adults and showcase the strengths of neurodiversity in society.
Our values pervade our daily operations and our relationships internally and to the outside world. They act as rules of conduct and characterise how we do business.
Jukka is responsible for the operations of Finnish Unicus. Helping other people to succeed has always been important to Jukka. That’s why the job at Unicus immediately felt like his own. For people at Unicus, finding a new career and succeeding in it is key. Jukka has a versatile background from various sales and business management positions in several different international companies. He has an MBA from the Helsinki University of Economics.
Salka leads and develops Neuroinclusion services in Finland, a business area she pioneered two years ago. As a consultant manager, she oversees recruitment, HR, and coaching. With a background in international tech-companies and a MSc in International Business from UvA, Salka aims to create a more inclusive working world.
Annika drives sales and marketing initiatives for Unicus Finland while promoting neurodiverse workplaces. Her career spans roles in software testing, project and product management, and technical sales and marketing. With a strong background in information technology, she also holds a Master’s in Physiology and Neuroscience.
Unicus and auticon came together in 2023, becoming the largest autistic-majority company in the world.
In each case, the company’s origins were inspired by a founder’s vision for improving the lives of autistic professionals and solving a crisis of unemployment. By recognising strong abilities possessed by many autistic people, such as in STEM, pattern matching, detecting software errors, and following complex protocols – career paths in technology became clear.
In 2008, in Oslo, Lars Johansson-Kjellerød founded Unicus to make a difference, he came from the financial industry but saw the business potential in the combination of autism and Information Technology. Unicus first customer was Telenor. Since its inception, Unicus has contributed expertise in software testing, software development and Data engineering and has successful partnerships with, among others, Vattenfall, DNB, Statnett, SEB, H&M, and Equinor.
As part of Ferd’s social entrepreneurship portfolio, the Norwegian investor helped Unicus expand to Sweden in 2017 and later to Finland in 2019, including an investment in the social enterprise Specialisterren in The Netherlands, which operates under a similar model.
In 2023, auticon and Unicus, entered an agreement under which the companies would unite. The historic deal established a global model for an autistic-majority social enterprise and ESG company, addressing the inequalities in employment for neurodivergent adults. The two combined companies became the largest autistic-majority company in the world, with 81% of its 600 employees on the autism spectrum. By the end of 2023, the combined organization had reached 15 countries by opening in Poland and Ireland.
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