Building human capability for an AI-powered world
We build workflow automation that gives your small team the capacity of a much bigger one.
We’re cognitive scientists who work with all kinds of teams, specialising in for-purpose organisations: not-for-profits, from community services to peak bodies.
Who we work with
The same science serves every team whose work runs on judgement.
For-purpose organisationsNot-for-profits, community services, peak bodies and advocacy organisationsOur specialism: organisations helping their communities, often with small, stretched teams.How we work with not-for-profits 
Organisations and their teamsFor teams whose days go on advising, reviewing, writing and deciding.How we work with organisations 
Professionals and practitionersDevelopment and tools built around your actual role.How we work with professionals 
Schools and educatorsThe science of learning, put to work where learning happens.How we work with schools
Combined, the three services become one system that gets better with use.
At the centre is your organisation: what it knows, and the judgement of its people. Workflow automation takes the routine work, training builds your people’s skill with AI, and research and evaluation shows what changed. Each can stand alone. Combined, they form a loop: what your people change in a draft is saved, so tomorrow’s drafts know about today, and what an evaluation finds goes into your organisation’s knowledge.
A diagram of the three services working as one system around your organisation: what it knows, and who decides. Workflow automation takes the routine work, training builds your people’s skill with AI, and research and evaluation shows what changed. Your people approve every draft. A ring runs round all of it as a loop: what your people change is kept, so it gets better with use.
How it fits together See a small not-for-profit’s day, by hand and with the system
Why us
Scientists of the human mind, who build AI systems that work for people.
The science, in every part. Cognitive science is the study of how people think, learn and decide. It’s why our training is spaced so it lasts, why our systems keep people thinking rather than doing their thinking for them, and why our evaluations test what a program claims.
We build what we recommend. We build the system, test it on your real work before anyone depends on it, and hand it over with the training to run it. Our own practice runs on the same kind of system, every day.
Why we work with for-purpose organisations.
Impact is why we do this work: helping to make people’s lives, and society, better. For-purpose organisations work for the same thing in their communities, often with fewer resources than the work needs. When we help them do more, the good they do reaches further.
“Enhancing the quality of the processes and output of organisations who are doing good stuff in the world.”
We build efficiency and capability that give your people more capacity in their roles.
Why we do this work, on PhilosophyOrganisations we’ve worked with.
Queensland Alliance for Mental Health · A staff training series, including a hands-on mock policy submission. 
Thiess · AI capability training, delivered in several rounds over time. 
The University of Queensland · Years of teaching and research in cognitive science.
Voices from the room
From participants in our AI training.
“Before taking this course, I had never used it, but now I frequently rely on it as a valuable feedback tool.”
“Loved learning what can be done by AI to support life and work, and letting go of my preconceived notion that using AI is ‘cheating’.”
“Very engaging, and liked that it was split over 4 sessions to enable maintained focus.”
Start with the job that takes most of your week.
A free thirty-minute conversation: tell us where your team’s week goes, and we’ll talk through what would help first.