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Neuroscience Intelligence platform

Decode the founder. Train their success.

The first behavioural-neuroscience platform that measures and enhances what actually drives a founder's outcome. Autonomic biology, implicit belief, decision architecture, turned into accurate data you can act on.

Grounded in peer-reviewed neuroscience (2013–2024)
Harvard Medical · Mass General
Stanford · Yale · UCSF
Karolinska · Max Planck
Oxford / MIT / Cambridge
Wisconsin-Madison · Columbia · Rockefeller
Nature · PNAS · Cell · Neuron
What it is

One model.
Four measured systems.

NEURO-GAME measures the founder across the four neuro-behavioural systems peer-reviewed neuroscience has shown to predict performance under pressure — autonomic, executive, reward, social. Built from validated self-report, behavioural mini-games and a voice check-in (Juslin & Laukka 2003). One weighted Neuro-Game Score that compounds over time.

01 · AUTONOMIC

The body under pressure.

Neurovisceral integration (Thayer et al. 2012). How the stress response engages and recovers — what governs whether you can think clearly when the stakes are real.

  • Autonomic capacity (PSS, HRV in evolved build)
  • Felt safety & interoception (MAIA, Critchley & Garfinkel 2017)
  • Burnout & recovery (MBI, REQ)
  • Voice prosody as daily affect layer
02 · EXECUTIVE

Inhibition, working memory & flexibility.

Prefrontal executive function (Miyake 2000; Diamond 2013). Set-shifting, updating and goal maintenance — measured directly by behavioural mini-games, not self-reported.

  • Cognitive flexibility (CFI, task-switch)
  • Learning agility (n-back, DeRue 2012)
  • Judgment & decision-density (Kahneman & Klein 2009)
  • Stroop interference under conflict
03 · REWARD

Purpose, drive, goal implementation & adaptive learning.

Mesolimbic reward prediction (Schultz 1997) tuned by meaning-driven valuation in the vmPFC (Kang et al. 2018). The why sets what the brain learns to pursue — and the goal-setting / implementation-intention loop turns drive into shipped action.

  • Purpose & meaning (MLQ, Ryff Purpose-in-Life)
  • Reward learning & adaptation (BAS)
  • Goal orientation & implementation (Locke & Latham 2002; Gollwitzer & Sheeran 2006)
  • Self-efficacy & agency (GSES)
04 · SOCIAL

Empathy, trust & team-building.

Social cognition and attachment (Davis 1983; Fraley 2000; Bell 2007). The substrate for trust, complementary teams and the durable relationships every operator runs on.

  • Empathy (IRI perspective-taking)
  • Attachment & team-building (ECR-R)
  • Team composition (Bell 2007 meta-analysis)
  • Diligence-grade reads, not personality labels

Three depths, one chain. Game Map (lived life: Health, Connection, Career & purpose, Finances) ← four founder systems (machinery: autonomic, social, reward, executive) ← thirteen trainable dimensions (validated peer-reviewed instruments), plus a daily flow read. One weighted Neuro-Game Score (0–100) — every dimension a level you can move, not a fixed trait.

Two flows. One platform.

Choose where you sit.

One product, two perspectives, two paradigms of care. Investors get the partner-quality information they need to champion their founders. Founders get the performance system that helps them succeed.

Lateral brain illustration with labelled regions: neocortex, limbic system, brainstem, cerebellum, autonomic nervous system
The science

Built on 100+
peer-reviewed neuroscience studies.

Every dimension we measure traces back to peer-reviewed science — Thayer’s neurovisceral integration model, Critchley & Garfinkel’s interoception framework, validated psychometrics (PSS, MBI, MAIA, IRI, ECR-R, MLQ), and adult-brain plasticity work from Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, Karolinska and the Max Planck Institutes. Measured biology and validated instruments, instead of pitch performance and pattern-matching.

What's possible

Peak performance,
decoded and trained.

Three outcomes that decide quarters — productivity, decision speed, and how fast the nervous system shifts. Each one is anchored in published research and matched by our 150+ founder cohort.

5×
Productivity in peak state
When founders enter a regulated peak state, output runs roughly five times baseline. We train you to hold that state on demand.
McKinsey Global Institute, 2013
4×
Faster decision-making
A regulated nervous system makes high-quality calls about four times faster under uncertainty — the difference between owning a quarter and losing one.
Kahneman, Princeton 2011
98.5%
First-session breakthrough
Out of 150+ founders trained, almost everyone has their first nervous-system breakthrough inside the very first session.
NeuroGame cohort, 2024–26
The game layer

Gamified,
by design.

NEURO-GAME is a game. Your Neuro-Game Score is your level. Every training rep is XP. Every cohort is your team. The Win Zone is the boss. Founders progress through five tiers as their autonomic, cognitive and implicit systems rewire, with daily quests, streaks, unlocks and a live leaderboard layered over the science.

Brain visualization with neural score 72 and live neural activity readouts
Your Neuro-Game Score · live Tier 3 · Building
68
/ 100 · next tier at 72
Foundation Growth Building Strong Outlier
Streak 23 days personal best
XP this wk +1,240 +18% vs. last
Cohort rank 12/50 ↑ 6 this month
Today's quests 2 of 4 done
✓ Morning HRV coherence · 9 min +40 XP
✓ IAT belief check · "Worthy of success" +60 XP
Pitch pre-state reset · 5 min +30 XP
Evening wind-down ladder · 12 min +50 XP
Achievements unlocked
30-day streak Win Zone master First IAT rewire Cohort top-15 +22ms HRV

Five tiers: Foundation 0–44 · Growth 45–57 · Building 58–71 · Strong 72–84 · Outlier 85–100. Quests, streaks and badges sit on top of the NeuroGame Rewiring Method. The science, made daily.

Invite-only access

Access is earned,
not bought.

NEURO-GAME doesn't grow through paid acquisition. It grows because founders choose to invite their VCs, VCs choose to invite their founders, and both secure the spots for their peers. Access is deliberately small and by cohort: fifty founders per quarter, twenty-five founding investor firms, ever. Your position in the Waitlist Index decides when you're in. The fastest way to rise is to bring in the people who should be in the room.

Waitlist Index
For founders · live ranking
#247/ 12,481
your position in the global founder queue
Cohort placement Q4 2026 · rise to enter sooner
+100Invite a founder peer who completes the pre-assessment
+250Nominate your lead investor
+500Investor becomes a Founding Partner (you fast-track together)
+200Share your founder story (anonymous or named) and why you want to join NEURO-GAME
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Founding Partner
For investors · 25 firms only, ever
#06of 25
claimed · equity stake + permanent partner status
Stake SAFE in NEURO-GAME · 5 founder seats sponsored
EquityInvest in NEURO-GAME on a SAFE or equity stake at Founding Partner terms
ForeverPermanent Founding Partner status, listed publicly for the life of the brand
AccessEarliest visibility into every founder cohort + sponsored seats for your portfolio
VoiceQuarterly partner roundtable + direct input into the NEURO-GAME roadmap
Claim Founding Partner seat →
∞
The Pledge · the founder × investor flywheel Nominate your lead investor. If they become a Founding Partner, both of you enter Cohort 1 together. The Pledge is mutual. When a founder invites their lead VC, both fast-track to Cohort 1. The founder unlocks sponsored access, a stronger network and accelerated rewiring. The VC takes one of twenty-five Founding Partner seats, with an equity stake in NEURO-GAME, permanent partner status and earliest visibility into the next generation of founders. Everyone you invite rises with you.
Get your Neuro-Game Score →

Back the whole founder. Help them stay in the Win Zone.

NEURO-GAME · Built on 100+ peer-reviewed neuroscience studies · Harvard, Nature, PNAS, Annual Reviews

Take the Pledge.
Rise together.

Cohort 1 is forming now. Fifty founders. Twenty-five founding investor firms. Pick your side, claim your Waitlist Index, nominate the partner who completes the loop.

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Neuroscience Intelligence platform · for investors & VCs

Back the whole founder.

The first behavioural-neuroscience platform built for venture capital. Diligence the founder under the deck. Autonomic regulation, cognitive plasticity, implicit operating system. Then back them with the protocols and care their cap table assumes you'll deliver.

Claim free Founder Audits How it works
$1.2T
Global VC AUM
projected by 2034
Preqin 2024
75%
VC-backed startups fail
to return invested capital
Wiltbank & Boeker, Kauffman / Harvard, updated 2024
82%
Of startup success predicted
by founder traits
Nature 2023 · n=21,187
5×
Personality predicts outcome
over industry sector
Oxford / UTS 2023
Three benefits to your fund

Select better. Win better.
Return better.

Three concrete edges, one platform. Higher hit rate on the founders you back. Differentiation when winning competitive term sheets. Reduced fund-killer risk across the portfolio. The platform does the work.

01 · SELECT BETTER

Higher hit rate at diligence.

Score every founder against the published 5× success fingerprint. A single Neuro-Game Score (0–100), a 5× growth probability band, and a written investment memo land in your IC pack alongside your usual diligence, not instead of it.

  • 10-dimension Neuro-Game Score
  • 5× success-probability band
  • IAT belief profile + ethics screen
  • IC-ready memo, machine-generated
02 · WIN BETTER

The edge top founders pick you for.

NEURO-GAME access is increasingly what wins competitive term sheets. Founders pick the firm that backs the operator, not just the equity. Offer NeuroGame Protocols and real founder development as part of your term sheet. Differentiation, baked in.

  • Differentiated term-sheet offer
  • Founders pick you over comparable cheques
  • LP narrative on founder-care & ESG
  • Founding Partner status, listed publicly
03 · RETURN BETTER

Compound the odds across the portfolio.

53% of founders say burnout directly impairs their leadership. 65% of high-growth failures trace to team dynamics, not product. NEURO-GAME surfaces both early and trains them down. The platform handles the support; you bank the outcome.

  • Fund-killer prevention (burnout, team risk)
  • Trust, delegation & leadership — measured, then trained
  • NeuroGame Protocols delivered to founders
  • Long-cycle performance partnership
Signal · not story

A biological read on the founder under the deck.

HRV, autonomic regulation, sleep architecture, implicit belief. The platform turns raw biology and behaviour into a single, IC-ready picture of how this founder thinks, regulates and decides.

  • Autonomic streamHRV · cortisol rhythm · interoceptive awareness (MAIA)
  • Implicit architecture6-dimension IAT, ethics & attachment screen
  • Cognitive load under pressurePitch-time autonomic readout
Dashboard brain visualization with neural score and live activity charts
Diligence smarter

The Neuro-Game Score.

Eleven weighted dimensions. One number. Mapped to the four systems any operator runs on — autonomic, executive, reward, social. Built from validated instruments and behavioural games. Drops straight into your IC memo.

  • Autonomic capacity19% · PSS · neurovisceral integration
  • Reward learning & adaptation14% · BAS · reversal under set-shifts
  • Cognitive flexibility13% · CFI · task-switch cost
  • Self-efficacy & agency11% · GSES · approach motivation
  • Attachment & team-building11% · ECR-R · earned secure
  • Purpose & meaning10% · MLQ · vmPFC valuation (Kang 2018)
  • Burnout & recovery8% · MBI · Recovery Experience Q
Neuro-Game Score · Founder A Outlier band
87/100
5× probability band · trainability index high
Autonomic capacity
86
Self-efficacy
92
Cognitive flexibility
78
Attachment
74
Learning agility
88
Purpose & meaning
90
Recovery
82
Empathy
88
Compound the Win Zone

A portfolio that compounds, not collapses.

Watching founders quietly burn out is the most expensive variance in your fund. NEURO-GAME removes it. Founders get a daily system that helps them stay in the Win Zone. NeuroGame Companion gives you a clean read of how your cohort is trending, with the ability to route the right resource the moment a founder reaches for it.

  • Fewer fund-killers53% of founders say burnout impairs leadership. We address it first.
  • Team-risk radar65% of high-growth failures = team. Trust & delegation are measured and trained
  • Founder-led dataYou see how the cohort is trending; founders share the rest at their pace
  • Quarterly partner reviewNeuro-Game Score refresh, IC-ready summary, founder-confirmed
NeuroGame Companion
Founders in cohort 47 +3 this quarter
Thriving (median score) 74 +4 vs benchmark
Reaching for support 3 route a protocol
In growth tracks 19 +6 this month
Founder A · Series A
Thriving
Founder B · Seed
Building
Founder C · Series B
Coaching priority
Win the term sheet

A system founders pick you for.

We don't drop a score on your desk and walk away. Every founder you back is offered NeuroGame Protocols calibrated to their growth areas, a daily training system they actually keep, and a human debrief of every audit — not just a PDF. Included in your term sheet, baked into your firm's brand.

  • NeuroGame ProtocolsTargeted neuroplasticity training, calibrated per dimension
  • Daily training systemGames, drills and a daily loop that keeps founders in the Win Zone
  • Operator developmentRecovery (96% rewirable) and self-efficacy (94%) first
  • Human debriefEvery audit ends in a 1:1 session with the coach behind the method
Founder · Stage 2 plan Routed
PROTOCOL 01
HRV training · 12 weeks
Targeting NS capacity. Daily 9-min coherence reps.
PROTOCOL 02
IAT belief re-coding · "Worthy of success"
Targets the 70% impostor-syndrome cluster (Clance & Imes).
PROTOCOL 03
Archetype pairing · engineer co-pilot
Identified gap: technical leverage. Match shortlist of 4.
PROTOCOL 04
Burnout protocol · 6 weeks
96% rewirable. First-line because fastest ROI.
The instrument

Twelve dimensions.
Four systems.

The twelve dimensions nest under the four neuro-behavioural systems that predict performance under pressure: Autonomic regulation (the body under pressure), Executive control (inhibition, working memory & flexibility), Reward & motivation (purpose, drive & adaptive learning), Social & attachment (empathy, trust & team-building). Each dimension traces to a validated peer-reviewed instrument and is trainable on a known timeline.

DimensionWeightTrainabilityResearch basis
01 · Autonomic regulation
Felt safety, pressure response & recovery · neurovisceral integration + interoception
Autonomic capacity 19% 92% · rewire fast Thayer & Lane 2009, J Affect Disord (neurovisceral integration model) · Thayer et al. 2012, Neurosci Biobehav Rev (HRV meta) · Cohen, Kamarck & Mermelstein 1983 (PSS) · Shaffer & Ginsberg 2017, Front Public Health · Lehrer et al. 2020, Front Public Health (HRV biofeedback meta, g=0.49)
Felt safety & interoception 8% 88% · 8–12 weeks Critchley & Garfinkel 2017, Curr Opin Psychol (interoception) · Mehling et al. 2012, PLoS ONE (MAIA, validated interoceptive-awareness scale) · Barrett & Simmons 2015, Nat Rev Neurosci (interoceptive predictions) · Thayer & Lane 2009 (HRV indexes prefrontal–autonomic coupling) · Neff 2003 (Self-Compassion Scale). Neuroception (Porges 2007) is a useful clinical heuristic; the firmer mechanistic science is interoception. The gating layer: when the body reads “unsafe,” prefrontal cortex loses bandwidth.
Burnout & recovery 8% 96% · rewire first Maslach & Jackson 1981 (MBI) · Sonnentag & Fritz 2007 (Recovery Experience Q) · McEwen, Neuropsychopharmacology 2017 (allostatic load) · Wagner et al., Neurosci. Biobehav. Rev. 2023 (burnout brain changes)
02 · Executive control
Prefrontal executive function · inhibition, working memory & set-shifting
Cognitive flexibility 13% 88% · 12 weeks Miyake et al., Cognit. Psychol. 2000 (unity & diversity of executive functions) · Dennis & Vander Wal, Cogn. Ther. Res. 2010 (CFI) · Diamond, Annu. Rev. Psychol. 2013 · Stroop 1935 (interference)
Learning agility 10% 90% · 8 weeks DeRue, Ashford & Myers, Indust. Organ. Psychol. 2012 (learning agility) · Kirchner, J. Exp. Psychol. 1958 (n-back) · Diamond, Annu. Rev. Psychol. 2013 · Boldrini et al., Cell Stem Cell 2018 (adult hippocampal neurogenesis)
Experience signal 9% 52% · rewiring proxy Kahneman & Klein, Am. Psychol. 2009 (expert intuition: conditions for trustworthiness) · Ericsson, Cambridge Handbook 2018 · Doidge 2015 (soft-wired brain)
03 · Reward & motivation
Mesolimbic reward prediction tuned by vmPFC valuation · purpose, drive & adaptive learning
Reward learning & adaptation 14% 82% · 8–16 weeks Schultz, Science 1997 (reward prediction error) · Carver & White, JPSP 1994 (BIS/BAS) · Bartra, McGuire & Kable, NeuroImage 2013 (valuation network meta) · Daw et al., Neuron 2011 (model-based learning)
Self-efficacy & agency 11% 94% · rewire first Bandura 1997 (Stanford) · Schwarzer & Jerusalem 1995 (GSES) · Schunk & DiBenedetto, Contemp. Educ. Psychol. 2020 · Maier & Seligman, Psychol. Rev. 2016 (control & resilience)
Purpose & meaning 10% 86% · meaning-making, 8–12 wk Steger et al., J. Counsel. Psychol. 2006 (MLQ) · Ryff, JPSP 1989 (PWB / Purpose-in-Life) · Hill & Turiano, Psychol. Sci. 2014 (purpose predicts longevity, n=6,985) · Park, Psychol. Bull. 2010 (meaning-making meta) · Kang et al., PNAS 2018 (vmPFC self-affirmation & purpose)
04 · Social & attachment
Social cognition & attachment · empathy, trust & team-building
Empathy 10% 68% · 24 weeks Davis, JPSP 1983 (Interpersonal Reactivity Index) · Klimecki, Cereb. Cortex 2013, 2014 (compassion training) · Weng et al., Psychol. Sci. 2013 (neural rewiring under compassion training)
Attachment & team-building 11% 84% · earned secure, 16 wk Fraley, Waller & Brennan, JPSP 2000 (ECR-R) · Mikulincer & Shaver 2016 (attachment in adulthood) · Coan & Sbarra, Curr. Opin. Psychol. 2015 (social regulation of emotion)
Team composition 7% 86% · 12 weeks Bell, J. Appl. Psychol. 2007 (team composition meta-analysis) · Woolley et al., Science 2010 (collective intelligence) · Wegner 1987 (transactive memory)

The NeuroGame Rewiring Method is proprietary, grounded in 100+ peer-reviewed studies (2013–2024) from Harvard Medical, Stanford, Yale, MIT, Oxford, Columbia, Karolinska, UBC, Wisconsin-Madison, Pittsburgh, UC Berkeley, UCSF, Rockefeller and the Max Planck Institutes. Anchors include Voss et al. (Trends Cogn. Sci. 2017), Spalding et al. (Cell 2013), Tang, Hölzel & Posner (Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 2015), Lehrer et al. (Front. Public Health 2020) and Sevoz-Couche & Laborde (Neurosci. Biobehav. Rev. 2022). Calibrated to outcomes published in Nature, PNAS, Cell and the McKinsey Global Institute flow study.
Bands: Outlier 85–100 · Strong 72–84 · Building 58–71 · Growth area 45–57 · Coaching priority 0–44.

Be the partner founders call. Not the one they hide from.

NEURO-GAME · Built on 100+ peer-reviewed neuroscience studies · Harvard, Nature, PNAS, Annual Reviews

Become one of the
twenty-five.

Founding Partner is a one-time call. Twenty-five firms, ever. Invest in NEURO-GAME on Founding Partner terms (SAFE / equity), sponsor five priority founders into Cohort 1, unlock cross-portfolio archetype matching, and own the founder-care narrative your LPs are increasingly asking about, for the life of the brand.

Claim free Founder Audits →

Six of twenty-five Founding Partner seats claimed · equity round closes with Cohort 2, Q3 2026

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Neuroscience Intelligence platform · for founders

The only system that compounds is you.

Strategy gets copied. Capital gets matched. The variable that doesn't is the operator sitting in your chair. NEURO-GAME is the neuroscience-grade performance OS for the founder. Autonomic regulation, cognitive plasticity, implicit operating system. You own the data. You choose what to share.

Get your Neuro-Game Score How it works
72%
Of founders say building the company
takes a toll on their mental health
Startup Snapshot 2023
2×
More likely to experience depression
than non-founders
Freeman et al., UCSF / Berkeley 2015
70%
Of high-achievers carry
impostor syndrome
Clance & Imes · IJBS
82%
Of startup success predicted by founder
traits — and traits are trainable
Nature 2023 · n=21,187
Three jobs we do

Measure. Train.
Compound.

The same loop high-performance athletes have had for decades, applied to the work you actually do all day: decisions under pressure, communication, fundraising, delegation, recovery.

01 · MEASURE

Read the operator.

Wearable biometrics (Oura, Whoop), a 27-question behavioural assessment, and millisecond IAT belief testing, all stitched into a single Founder Intelligence Profile™ that compounds over time.

  • HRV, sleep, cortisol, recovery
  • 27-question behavioural test
  • IAT subconscious belief scan
  • Your Neuro-Game Score, compounding over time
02 · TRAIN

Re-pattern what's holding you back.

The NeuroGame Rewiring Method, targeted at the dimension with the fastest payoff for you. The adult brain is plastic across the entire lifespan. We just compress the timeline from years to weeks. Daily neuroplasticity reps, gamified zone progression, 5-minute reset library.

  • Stage 2 neuroplasticity protocols
  • Daily 9-min coherence reps
  • Gamified zone progression
  • 5-minute reset library
03 · OPTIMIZE

Live in the Win Zone.

Vagal tone (HRV) rises. Allostatic load comes down. Felt safety stabilises so prefrontal cortex stays online under pressure (Thayer & Lane 2009). The founders you read about, the ones who “just decide,” run on this substrate.

  • Resting HRV elevated vs. baseline
  • Interoceptive awareness (MAIA) improves
  • Belief re-coding (6 dimensions)
  • Behavioural pattern interrupts
Your operating system

Four measured systems.
One neuroscience-grade instrument.

Founder performance lives in four neuro-behavioural systems. We read each with validated instruments and behavioural mini-games, score them, and rewire the slowest-moving dimension first.

  • Autonomic regulationFelt safety · HRV · recovery · allostatic load
  • Executive controlCognitive flexibility · working memory · inhibition
  • Reward & motivationPurpose & meaning · reward learning · agency
  • Social & attachmentEmpathy · attachment · team composition

Four measured systems → one weighted Neuro-Game Score (0–100) across twelve dimensions.

Polygonal neural-network brain visualization
The twelve dimensions

Twelve dimensions.
Four systems.

The twelve dimensions nest under the four neuro-behavioural systems that build the founder operating system: Autonomic regulation (the body under pressure), Executive control (the mind that adapts), Reward & motivation (purpose, drive & what you pursue) and Social & attachment (the patterns that scale the team). Every dimension is plastic. The NeuroGame Rewiring Method sequences the protocols so the highest-ROI dimension fires first for you.

DimensionWeightTrainabilityResearch basis
01 · Autonomic regulation
Felt safety, pressure response & recovery · neurovisceral integration + interoception
Autonomic capacity 19% 92% · rewire fast Thayer & Lane 2009, J Affect Disord (neurovisceral integration) · Thayer et al. 2012, Neurosci Biobehav Rev (HRV meta) · Cohen et al. 1983 (PSS) · Lehrer et al. 2020 (HRV biofeedback meta, g=0.49)
Felt safety & interoception 8% 88% · 8–12 weeks Critchley & Garfinkel 2017 (interoception) · Mehling et al. 2012 (MAIA) · Barrett & Simmons 2015 (interoceptive predictions, Nat Rev Neurosci) · Thayer & Lane 2009 (HRV–PFC coupling) · Neff 2003 (Self-Compassion). The gating layer — when the body reads “unsafe,” prefrontal cortex loses bandwidth and everything else collapses downstream.
Burnout & recovery 8% 96% · rewire first Maslach & Jackson 1981 (MBI) · Sonnentag & Fritz 2007 (Recovery Experience Q) · McEwen, Neuropsychopharmacology 2017 (allostatic load)
02 · Executive control
Prefrontal executive function · inhibition, working memory & set-shifting
Cognitive flexibility 13% 88% · 12 weeks Miyake et al., Cognit. Psychol. 2000 · Dennis & Vander Wal, Cogn. Ther. Res. 2010 (CFI) · Diamond, Annu. Rev. Psychol. 2013 · Stroop 1935
Learning agility 10% 90% · 8 weeks DeRue, Ashford & Myers, Indust. Organ. Psychol. 2012 · Kirchner, J. Exp. Psychol. 1958 (n-back) · Diamond, Annu. Rev. Psychol. 2013
Experience signal 9% 52% · rewiring proxy Kahneman & Klein, Am. Psychol. 2009 (expert intuition) · Ericsson, Cambridge Handbook 2018
03 · Reward & motivation
Mesolimbic reward prediction tuned by vmPFC valuation · purpose, drive & adaptive learning
Reward learning & adaptation 14% 82% · 8–16 weeks Schultz, Science 1997 (reward prediction error) · Carver & White, JPSP 1994 (BIS/BAS) · Bartra et al., NeuroImage 2013 (valuation network meta)
Self-efficacy & agency 11% 94% · rewire first Bandura 1997 · Schwarzer & Jerusalem 1995 (GSES) · Maier & Seligman, Psychol. Rev. 2016 (control & resilience)
Purpose & meaning 10% 86% · meaning-making, 8–12 wk Steger et al., J. Counsel. Psychol. 2006 (MLQ) · Ryff, JPSP 1989 (Purpose-in-Life) · Hill & Turiano, Psychol. Sci. 2014 (purpose & longevity, n=6,985) · Park, Psychol. Bull. 2010 (meaning-making meta) · Kang et al., PNAS 2018 (vmPFC & purpose)
04 · Social & attachment
Social cognition & attachment · empathy, trust & team-building
Empathy 10% 68% · 24 weeks Davis, JPSP 1983 (IRI) · Klimecki, Cereb. Cortex 2013, 2014 (compassion training) · Weng et al., Psychol. Sci. 2013
Attachment & team-building 11% 84% · earned secure, 16 wk Fraley, Waller & Brennan, JPSP 2000 (ECR-R) · Mikulincer & Shaver 2016 · Coan & Sbarra, Curr. Opin. Psychol. 2015
Team composition 7% 86% · 12 weeks Bell, J. Appl. Psychol. 2007 (team composition meta) · Woolley et al., Science 2010 (collective intelligence) · Wegner 1987 (transactive memory)

Tiers: Foundation 0–44 · Growth 45–57 · Building 58–71 · Strong 72–84 · Outlier 85–100. Your protocols are sequenced by ROI, not by weight. We start where the rewiring pays back fastest for you.

Train

A protocol per dimension.

The NeuroGame Rewiring Method turns the diagnosis into the rep. Every dimension is plastic. We sequence the protocols so the fastest-payoff one fires first. Calibrated to your biology, scored daily, retested every 12 weeks. 98.5% first-session breakthrough rate across the training cohort.

  • Recovery, 96% rewirableTrained first. Highest, fastest ROI.
  • Self-efficacy, 94%The dimension that moves the most other dimensions
  • Learning agility, 90%Compounding effect over 8-week cycles
  • NS capacity, 92%Daily coherence reps · HRV biofeedback (Lehrer & Gevirtz)
Today · Stage 2 plan Day 23 / 84
DONE 09:14
Morning coherence · 9 min
✓
DONE 12:30
IAT belief check · "Visible & big"
✓
14:00
Pitch prep · pre-state reset
5 min
19:30
Evening wind-down · HRV ladder
12 min
Measure

Your autonomic signal, on the page.

We don’t ask you how you feel. We read the biology. HRV indexes prefrontal–autonomic coupling and predicts decision quality under pressure (Thayer & Lane 2009; Thayer 2012), read continuously alongside interoceptive awareness, sleep architecture and cortisol rhythm.

  • +22ms HRVvs. non-founder baseline in 5× founders
  • Interoception (MAIA)trainable in 8 weeks · gates felt safety
  • Sleep architectureREM & deep sleep drift = leading indicator
  • Cortisol rhythmDiurnal pattern reveals burnout 3 months out
HRV · 30-day trend +19% post-programme
Today ms
68 ms HRV
SLEEP
7h 42m
+18m vs avg
VV TIME
58%
+12% this month
The six core beliefs

What 5× founders believe.
measured, not assumed.

Six beliefs separate founders who build 5× companies from founders who don't. We test each one with the Implicit Association Test (Greenwald & Banaji 1995, 40M+ administered globally). Millisecond reaction time, not self-report, so the belief you don't know you hold still shows up.

01

I am worthy of success.

70% of high-achievers carry impostor syndrome. Amygdala overactivation suppresses PFC. Self-sabotage at the close.

Clance & Imes 1978

02

Money flows to value I create.

33% of entrepreneurs carry money-avoidance. Scarcity reduces cognitive bandwidth by 13 IQ-equivalent points.

Klontz 2009 · Mullainathan & Shafir 2013

03

It is safe to be visible.

28% of founders show visibility-avoidance. SNS activation under social evaluation collapses prefrontal bandwidth (Arnsten 2009, Nat Rev Neurosci); chronic threat appraisal predicts performance drop.

Horner 1972 · Arnsten 2009 · Critchley & Garfinkel 2017

04

I can trust people and delegate.

Anxious/avoidant attachment predicts delegation failure. Bowlby's internal working models run 24/7, subconsciously.

Warnock 2024 · Bowlby 1969

05

Failure is data, not identity.

Entity attribution → 45% lower persistence after failure. Shame loops out; guilt iterates.

Dweck 2006 · Brown 2010

06

I have enough to build this.

Scarcity mindset reduces cognitive capacity by 13 IQ-equivalent points. Tunnel vision under pressure.

Mullainathan & Shafir 2013 · Science

What's possible

Measured outcomes,
not aspirations.

Operational baseline across 150+ training programs delivered. Every figure below is measured with a wearable or a peer-reviewed instrument, and ties back to a primary source from Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Ohio State, McKinsey, DARPA or peer-reviewed neuroscience journals (Nat Rev Neurosci, Neuron, J Affect Disord). Not survey-reported.

500%
Productivity in flow state
McKinsey Global Inst. 2013
230%
Accelerated skill acquisition
DARPA · Advanced Brain Monitoring
430%
Creative problem-solving boost
University of Sydney 2012
4×
Decision-making speed
Kahneman, Princeton 2011
98.5%
First-session breakthrough rate
Operational baseline · internal
↓44%
Stress reduction (cortisol)
Pascoe, Psychoneuroendocrinology 2017
↑22ms
HRV vs. non-founder baseline
Thayer, Ohio State 2012
g=0.49
HRV biofeedback effect on stress (meta)
Lehrer et al., Front Public Health 2020

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The minds behind NEURO-GAME.

Franziska Sabine Opris, founder and creator of NEURO-GAME

MSc. Franziska Sabine Opris

Founder & Creator

From growing up in her parents' medical practice to interning with a psychiatrist at fifteen, Franziska has spent her life decoding the invisible patterns running the game — nervous-system tension, subconscious loops, and the pressure behind "success".

After founding her first startup, leading teams, and burning out, she rewired her own operating system and built a method to help others do the same — with fun and ease. NEURO-GAME™ was born. It has since helped hundreds of leaders and founders unlock clarity, alignment and sustainable peak performance from the inside out.

Her invitation: exit autopilot and play life on purpose.

MSc · behavioural neuroscience 15+ yrs decoding the nervous system 100s trained
Dr. Maristella Lucchini, board advisor to NEURO-GAME

Dr. Maristella Lucchini

Board Advisor · Clinical Science

Dr. Maristella Lucchini is a senior clinical researcher and health-tech scientist with 10+ years at the exact intersection NEURO-GAME is built on: the autonomic nervous system, recovery & performance, and wearable measurement.

She holds a PhD in Biomedical Engineering, and spent years at Columbia University Irving Medical Center developing wearable tools to measure HRV, recovery and autonomic function. As Board Advisor, she supports translating biological signals into measurable data and interfaces.

PhD · biomedical engineering Columbia University HRV & autonomic science
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