The Academy · training against manipulation
See the strings.
Learn to cut them.
Twelve courses. Five minutes a day. Influence tactics are run on you — with your consent — until you feel the pull before it moves you.
They've been practicing on you your whole life. Practice back.
free to play · no account · day one takes five minutes
The main way in
Twelve courses. A full year of five-minute days.
It starts with six questions — a read of where you're strong and where you're open. Then Course I, Day 1 — and it never repeats itself for a year.
Courses unlock in order — Course I is open now, the rest open as you finish the one before. Tap any of them to see where it sits in the year.
The whole Academy is free to play. Mistakes cost ❤️ hearts — five a day, refilled every morning; practice earns one back. Plus makes hearts unlimited and opens the Tactic Library.
Ten episodes · three bosses · a daily gauntlet
Door two · the ten-second version
TALK OUT — the game.
Thirty days not happening today? Play this instead. Someone talks. Some of it is a tactic — you decide whether each line is a move, and if it is, you name it from three choices. Naming it takes its power.
A car lot, a scam call, a recruiter, a romance con, the feed, a podium. No timer, but it quietly records how long you hesitated and tells you afterward.
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Inside a course
It isn't one long test. It changes shape on you.
Some days are a clean drill. Some days a conversation fights back. And some days the course stops asking questions and drops you inside a World.
Lesson day
Five minutes, three reps
One 60-second recognition drill, one response drill, one sentence you keep. In and out before the kettle boils.
Boss day
A conversation that pushes back
Four per course. No multiple choice safety net — they adapt to what you gave away, and they don't let go easily.
World day
You're in the room
Filmed, branching, played in real time. Not a question about manipulation — manipulation, happening to you, while you decide.
The eight Worlds
Eight Worlds, scattered through the year.
They arrive without warning, in the course where they belong. Same hearts, same five minutes, completely different feeling. Courses unlock in order, so each one below waits for you at its own day.
First Week
A new job. A kind colleague. The first favor feels like nothing — that’s the point.
See where it landsThe Close
The room is warm and the door is open. It just doesn’t feel that way.
See where it landsThe Companion
The hardest strings are held by someone you like.
See where it landsThe Circle
They loved you by day two. Notice what that love asks for.
See where it landsThe Feed
You’ve scrolled past this a hundred times. Today you’ll see it.
See where it landsThe Call · the “bank”
Your heart will speed up. That’s the lesson.
See where it landsDeclassified
This one really happened.
See where it landsThe Broadcast
Both channels, same playbook.
See where it landsswipe for all eight Worlds →
And then the X-Ray
When a World ends, the reveal: every move that was just run on you, named, timestamped and countered. That's the moment it clicks — and it doesn't un-click.
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Smaller doors, if you want one.
AURA ENGINE
The other side of the coin: a public kindness engine for New York City. Bots keep a directory of real ways to help true, repost lost animals, and log every action in public. Press the button and a real deed gets done.
FREE · ONE PRESS A DAY · PUBLIC LOG 🖍️SPOT IT — the daily case
One short conversation a day. Mark the lines doing the work — or prove nothing's wrong. Everyone gets the same case; a new one drops at midnight.
FREE · 60 SECONDS · DAILY 🗄️The Desk
Describe a real situation — a coworker running games, a partner who twists everything — and get a sharp read from an analyst who works only for you.
FREE TO START 🎯Spot the Manipulation
Twelve messages, three minutes. Can you name the string before you're told what it is?
FREE TEST 🔬The science
Every tactic taught with its research on the table — what the studies support, and what they don't prove.
FREE TO READ 📓Lab Notes
The blog: Biderman's chart, DARVO, the KUBARK manual, what the inoculation studies actually found — the source material behind the courses.
FREE TO READ 🎣Permission to Scam Me
Sign the waiver; one social-engineering attempt lands within 30 days. Catch it and you make the Wall of the Unscammable.
FREE · THE GAUNTLET 📕The Field Manuals
Gaslighting, scams and propaganda decoded in print, every claim cited. The “Am I being manipulated?” X-Ray sheet is free, no email wall.
$19 EACH · PDF
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🖨️Scam-Proof Parent Kit
For the people who won't use an app: a 4-minute video, plus the fridge poster, wallet cards, hang-up scripts and the family safe phrase that beats AI voice cloning.
FREE · WATCH + PRINTThe pledge
The only tricks here are the ones we teach you to catch.
We spend twelve courses teaching you to spot the plays — which makes this the worst page on the internet to try one on you. What you're reading is the offer: the Academy is free to play, and there's no account to make. And if you ever do catch us running a play on you, congratulations: that's the curriculum working. Consider it a free bonus round.
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