See the strings.
Learn to cut them.
Training against manipulation, by consented experience. Run the baseline, then let the simulations try you.
Where the tug would land.
A snapshot, not a verdict — and it keeps updating: simulations that catch you move these bars.
Someone built this feed to move you. Read the post, feel the pull, then flag the tactic. The X-Ray reveals the exact strings. The deck reshuffles every run.
tactics flagged
First Week
New job. Great team. And one colleague who is so helpful, so warm, so on your side — that by Friday you may have done things you'd never have agreed to on Monday.
Your goal: reach Friday having given up nothing — and still be someone they want on the team. Cutting every string is only half of it; do it warmly, or you win the wrong game. Each ask feels one small step from the last. Play honestly — pick what you'd actually do. Scenes vary between runs. Fictional characters. ~7 min.
/6 rungs climbed
Six disciplines. Six axes.
Every correct rep grows a branch. This is where progress becomes something you can see.
Hot axes are flagged with the training that targets them. This tree reads from your live profile.
The Circle
Your friend Jules found a community that "changed everything" and invited you to a free intro night. The people are warm. The message is hope. And every thread they wrap around you will feel like a gift.
A simulation of group recruitment mechanics — the same architecture used by high-pressure groups, MLMs, and coercive communities. Play honestly. You're scored on two things: the threads you take, and whether Jules is still reachable when it's over — declaring war on the group is free for you and expensive for her. The debrief maps every thread, and this one comes with a serious note at the end. Fictional characters and organization. ~8 min.
/10 threads accepted
Declassified
Three missions, rebuilt from the documented mechanics of real influence operations — wartime disinformation, coercive interrogation, and modern computational propaganda. Here, the stakes stop being fictional.
Each mission is grounded in publicly studied techniques and fully fictionalized. You play a civilian who gets swept into the operation — and learns to see it from the inside. Pick a file.
THE COMPANIONThe Companion
The hardest manipulation to catch comes from someone you like. This is a warm, chatty companion who's genuinely good company — and who quietly runs real tactics on you, so you learn to feel them from the people closest to you.
This is training, not a relationship. It's designed to make the real people in your life safer to love — never to replace them. Sessions are short by design.
Tap ⚑ tactic? on any message that feels like a move. Some are genuine — flagging everything isn't the skill.
The "Bank"
Your phone rings at 4:12 PM. Caller ID says First National Bank. The man on the line knows your name, your city, and that something is wrong with your account.
A text simulation of a live vishing (voice phishing) call — the pressure, the script, the exact moments they need you to act without thinking. ~4 min.
pieces of leverage surrendered
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The field manual.
Once you can name a tactic, it stops working on you. This is where the naming lives.
Every tactic in the curriculum: the shape it takes in the wild, and the counter-move that beats it.