About RCM ThinkLabs
What is RCM ThinkLabs?
RCM ThinkLabs (rcmlabs.io) is the intelligence layer for high-performing teams: a daily, AI-powered practice and diagnostic layer. Teams spend fifteen minutes a day inside serious games where every decision is scored, which builds cognitive agility and team cohesion and gives leaders a continuous, evidence-based read on how their people reason and work together. It is grounded in advanced game theory (research at MIT with Prof. Muhamet Yildiz) and behavioral science (the work of learning scientist Karl Kapp).
What are serious games for enterprise teams?
Serious games are interactive scenarios built for a purpose beyond entertainment, here to develop and measure judgment. At RCM ThinkLabs, people work through realistic, narrative-driven business situations where decisions carry real consequences and none of the real-world cost. How a person works through the scenario reveals how they reason, so each session turns behavior into evidence.
How does RCM ThinkLabs measure skills?
Every decision in a session is scored against a defined capability model, so instead of a survey or an annual review, leaders get continuous behavioral data on reasoning, agility, communication, and how teams cohere. In a live deployment with an advanced engineering team, the platform scored more than 15,000 decisions across 1,088 sessions.
Who is RCM ThinkLabs for?
High-judgment enterprise teams and the leaders who guide them: groups whose work depends on reasoning well together under pressure. It is used to develop individuals, build team cohesion, and give managers a live read on who is ready, who is stuck, and who sharpens whom.
What research is RCM ThinkLabs based on?
Measurement is grounded in advanced game theory (research at MIT with Prof. Muhamet Yildiz). The method is built on serious games and behavioral science (the work of learning scientist Karl Kapp). RCM ThinkLabs is supported by MIT VMS, SBXi, Google Cloud, NVIDIA Inception, OpenAI, and ElevenLabs.
Does it work for remote and hybrid teams?
Yes. Because the shared serious game gives distributed teams a common daily context, they build trust and cohesion whether or not they sit together. Cohesion mapping then shows leaders where a team is aligning and where it is drifting into silos.
Deployment and logistics
How much time does it ask of each person?
Fifteen minutes a session. During the IOC, sessions run daily, every weekday. In the FOC, the rhythm settles into two fixed days a week. No workshops to schedule, no calendar blocks to negotiate.
What is the difference between an IOC and an FOC?
An IOC (Initial Operating Capability) is where every client starts: one team, one skill cycle, daily on weekdays, typically 30 business days. An FOC (Full Operating Capability) continues from there at two fixed days per week across teams.
What do participants experience?
A daily narrative investigation. They step into a story, talk to its characters, and work out what is going on. That is all they need to know to start, and it is most of why they keep coming back.
What does IT need to install?
Nothing. It runs in the browser, on any device. No agent, no plugin, no desktop install, no integration required to begin.
How is our data handled?
Each client runs in its own isolated environment. Your people's sessions and results never mix with anyone else's, and results are shared with your managers alone.
How is a deployment customized for us?
Every deployment is built for one client. A forward-deployed engineer starts by interviewing your leadership and the team itself, learning your context, the judgment that matters most, and how your people actually work. That calibration shapes the serious games, the scenarios, and what we measure, so what your team steps into reflects your organization rather than a template.
Can we try it before committing to an IOC?
The best first step is a demo: we walk you through a live session and the signals behind it, then give an honest read on the fit before you commit.
What does it cost?
Both the IOC and the FOC are priced by team size. We walk through the details on the call.
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