We align leadership, culture, and hiring to help you curate teams people love using our compatibility system that makes belonging both measurable and predictable.


Because solving “People Problems” like predictable conflict and turnover doesn’t just create a healthier workplace with higher performance—it saves you millions.

Who uses the hack?

  • CEO

    Solve the people problems costing you millions.

    Design a culture that manages your people for you — creating the competitive edge you’ve been looking for.

    The Hack helps CEOs define and scale culture intentionally by highlighting the differences in how people make decisions and create value - grounded in how people actually behave at work.

    Define your culture now with our proprietary 5-min assessment.

  • Head of People

    People infrastructure supported by a mystery culture is like a house built on sand.

    The Hack gives you the data you’re missing to curate the greatest teams of your career — with the ability to predict and prevent people problems before they become costly emergencies that attract negative attention.

    Use our complete 10-min proprietary assessment to recruit, hire, onboard, and increase retention.

  • Individuals

    Jumpstart your career with the only tool that actually grows EQ — a better predictor of success than any other metric.

    Learn to make better decisions, faster, by understanding your unique thinking process. Discover how it tends to fit or clash with others so you can increase your influence in any room.

    Start the 10-min assessment now and schedule a 1-on-1 coaching session to walk through your results with an expert.

Why This Works

Most tools label individuals.
The Hack reveals how workplace interactions create people systems.

Most people problems aren’t random - they’re predictable.
They’re the result of incompatible decision-making and value-creation styles.

The Hack works because it:

  • Identifies how people actually process information at work

  • Shows where those differences compound or conflict

  • Identifies friction points before they become failures

This reframes culture as a people system that leaders can understand, design, and scale.

Built for the People Who Own the Outcomes

For CEOs
Predict people problems before they show up on your P&L.

For People Leaders
Finally get the data you need to explain, anticipate, and prevent people problems — before they become emergencies.

For Individuals
Align purpose with paycheck by transforming your workday into the satisfaction engine you’ve been looking for.

This Is Not for You If…

  • You’re looking for another engagement survey

  • You’re looking for labels instead of leverage

  • You’re satisfied reacting to conflict after it escalates

  • You’re not prepared to examine how leadership decisions shape behavior

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  • ”Our company was doing well on paper, but we had some culture issues that were about to put us out of business if they weren’t handled. I thought solving these problems would be impossible or simply too expensive, since working on it would require too much time away from delivering on a growing backlog. Working with THE HACK changed everything. We mapped out the compatibility dynamics within the team and a few coaching sessions added easy to implement, individualized solutions to bridge the gaps. Now, the endless conflict is over and we can finally get back to work!”

    Mark - CEO

Our Service Offerings

  • define Your Culture

    Clearly define the culture of your team with our Culture Mapping service.

  • Culture Compatibility Test

    Ensure potential hires are compatible with your culture before they join the team.

  • coaching

    Get what you want by becoming more of who you are — delivered in a group or 1:1 format.

about:

Culture Is Infrastructure

Culture isn’t what you say.
It’s what your system rewards.

The Hack exists to make that system visible — so leaders can design it intentionally instead of discovering it through failure.

THE HACK is the result of many years of intensive, cross-disciplinary research spanning evolutionary psychology, anthropology, epistemology, economics, knowledge management, organizational dynamics, philosophy, and attachment science.

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