Understand the roots, change the fruits.

Understand why anyone does anything —
and know exactly how to change it.

Cognativ turns one proven science — Cognitive Reflex Recognition® — into a tool that reads the hidden roots of any behaviour, predicts what a person will do next, and shows you the precise shift to get the outcome you want.

For coaches · leaders · teams · whole organisations
Built on Cognitive Reflex Recognition® Diagnose · Predict · Prescribe From one person to a whole enterprise A Performance Capability platform

One engine · countless situations

The questions you've never had a straight answer to.

Behaviour looks unpredictable until you can see what sits underneath it. Cognativ reads the needs and values driving what people do — so the questions that used to take months of guesswork resolve in a single conversation.

01

Why does my best performer keep quietly undermining their own promotion?

02

What will this candidate actually do when the pressure is really on?

03

How do I get this leader to let go of control — without them feeling diminished?

04

Why does this team keep relitigating the exact same argument?

05

What is really behind this client's resistance to a change they say they want?

06

How do I build a culture of ownership instead of quiet compliance?

07

Why do our strongest people leave — and what would have kept them?

08

What motivates this person when it's obvious the money doesn't?

How it works

One science. Three moves.

Every behaviour has roots. Beneath what someone does sit their rules, their values, the Window through which they see the world, and — at the base — seven universal human needs. Cognitive Reflex Recognition® maps that whole chain.

The CRR chain · roots → fruits
Needs
Window
Values
Rules
Behaviour
Results

Roots determine fruits. Change the root you can reach, and the behaviour that grows from it follows.

Diagnose

Read the driver

Start with a behaviour. Cognativ traces it back through the chain to the exact need and value driving it — and flags whether that need is being met or quietly starved.

"Why does she keep doing this?"
Predict

See what's coming

Start with what you know about a person and a situation. Cognativ forecasts how they'll behave and what results will follow — before the moment arrives.

"What will he do under pressure?"
Prescribe

Build the bridge

Start with the outcome you want. Cognativ designs the precise shift — the Reframe, the new rules, the phased roadmap and the pitfalls to watch — to get there.

"How do I actually change it?"

Who it's for

From one practitioner to a whole organisation.

The same science scales. Whether you're reading one person across a desk or steering the behaviour of thousands, Cognativ gives you one coherent language for what drives people.

Individuals

Coaches, leaders & professionals

For anyone whose results depend on understanding people.

  • Coaches & consultants — sharper diagnoses, faster breakthroughs, and a defensible method you can show a client in their own language.
  • Leaders & managers — understand what actually moves each person, defuse recurring conflict, and get the best from a team without guesswork.
  • Negotiators & advisers — read the need beneath the position, and anticipate the move before it's made.
  • Parents & teachers — see what's really driving a child's behaviour, and respond to the need underneath it rather than the reaction on the surface.
  • Anyone who works with people — turn a lifetime of intuition into something precise, repeatable and teachable.
Enterprise

Teams & organisations

A shared operating system for human behaviour, deployed at scale.

  • Leadership development — give every manager the same rigorous way to read and grow their people.
  • Culture & engagement — diagnose the collective drivers behind why your culture behaves the way it does, and where to intervene.
  • Hiring & talent — understand what a person will actually do, not just what they say in the room.
  • Team performance — resolve the conflicts that keep recurring by naming the needs underneath them.
  • One common language — so people, HR and leadership finally talk about behaviour the same way.
  • Enterprise-ready — white-label, SSO, admin controls and security built for organisations.

Stop guessing what drives your people.

Start reading it. Get going as an individual today, or map a rollout for your team.

Why Cognativ

Intuition, made precise.

01

Precision, not personality tests

No four-letter types or vague profiles. Cognativ names the specific need and value driving a specific behaviour — and what to do about it.

02

A conversation, not a course

Insight in minutes, not a multi-day certification. Type in what you're seeing; get a rigorous read you can act on.

03

One coherent science

Not a grab-bag of borrowed models. Everything traces back to a single framework, so it holds together under scrutiny.

04

Agency-first by design

Cognativ surfaces the Reframe — never manipulation. It respects the person and keeps the change in their hands.

05

A shared language

Give a whole team or organisation one precise way to talk about what drives behaviour, and alignment follows.

06

Scales with you

The same engine serves a solo coach and an enterprise of thousands — from a single read to organisation-wide capability.

In practice

What practitioners say.

★★★★★

"For the first time I can show a client why they do what they do, in language they can't argue with. It's halved my time to a real breakthrough."

Elena MarshExecutive Coach
★★★★★

"We stopped guessing about our people. Cognativ gave every manager one language for behaviour — and our engagement scores moved within a quarter."

David OkonkwoPeople Director, Scale-up
★★★★★

"I've used every model going. This is the first that holds together as one science and actually tells you what to do next."

Priya NairChief Executive

Pricing

Start solo. Scale when you're ready.

Begin as an individual in minutes. For teams and organisations, we'll shape the right rollout, licensing and white-label with you.

Individual
£39 / month
$49 USD · per user, per month
The full engine for a single practitioner. Starts with 5 free reads, no card required.
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  • Full Cognativ engine
  • Diagnose, Predict & Prescribe
  • Unlimited reads
  • Deep-dive insight & questions to ask
  • The Reframe & phased roadmaps
  • Private personal workspace
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Team
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Tailored to your team size
One shared language for a whole team.
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  • Everything in Individual
  • Shared team workspace
  • Multiple seats & admin controls
  • Team dashboards
  • Onboarding & practitioner training
  • Priority support
Organisation
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Enterprise deployment
Behavioural capability, organisation-wide.
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  • Everything in Team
  • Organisation-wide rollout
  • White-label & custom branding
  • SSO, security & data controls
  • Dedicated success partner
  • Custom integration & API

Questions, answered

Everything you're probably wondering.

01What is Cognativ, in one line?
Cognativ turns one proven science — Cognitive Reflex Recognition® — into a working tool. Describe a behaviour and it reads the need and value driving it, predicts what a person will do next, and shows you the precise shift to change it.
02How is it different from personality tests or profiling tools?
Personality tools sort people into fixed types. Cognativ does the opposite: it reads the specific need and value driving a specific behaviour in a specific moment — and tells you what to do about it. It's a diagnosis you can act on, not a label you're stuck with.
03Do I need to be trained or certified to use it?
No. The science is built into the engine, so you don't need a multi-day certification to benefit from it. Type in what you're seeing and you get a rigorous, on-model read in plain language. It's a conversation, not a course — though it makes trained practitioners considerably sharper.
04Is it just an AI chatbot?
No. Cognativ uses AI as its reasoning engine, but it's tuned to one coherent framework and constrained to it — so every read stays on-model rather than wandering. You get structured output: the traced chain, the driving need, the Reframe, a counter-read to pressure-test it, and — when prescribing — a phased roadmap and the pitfalls to watch.
05What is Cognitive Reflex Recognition®?
It's the science beneath Cognativ. Every behaviour has roots: beneath what someone does sit their rules, their values, the Window through which they see the world, and seven universal human needs. CRR® maps that whole chain — roots to fruits — so you can change the root you can reach and let the behaviour follow.
06Is my data — and the people I describe — kept private?
Your workspace is private to you. The content you enter is used to generate your result, not to train foundation models, and is handled under our safeguards. We'd always encourage you to describe behaviour without unnecessary identifying detail. Full detail is in our Privacy Policy.
07Can I trust the output?
Treat it as decision-support, not a verdict. Cognativ is rigorous and grounded in one framework, but the judgement stays yours — which is exactly why every diagnosis includes a "look again" counter-read that flags a credible alternative driver, so you test your read rather than close on it too early.
08How do pricing and cancellation work?
Individuals are £39 / $49 per month, and you can cancel any time. Teams and organisations are tailored to size and needs — including shared workspaces, admin, white-label and SSO — so those start with a short conversation. See pricing or book a meeting.
09Can we white-label Cognativ for our organisation?
Yes. On the Organisation plan you can deploy Cognativ under your own brand, with SSO, admin controls, security and data governance, and a dedicated success partner to lead the rollout. Schedule a meeting and we'll shape it with you.

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See what's really driving the people around you.

One science. Three moves. Every situation where behaviour matters.