Praxis Technology
The engine behind the diagnosis
Praxis is a proprietary behavioral-science diagnostic engine. It takes a real-world behavior problem, identifies the mechanism most likely driving it, and guides the work from diagnosis to a measured result. It runs fully offline.
Every project starts with two choices
Sector
Corporate or Government. It changes the wording and examples, not the steps.
Stage
Where your situation is: in operation or in design. Each has its own track.
In operation
It is running, or it already happened.
In design
It has not launched yet.
Intake
The situation in your own words, plus a fixed set of details, completed together on an intake call. One format for every client.
Diagnose
Praxis names The Why and The How and places the case on the Praxis Matrix. The result is a hypothesis, with no confidence rating yet. No data yet? Diagnose has an option for that.
Validate
Praxis specifies the data to collect, and your real data is tested with established statistics. This is the only point where confidence is given.
Intervention
Drawn from solutions that researchers proposed for that mechanism. Nothing is proposed until your data supports the hypothesis.
Trial Design & Evaluation
The intervention is trialled, ideally against a control group, and measured over a set period. Did it work, and by how much?
Scaling
What worked is rolled out more widely.
Intake
The same intake, in the same format.
Gap Analysis
The policy or process is checked for behavioral gaps before it reaches people: which risks are covered, partly covered, or missing.
It is read through the same The Why and The How families as a running case, looking for the moments where people are likely to stall or drift:
- Steps that are unclear or take more effort than they should
- Timing, reminders, and defaults that work against the intended action
- Incentives, social cues, or trust issues that pull the other way
Each gap is named and explained, so the intervention has a clear target.
Intervention
Designed to close the gaps found, drawn from solutions that researchers proposed.
Trial Design & Evaluation
The first real test of the design, ideally against a control group, measured over a set period.
Scaling
What worked is rolled out.
Two answers: The Why and The How
Every diagnosis gives two answers. The Why is the theory that explains the behavior. The How is the practical framework you can act on. Either can come back as "none", and Praxis says so instead of forcing a fit.
Theory families
- Leadership and relationshipsLeader-member exchange · Transformational leadership
- Motivation and goalsSelf-determination theory · Goal-setting · Expectancy (Vroom)
- Fairness and strainOrganizational justice · Job Demands-Resources
- Offer and outcomeExpectancy-disconfirmation
Practical framework families
- Context and choice designChoice Architecture · MINDSPACE · EAST
- Process and accessFriction-Mapping
- Offer and outcomeJobs to Be Done
- None fitsPraxis says so instead of forcing one
Independent evidence only
Peer-reviewed research and non-partisan public-policy bodies. Advocacy think tanks are excluded, so no political position is built in.
The Praxis Matrix
Every case is placed where its Why meets its How: the family of theory that explains the behavior, and the family of frameworks that can change it.
Illustrative. Every case lands where its Why meets its How. When Praxis finds one without the other, it says so.
Honest by design
Most tools in this space overclaim. Praxis shows exactly what its conclusions rest on, and how strong the evidence is.
Hypothesis first
Diagnosis results are shown as unverified hypotheses, with no confidence rating. Confidence only comes from evidence: your data at Validate, or the trial for work still in design.
Evidence is graded
Every intervention is labelled by how much research stands behind it. It shows how well studied an idea is, not a promise that it will work.
Thin data is called thin
When your data is too small for a reliable result, Praxis says so, and reports a range instead of a falsely precise number.
Reasoning is always shown
Every diagnosis shows why it was reached, and each result can be confirmed or flagged by the consultant.
What the AI does, and doesn't
It does
- Make judgment calls: which Why, which How
- Show the reasoning behind every diagnosis
- Say "none" when no Why or How fits
It never
- Produces the numbers. Every figure comes from built-in statistical software
- Invents interventions. They come from a library of solutions researchers proposed
- Claims more certainty than the data supports
Where Praxis fits
Established behavioral-science units do rigorous, bespoke work, usually over weeks or months, built around randomized trials. But the initial diagnosis is still expert judgment, redone for every project, and the field has drifted toward light-touch nudges that are easy to trial.
Praxis is
- The fast, standardized front end of behavioral work: a structured diagnosis in minutes, not weeks
- Every framework weighed equally, not just the cheapest to trial
- The Why and The How identified before any testing begins
- Its own trial loop for organizations that can't commission a large trial
Praxis is not
- A replacement for a full-scale randomized trial run by a major evaluation body
- A source of guaranteed outcomes
Privacy by design
No names. No identities. No cloud.
Runs fully offline
Praxis runs on the consultant's own machine. Client material is never sent to a third-party server.
Works only with your codes
Data is pseudonymous: Praxis sees only the codes you assign, never names or identities. The key that links the two stays with you.
You stay in control
Personal data never reaches Praxis. You decide what is shared, and you carry out any intervention yourselves.