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Human intelligence for the age of AI · Cognitive training · Cognitive coaching

Build intelligence.
Adapt to change.

Build intelligence for real-world adaptation.

Train the capacities that help you learn faster, think efficiently, adapt flexibly and stay effective under changing demands.

Ready to practise? Attention Control is available now — $20 one-off.

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Find what matters and resist competing signals.

Adaptive intelligence under real constraints

More demands. More change.
A need for room to think.

Digital technology can expand what people can learn and do, but access to time, money, support, decision rights and practical alternatives remains uneven. Effective adaptation starts by asking what is actually constraining the situation rather than assuming that everyone has too many choices.

More reach and opportunity

Learn from people anywhere, join communities, build with powerful tools, test ideas quickly and discover paths that once would have been invisible.

Attention capture

Feeds, alerts, recommendations and competing information can repeatedly pull control away from the goal that actually matters.

Limited headroom

Work, caring, deadlines, financial pressures and accumulated commitments can leave too little spare attention to inspect what has changed or consider another route.

Unequal room to manoeuvre

A possible path is not necessarily a feasible one. Skills, resources, permissions, support and cooperation affect which alternatives can actually be pursued.

The right adaptive move depends on the bottleneck. Recover headroom when demands crowd out thought. Open the search when the path is too narrow. Choose and protect a path when several options are genuinely viable. Reconsider it when reality changes.

Start with your experience

Does any of this
sound familiar?

Choose a goal to see a possible starting point. These are everyday experiences, not diagnoses or a test of your abilities. More than one may fit.

Stay focused“I sit down to work, but everything pulls me away.”Explore a starting point

Start by noticing what interrupts you and making one short block of work easier to protect. Attention Control offers focused practice selecting relevant information among competing signals.

Try this now: protect one 20-minute work block and count what actually pulls you away. Notice whether the main problem is external interruption, internal switching or uncertainty about what matters.

With AI, the same question matters: is its summary helping your goal, or drawing attention to the wrong things? Find the signal, coming soon, will practise checking that.

Explore Attention Control

Available now · $20 one-off

Think well with AI“AI makes me productive, but I am concerned about my critical thinking.”Explore a starting point

Bring a real task to coaching. Decide what kind of thinking it needs — understanding, critical evaluation, decision-making or strategic action — and where AI should assist rather than replace the judgement you need to retain.

Try this now: before asking AI, write down what a good answer needs to contain. Then compare its response with your criteria and note what it added, missed or distorted.

Explore coaching for AI use

Guidance is available through coaching.

Keep the thread“I lose track when there are too many things to hold in mind.”Explore a starting point

Try keeping the current goal and next step visible instead of holding everything in your head. Coaching can help you simplify instructions, meetings or complex tasks.

With AI, an editable map can make relationships visible. You still need to check the links and understand the essentials without it. Relational Memory and Binding Memory will explore these skills.

Explore personal coaching

Memory training nodes are coming later.

Learn and remember“I understand it at the time, but cannot bring it back when I need it.”Explore a starting point

Consider how you revisit and retrieve what you learn. A coaching plan can combine recall practice, useful cues and a study routine that fits your week.

When learning with AI, try recalling before asking for a hint. Check later what you can explain without the tool; Knowledge Access will build on this approach.

Explore a learning plan

Knowledge Access and memory nodes are coming later.

Plan and follow through“I know what I want to do, but struggle to turn it into the next step.”Explore a starting point

Choose one outcome, make the next action concrete and decide when to review it. Coaching can help you design a workable routine around competing demands.

With AI, compare possible paths and dependencies with your own prediction. Path Horizon will practise recognising when a plan should change.

Explore practical guidance

Path Horizon is a future training node.

Choose a path“I have several good options and keep changing direction.”Explore a starting point

List the few options that are genuinely viable, decide what information could still change the choice, then set a review point rather than reopening the decision whenever a new possibility appears.

Try this now: ask what you would lose by spending another week exploring instead of acting. Execution, learning-by-doing and feedback also have value.

Explore adaptive-commitment coaching
Turn plans into reality“I research and plan a lot, but I am not sure my real position is improving.”Explore a starting point

Separate model progress from action progress and state progress. A better plan can be valuable, but the next useful step should eventually change something outside the planning process or return information from the world.

Try this now: name one external action, what you predict will happen, and when you will review the result.

Explore reality-anchored coaching
Think more quickly“I want to keep up without rushing into mistakes.”Explore a starting point

First identify where time goes: finding information, deciding what matters or choosing a response. We can explore a simpler workflow and an appropriate balance between speed and accuracy.

AI may shorten part of a task, but checking and correcting its answer also takes time. Compare the whole workflow at a similar standard of accuracy.

Explore coaching for your task

Faster game responses do not establish faster thinking generally.

Think clearly under pressure“When I feel rushed or worried, it is harder to use what I know.”Explore a starting point

Look at the conditions as well as the task: interruptions, workload, fatigue and emotional distraction. Coaching can help you try a practical routine and review how it works in that situation.

With AI, keep a way to check, pause or continue if the tool is wrong or unavailable. Emotional training tasks are a proposed practice context; everyday resilience needs its own evidence.

Explore support for demanding situations

Resilience is an everyday outcome to evaluate, not a promised training effect.

Solve problems and make decisions“I keep circling the options, especially when the answer is uncertain.”Explore a starting point

Make the decision explicit, separate what you know from assumptions and compare a few meaningful alternatives. Coaching can help you build a decision routine and learn from the outcome.

Try this now: write down your current best option, one serious alternative and the evidence that would make you switch. Then revisit the decision after you obtain one new piece of information.

With AI, generate your own options first, then use alternatives and counterarguments to test them. You keep the final judgement.

Explore decision coaching

Generative Search and Reasoning nodes are coming later.

Develop general intelligence“I want to develop my thinking more broadly, not just get better at one game.”Explore a starting point

Developing general intelligence is the central aim of Synergy IQ. Practise attention, memory and reasoning as a connected network, then use separate assessments to investigate whether progress extends beyond the games.

Also explore what becomes possible with AI. Assisted performance and retained understanding are valuable goals, measured separately from changes in general intelligence.

Explore intelligence and the evidence

Synergy IQ has not been established to increase IQ or general intelligence.

You do not need to know which cognitive process is involved. The same difficulty can have different causes, and a practical change may be the best first step.

Choose your support

Practise independently.
Or work it through together.

SELF-GUIDED TRAINING

Start with focused practice.

Use Attention Control to practise selecting what matters amid competing signals. Explore the app, its method and what its scores can tell you.

Meet Attention Control — $20 →
PERSONAL COACHING

Build a plan around your life.

Work with Dr Mark Ashton Smith on a real challenge. Combine practical strategies, thoughtful AI use and relevant training, then agree what to try and how to review it. AI is optional; your goal comes first.

Explore coaching options →

01 / Start with attention

Find the signal.
Keep your focus.

Practise selecting the information that matters while competing signals make the task harder.

A self-guided starting point if you want structured attention practice. Pair it with practical changes to how you work, and judge everyday progress separately from your game score.

Attention ControlPractice screen
Attention Control unscored practice screen, showing five arrows and the majority-direction rule.
Inside Synergy IQ: learn the majority rule in unscored practice. View full size

02 / The developing network

Seven capacities.
One connected idea.

Start with a cognitive skill. Each node also has an optional AI exercise coming soon for applying that skill with tools. Attention Control training is available now; the other nodes and all embedded AI exercises are still in development.

THE SYNERGY QUESTION

What becomes easier to learn next?

The aim is to test how development in one capacity relates to later learning in another.

Explore the idea

A programme in development, not seven products already available to buy.

The idea behind the network

Different skills.
Connected thinking.

A possibility-rich environment can demand different things at different moments: protect a signal, hold relationships, retrieve what matters, open alternatives, map where paths lead and constrain them with evidence. The seven-node programme explores these distinct but interacting training targets.

Mutualism is a theory of how general intelligence develops: cognitive abilities may support one another’s learning over time. Synergy IQ aims to use those interactions to develop general intelligence. We also ask whether some capacities contribute more strongly than others; the training effect remains a hypothesis to test.

Thinking also draws on notes, diagrams, other people and AI tools. Coaching explores how your skills and these supports work together in a real task, and what you learn from using them.

Explore the training model →

A generative cognitive niche

Use powerful tools.
Keep the learning.

Build your skills.
Learn how to use the tools.

Digital tools can extend cognition in useful ways. AI is the newest step: it can generate alternatives, organise a difficult problem and challenge an assumption. The aim is to gain that leverage while preserving human understanding, judgement, commitment and learning.

Personal guidance · Available now

Bring your task. Explore a better way.

In coaching, work through a task with Dr Mark Ashton Smith: clarify the goal, choose where AI could help and practise checking its contribution. Build a routine that fits how you work or study.

Explore AI-use coaching

Inside the apps · Coming soon

Practise working with AI.

Coming soon: a focused AI exercise for each training node — checking what matters, keeping track of sources, exploring alternatives or testing a conclusion.

These features are coming soon and are not yet included in Attention Control. AI may support learning or leave too much thinking to the tool. We will assess assisted performance, retained understanding and independent cognitive change separately; effects on IQ remain a research question.

Goals across the network

What would progress
look like for you?

These goals can involve several capacities, practical strategies and optional AI use. They are outcomes to investigate, not promised benefits of buying an app.

Learn and remember

Your own thinking: Practise retrieval and revisit knowledge after a delay.

With AI: Use hints and explanations while checking what you can later recall unaided.

Think faster, without rushing

Your own thinking: Compare time and accuracy on fresh tasks.

With AI: Count the time spent prompting, checking and correcting as well as generating an answer.

Make better decisions

Your own thinking: Compare options, evidence and uncertainty.

With AI: Use alternative scenarios and challenges, then explain and own the final judgement.

Stay capable under pressure

Your own thinking: Explore strategies for distraction, emotional demands and recovery.

With AI: Practise spotting tool errors and continuing when AI is unavailable. Resilience is an outcome to evaluate.

Develop general intelligence

Your own thinking: Explore how capacities support later learning across the network.

With AI: Test what people and tools achieve together, while measuring unaided general ability separately. Mutualist development remains a hypothesis.

Make everyday work easier

Your own thinking: Choose a concrete work or study task and a useful measure of progress.

With AI: Compare a workflow with and without AI. Better output, retained understanding and skill development are different results.

A faster game score, a polished AI answer and an independent cognitive gain are not interchangeable. Agree what matters, then measure that outcome.

Keep learning from what happens

Practise. Check.
Adjust.

Choose a manageable step, look at what changes and use that information to decide what to do next.

  1. 01

    Practise

    Try a focused training task or a practical strategy suited to your goal.

  2. 02

    Check

    Review the everyday result and what you learned. When using AI, distinguish assisted output from what you can do independently.

  3. 03

    Adjust

    Keep what helps, revise what does not and choose the next manageable experiment.

Coming later: g loop — Apply and learn. A guided space to work through real challenges, choose where AI can help, and turn feedback into methods you can use again. This application layer will connect the seven nodes.

Improvement in a trained task does not by itself establish better everyday functioning, resilience or general intelligence.

G TrackWelcome screen
G Track welcome screen: Measure a starting point. Re-check after change.
The G Track welcome screen, before any assessment or results. View full size

05 / Map the adaptive system

Not another IQ score.
Track how you adapt.

G Track now combines the pilot Adaptive G Profile with separate cognitive benchmarks. Re-take the profile to map trajectories in stability, active learning, path control and reality coupling, while keeping matrix reasoning, attention and working memory as distinct objective measures.

Synergy IQ

Focused cognitive training and app-specific learning curves.

G Track

Repeatable Adaptive G profiles plus separate cognitive benchmarks.

Separate testing does not automatically remove practice effects or prove that training caused a change. Interpretation still needs appropriate comparisons.

06 / Science without the hype

Interesting ideas.
Clear boundaries.

Getting better at a game, carrying a skill into a different task, and improving general intelligence are different claims. We keep them separate.

Increasing general intelligence is the design aim. Whether Synergy IQ achieves that aim needs independent evidence; a higher game score alone cannot establish an IQ gain.

What does a training gain show?

That performance improved on the trained task. Robustness under interference and recovery after a changed presentation are additional questions, not automatic evidence of broader transfer.

What would count as transfer?

Improvement on a genuinely different, appropriate measure, interpreted against suitable comparisons. Delayed checks ask whether any change remains later.

What is still being tested?

Whether development in one node predicts how another is learned later. This future analysis is dormant, and observational relationships will not be presented as proof of causation.

Is this a medical treatment?

No. Synergy IQ is cognitive training, not diagnosis or treatment. Neither training scores nor Arena positions are clinical assessments or IQ rankings.

Guidance from the founder

Bring a real challenge.
Leave with a practical plan.

Work one to one with Dr Mark Ashton Smith to understand where things get difficult and choose a useful next step.

You can begin without app results. Bring a study routine, a demanding workflow, a decision or a question about using AI effectively.

Dr Mark Ashton Smith, founder of IQ Mindware
Dr Mark Ashton Smith

Cognitive neuroscientist.
Founder of IQ Mindware.

About IQ Mindware
  1. Understand the situation

    Start with a recent example and the conditions around it, including interruptions, time pressure or fatigue.

  2. Choose what to try

    Explore possible explanations and agree a practical strategy, workflow change, training route or combination.

  3. Make progress reviewable

    Leave with written next steps and a clear way to check whether they help with the outcome you value.

Online, non-clinical coaching. One session or a three-session programme.

Biweekly ArenaComing soon

Level up
the fun.

Bring your best to a 14-day challenge, with friendly rivalry and prizes to play for.

14-day challengesRookie + Open

Prizes and entry details will be announced with each event.

Always optional. You can use Synergy IQ fully without taking part. Arena is for fun, not an IQ ranking.

Already training?

Check what changed.
Not just what scored higher.

Training is one part of the loop. Return to the question that brought you here: what became easier, what still breaks under change, and what survives outside the game?

Re-check independently

Use G Track when you want a separate cognitive measure rather than another training score.

Explore G Track →

Report what you found

Share a bug, confusing step or useful experience. Product feedback helps us refine the training and the communication around it.

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