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What Makes a Great Brains Trust?
Reading Ben Thomas's opinion piece in The Press this weekend got me thinking.
By Chris Cole
Peppr adapts your team's workflows to how every person thinks. No diagnosis, no disclosure, no one singled out.




Agenda: 10am product sync
Three items, 25 minutes. Why each one matters and what we decide.
10:00 Product sync
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The talent is already on payroll. Most workplaces are simply not built to see it.
1 in 5
have dyslexia
20% of your entire org. Most don't know yet.
95%
never find out
One in five adults process information differently, and no one's built for them.
52%
won't tell you
When people can't work the way they think best, everyone pays for it.
In a team of 100, that's 20 people. Most of them don't know it yet.
Your team already has the talent. Peppr makes sure the environment matches. Three steps, no forms for HR.
Slack or Teams, plus your calendar. Peppr reads how your team actually works and starts shaping it.
How do you like to prep, focus, take in information? That's it. No diagnosis. No labels. Nothing shared with the boss.
Sam's answersPrivateOnly Sam sees thisHow do you prep for meetings?
Where do you do your best work?
How do you take in information?
Nudges in the right place at the right time. Clearer structure, fewer blockers. Your team just works better.
Every person gets a private board to sort their day into piles. Every meeting gets a shared one, so everyone has the same surface to put their ideas on. Peppr shapes each board to the people on it: more structure for some, more room for others. This one is real. Try it, it stays in your browser.
Understand dyslexic thinking first, then apply it to leadership, communication and hiring. From the Unlock Innovation team, now part of Peppr.
90 days. One flat price for your whole org. A contained pilot with a representative group, starting from each person's working-style profile.
Prefer email? hey [at] peppr [dot] io
Discover
Weeks 0 to 1
Understand different thinking
Profile
Weeks 1 to 2
Everyone answers a few questions
Experience
Weeks 2 to 4
Peppr shapes meetings and messages
Embed
Weeks 3 to 10
It becomes how the team works
Measure
Throughout
Check-ins and team-level signals
Review
Weeks 11 to 12
Look at the evidence, decide on scale