Rook / National security and defense

Test how human behavior changes the outcome.

Human behavior is a critical variable in any complex scenario, yet one that's often oversimplified or overlooked. Rook brings it into wargaming and simulation, modeling how people interpret information, make decisions and adapt as circumstances change.

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Built for Defense & intelligence analysts, military planners, and designers

The question

How would people respond, and what would that mean for the plan?

What you examine

How people behave under pressure, respond to uncertainty, and influence one another.

A workspace for complex decision making

Build a scenario around the people involved. See how their behavior could change events, then adjust the conditions to understand what your plan depends on.

1. Setup

Define the objectives and set the scenario.

Define the actors, objectives, available information and operating conditions. Choose the decisions and assumptions you want to examine.

2. Simulate

Explore outcomes and implications.

Let agents act, or take a human command role. Change decisions or assumptions to explore how interactions shape the scenario.

3. Observe and inspect

Interrogate the results at a step level.

Replay the timeline, switch perspectives and compare branches. Inspect what each actor knew and chose, and what changed as a result.

Inside Rook

Follow a decision through the scenario.

We develop agents with distinct behavioral traits, goals, knowledge, experiences and emotional tendencies, allowing the same environment to produce different decisions and outcomes depending on who is interacting with it.

Rook records those interactions. Pause and replay the timeline, switch perspectives, or branch from a saved point. Compare what each actor knew and chose, then export the records for review.

Rook also integrates physics-based models of real-world environments, connecting human decisions to physical movement and resource use.

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Ignoring human factors exposes your decision modeling to flaws.

In this example, the same warning reaches a team under different human conditions. Examine how fatigue, experience and time pressure could change what people notice, share and act on.

A drone-strike warning. Seconds to decide.

Fatigue

The team is running on empty.

What is the impact on situational awareness and choices?

Experience

Successful operations leading to hubris.

When does past success become a blind spot?

Time pressure

Can't wait for new intel or seek expert opinion.

Does urgency lead to oversimplification?

Sovereign deployment

Deployed on your terms.

Our models support on-premises deployment, including air-gapped environments. Run them on your own hardware, within your network, without sending data outside of your organization.

Built for sensitive and classified settings, with control over what enters the system, who can access it and how long records are retained.

How it works

Insights that you can inspect.

Synthetic data lets us explore more than real-world data alone can cover. How much we trust the results depends on how rigorously we evaluate them: checking that the simulation works as intended and testing its behavior against real-world evidence.

Traceability

Follow every decision.

Replay the exercise, inspect each decision point and trace how actions and interactions shaped the outcome.

Transparency

Know what informed it.

Assumptions, information sources, claims and inferences are made visible, so you can examine what each decision was based on.

Human oversight

Humans are kept in command.

Set doctrine, define permissions and keep human decision-makers in the loop.

Explore the underlying technology

Bring a simulation scenario.

We'll explore how Rook can support your testing efforts.

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