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Manipulation is measurable.

M.I.N.D. reads how language is engineered to bend you - manufactured urgency, false consensus, identity bait, engineered framing - and returns a calibrated verdict. When it isn’t sure, it says so. Defense only. Your mind stays yours.

Calibrated verdicts, real held-out metrics Every claim traces to an artifact No influence ops. Ever.
Analysis · illustrativeM.I.N.D.

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Manipulation score
0.88
Verdict
High
Manufactured urgency L4 · Choice Architecture
False consensus L3 · Network Propagation
Compliance pressure L5 · Behavioral Loop
Calibrated · abstains when it isn’t sure
About · Esothel Labs

A private applied-research laboratory. We build defensive systems that detect manipulation in language - not after the damage is done, but while it’s happening.

The problem

The war is for your attention. And it’s automated.

Influence operations run across 80+ countries. AI now manufactures persuasion faster than any human can review it. And the systems meant to protect you were built to maximize engagement - not to defend your judgment.

Persuasion at machine scale

A single model can draft ten thousand tailored, emotionally-tuned messages before a human reads one. Volume is no longer the bottleneck.

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Optimized against you

Feeds are tuned for what holds you, not what serves you. The most engaging content and the most manipulative content are often the same content.

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Invisible by design

Manipulation works precisely because you don’t see the mechanism. Fact-checking arrives after belief has already moved.

The solution

We detect the mechanism, not the vibe.

Not fact-checking. Not sentiment. Not keyword blacklists. M.I.N.D. measures how a piece of content is engineered to exploit cognition - and returns one number you can act on, the evidence behind it, and an honest “I’m not sure” when the honest answer is that it isn’t.

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    Feed it the text

    A message, an email, a post, a thread. Paste it, pipe it through the API, or let a bot or browser extension watch the places you actually get gaslit.

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    Seven layers interrogate it

    Pattern, emotion, network, choice architecture, behavioral loops, cognitive load, and discourse trajectory - each weighed into one score, backed by 172 detection modules.

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    Get a verdict - or an honest shrug

    A calibrated Manipulation Potential Score with its evidence. And when confidence is genuinely low, it abstains instead of bluffing. When it flags, you can act.

Precision over recall, and abstention over bluffing. M.I.N.D. is tuned to protect legitimate speech first - we accept missing some manipulation as the explicit price of your trust.

Explore the capabilities
Capabilities

A real instrument, shipping today.

Everything below is live in M.I.N.D. v0.6.0 - and everything is defensive.

Twenty analysis layers. Seven do the work.

Seven active layers carry the weighted score - their weights sum to exactly 1.0. The remaining thirteen run as a research bench at weight 0.00, never touching your verdict until a promotion gate says they’ve earned it.

Pattern Frequency Emotional Arc Network Propagation Choice Architecture Behavioral Loop Cognitive Load Discourse Trajectory
172
detection modules across 15 families, each governed by the same capability and approval model.

A verdict that abstains

Calibrated to a 0.0143 expected error. On the ~8.5% of cases it’s genuinely unsure, it declines rather than guess.

A language for lies

HPL - Human Persuasion Language - lets analysts write detection rules for manipulation tactics the way you’d write a firewall rule.

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Runs where you get gaslit

Telegram & Discord bots, Chrome/Firefox extensions, REST + WebSocket API, Python & JavaScript SDKs, single-command Docker deploy.

One engine. Many fronts.

The same calibrated core adapts to where the fight is - inside a moderation pipeline, in a researcher’s notebook, or on the phone of someone who just wants to know if they’re being played.

Trust & safety

Triage manipulation at scale with a score you can set thresholds on and audit.

Platforms

Screen inbound content and coordinated campaigns via REST + WebSocket, in real time.

Researchers

A frozen, sha256-pinned corpus, an ablation harness, and pre-stated evaluation gates.

Individuals

Bots and browser extensions that quietly flag the mechanism as you read.

Proven in the open

Numbers you can actually check.

Measured on real text with real labels - a 9,577-sample corpus across sixteen public source families, on a frozen, sha256-pinned split. Every figure below traces to a versioned evaluation artifact that ships with the engine.

Served cascade v4 · held-out test split
F1 score
0.959
False-positive rate @ 0.53 operating point
0.025
Expected calibration error (says 80% → right ~80%)
0.014
FPR on the cases it chooses to decide
0.008
N = 2,000,000

A synthetic zero-false-positive floor - precision 1.000 / FPR 0.000 - defended in CI on every change, so a build that starts flagging obviously benign text fails before a customer ever sees it.

Every claim travels with its qualifier. Metrics are quoted as of v0.6.0 (July 2026), and if our numbers change, the artifacts change first. Mechanism, not vibes. Receipts, not adjectives.

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What we stand on

Your mind is yours. Full stop.

We build for personal autonomy, mental clarity, and the quiet dignity of a person who can tell when they’re being worked on. Everything here points one direction: toward coherence and restoration, never capture.

Defense only. No asterisk.

We detect, classify, and neutralize manipulation. We do not create influence operations, and we never will.

Sovereignty over the signal

The tools protect the person, not the platform. Where brain-adjacent signals exist, they can only lower a threat score, never raise one.

Truth you can check

Mechanism, not vibes. Receipts, not adjectives. If we can’t show the math, we don’t make the claim.

Clarity as a service

The goal isn’t fear - it’s calm. A person who sees the mechanism stops flinching at shadows and starts thinking again.

Restoration, not just alarms

Detection is the first half. The point is a mind that recovers its own footing - resilient, sovereign, unhurried.

Yours to extend

Write your own detectors in HPL, ship custom modules and plugins behind a strict capability model, and trade rule-packs through a governed marketplace - every submission auto-pre-checked and human-approved before it ships.

Get in touch.

M.I.N.D. is in open public beta. Tell us what you’re protecting - a platform, a team, or a community - and we’ll help you put the engine to work.

Live now on Discord · Personal Dashboard, API access, browser extensions, and enterprise deployments rolling out.