Engagement & motivation platform

Every mechanic answers
one question first.

Dot.Dopemine is the ecosystem's catalog of certified engagement mechanics — progress surfaces, recognition, habit scaffolding — each recorded against an acid test before any platform can deploy it. Would we show this to the person it targets, with its intent labeled? A mechanic that fails doesn't get certified. Full stop.

Mechanic Catalog Acid test: passed
Category: milestone recognition · Status: certified

How it works

Three moving parts, deliberately kept small

Catalog

Mechanic Catalog

The certified inventory of engagement mechanics — progress bars, milestone recognition, mastery paths — each carrying a recorded acid-test verdict and a revocable certification status.

Gate

Ethics gate

Certification isn't a checkbox: the model itself refuses to persist a certified status unless the acid test passed, and refuses to let a deployment start against anything that isn't certified.

Ledger

Wellbeing & Outcome Ledger

Every deployment is measured in pairs. Engagement movement is never published or acted on alone — only alongside the outcome metric the mechanic was meant to serve.

What we will not build

The prohibited list isn't a footnote. It's the flagship artifact.

It's where our restraint becomes legible to everyone else in the ecosystem. Additions go through Ethics Officer approval; removals require full governance review — deliberately harder than adding.

Raw engagement volume as a target

Dwell time, session count, opens — rewards attention captured, not outcomes achieved.

Individual streaks with loss framing

Manufactures compulsion via loss aversion rather than progress.

Person-vs-person leaderboards on rate metrics

Rewards speed over safety and quality.

Variable-ratio reward schedules

Slot-machine mechanics — never deployed, blocked at the catalog.

Abandonment / re-engagement pressure nudges

Exploits incompleteness anxiety instead of genuine value.

Part of the Dot Ecosystem

We hold ourselves to the rule we publish for everyone else

An observation pack pairing engagement movement with outcome movement is publishable. Engagement movement alone is rejected at ingestion — the same prohibited-metric rule applies to us.

Structurally enforced gate

Certification and deployment refuse to persist outside the ethics gate — not a validator, a model-level constraint.

Team-based deployments

The catalog is shared and global; which team is running which mechanic is tracked per team.

Knowledge Pack publishing

Observation, insight, outcome, and incident packs, published to Dot.Brain on a fixed cadence.

Ecosystem single sign-on

A one-time Sanctum token minted elsewhere in the ecosystem logs you straight into your dashboard.

Bring a mechanic in. We'll run the acid test.

Sign in with your Dot Ecosystem account or create one to browse the certified catalog.