Team-X FAQs

Team^x helps you decode your team’s chemistry and unlock peak performance.

Team^x provides data-driven insights and recommends customized practices to help team members communicate and collaborate more effectively and work better together.

Team^x uses proven tools like the Biodex™ and Neuroinclusion Recommender™, and was developed by Ultranauts Inc based on a decade of applied research into building high performing, cognitively diverse teams.

Inclusion in a workplace setting is the act of removing barriers to full participation, ensuring each team member has access to the resources, information and interactions they need to do their best work.

Inclusion is not the feeling of belonging or psychological safety. Such feelings can emerge in an inclusive work environment, but are often dependent on factors outside a team’s control.

Thus, Team^x focuses on helping teams take concrete actions that enable all teammates to fully participate in their work and drive value together.

For the purposes of Team^x, a “team” is a small group of people working together to achieve a set of shared objectives, requiring close collaboration and frequent communication – e.g. an 8 person feature team (not a 200 person engineering group), a 6 person marketing analytics team (not a 50 person marketing department).

Team^x is best suited for teams of 4-10 members.

Team^x is available in 3 tiers depending on the needs of a team:

• Team^x Launch: Decode team chemistry and identify teammates’ unique needs. 30 minutes of set-up with immediate insights tuned to your team’s needs so you can start working better together.
• Team^x Elevate: Boost team cohesion and collaboration and achieve quick wins. 30 minutes of set-up, with immediate insights tuned to your team’s needs and a customized playbook with prioritized actions tailored to your particular team and context.
• Team^x Pro: Continuously Improve team cohesion and drive team performance. 30 minutes of set-up with immediate insights and a tailored playbook, kicking off a 3 month program with immersive training and ongoing analytics/insights so your team can keep improving.

Space is limited and priority will be given to organizations interested in piloting Team^x with 3 or more teams.

Team^x can have a positive impact on neuroinclusion and disability inclusion where traditional approaches may fall short. Team^x’s approach is to help teams identify and adopt shared practices that remove barriers to full participation for every team member, including neurodivergent team members and team members with a disability.

This is different from traditional approaches which focus on one off workplace accommodations for specific colleagues and don’t change an organization’s or team’s default practices and norms. Such traditional approaches have a limited impact because:

• Some team members with a disability may not feel safe/comfortable requesting an accommodation
• Accommodations don’t remove the underlying barriers preventing a team member from accessing the resources, information and interactions they need to do their work

Founded by two MIT engineers in 2013, Ultranauts Inc. is on a mission to demonstrate that neurodiversity is a competitive advantage for business. To achieve our mission, we’re building a world-class engineering firm that delivers superior value for our customers, and designing a Universal Workplace that embraces diversity and serves as a replicable blueprint for other employers.

Ultranauts has teammates in 30 states across the U.S. and is powered by one of the most diverse groups in business. 75% of Ultranauts are neurodivergent, the majority of whom are Autistic, many of whom are ADHDers and Dyslexics, and 100% of whom believe our differences make us better together.

Named a Fast Company World Changing Idea, Interbrand Breakthrough Brand and MIT Solve Challenge Winner, Ultranauts is reimagining how a company hires talent, manages teams and develops careers to empower our teams to perform at their best. For more information, visit https://ultranauts.co/