Oppolab — the experimental arm of Opposite

Diagnostics, sessions and practical tools developed by psychologists.

Start with a free tool

Oppolab is where Opposite

Oppolab is where Opposite tests, breaks, measures, rebuilds and simplifies things, then hands them over.

Tools you
can use.

A collection of practical tools we’ve built and tested. Some are free to use and others are available for a one-off purchase.

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Workshops Products Free tools
Paid Buy it, then run it yourself. Two assessments and ten printed card sets. Priced per use, invoiced against a purchase order, and yours to run without us in the room. Paid We run it with your team. Four two-day Deep Work programs where we embed with your people, and six one-hour Rapid sessions for forums and team days. Free Run one right now, free. Six diagnostics, card sorts and games. They run in the browser, put results on screen, and there is nothing to install.

Built for real work.

These tools started as working prototypes on real projects. We kept the ones that were useful in practice and developed them further.

Tools you can use straight away.

Assessment

AI Ready?

Eight workplace scenarios that test how you would respond when AI creates a practical dilemma.

7 min 8 dilemmas
Start now
Coming soon

Coming soon

Another free tool is on its way.

Card sort

Explore Your Values

Sort a set of values according to how important they are to you. It works on your phone and only takes a few minutes.

6 min 22 values
Sort your values
Diagnostic

AI Maturity Index

Twenty questions to assess where your organisation sits with AI, including capability, use, governance and risk.

5 min 20 questions
Begin the assessment
Career tool

Career Lighthouse

Work through where you are now, what you want next and the practical steps that could get you there.

15 min 5 stages
Open the lighthouse
Game

Office Quest

A simple point-and-click workplace game that tests how you respond to everyday safety situations.

10 min Point and click
Click to begin
Diagnostic

AI Cognitive Profile

Explore your preferred thinking style, how you tend to use AI and what that means in practice.

5 min Individual
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Two-day programs for
complex workplace problems.

Four practical programs where we work with your team on a real problem and leave you with something useful at the end.

Case studies

Short, focused sessions for
teams and leaders.

Six practical sessions for leadership forums, team days and conferences. Available online or in person across Australia, with scope and pricing agreed for each group.

Every 1-hour session includes
  • Evidence-informed content
  • Interactive elements
  • Tools you use immediately

Products with
set pricing.

Two assessments and ten printed card sets with set pricing. All prices include GST, and we can invoice against a purchase order.

We run it on
ourselves first.

Every diagnostic, session and deck in here was tested on our own team before it went anywhere near yours — which is how we know which bits work and which bits we quietly rewrote.

The Opposite team in the studio, running a timed presentation round together.
Friday practice rounds. Nobody is exempt.
A facilitator placing sticky notes on a wall-sized human factors radar.
Mapping our own radar before we map yours.
A team member arranging AI profile type cards on a magnetic board.
Our cards, on their first real table.
A team member holding up a hand-drawn sketch during a session.
Most of it starts as a drawing on a whiteboard.

The awkward
questions,
answered.

Nothing here is a secret. If something isn’t covered, ask us directly and we’ll add it.

Insured & accredited
Professional indemnity and public liability cover. Certificates on request.
Assessment data
Stored in Australia, aggregated before reporting, deleted after 24 months. Handled under the Australian Privacy Principles.
PO & invoicing
We invoice against a purchase order on 30-day terms. ABN placeholder — XX XXX XXX XXX.
Refunds
Digital products refundable within 14 days if unopened. Sessions rescheduled free with 10 business days’ notice.

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