hyveminds · Software studio · est. Australia

Software  that thinks like a researcher.

Seven purpose-driven products, built with universities, TAFEs and not-for-profits, made with educators in mind at every step.

Spotlight · 01 of 07
sCSimChoices

Any story, turned
into a branching
immersive sim.

SimChoices turns any narrative, a Jules Verne novel reimagined as a game, social-skills scenarios, immersive job training, classroom dilemmas, pure CYOA fun, into a branching simulation with generated voice, scene art and timed choices. Serious themes, playful delivery, learners actually want to play.

Education · K–12 + TAFEWorkforce trainingLiterary adaptationsSocial-skills sims
Explore SimChoices in depth
The learner's viewscene · 04 / 11
Scene 4 of 11 · "After the bell"REC02:14
Mia · year 9 · soft voice
"It's not the homework, miss. I just… couldn't sleep again."
The story map23 nodes · 14 paths
Story startSide with MiaSide with CoachReflectionReflectionReflectionOutcome AOutcome BOutcome C
Start / ChoiceSceneReflectionOutcome, learner's current path
01 · Capture
Teacher tells the story.
A 6-minute voice memo from a real classroom incident. NLP extracts characters, location, conflict and the moral question.
"Mia hadn't done her homework again. I'd warned her last week, but tonight when I asked, she just… froze. Then it clicked, she's been sleeping over at her aunt's because…"
02 · Structure
AI proposes story beats.
A teacher edits the branching skeleton: which beats are choices, which are reflections, where the path forks, where it converges.
1Inciting moment
2First choice, confront / wait
3Reveal, the home situation
4Choice, refer / hold space
5Reflection · self
6Outcome, three paths
03 · Generate
Voices, scenes, choices.
The system generates voice acting, scene art and timed interactions, all editable. Teachers stay in control of every line.
VOICE · MIA
SCENE · 04
BEAT · 02:14
CHOICE · ×3
Canvas-based
build environment
Drag, branch and rewire scenes on an infinite canvas. Visual debugging of every fork.
Authoring · in-browser
NLP validator
Every generated line is gated to the source narrative. Drift, anachronism and tone breaks flagged before publish.
Source-faithful generation
Path validator
Catches dead-ends, unreachable beats and one-way traps. Guarantees every choice resolves.
Graph integrity · 100% coverage
SCORM & LTI 1.3
Drops into Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard, Brightspace. xAPI events for every choice and reflection.
LMS-ready · enterprise SSO
Grounded in research
Built on the gamification & serious-games literature, self-determination theory, narrative transportation, situated cognition.
Bibliography · 47 references
02, The other six

Each one,
a research
tool with teeth.

Different problems, same operating principle: build the rigorous version of a tool researchers, teachers and analysts already need, then make it nice enough that they actually use it.

Segment A · Numbers and meaning

The analysis pair.
Quanti & Quali.

Two halves of the same research craft. Quanti runs the models with every assumption visible; Quali codes the interviews with reliability built in. Both share the same project file.

Quanti

OLS, logit, panel models, robust SEs, clustering, every analysis ships with the formula on the page and the assumptions checked.

OLS · WLS · ridgeFixed & random effectsCoef plots · Q-Q · ROCReplication-ready
fx= OLS(wage ~ educ + exper + I(exper^2), data, robust=HC3)
educexperwage
112414.20
216822.10
3141119.80
412615.40
5181431.50
612212.10
OLS · n=2,847 · R²=0.412
(intercept)−0.83±0.21
educ0.52±0.04
exper0.18±0.03
I(exper^2)−0.003±0.001
educ
exper
exp²
In market · v3.2
Quali

Transcripts, codes, themes and sentiment, coordinated across interviews. Inter-rater reliability built in, not bolted on.

Inductive codingTheme bars · sentimentCohen's κ liveAudio + transcript sync
P04
0:42
I think what surprised me was how much they listened. Like, actually listened.
trustunexpected
P04
0:51
Before, you'd ask and just get a shrug. Now there's…
change
M
1:02
There's what?
P04
1:04
There's curiosity. The team's actually curious.
engagement
Themes · 12 interviews
Trust38
Engagement27
Resistance18
Belonging12
Burnout9
In market · v2.1
Segment B · Reading

A library that
reads back to you.

Lexis is our digital eReader, ePub, PDF and everything in between, with high-quality read-aloud and a cloud catalogue of two million open research and general-interest titles.

04 · Reading
Lexis

A digital eReader for ePub, PDF and everything in between, with high-quality read-aloud, highlighting, annotations and a cloud catalogue of 2M+ open research and general-interest titles.

ePub · PDF · mobiRead-aloud (HD voices)Highlights & annotations2M+ open titlesOffline mode
LexisCh. 7 · "Quiet Mornings"Read-aloudp.124

The morning had not yet decided what it wanted to be. Light came in flat through the kitchen window, and somewhere a kettle began to whistle, then thought better of it.

She had been awake since four, not from worry exactly, but from a kind of attentiveness she could not name.

The book was open on the table where she'd left it. A pencil mark in the margin, hers, made some weeks ago, read simply: "begin again."

02:14 / 06:42
Segment C · Team rituals

Meetings that
actually build something.

Huddle Goals turns Zoom and Teams calls into purpose-driven games, trust, collaboration and shared language built through play, with serious facilitation underneath.

05 · Team rituals
Huddle Goals

Purpose-driven team games for Zoom and Teams. Twelve game types built on team-science research, trust, collaboration and shared language without the cringe.

Zoom + Teams12 game typesFacilitator dashboardOutcome trackingTeam-science backed
Priya
Marc
Jess
Theo
Lin
Sam
Round 2 · Trust
"Two truths and a lesson."
Each person shares two true career stories and one lesson the team should remember. The room votes on the lesson.
04:21 leftPriya's turn
Segment D · Field tools

The new wing.
HyveMaps & Phonos.

Two younger products in active beta with research partners. HyveMaps does coverage and gap analysis on real public data; Phonos Player handles long-form audio, field recordings and live transcription.

06 · Geo intelligenceBeta
HyveMaps

Geographic intelligence for evidence-led decisions, coverage, gap and overlap analysis on real public data, with custom layers per project.

Open dataGap analysisCustom layersCSV → map
FM TRANSMITTERS · NSW
activegap
6,273
transmitters · ACMA
Beta · partners only
07 · AudioBeta
Phonos Player

A long-form audio player for field recordings, oral histories and podcasts, with live transcription, quotable timestamps and Quali-ready exports.

Field audioLive transcriptsQuotable timestamps→ Quali export
Episode 14 · Field recording
The kookaburras at dawn, Mt Wilson
00:42• LIVE TRANSCRIPT−3:18
Beta · partners only
03, How we work

Partner-built
from day one.

Every product in the roster started as a problem brought to us by a university, TAFE or not-for-profit. We build it together, they bring the practice, we bring the software, and the methods stay open and replicable.

University
University partner
↳ simChoices · pre-service teacher pilot

Illustrative example: strong completion rates against baseline across multiple cohorts.

TAFE
TAFE partner
↳ simChoices · trauma-informed practice

Custom story library; staff trained as in-house authors.

NFP
Not-for-profit partner
↳ HyveMaps · transmitter access mapping

Open dataset of 6,273 transmitters; gap report fed into ACMA submission.

University
University partner
↳ Quali · interview methods curriculum

Coding workflow adopted across two postgrad units.

Four things we won't
cut corners on.
i
Methods on the page

The formula, the threshold, the assumption, visible where you use it, not buried in a help doc.

ii
No hallucinated content

When we use AI, every output is gated to a real source, a teacher's story, a coded transcript, an open dataset.

iii
Replication by default

Every analysis exports the data, the parameters and the seed. Someone else should be able to run it tomorrow.

iv
Built with the field

Every product in the roster has a partner credit. None of this would exist without their practice and their patience.

04, Talk to us

If you've got the
research, we'll
build the tool.

We work with universities, TAFEs and not-for-profits on long-term partnerships. Tell us about the practice you're trying to scale and we'll figure out whether one of the seven fits, or whether there's an eighth worth building.

Open partnerships · 2026
What we're
looking for next.

Two new pilots a year, that's it. We pick partners by problem fit, not budget.

SimChoices · K-12 mental healthseeking
HyveMaps · housing access dataseeking
Quali · oral history pilotseeking
Lexis · book access partnershipsseeking