High-performing teams aren't similar. They're aligned.
The instinct is to hire people who feel familiar. The data says that's exactly what holds teams back. Marlee builds a predictive model from your own highest performers, then shows you how to align different working styles around a shared goal, not flatten them into sameness. Every person on the team gets the insight to bring out the best in each other, not just the leaders and managers.
Built on 25+ years of motivation science · Trusted by 90% of the Fortune 100
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The Myth of the Perfect Team
Most teams are built for comfort, not performance. And comfort is expensive.
Left to instinct, leaders hire and pair people who feel familiar: similar backgrounds, similar working styles, similar instincts. High-performing teams aren't the most alike. They're the most complementary.
"Marlee has been crucial for our teams. It gives us direction for composition, hiring, and conflict resolution. There are so many 'aha' moments."
Reshmi Buthello, VP of People & Culture
WHERE MARLEE EXCELS
This isn't personality typing. It's a predictive model built from your own top performers.
Motivation Science
25+ years of research and 16B data points measuring motivational traits with 90%+ reliability.
Your Own X-Factor Model
Built from your own highest performing individuals and teams, so 'high-performing' means what it looks like here.
Working Styles, Not Sameness
Teams that embrace different working styles, aligned around a shared goal, consistently outperform homogeneous ones.
(Diverse teams make better decisions 87% of the time — Erik, Larson.)
BUILT AROUND REAL PEOPLE
Different isn't the problem. It's the whole point.
Every person on your team works differently by design, not by accident. Marlee maps those differences and gives everyone, not just managers, the insight to bring out the best in each other.
"I used to think our best pairing would be two people just like me. It's the opposite."
"Turns out our most 'difficult' teammate was our most complementary one."
"We stopped hiring for culture fit and started building for culture add."
HOW IT WORKS
Three moves from 'we hope this team gels' to 'here's the data behind why it will.'
STEP 01
Learn what high performance actually looks like on your team
Marlee analyzes your own highest and lowest performing individuals and teams to build a proprietary X-Factor Model of what actually drives performance here.
PROOF, NOT PROMISES
Not a framework borrowed from someone else's team. A model built from yours.
100%
of Ravel Innovation team rated Marlee above 4 out of 5 stars
80%
of teams said the biggest learning was identifying their collective blind spots
90%+
reliability measuring 48 work motivations per team member
90%
of the Fortune 100 have teams active on Marlee
WHY NOT JUST...
The usual approaches optimize for comfort. None of them are built to predict performance.
ALTERNATIVE | WHAT IT GIVES YOU | WHAT MARLEE GIVES YOU |
|---|---|---|
Hiring and pairing for 'culture fit' | A team that feels comfortable and similar, and that plateaus for exactly that reason. | A model that proves which differences actually predict high performance on your team. |
Generic personality tests | A label from a generic population norm that has nothing to do with your team. | A proprietary X-Factor Model built from your own highest and lowest performers. |
Engagement surveys | A lagging sentiment score, months after the fact. | A predictive, person-level map of alignment and friction before it costs you performance. |
FROM TEAMS USING MARLEE
Real teams, aligned around what actually makes them work.
“Marlee's insights and data helped us define the characteristics of successful teams in our programme. The teams also loved it and found it a very helpful tool to map and compare their strengths and blindspots.”
Rebecca Sharpe
Head of Corporate Innovation and Accelerators, Ravel Innovation
“We have been using Marlee to annually review our team's dynamics and opportunities for development and have found dramatic improvement in our team's collaboration and individual performance.”
Amanda Price
Partner, KPMG High Growth Ventures
“Marlee is indispensable. With the revolutionary and easy to understand insights it gives, a person can see at-a-glance their own behaviors and motivations, and measure themselves against others in their own team and other companies. It is my most highly utilized and recommended teaming tool.”
Heather Wild
CTO, ex Head of Support for Evernote
Your team live on Marlee in days, not months.
Most teams complete onboarding and see their recommendations in a day, no IT project, no six-month rollout.
COMMON QUESTIONS
Before you book a demo
No. Personality tests give everyone a label from a generic population. Marlee builds a proprietary X-Factor Model from your own highest and lowest performers.
See what your own data says that makes your team perform.
Book a free 30-minute session. We'll show you how an X-Factor Model built from your team reveals what to align, and how.
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