OK๐Rs โ Q3 Week 6 2025 = 30,950 points โ GPTโ5 โ UCS Hawthorne โ 2ร Admin Sprints ๐๐โโ๏ธ โ OK๐R s 4.7 โ 5.0
โ๏ธSienna AI โ Breaking Records with OK๐Rs + GPTโ5
Q3ยทW6 โ 30,950 points | Hawthorne in Action | 2ร Admin Sprints๐๐โโ๏ธ | OK๐R s 4.7 โ 5.0
This week we hit 30,950 points โ our highest nonโfinancial score since 2017 โ and did it the hard way: sustained legal prep powered by GPTโ5 and the Hawthorne Effect.
How the OK๐R System Works
Our OK๐R (Objectives & Key Results) system combines behavioural science, gamification, and data-driven tracking into a personal and organisational productivity engine.
- Every work session earns a category emoji showing what area the work supports (โ๏ธ for Sienna AI, ๐น for litigation, ๐ค for health, etc.).
- A standard productive session scores 200 points.
- High-impact work can earn additional โPlanck scoresโ โ โ๐ (100), โ๐ (250), โ๐ช๏ธ (500), all the way to โ๐ฆผ (2,500) for game-changing achievements.
- The Admin Sprint bonus: when a session is devoted entirely to an unpleasant but necessary task โ the kind that keeps projects moving but nobody wants to do โ points double from 200 to 400 ๐๐โโ๏ธ.
This week, a lot of those sprints were in legal case prep โ dense, repetitive work โ and the double-point incentive turned potential procrastination into steady, motivated progress.
๐งญ How the OK๐R System Works
Our OK๐R (Objectives & Key Results) system blends behavioural science, gamification, and data-driven tracking into a personal and organisational productivity engine.
- Category tagging: Every work session earns a category emoji showing what area the work supports (โ๏ธ for Sienna AI, ๐น for litigation, ๐ค for health, etc.).
- Base scoring: A standard productive session scores 200 points.
- Planck bonuses: Highโimpact work can earn additional โPlanck scoresโ โ โ๐ (100), โ๐ (250), โ๐ช๏ธ (500), up to โ๐ฆผ (2,500) for gameโchanging achievements.
- Admin Sprint bonus: When a session is devoted entirely to an unpleasant but necessary task โ the kind that keeps projects moving but nobody wants to do โ points double from 200 to 400 ๐๐โโ๏ธ.
This week, many sprints were dense legal case prep. The doubleโpoint incentive turned potential procrastination into steady, motivated progress.
๐ The Hawthorne Effect in Action
UCS Hawthorne for Richard Thaler โ By Nick Ray Ball 14th June 2018
The roots of the scoring system trace to the Hawthorne Effect โ people perform better simply because they know theyโre being observed. In the original studies, one group was financially incentivised and the other wasnโt โ both improved, because both knew they were being monitored.
Weโve recreated that effect digitally. Every action is logged, scored, categorised, and visible in the historical record. This constant โobservationโ โ by yourself, your peers, or your future self reviewing performance โ fuels consistent improvement.
Itโs the same principle we used in UCS Hawthorne for the villaโrental industry, where agents competed daily in a pointsโbased game. The twist? Everyone could see everyone elseโs scores. The observation itself became as powerful a motivator as the rewards.
๐๏ธ From Villa Secrets to the NHS โ and Beyond
The concept scales in:
2066c) โ๏ธ Expanding NHS Efficiency with TBS-CC OKRs 4.7 โ Creating a Competitive, Fun Environment in Healthcare [09 Oct 2024]
https://siennaai.net/docs/GP-AI/2066c
2066d) โ๏ธ GP-AI Part 4. OKRs 5.0 โ Powering Government Objectives [19 Oct 2024]
https://siennaai.net/docs/GP-AI/2066d
- Hospitals are split into teams and departments.
- Every task โ from surgery to bedpan duty โ is scored.
- โYuckyโ tasks earn more points, just like our Admin Sprints.
- Leaderboards run within hospitals and between hospitals, creating a friendly, competitive drive for efficiency.
This isnโt just theory โ itโs a proven way to motivate teams to tackle less-glamorous but essential work. When even the least desirable jobs earn prestige through points, they get done โ and done well.
๐๏ธ OK๐R s 5.0 โ Powering Government
OK๐R s 5.0 takes the same approach to government decision-making:
- NHS OK๐R data flows up to policy-makers.
- Cabinet ministers can see, in real time, which initiatives are working, whoโs delivering results, and where support is needed.
- The Hawthorne Effect now operates at the level of national governance โ everyone in the system can see whoโs moving the needle.
When you merge UCS Hawthorne observation with high-value incentives, you get something rare: a framework that not only measures outcomes but actively creates them.
โก And GPT-5 Makes It Faster
This weekโs record-breaking score wasnโt just about the system โ it was about tools. GPT-5โs 400k-token context window meant we could keep massive case files โloadedโ without splitting the conversation, speeding up research, drafting, and cross-referencing. OpenAIโs Rosalinda confirmed the spec, and from here, weโre exploring how far that advantage can go.
๐ Summary
This week proved the model โ double-point incentives drive completion of unpleasant but critical tasks, the Hawthorne Effect sustains high performance, and GPT-5 removes friction in large-scale reasoning. From the original villa rental game to NHS efficiency drives to government policy alignment, the principle holds: when everyone sees the scoreboard, everyone plays better.
๐๏ธ From Villa Secrets to the NHS โ and Beyond
The concept scales. In our OK๐R s 4.7 NHS model (20.12z4):
- Hospitals are split into teams and departments.
- Every task โ from surgery to bedpan duty โ is scored.
- โYuckyโ tasks earn more points, just like our Admin Sprints.
- Leaderboards run within hospitals and between hospitals, creating a friendly, competitive drive for efficiency.
This isnโt just theory โ itโs a proven way to motivate teams to tackle less-glamorous but essential work. When even the least desirable jobs earn prestige through points, they get done โ and done well.
๐๏ธ OK๐R s 5.0 โ Powering Government
OK๐R s 5.0 takes the same approach to government decision-making:
- NHS OK๐R data flows up to policy-makers.
- Cabinet ministers can see, in real time, which initiatives are working, whoโs delivering results, and where support is needed.
- The Hawthorne Effect now operates at the level of national governance โ everyone in the system can see whoโs moving the needle.
When you merge UCS Hawthorne observation with high-value incentives, you get something rare: a framework that not only measures outcomes but actively creates them.
โก And GPT-5 Makes It Faster
This weekโs record-breaking score wasnโt just about the system โ it was about tools. GPT-5โs 400k-token context window meant we could keep massive case files โloadedโ without splitting the conversation, speeding up research, drafting, and cross-referencing. OpenAIโs Rosalinda confirmed the spec, and from here, weโre exploring how far that advantage can go.
๐ Summary
This week proved the model โ double-point incentives drive completion of unpleasant but critical tasks, the Hawthorne Effect sustains high performance, and GPT-5 removes friction in large-scale reasoning. From the original villa rental game to NHS efficiency drives to government policy alignment, the principle holds: when everyone sees the scoreboard, everyone plays better.
Appendix โ Week metrics
- Total: 30,950 points
- Average/day: 4,185.71
- Notables: multiple โ๐ช๏ธ outputs on TLSโW; longโrun Admin Sprints (๐๐โโ๏ธ = 400).
