PULSE Check: An AI-Enabled Commander’s Survey Tool
Accelerating Command Insights with AI: 4th MLG’s "PULSE Check" prototype tool is being developed to deliver near-instantaneous command climate analysis, transforming a weeks-long process into a real-time feedback loop. It will leverage a secure AI platform to shorten the leadership OODA loop, allowing commanders to rapidly identify and address readiness issues.
Harnessing Reserve Talent for Innovation: The prototype was created by a Reserve officer with civilian AI expertise, showcasing the untapped technical talent within MARFORRES. This initiative serves as a powerful model for leveraging the private-sector skills of Reserve Marines to drive service-level modernization. Following a December 2025 collaboration with Google and Microsoft, 4th MLG and MARFORRES IMKM planners developed a two-tiered plan that begins with creating a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) using existing Microsoft capabilities and culminates in a fully AI-enabled version on the secure Azure Government platform.
Boosting Participation for Reliable Data: By enabling secure, anonymous feedback via personal mobile devices, PULSE Check overcomes access barriers and dramatically increases participation rates. This provides commanders with a more accurate and reliable data set for decision-making, based on a truly representative sample of their unit. Once the AI-powered Azure platform is launched, any Marine leader could use it to get high quality, real-time feedback from the ranks in a generationally relevant way, and with that, they could identify and address readiness degraders quicker.
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