Sixteen minds. Which one is yours?
Twenty-five minutes. Free and complete.
The prism library
Sixteen ways a mind can be built.
How Prism works.
Step 1. We map how you think.
Prism combines timed cognitive tasks with behaviour questions to separate raw ability from the habits that show up under pressure.
Step 2. We name your archetype.
Your scores resolve into a named operating pattern: one of sixteen cognitive identities with a core gift, edge, trap, and move.
Step 3. We give you the map.
You receive a dashboard that turns the pattern into plain-English guidance, fit maps, and an AI prompt calibrated to you.
Dashboard preview
This is what you receive.
A cognitive identity dashboard that feels useful on first read and deeper every time you come back to it.
Your archetype
Ariadne
Golden Thread, reasoning under pressure
Six-domain map
Operating manual
How this mind starts moving
You are at your best when there is a real problem in the room and enough texture to investigate. An answer alone leaves you cold. You want the clue trail, the contradiction, the small detail everyone else missed, and the moment the whole structure clicks into place.
Edge
You can see the flaw in an explanation fast.
Trap
You may mistake constant analysis for progress.
Move
Turn the insight into a visible next action.
Upgraded prompt
You are speaking with someone whose Prism read resolves into Ariadne. Before explaining, ask what evidence they already have. Use precise examples, surface the hidden assumption, and end with one testable move...
A note from the founder.
I built Prism because I kept watching smart people use tools that treated them like averages: study advice, career advice, personality advice, AI advice. All of it useful in pieces, none of it starting with the actual mind in front of it.
Prism is my attempt to make the map come first. It is a working identity, not a diagnosis or a label to hide inside, and it helps you explain yourself, choose better moves, and get more from the AI you already use.
Prism is research-informed and built close to the people using it, with every read showing its own confidence. You walk away with a sharper picture of your own mind than anything else has given you.
Methodology
Research-informed, not clinical.
Research-informed
Built from cognitive science, personality research, and observed learning behaviour.
Built in the open
Every read shows its confidence bands, and the model sharpens with each one. You see exactly how settled each part of your result is.
Not clinical or diagnostic
Prism names patterns for reflection, learning, and AI calibration. It does not diagnose.
Confidence bands shown
We separate strong signals from tentative reads so the result does not pretend to know more than it does.
Free to start. A ladder if you want it.
The assessment is free and complete. From there: operate the AI you already use, and point your life. Each rung is optional, and none of them paywall your result.
Free
Take the free Full Prism
A 25-minute assessment across six cognitive dimensions, personality, and life-context, with an honest confidence percentage. No card required.
Take Full Prism£39
The Calibration
Install your measured profile into the AI you use every day: a long operating Dossier and six calibrated Modes, so the tool stops answering you like the average user.
See the Calibration£49
The Fit Read
A written read of where to point your life: what you are good at, crossed with what you would genuinely enjoy. A direction you can act on, not a label.
See the Fit ReadThe bundle: best value
Save £29The Calibration and the Fit Read, together.
Both run on the one Prism profile you measure once. £88 bought separately, £59 together.
Find out what you have been working with.
Most people never find out how their own mind works. Twenty-five minutes is the whole price.