Our unique approach

Personality assessment has been around for over a century, yet it hasn’t changed much over the last several decades. Regardless of the traits or types they claim to assess, most tools simply ask people to rate themselves and add the ratings up.

It’s not that this simple approach doesn't work at all, but it ignores recent scientific progress and provides people with impersonal results that have limited real-world relevance. It’s like using a flip phone in the age of smartphones.

Personomist is radically different.

Each person is unique

We acknowledge that people cannot be accurately described with a few generic traits or moulded into a clear type.

A typical Big Five profile paints a picture of a generic stranger, not a real person one can recognise. A Myers-Briggs type may sound fun, but no one really fits a single category. Personality disorder labels are also being phased out.

Powerful and well-replicated research shows that real people are unique in hundreds of nuanced ways. Moreover, these nuanced differences influence people’s lives, and all this can be measured.

Accordingly, Personomist’s advanced assessment and modelling framework describes each person along a hundred dimensions, allowing our feedback to be highly personalised.

Individualised results with real-world relevance

We provide people with balanced and highly individualised feedback.

While we do offer a Big Five profile, we show how your unique profile comes together through a unique trait combination. For example, people can be extraverted or conscientious in countless different ways.

Moreover, since each person is a mix of positive and negative traits, we predict your unique and balanced mix of Brighter Sides and Darker Shades.

We also predict which jobs, leisure activities and archetypal social roles are more likely to match your personality and which specific traits contribute to these matches. This makes the results relevant to your real-life experiences and choices.

Likewise, we predict your psychological age, leadership ambitions and long-term well-being.

Completing assessments again after at least three months, you can also see whether and how your personality has changed.

Powerful data and modern models

Our approach uses machine learning models trained on tens of thousands of people and hundreds of variables. For example, drawing inspiration from image processing, we employ pre-trained models to 'smooth' each response by incorporating subtle contributions from every other response. The results represent unique yet reliably measured expressions of your personality, allowing us to maximise every piece of information about you for the most accurate and personalised predictions. When predicting jobs, leisure activities, and archetypal social roles that align with your personality, we compare your trait profile to those of typical people in these roles. Since multiple roles usually suit any given person, we present several possibilities that might work for you. Other results, too, leverage models pre-trained on thousands of people.

All this makes Personomist the most advanced tool for assessing our psychological traits and the roles that may align with these traits. See the details of our scientific approach

Assess your mental health

Besides personality traits and suitable roles, Personomist allows you to assess various aspects of your mental health and track their changes over time.