Responsible use

What a reading is

Every observation you see is a scale-and-band statement, tied to real evidence, sitting inside a stated range. "Very high" or "very low" is deliberately coarse — a self-report questionnaire answered once cannot support finer distinctions, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest about what the instrument can actually tell you.

There is no compatibility score anywhere in this product, on purpose. Two people's questionnaires describe two people, not a couple, a friendship, or a team — what the comparison gives you is language for where you're alike and where you differ, not a grade on the relationship.

Never a hiring, screening, or evaluation tool

This is the one rule every advisor's underlying instructions are built around, and it holds regardless of which lens you're reading in:

• Never use any reading to decide whether to hire, promote, terminate, or otherwise evaluate someone
• Never use the Career adviser's pairwise reading (the "colleagues & managers" lens) to rank, screen, or select between candidates or employees
• Never treat a reading as evidence in a performance review
• Never use a persona/celebrity match as a stand-in for someone's actual competence or fit

If you're a manager or recruiter and this is tempting: don't. The readings are written for the person themselves, in the second person, meant to be read by them — not compiled into a file about them.

Not a clinical tool

No advisor is instructed to, or will, diagnose, use clinical language, or give medical advice. If a reading ever reads that way, that's a bug — tell us. These questionnaires measure ordinary personality variation, not mental health, and were never intended to screen for either.

On the relationship and career readings

The relationship counsellor and career adviser never predict whether a relationship will last, whether a job will work out, or whether someone is "right" for another person or role. They describe tendencies and likely friction points, in the register of a thoughtful friend rather than an oracle — every line points back to the scale it came from, specifically so you can disagree with the questionnaire instead of an unaccountable voice.

On persona and celebrity matches

These are curated interpretations of how a public figure's record — or a fictional character's text — reads on these scales. Nobody in that list took the questionnaire. Treat a match as a mirror held at arm's length, not a claim that you and that person are alike in any way beyond the scales shown.

If something reads as manipulative or coercive

Don't use a reading to pressure a partner, friend, or colleague into a decision, or as a rhetorical weapon in an argument ("the report said you're low on X, so..."). A gap between two people's scores is information to talk about together, not a verdict one side gets to hand the other.