The Enneagram
How Emma finds your type
A type is a hypothesis, not a verdict. Emma builds her read from several angles, tells you how sure she is, and keeps listening after the first answer.
Several angles
Where Emma's read comes from
An adaptive questionnaire
Each answer chooses the next question. Before it settles, it checks the look-alike subtypes that are easiest to confuse with the leading one. It never reports more certainty than it has earned.
Your life, in your words
A few questions about what is pulling at you and when you feel most yourself. These help Emma listen in the right places.
A conversation about motivation
People cannot simply report their own motivation, so Emma does not ask why. She asks what you did next, what you think would happen if you did not, and where a pattern started. She can confirm the questionnaire or disagree with it.
Season or self
Stress, grief, burnout or a new baby can make anyone look like a different type. Emma asks what you are like on an ordinary day before she draws conclusions, and she never diagnoses.
What she keeps learning
As you check in and talk with Emma, she keeps an eye on whether your life matches the read. If the evidence points somewhere else, she tells you and explains why. You decide.
Who has the final say
You do. Or your coach.
Where you work with a human coach, the coach's read wins over Emma's. Where you do not, the final word is yours. If you already know your subtype, you can keep it, and your documents follow your choice.
When Emma's read is weakly held, she says so plainly and tells you what would make it clearer.
Honest about accuracy
We test Emma against people who already know
People who already know their subtype can tell us before Emma reads them. Emma never sees that answer while she works. Afterward we compare, so we can see where she is right, where she is close, and where she misses.
Early testing showed our first questionnaire was too confident about some of its wrong answers. So we made it more careful: it now checks the closest look-alikes before it stops, and it caps how sure it will ever claim to be.
We will publish an accuracy figure when there is enough evidence behind one. Until then, we would rather tell you exactly how the read is made.
Begin with your subtype.
The typing package is $49, once. It includes a month of Emma, so you can start practicing what you learn the same day.