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Lantern is a personality assessment platform, where you discover the individual elements that make you — unmistakably you. We combine the major personality frameworks with gamified, story-driven assessments that measure what you do, not only what you say. Free, and ten minutes to your first result.

insights,
not just numbers.

We measure your results across tests, frameworks, the literature and your peers.

Exception foundAn example, not yours

You are the easiest person in the room to talk to, and the hardest one to read.

Extraversion 91  •  Suppression 78

The literature expects these to move apart.

Everything it scores
  • 44+Dimensionsin one reading. The Big Five gives you five.
  • 98%Recognisedthemselves in their profile, in pre-public focus tests.
  • 1000sPossible pathsthrough the stories. No two profiles alike.

It's not just a test. We see you in action.

Interactive stories with no right answers and nothing to win. What you do in them is measured the same way your answers are.

  • How you act leads us to this

    The one who goes and looks.

    What it is good for

    You find the thing nobody was looking for.

    What it costs

    Novelty is not the same as importance, and you don't always sort them.

  • Or to this

    The one who stays with what holds.

    What it is good for

    Depth and follow-through. You finish.

    What it costs

    Sometimes the new idea was right and you tested it to death anyway.

Two of the eighteen Titles in Heartwood. Examples, not yours.

How it works

  1. 01

    Answer

    7 published instruments. 272 items across 44 dimensions, scored the way their authors intended rather than a quiz wearing their names.

    Big FiveItem 07 / 40

    I am kind and caring.

    • Very Inaccurate
    • Moderately Inaccurate
    • Neither Accurate Nor Inaccurate
    • Moderately Accurate
    • Very Accurate
    An actual item, on its published five-point scale.
  2. 02

    Play

    Stories you move through. What you do is evidence too, so the profile is not built only out of what you say about yourself.

    HeartwoodBeat 01 / 13

    The Hem

    At dusk you reach the Hem — a line of black alders hung with everything travelers could not carry past it. A tin whistle. A wedding ring on a bootlace. A key rubbed featureless.

    • Hang up your knife. Enter the dark with nothing to fall back on.
    • Give it a truth instead — say the thing you have never said aloud.
    The opening beat, in the words a player is shown.
  3. 03

    Read

    The profile fills in as you go, and flags the places your results defy what the research expects them to do.

    EnneagramType 4

    The Individualist

    You may want your choices to feel true to what matters to you, even when that's hard to explain.

    You may be drawn to what is not here. The version of the relationship before it settled, the city you nearly moved to, the person who left. The absent thing has a shine on it that the present thing loses roughly two weeks after you get it.

    From the reading itself — every result has one this long.

Start with any of them.

Big Five — 1 of 7. Take them in any order.

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