How Your Profile Is Calculated
Colevitate doesn't invent a new personality model — it runs four existing, very different frameworks side by side and blends what they agree and disagree on into one combined profile. This page shows the actual mechanism behind that, sourced straight from the code that computes it, not a simplified marketing version.
The Four Lenses
Each framework is scored entirely on its own terms first. Nothing here is invented for this page — these are the exact mechanics used when you take each assessment.
16 Personalities
12 questions
3 questions per dichotomy — Extraversion/Introversion, Sensing/Intuition, Thinking/Feeling, Judging/Perceiving. Each answer nudges a running score toward one pole of its dichotomy; whichever pole is ahead when the questions run out becomes a letter in your type, and how lopsided that score was becomes your confidence percentage for it.
Full write-up: origin, validity & what it measures →Big Five
10 questions
2 questions per trait, some reverse-scored so agreeing with everything doesn't inflate a trait. Each trait's answers average out and rescale onto a 0–100 line — five independent numbers, not a type you get sorted into.
Full write-up: origin, validity & what it measures →Human Design
10 questions
Every answer option is weighted toward one or more of the five energy types. Weights are summed across all your answers, and whichever type ends up with the highest total wins — there's no partial score, just a single winner.
Full write-up: origin, validity & what it measures →4 Color Types
12 questions
Forced-choice questions where every option is weighted toward one or more colors, summed the same way as Human Design. Your dominant color is whichever one scores highest; your secondary — whichever scores second — still matters (see below).
Full write-up: origin, validity & what it measures →How We Combine Them Into One Profile
Before anything gets combined, every framework's result is converted into the same currency: a signal from -100 to 100 on each of four axes.
Energy (inward ↔ outward), Structure & Pace (emergent ↔ planned), People Orientation (task-focused ↔ people-focused), and Openness to Novelty (grounded ↔ exploratory).
Each framework's weight, per axis
These weights are read live from the same scoring module used to compute your actual profile — if they're ever retuned, this table updates with them.
| Axis | 16 Personalities | Big Five | Human Design | 4 Color Types |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inward / Outward FocusInward ↔ Outward | 35% | 35% | 10% | 20% |
| Structure & PaceEmergent ↔ Planned | 35% | 30% | 15% | 20% |
| People OrientationTask-focused ↔ People-focused | 35% | 30% | 10% | 25% |
| Openness to NoveltyGrounded ↔ Exploratory | 30% | 35% | 15% | 20% |
Your score on an axis is a weighted average of every completed framework's signal, using the weights above. If you've only finished some assessments, the weights among the ones you did complete get scaled back up to fill 100% — a partial profile is still a real average, never treated as if the missing frameworks scored zero.
Where your lenses agree
We also track how far apart the frameworks' raw signals land on each axis. A spread under 40 points reads as agreement, up to 90 as mixed, and anything wider as disagreement — not a contradiction, just different lenses catching different parts of you.
The 16 Archetypes
Each of the four axes collapses to a simple sign — did your combined score land left of center or right of center? Four axes, two sides each, gives 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 = 16 possible combinations. Your archetype is just which of those 16 corners your profile landed in.
Names and descriptions below are the same ones your own combined-profile page uses.
The Quiet Craftsman
You work best alone, in the moment, on things you can hold to your own standard rather than anyone else's.
The Independent Tinkerer
You chase ideas on your own terms, happiest improvising your way through something new without an audience.
The Steady Confidant
People trust you precisely because you're low-key and consistent — present for them without needing the spotlight.
The Gentle Wanderer
You drift toward new people and new ideas at your own quiet pace, curious more than restless.
The Precise Architect
You build things carefully and alone, trusting a well-made plan over improvisation or outside input.
The Methodical Innovator
You bring new ideas to life through discipline, not spontaneity — structure is what lets you go somewhere genuinely new.
The Devoted Caretaker
You show up reliably for the people close to you, preferring dependable routines over grand gestures.
The Thoughtful Visionary
You quietly plan for people and ideas that don't exist yet, thinking ahead more than you talk ahead.
The Bold Doer
You'd rather act on something real right now than plan or discuss it — momentum is how you think.
The Restless Pioneer
You're pulled toward whatever's newest and most alive, moving fast and figuring out the plan later.
The Grounded Connector
You bring people together around what's real and immediate, energized by others without needing a script.
The Spontaneous Catalyst
You spark energy in a room and chase what's new in the same breath, rarely the same way twice.
The Driven Organizer
You turn plans into results through sheer forward motion, most comfortable when there's a clear structure to push against.
The Strategic Trailblazer
You chase bold new directions but back them with real planning, treating vision and structure as partners, not opposites.
The Reliable Host
You keep people and plans running smoothly at once, dependable in a way that makes everyone else's life easier.
The Inspiring Ringleader
You rally people around big new ideas and actually organize the follow-through, equal parts visionary and planner.
How We Compare Two Profiles
Comparing two people uses the same four axes above, never the raw framework data — so a compatibility report only ever sees the same derived numbers you'd see on your own profile.
Overall similarity
For each axis, we take the gap between two people's scores (0 to 200 points apart is possible) and convert it into a 0–100 similarity number. Averaging that across all four axes gives an overall similarity score.
Aligned, different, or opposite
A gap of 30 points or less on an axis reads as aligned, up to 90 as different, and anything wider as opposite — the same descriptive, not judgmental, framing used everywhere else on this site.
The relationship-specific match gauge
The 1–10 match gauge on a compatibility report isn't the same as the overall similarity score above — it re-weights the four axes differently depending on the relationship type, because the axis that makes or breaks a romantic pairing isn't the one that makes or breaks a coworking relationship.
Each relationship type's weights, read live from the same module used to compute a real report.
| Axis | Romantic | Friend | Coworker |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inward / Outward Focus | 20% | 35% | 15% |
| Structure & Pace | 15% | 15% | 55% |
| People Orientation | 45% | 20% | 20% |
| Openness to Novelty | 20% | 30% | 10% |
The defining-axis gate
Every relationship type also has one axis it leans on hardest — its defining axis. After the weighted blend above, that axis's bucket (aligned, different, or opposite) multiplies the whole score up or down, on top of the ordinary average. That's what lets the same two people score as a strong coworker match and a rocky romantic one, instead of two numbers a point apart.
- Romantic PartnerPeople Orientation
- FriendInward / Outward Focus
- CoworkerStructure & Pace
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