Everything people actually ask us, answered the way we answer in person. No sales voice. Where the honest answer is "we do not claim that," we say so.
You answer six questions in about eight minutes. The engine reads both what you write and how you move while writing it: the pacing, the pauses, the way you build and revise an answer. It returns one word that is yours alone, one house of eight that you share, and a short written read. It reads behavior, not self-report, which is why it does not feel like a personality quiz.
Harder than a questionnaire, and we will not tell you it is impossible. A self-report test reads what you claim, so you can steer it directly. This reads how you move, which is much harder to perform on purpose for eight minutes. We run adversarial attacks on our own test (acting a persona, forcing artificial cadence, pasting pre-written answers), and we do not publish reliability numbers until they clear our own bar. What we claim: hard to perform, not impossible to fake.
No. It is a reading: an artifact, the way a good portrait reads a sitter. It makes no medical, clinical, or diagnostic claim, and it is not a substitute for a licensed professional. Coaches use it beside their certified instruments, not instead of a clinician.
No. The word is assigned once and held. What moves is the reading underneath it: the posture, the drift, the lines. We built it this way on purpose; an identity that reshuffles every time you retake it is a mood ring, not a mirror.
Builder, Mirror, Keeper, Flame, Ghost, Storm, Fool, Saint. The word is unique to you; the house is the shared layer, so two people can compare houses while each word stays its owner's alone. Full definitions live at noctaracorp.com/rhythm.
Honest answer: we measure instead of asserting. Every delivered read passes an internal quality gate before it ships, and we track test-retest stability across members who read more than once. Those numbers are not public yet because they have not cleared the bar we set for publishing them. When they do, they go on a public page with dates on them.
The person who took it. Completely. That single decision is the whole company. An employer, a coach, or a creator sees a person's read only if that person explicitly shares it, and every share is revocable at any moment.
The door closes immediately. Shared links go dark, dashboards stop rendering you, and the witness who had the door keeps nothing but the memory of having seen it. Revocation is free at every tier, forever. Charging to revoke would be a toll booth on the consent wall.
Not unless you hand it to them, and there is no manager pipe to build around that. In company settings the employer pays, the person owns: the company sees seat counts and, in VEX, only the reads people chose to share. A person who never shares appears as a closed door, and the system never speaks about them.
Your readings, your entries, and what you have chosen to share, held against your account. You can export everything and you can delete everything, from inside the product, without asking permission. What we never do: sell your data, train public models on your private read, or profile people who did not consent.
It runs only inside the reading you chose to take, behind a consent gate that says what is read before you type a word. Nothing is collected ambiently, nothing runs in the background, and the reading never narrates your mechanics back at you or anyone else. It speaks the result, not the measurement.
The word, the full first reading, a fresh read every month, the drift pulse on your word, the daily line, the weekly sit, three lifetime asks of She, one open witness door, your card, and the mini identity block you can paste into any AI. Free is not a trial; it is the floor, and it does not expire.
$99 a year, or $12 a month. It adds She with full memory and no meter, reads on demand, drift depth (the why under the pulse), rehearsals for hard conversations, private goals with dated receipts, unlimited witness doors, and the deep identity block. One price for any human, whoever pays: yourself, your company, or your coach.
The presence in the Room. She holds every reading, entry, and return, and she remembers across months, which is what makes the Room a relationship instead of a report. Her memory is transparent: you can see everything she holds, correct it, or have her forget it.
A signed, consented block of text describing how you move, which you paste at the start of any conversation with ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini so the model meets you instead of a stranger. It carries a live verify link that dies the moment you revoke it. Run the proof on yourself at noctaracorp.com/carry.
Then you are like most of our members, and that is fine. In our real data most people read once and orbit: some return in two weeks, one came back after 99 days. Everything you earned stays yours, a fresh read opens monthly, and the door never closes. We built for orbits, not streaks.
The software is free, forever, for every coach and company. You pay for reads: $39 wholesale in blocks of ten ($390), billed into your engagement or intake fee the way you already bill assessment codes. Your first client read is free. Heavy practices take the unlimited license at $1,990 a year.
Because that is how the assessment economy already works. Coaches have bought DISC, Hogan, and Gallup codes per client for decades, marked them up, and billed them through. We priced the read into that exact habit: $39 wholesale, your margin, your retail.
A consent-gated reading the client takes before session one, and a prep brief in your inbox before you meet: how this person moves under pressure, what steadies them, the one lever that lands. Plus the Book (your roster, read), a conversation plan the morning of a hard one-on-one, drift alerts when a shared pattern moves, and the team read for whole rooms.
Every read is taken by the person, on their own device, and reaches the company only when the person shares it. Shares are per-item and revocable. A person who declines shows as a closed door, and nothing about them renders anywhere. We would rather lose a sale than break this; it is also the only version of this product that should exist.
The whole company compressed into one document a founder acts on, built only from consented reads. $990, delivered by the founder with a live debrief, credited against the annual license if you go on. It is never sold self-serve, because a culture document without a conversation is a horoscope.
Drift watches how a shared pattern moves between fresh signals. The honesty gates matter: an alert fires only on fresh data, carries its observation window, and silence alone never triggers one. A quiet person is a shape, not an alarm.
Counts, houses, and hours. Never a name attached to a read, never an individual's word or text. Each fan owns their read completely. This is the opposite of audience-profiling tools: every read is self-initiated, owned, and revocable by the fan.
Free for every creator: unlimited links, up to 100 audience reads a month, live from minute one. Creator Pro is $299 a year: 1,000 reads a month, export of opted-in contacts only, white label, and the creator's own Room included. Creators also earn a revenue share on purchases their readers make, self-initiated only, with a cooling-off window.
Six questions on their own phone, about eight minutes, free, behind a consent gate. They get their word, their house, and a short read that is theirs. Claiming it with an email keeps it and opens their own free floor. The creator gets one tick in a counter.
Real physics, synthetic people. We analyzed how our actual members use the products (when they show up, how often they write, how houses distribute, when they go quiet) and poured those patterns into invented people. No real name, email, word, or reading appears on the demo floor, and every demo word was checked against our member base so it belongs to no one. Walk it yourself.
Patent pending. A provisional application covering the behavioral reading engine was filed in April 2026.
A founder in Marietta, Ohio, and the architecture itself. Small on purpose. If you email calkire@noctaracorp.com, the founder answers.
Take your own reading first; everyone here did. Free, no card, eight minutes: noctaracorp.com/enter. Coaches start free at takethemirror.com. Creators go live free at luminaracorp.art.