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A personal user guide shows how you communicate, collaborate, and deal with stress, feedback, and change.

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Personal user guide

Discover how you can best interact and collaborate with the other person

Your personal user guide shows you how you can best interact and collaborate with the other person, based on your personality.

2 profilesyou compare across the same five personality dimensions
5 dimensionsshow you overlap, distance and discussion points for each dimension
Personal User GuidePersonal user guide
Ryan Baker + Sophie MartinPersonal user guide · Live comparison
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OppositesSimilar
ConventionalProgressive
FlexibleFocused
QuietDominant
CompetitiveCompassionate
UndisturbableSensitive

Highlights & comments

Mark what matters and keep your thoughts in context

Select text in a guide, highlight important passages and add private comments exactly where they are relevant.

Privateonly you can see your highlights and comments.
In contextyour highlights and comments stay attached to the exact passage they refer to.
Personal User GuideHighlights & comments
Personal guide for Jack DavisCollaboration and communication

Jack works best with clear context and room to think before responding.

So make concrete agreements about ownership, planning and the desired outcome.

Follow up on this in our next one-on-one.

Transformations

Paid feature

Rewrite difficult messages in seconds

With transformations, you adapt text to one receiver's personality or an entire team's profile so your message lands better.

1 creditper personal transformation.
3 creditsper team transformation.
Personal User GuideTransformations
Make a message less intense for EmmaEmma is emotional.

Prompt

You keep missing agreements and it is frustrating.
84/2000
CancelTransform (1 credit)
Original

You keep missing agreements and it is frustrating.

Transformed

Can we align clear agreements so we both know what is expected and when?

You have 4 transformations leftHistory
Input, output and history in one flow

Team guide

Paid feature

Spot team friction at a glance

Your team guide brings personalities, differences and points of attention together, so you immediately know where alignment is needed.

5 dimensionsshow you each member’s position and your team’s spread.
2 perspectivesgive you the team spread and individual positions in one view.
Personal User GuideTeam guide
Team guide of Demo TeamDemo Team
DistinctAligned
ConventionalProgressive
FlexibleFocused
QuietDominant
CompetitiveCompassionate
UndisturbableSensitive

4 members

Read Demo Team team guide

Risk analysis

Paid feature

See when strong traits may go too far

Risk analysis helps coaches and team leads recognise which behaviour may become less flexible under pressure, overall and for each area.

7 zonesshow the progression from low to present and high risk.
Overall + 5one total view and an explanation for each team member’s dimensions.
Personal User GuideRisk analysis
Risk analysis for Sophie MartinCoach view · behaviour under pressure
Overall riskHigh risk
ConventionalLow riskProgressive
FlexibleLow riskFocused
QuietHigh riskDominant
CompetitiveLow riskCompassionate
UndisturbableLow riskSensitive

Assessments

Paid feature

See how candidates fit within your team

Send candidates a secure assessment link and see how their personality fits the team as soon as they finish.

1 linklets you invite candidates without requiring an account or team access.
7 daysduring which you can use the personal assessment link.
Personal User GuideAssessments
Candidate assessmentFor the Growth Team
Valid for 7 days
Candidate
First nameLast nameEnter one or more email addresses...
Invite
After completionCandidate visible in team context

Use the results as a starting point for selection, onboarding, or a deeper conversation.

Gap view

Paid feature

Turn differences between two team members into clear agreements

In Gap view, you compare two people from a neutral team perspective. This helps you discuss alignment, complementarity and possible misunderstandings without choosing sides.

2 peopleyou compare without making either person’s perspective the default.
5 dimensionsshow you distance, overlap and practical coaching questions.
Personal User GuideGap view
Gap view: Ryan and SophieSee where two team members align, complement each other, or may misunderstand one another — without making either person's perspective the default.
Demo Team
First team member
Ryan Baker
Second team member
Sophie Martin
OppositesSimilar
Ryan and Sophie are clearly different. That does not have to be a problem: their styles can be complementary. Your task is to surface where their assumptions diverge and turn those insights into practical working agreements.
Ryan is undisturbable, Sophie is sensitive
UndisturbableSensitive
Questions you could ask:

How do you recognize the difference between Ryan's stress response and Sophie's?

Research on working together

Good collaboration is a business issue

Three external research reports show why clear communication, engagement and early alignment deserve attention.

23%

higher profitability among teams in the top quartile for employee engagement.

Median difference from the bottom quartile in a meta-analysis of 183,806 business and work units.

Gallup Q12 meta-analysis · 2024
57%

of time in Microsoft 365 is spent communicating, compared with 43% creating.

Based on anonymized usage patterns over a rolling 28-day period among commercial users.

Microsoft Work Trend Index · 2023
44%

of working-age adults in Great Britain experienced conflict at work in the previous year.

Acas survey of 4,558 respondents, conducted in August and September 2025.

Acas workplace conflict study · 2025

These studies did not evaluate Personal User Guide and do not prove a product effect. They provide context for the importance of engagement, communication and addressing friction early.

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A personal user guide is a short guide to understanding a person, similar to the manual for a coffee machine or a vacuum cleaner.

It can help you get to know each other better, build a strong relationship, and get things done much more efficiently, both at work and in your personal life.

It allows you to shorten learning curves, amplify strengths, and compensate for weaknesses. This kind of collaboration can lead to exceptional results and, above all, strengthen mutual trust.

The personal user manual covers five key aspects of the person, based on the Big Five personality model.