The Inner Outer Index is a 65-question personality assessment that measures six traits across 24 facets and returns an 18-card report written for your specific combination of scores. It takes about 8 minutes. It is grounded in HEXACO research — the six-factor model used in contemporary personality psychology — rather than in personality types.
Six traits, each broken into four facets, for 24 scored dimensions in total. Most assessments report the six (or five) trait scores and stop. This one scores every facet separately, because the facets inside a single trait routinely disagree — and that disagreement is usually the interesting part.
Three differences, in order of how much they matter.
It measures a sixth dimension. Honesty-Humility — sincerity, fairness, greed avoidance, modesty — is absent from the Big Five entirely. It is often the most practically useful thing to know about how someone behaves when there is something to gain.
It scores facets, not just traits. A single Extraversion number cannot tell the difference between someone who is socially bold and drained by people, and someone who is quiet and energised by them. Those two people get the same trait score and a very different report here.
It reads traits in interaction, not in isolation. Type-based tests hand you four letters and a stock description assembled from them. This report is written against how your specific scores interact — high Conscientiousness means something different alongside low Emotionality than it does alongside high.
Deterministically first, then synthesised. Your scores, your trait bands, and your identity code are computed by fixed scoring logic — the same answers always produce the same structure. Only after that is a language model given a bounded payload of those results and asked to write within them.
The distinction matters: the model does not decide what your personality is. It has no ability to reassign your traits, invent a pattern the scoring did not find, or contradict the evidence it was handed. It translates a fixed result into readable prose. Where a prettier interpretation conflicts with the deterministic evidence, the evidence wins.
An 18-card report. The first six cards are your identity code, trait breakdown, and facet-level scores. The next nine are written for you, and each one answers a different question:
The final three are lighter closing cards. Each card is titled and written for your own results as they were scored — there is no shared template that everyone receives, and the headings above describe what each card addresses rather than the words you will see on it.
About 8 minutes, across 65 questions. Forty-eight of them score your six traits. The rest ask how you actually operate — where your energy goes, what drains it, what you do when something is at stake. Those answers never change your trait scores; they inform how the scores are interpreted.
It is not a clinical instrument and not a diagnosis. It is not a validated HEXACO test — it targets HEXACO facets and is grounded in that research, but the reliability and factor-structure studies that would justify a validation claim do not exist for it yet, and we would rather say so. It does not measure attachment style, IQ, mental health, or job fit. It is for self-reflection.
You must be 13 or older to take it.
The assessment is free to take. The full report is a one-time purchase — there is no subscription and nothing recurring.
Shorter answers to the most common questions are on the FAQ.