Fifteen minutes. No account. You leave with a map of what matters most, one real next step toward it — and the words for the people who may one day speak for you.
Tap a facet — each is a part of you most profiles never ask about. Seven taps, and the shape of you starts to show.
What part of you wants to be understood first?
No right answers — only yours. The full reflection takes about fifteen minutes and stays private.
No account required. Fifteen minutes. Yours to keep.
Most tools hand you a flattering label — Visionary, Advocate, Champion — and you feel seen for an afternoon. You can't act on a compliment. Map of You names two things instead: what you actually value, and what you keep avoiding. The useful, slightly uncomfortable thing a good friend would say — if they had the words.
“You're an idealist — thoughtful, rare, a little misunderstood.”
True enough to like. Too vague to use.
Psychologists call it the Barnum effect“You start things easily and finish them rarely. You guard your time fiercely — except for the people you love, who get whatever's left. Here's what that costs you, and what it's worth.”
Specific enough to do something about.
See a full sample mapThat's why a map is worth handing to your family, your doctor, whoever may one day speak for you. A compliment tells them nothing about what you'd want. The truth, in your own words, tells them everything.
Three steps, about fifteen minutes. What comes back could only have come from you.
Not a checklist — a real question, like “When you imagine a good day ten years from now, who's there?” Your answers seed the map.
Step through ten of themAcross seven dimensions: values, communication, relationships, health, creativity, goals, and daily rhythms. A portrait of what you actually prioritize.
See all seven dimensionsA one-page summary in plain words — for your family, your doctor, or anyone who will one day make decisions on your behalf. Your map becomes a care plan.
Read a finished pageMost people can't answer “what do you want?” under pressure. Your map answers it before the pressure arrives.
What you actually prioritize — health, relationships, autonomy, security, meaning — ranked by how you live, not by how you'd like to.
Seed yours with five wordsIf it ever came to a choice between independence and intensive treatment, which way do you lean? Your map records the answer while it's still easy to give.
Where that answer leadsA one-page summary in plain language — for your family, your doctor, or whoever will one day decide on your behalf.
See the languageMap of You draws on four validated frameworks. Each asks a different question. Together, they produce a picture no single questionnaire can.
The Japanese concept of ikigai sits at the intersection of four questions: What you love. What you're good at. What the world needs. What you can sustain. The overlap — your ikigai — is the thing that gives ordinary days meaning. In a 2008 Tohoku University cohort study of over 40,000 Japanese adults, a sense of ikigai was associated with lower all-cause and cardiovascular mortality.
Reveals: purpose + direction
Source: Ohsaki Study, 2008Developed at the University of Pennsylvania's Positive Psychology Center, the VIA Classification identifies 24 character strengths — from curiosity and fairness to gratitude and bravery — that predict job satisfaction, life meaning, and wellbeing independently of IQ or personality type. Research published in Frontiers in Psychology found VIA strengths provide incremental predictive validity over and above the Big Five personality traits.
Reveals: who you are at your best
Source: VIA Institute on CharacterOpenness. Conscientiousness. Extraversion. Agreeableness. Neuroticism. The Big Five (OCEAN) has the strongest cross-cultural replication of any personality framework — 50+ years of research, validated across 56 countries. Where VIA asks what energizes you, OCEAN describes the stable behavioral tendencies that shape how you move through the world: how you handle stress, relate to others, and approach the unknown.
Reveals: stable personality patterns
Reference: Big Five (OCEAN)Values clarification research — including the Schwartz Theory of Basic Human Values, validated in 82 countries — shows that stated values and enacted values diverge sharply without structured reflection. The process of forcing trade-offs (autonomy vs. security; tradition vs. novelty) surfaces your real hierarchy, not the socially desirable one. This is the layer that matters most in healthcare decisions and advance care planning.
Reveals: your real decision hierarchy
Reference: Schwartz Basic ValuesNo single framework captures the full picture. Personality tests tell you how you're wired; values assessments tell you what you're pointed toward; ikigai tells you what makes it feel worth it. Map of You synthesizes all four into a single narrative — one that's specific enough to hand to a physician, a caregiver, or someone who will one day make decisions on your behalf.
Sources: VIA Institute on Character; Schwartz Theory of Basic Human Values (82-country validation); Big Five meta-analysis (McCrae & Costa); Ikigai and longevity research, Tohoku University 2008.
See what four lenses produce togetherThe assessment covers the parts of you that most profiles never ask about. Each dimension has its own questions — tap one to try its question below.
What matters most to you. Your non-negotiables.
Try its questionHow you give and receive information. Direct or nuanced. Formal or casual.
Try its questionWho you let in. How close. What you protect.
Try its questionYour body, your rhythms, your care preferences.
Try its questionWhat moves you. Music, art, craft, writing, making.
Try its questionWhere you're headed. What you're building toward.
Try its questionMorning person or night owl. When you focus. When you rest.
Try its questionNot a score. Not a type. A short document in plain language — specific enough to guide a doctor, gentle enough to hand to your family. Here's a sample.
Sample Map of You — Maya Mercer“Maya is happiest making things with her hands, wants truth told plainly, and intends to stay in her own home, on her own schedule — with her family in the room when decisions get made.”
Honesty over harmony. Say the hard thing, kindly.
Direct, in person. No hints, no hallway news.
A small circle, held tightly. Her husband reads her silences.
Morning walks are non-negotiable. Fears losing independence more than illness.
Sunday ceramics — the one hour that is only hers.
A garden studio. Teach her granddaughter to throw a bowl.
Sharpest before nine. Guard the quiet; big decisions after coffee.
Created in conversation with Sage · about 15 minutes Begin yours — freeMaya Mercer is a fictional composite, shown at the level of detail your map will have. Yours stays private until you choose to share it.
Step through ten real prompts from the assessment. Each one is a dimension of your map. No right answers. No scoring.
No right answers. No scoring. Your responses stay private. Fifteen minutes for the full assessment.
Your identity data belongs to you. Three things that don't change.
Your identity data belongs to you. Full stop. Export it, delete it, take it anywhere.
Read the network privacy policyDecide who sees what. Grant and revoke access to any part of your map, any time.
Who can see my map?Your map is not a product. No surveillance, no data brokering, no dark patterns.
The manifesto behind that promiseThe full assessment is coming — free, private, about fifteen minutes. Start now: pick up to five words that feel most like you. When your map opens, it begins from what you chose.
Your first coordinates appear here.
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If your assessment surfaces concerns about aging — your own or a parent's — there's a next step.
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The things people want to know before they put themselves on a page.
About fifteen minutes, and you can pause anytime. The full assessment is opening soon — joining the waitlist takes ten seconds and is free.
No. Personality tests assign you a type. Map of You is a guided reflection — it draws on validated frameworks like VIA character strengths, the Big Five, Schwartz values, and ikigai, but what you get back is written in your own words, not a label.
You. Your map belongs to you — export it, delete it, or share it with the people you choose. It is never sold, never used for ads, and never shown to anyone without your say-so.
No. Map of You is a values-reflection tool, not a medical or psychological assessment. It doesn't diagnose or treat anything — and if something heavy surfaces, please bring it to a licensed professional.
A one-page map: what you value, how you communicate, what matters in your health decisions — and the language for sharing it. See the sample above; it's specific enough to hand to your doctor, your partner, or anyone who may one day speak for you.
If you choose. A free care profile — shared across co-op.care and ComfortCard — keeps your values map where a future care team can see it. You grant access, you revoke it, and nothing moves without your say-so.
Map of You is the front door of a family-care network. The reflection is free and stays free. If your map ever surfaces a care need, it becomes a head start with co-op.care and the wider SolvingHealth network — instead of a story you have to tell twice.