Our framework

What the test is for

Most personality tests were built for people who work inside organisations. They ask how you behave in a meeting, how you handle a manager, whether you'd rather have a plan or a surprise.

Useful questions, if you have a manager.

When you run a business on your own, the questions change. There's no one to hand the invoice to, no one to check your work before it goes out, and no one to notice that you haven't taken a day off since March.

The whole business runs on your habits. The gaps in it are the gaps in you.

Solobility measures those habits. It was built for one person doing the work of a company, whether that person is a florist, a plumber, a tutor, a baker, a designer, or someone building software at a kitchen table, and it asks what you actually do when nobody is watching.

Then it tells you where you're strong, where you're thin, and what to do about it this week.

Six areas

Every solo business has to get six things right. We call them areas, and each one asks a single question.

Direct

Do I know where I'm going, and do I move without being pushed? A business with a clear direction survives a bad month.

A business without one drifts into whatever turns up.

Design

Do I build systems, or just do tasks? Some people repeat the same work by hand every week, while others write it down once so it runs the same way whether they're tired or not.

Delegate

Can I get real help from AI helpers and tools, safely? Working alone no longer means doing everything yourself.

It means giving clear instructions, splitting work into pieces, and checking what comes back before you trust it.

Distribute

Can I get the work into the world and get paid? Good work that nobody sees pays nothing.

This area covers showing your work, reaching people, naming a price and knowing your numbers.

Durable

Can I last the distance, alone? A solo business is only as steady as the person running it.

Rest, recovery and staying connected aren't extras. They're the engine.

Develop

Am I getting better faster than the world is changing? Methods go stale.

The people who last are the ones who try things, notice what happens, and change course without drama.

Twenty habits

Inside those six areas sit twenty habits, three or four per area. Each one is something you can see yourself doing, or not doing, in an ordinary week.

Starting before you feel ready. Writing down the steps you use most.

Checking a draft before you send it. Saying your price out loud.

We chose habits rather than traits on purpose. A trait sounds fixed.

A habit is something you can practise. If the test tells you that you rarely check work before using it, that isn't a verdict on who you are, it's a thing to do differently on Tuesday.

Each habit also carries a note on where it belongs. Some must stay with you whatever tools you use: deciding, verifying, and looking after your own energy are yours, and no helper should carry them for you.

Some can be shared with a helper. A few can be carried almost entirely by tools once you've set them up.

The report marks which is which. So you know what to build and what to hand over.

Six Solo Types

Your strongest area gives you your type. Six areas, six types: the Navigator, the Architect, the Conductor, the Messenger, the Anchor and the Explorer.

A type is shorthand for the side you lean on. The side you lean on says a lot about how your business will go wrong.

Navigators move before the system exists. Architects perfect the system instead of shipping.

Every type has a gift and a shadow, and the report names both.

A type isn't a box. Two people can share a type and run very different businesses, and your own type can change as your habits change.

When we ran the same answer set through the model with only small day-to-day variations, it landed on the same type 30 times out of 30, but when we scrambled a third of the answers, it moved 6 times out of 30, which is what you'd expect from a measure of habits rather than a measure of character. Retake it in ninety days and you may land somewhere else.

That's the point.

How it works

The test has sixty short questions and five quick choices. It is built to take about seven minutes.

Each question asks how much you agree with a plain statement about what you do. The five choices ask you to pick, from four good things, the one most like you and the one least like you.

That second part matters. It's easy to agree with everything that sounds sensible, and harder to choose between four sensible things.

The choice says more.

Some questions are worded the opposite way round, so agreeing with everything doesn't produce a high score. If you answer very fast, or give the same answer to everything, the result says so and asks you to come back when you have seven quiet minutes.

Your answers stay on your device. Only the result leaves it, and only if you ask for a copy.

What we don't claim

Solobility is a structured self-check, not a clinical instrument. It measures what you report about your own habits, and people aren't perfect witnesses to themselves.

We tested the model on 320 simulated respondents built from known profiles, then on 4,000 random answer sets to check that no type or habit had a built-in advantage, and finally by taking the test ourselves eight times in a browser as eight different people. It recovered the profile each person answered with, every time.

That's a different thing from proving that a profile predicts how your business will do. We don't make that claim.

We do claim three things. The six areas are the six things a solo business has to get right, the twenty habits are things you can change, and a plain result you understand in ten seconds is worth more than a detailed one you never read.

Why it's free

The people this is built for aren't corporate buyers with a training budget. They're one person with a van, a kitchen, a laptop, or a set of tools.

Charging them to find out where they're thin would keep out the people it's meant to help.

The test, the result and the PDF report are free. There's no account to create.

If you want a copy by email, ask for one, and we'll remind you once, in ninety days, to take it again. Deeper reports may come later for people who want them, but the free result will never be made worse to make a paid one look better.