RDTECareer Intelligence
Career Intelligence System

Stop guessing.
Start deciding.

The Reverse Decision Tree Engine maps your cognitive strengths, energy patterns, and decision style to show you exactly where you are, what's wrong, and what to do next.

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7
Instruments
~40
Minutes
8
Career Families
28
Blend Profiles

Career decisions are the most
consequential choices you make
on the least data.

You wouldn't invest your savings without financial analysis. You wouldn't diagnose an illness without tests. But when it comes to the decision that determines where you spend 80,000 hours of your life — you wing it.

Most people change careers based on gut feeling, a bad Monday, or a LinkedIn post that made someone else's life look better. They solve the wrong problem at the wrong level and wonder why the new job feels just like the old one.

The RDTE replaces guessing with a diagnostic system.

The Assessment Pipeline

Seven instruments. One unified profile. Each builds on the last.

Flux State Assessment

30 questions · 6 minutes · Identifies where you are

Are you Stalled, Forced, Seeking, Pivoting, Scaling, or Disrupted? Your flux state determines which advice applies to you and which would be actively harmful. The Disrupted state — new in v6.0 — identifies people whose roles are being structurally altered by technology while they're still employed.

Output → Flux state + risk warning + 5 next steps

Energy Sort

33 items · 7 minutes · Maps what fuels and drains you

Sort 30 common work activities into Energizes, Neutral, or Drains, then answer 3 flow propensity questions. Your results map to 7 energy dimensions plus a Flow Signature — the invisible architecture of your work satisfaction. High energy + high flow = your Sweet Spot.

Output → 7-dimension energy signature + flow propensity + fuel/drain profile
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Career Family Finder

36 questions · 8 minutes · Finds your career DNA

Maps your cognitive strengths, personality, emotional intelligence, energy, and values through a simplified weight matrix to rank 8 career families. Most people are blends — you'll get your primary, secondary, blend name, and anti-families (the careers that will always drain you).

Output → 8-family ranking + blend profile + anti-family warnings
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Fix vs. Leave

4 levels · 5 minutes · Pinpoints the real problem

Career dissatisfaction always lives at one of four levels: Role, Manager, Company, or Career Field. Each has a completely different solution. Includes a Sunk Cost Debiasing check to prevent past investment from distorting your fix-or-leave judgment.

Output → Dissatisfaction level + fix/leave recommendation + sunk cost check + cost calculator
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Gap Analysis

Interactive · 10 minutes · Prioritizes what to work on

Input your target role. Identify every gap standing between you and it — skills, experience, credentials, network, financial, structural, and AI displacement risk. Score each gap on Width × Criticality ÷ Closeability. The AI Displacement layer flags roles with high automation exposure before you invest in closing gaps toward a shrinking target.

Output → Prioritized gap list + AI risk assessment + closing strategies + feasibility verdict
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Path Sequencing

Interactive · 5 minutes · Builds your timeline

Takes your flux state (including Disrupted) and constraints and generates a 3-horizon plan: Immediate, Bridge, and Destination. Each horizon now includes a Role Viability assessment — flagging whether your target role faces automation risk within its timeline. Includes MVEs and pre-set kill criteria.

Output → 3-horizon timeline + role viability checks + MVEs + kill criteria
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Decision Profile

Synthesis · 3 minutes · Your unified career intelligence

Enter your results from all instruments. The dashboard cross-references everything including v6.0 dimensions: Flow Propensity, Calibration Gap (self-perception vs. measured divergence), and AI Displacement Risk. Where do the instruments agree — and where do they conflict? One page. Complete picture.

Output → Unified profile + calibration gap + AI resilience note + action plan

What makes this different from
every other career assessment?

🎯 Diagnostic, not descriptive

Most assessments tell you what you already know. This one tells you what to do about it — with specific actions, timelines, and kill criteria.

📐 Multi-dimensional

Your career isn't just personality or just skills. The RDTE integrates cognition, energy, personality, emotional intelligence, values, and constraints into one model.

⚡ Energy-first

You can be excellent at something that drains you. Competence ≠ satisfaction. The RDTE measures what fuels you, not just what you can do.

🔄 State-aware

Advice that's perfect for someone Seeking is toxic for someone Stalled. Your flux state determines which interventions apply — and which would make things worse.

The 8 Career Families

Everyone belongs to one primary family and one secondary. Your blend is your career DNA.

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Builder
Creates, constructs, and builds things that didn't exist before.
Product management · Engineering · Startups · Architecture · Creative direction
Strategist
Sees patterns, thinks long-term, and designs systems that work.
Strategy consulting · Executive leadership · VC · Policy · Systems design
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Explorer
Ventures into new territory, discovers what's possible.
Research · Innovation · Journalism · Entrepreneurship · R&D
Optimizer
Makes things work better — more efficient, more reliable.
Operations · Quality · Process engineering · Financial analysis · Project management
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Teacher
Helps others learn, grow, and develop their potential.
Education · Training · Curriculum design · Coaching · L&D · Thought leadership
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Connector
Builds relationships, creates networks, brings people together.
Business development · Partnerships · Community · Recruiting · Diplomacy
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Guardian
Protects, preserves, and ensures things run safely.
Compliance · Risk management · Safety · Legal · Quality assurance · Administration
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Healer
Helps individuals heal, grow, and overcome challenges.
Therapy · Counseling · Social work · Coaching · Nursing · Patient advocacy

How It Works

1

Take the assessments in order

Start with Flux State, then Energy Sort, then Career Family Finder. Each one takes 5-8 minutes. Go with your gut — don't overthink it.

2

Get your diagnostic results

Fix vs. Leave tells you WHERE the problem is. Gap Analysis tells you what's BETWEEN you and your target. Path Sequencing tells you WHEN to do what.

3

Synthesize into your Decision Profile

Enter all results into the Decision Profile dashboard. Get cross-referenced insights that no single assessment could produce alone.

4

Act on your plan

You'll leave with a prioritized action list, a 3-horizon timeline, and specific experiments to run. Set your 90-day checkpoint and start moving.

40 minutes.
A career's worth of clarity.

Free. No account required. Your data stays in your browser.

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Built on the Reverse Decision Tree Engine — a multi-dimensional career intelligence system.