Diagnostic

See where your decision patterns concentrate — across all eight Empathy Traps.

The Founder Decision Pattern Assessment makes the Empathy Traps framework concrete and personal. It maps your instinct-level responses onto the eight traps and six decision surfaces so you see where decision architecture is most needed.

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Why This Exists

Patterns and structure.

Impact founders often hit recurring failure patterns because empathy-oriented cognition — harm minimization, relational impact, downstream consequence — runs without the right structural support. The same wiring that creates traps also creates strengths when it is constrained: guardrails and decision architecture channel it.

The assessment shows where your default patterns show up so you can add structure where it matters.

What the Assessment Does

Instinct, then output.

You answer 16 statements according to your immediate internal pull — the instinct that appears first, before rational override.

You receive:

Exposure across all eight Empathy Traps: Inclusion, Idealism, Avoidance, Responsiveness, Values, Expansion, Harmony, Validation.
A radar of your relative exposure.
A risk ranking of traps (Active, Emerging, or Low) and how they show up.
An interpretation of where decision pressure is highest — pricing & access, focus & expansion, people & signal — so you know where to strengthen decision architecture.

Next Step

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About 10 minutes. Your results stay on your device.

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