Answer six questions in your own words. Tell finds the values you defend, the need you never name, and the loops you keep running. Every finding carries the line you wrote that proves it, so you can check the work instead of believing it.
Coming to iPhone. Your first profile is free. Not therapy, and not a substitute for care.
Reliability, held as a debt rather than a virtue.
“I'd rather overwork than be seen as someone who didn't do what he said.”
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It is too few for a personality test and far more than a quiz. That is deliberate. These six are chosen so that the answers give away the things people cannot describe about themselves directly.
What's something you're genuinely proud of?Even if it wouldn't impress anyone else. The why matters more than the what.
Tell me about a time someone let you down.An ordinary one, not the hardest thing you've been through. What stung most?
Two free years. Money handled, nobody watching. What does an ordinary Tuesday look like?Describe the day, not the plan.
What do people get wrong about you?One thing, and what they're seeing that makes them think it.
Walk me through one of your biggest decisions.What finally tipped it? Did you check with anyone?
What would make this a life well lived?And what would you have to give up to get it?
The five you actually defend, in order, each with the line you wrote that proves it and a confidence score you can argue with.
The contradiction at the centre of how you operate. Most people recognise theirs immediately and have never had words for it.
How you decide, what you risk, what you need from people, how much you show. Scored, not labelled with a type.
Not adjectives. The particular thing you do well, described precisely enough to use on purpose.
The places your strengths are the cause. This is the part people come back to.
The patterns that run without you choosing them, and the point in each where it can be interrupted.
That is why it survives. Tell names each loop you run, and finds the one place in it where the sequence can actually be interrupted, which is almost never the behaviour itself.
The specific situation that starts it. Not "stress" — the meeting, the message, the silence after you ask for something.
What you reliably do next. The part you already know about, and the part that changing never works on directly.
What it genuinely gives you: relief, control, the feeling of being the reliable one. Loops without a payoff die on their own.
What it takes from you over months, and the one point where the sequence is actually interruptible. That is where the daily coaching goes to work.
You pick the loop that costs you most. Every day you get a short check-in and a five-minute audio session written for that day, about your goal, in the language of your own profile.
Four turns. It asks about the thing you said you were working on, and it asks about yesterday, because it kept yesterday.
Written that morning for your loop and your goal, not pulled from a library of episodes. Day twenty builds on day nineteen.
Answer more questions whenever you want and the profile is rewritten. You are shown exactly what changed and why.
An engine that reads people is only trustworthy if the things it will not say are fixed before it is asked. These are enforced in the code, and a test fails the build if any of them is ever loosened.
Then one subscription covers your profile, your loops, daily coaching with audio, chat, and a number of other people you can read. The tiers differ in that last number and nothing else.
or $129.99 a year
For working on yourself.
or $299.99 a year
For people who read a room for a living.
or $599.99 a year
For recruiters, agencies and teams.
No, and it does not try to be. Tell describes how you operate and coaches you on one behavioural loop at a time. It does not diagnose, it does not treat, and it is not a substitute for care from a licensed professional. If something in your life needs that kind of help, it needs that kind of help.
They are not enough to describe a person. They are enough to show how one thinks, because the six are chosen so the answers reveal structure rather than facts: what you reach for when you are proud, what stings when you are let down, what you do when nobody is watching. Everything Tell concludes is quoted from what you wrote, so you can judge each finding on its evidence rather than on our word.
Your answers are sent to be analysed and the profile comes back to your phone, where it stays. Coaching audio is the one thing kept on a server, and it is deleted after thirty days. Dictation happens on the device itself. The full detail is in the privacy policy, which is written to be read rather than to be survived.
You can read someone from what they have shared with you, or send them the same six questions to answer themselves. What you cannot do is use it to monitor anyone, to profile a child, or as the basis for a decision about someone's job, housing or credit. Those requests are refused before anything runs.
Your first profile is free, before any subscription, because nobody should pay to find out whether the quality is real. After that the plans above apply, and every plan states its monthly limits in the app as well as here.
Tell is coming to iPhone. Your first profile is free.