Cultural canon
What you reread, replay, watch three times. Seven subcategories: literature, music, film, fashion, perfumes, food & wine, places.
The profile layers
Your cognitive profile, layer by layer
Your Afini profile isn't a one-and-done test. It's a stack of layers that fill in over time and get injected into the AI every time you talk to it. Here we explain each one: what it captures, why it matters, how it's built.
Why the Big Five isn't enough
The Big Five is a solid starting point — five dimensions, thirty facets, robust normative data. But a personality profile doesn't cover everything a good interlocutor knows about you. Knowing you score high in Openness doesn't tell the AI that you hate the word "synergy", that you never delegate decisions about your kids' education, that you write in Spanish and code in Python, or that you've already taken a stance on chance. That's what the additional layers are for.
The layers
These are the layers available today or coming up shortly. Live ones link out; the rest are visible so you know where we're going.
Negative space
What you don't want. Pet peeves, disliked phrases, antimodels, taboos, decisions you'd never delegate to a machine.
Meta-preferences
How you want the AI to behave: length, language by domain, opinion assertiveness, citation style, programming language.
Mental frame
Whom you silently consult when in doubt. The schools that shaped you. What you have decided about chance, freedom, and happiness.
Operational equipment
Languages and levels, jargons you master, jargons you can't stand, areas of competence, areas of conscious ignorance.
Traits (Big Five)
IPIP-NEO in three sizes: 60, 120 or 300 items. Available at test.afini.ai with no signup.
Start with the first layer
No prior signup. You pick, pay, then create your account. Fifteen minutes for the essential Big Five; the rest fills in at your pace.