What we map
Ten areas. One honest picture.
Six of these areas form the core assessment; the others give the comparison, regret, life-stage, and happiness research that puts the rest in context. Together they are built to scale to 500 research-backed pages.
The six core areas
Covered directly by the assessment.
Money & Financial Reality
24This area covers income, savings, net worth, debt, and the gap between how secure your finances are and how secure they feel. The goal is not to tell …
Time & How You Use It
20This area covers how your hours are actually distributed across work, care, leisure, screens, and sleep — and how that compares to what large time-use…
Work & Career
23This area covers job satisfaction, meaning at work, income stability, and the distance between the work you expected to be doing and the work you are …
Relationships & Connection
23This area covers close friendships, loneliness, the strength of your support network, and how connected you feel now compared with the past. Decades o…
Health & Energy
19This area covers physical health, energy, and how much your body limits what you want to do. It is not a diagnostic tool and never will be; it places …
Purpose & Direction
19This area covers clarity about the future, whether your days reflect what matters to you, and the sense of moving toward something versus standing sti…
Context & research areas
How perception, timing, and the evidence base shape the rest.
Comparison, Perception & Self-Image
20This area covers the gap between where you are and where you think you are — the distortions created by social comparison, curated media, and an unrep…
Regret, Decisions & Life Paths
18This area covers the major studies on what people actually regret, how regret changes over a life, and the difference between the safe road and the bo…
Age & Life Stages
16This area covers how the typical shape of a life unfolds — what is statistically normal to have, feel, and be uncertain about at 25, 35, 45, 55, and b…
Happiness Research & What Actually Works
18This area covers what decades of wellbeing research actually find about what raises life satisfaction and what does not — separating the findings that…