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THE SYSTEM
The 8 Archetypes system maps how value gets created in a complete work-loop — and which function you naturally lead with.
The Work-Loop
A complete loop has 4 processes and 4 results:
- Designing → Ideas,
- Interacting → Agreements,
- Applying → Implementations,
- Evaluating → Facts.
Rule: if you skip a quadrant, you don’t get speed — you get distortion (reality-debt).
Where the 8 Archetypes fit
The archetypes align with these work-loop functions (psychometric perspective):
- Designing: Concepter (focus: “what” / essence),
- Ideas: Star (“what + who” / magnificence),
- Interacting: Compagnion (“who” / variety),
- Agreements: Negotiator (“who + when” / determination),
- Applying: Achiever (“when” / realisation),
- Implementations: Stabiliser (“when + how” / regularity),
- Evaluating: Controller (“how” / certainty),
- Facts: Optimiser (“how + what” / perfection).
Important: you have access to all functions. The test identifies your default lead function — the one you reliably run under pressure.
What the system is for
Use it to:
- spot why you keep getting stuck (which quadrant you skip),
- choose roles that fit your natural function,
- build teams with missing functions covered (instead of “more of the same”).
The four predictable failure modes
These are the classic distortions when a loop becomes incomplete:
- Design without Apply: idea inflation (brilliant, inert),
- Interact without Evaluate: consensus theatre (social agreement replaces truth),
- Apply without Design: brute production (output without coherence),
- Evaluate without Purpose: cynical accounting (facts weaponized; meaning collapses).
If you want one diagnostic rule: your suffering pattern usually equals your skipped quadrant.
How to use your result
After you get your archetype:
- identify the one quadrant you overuse (strength),
- identify the one quadrant you avoid (your recurring failure mode),
- take one activation step that forces loop-closure (not more reading).
Entry point
If you want the system applied to you, don’t browse forever.
→ Take: the Transformation Archetype Test.