Method
How PRISM reads the team.
Four inputs per person — name, date, place, time of birth — become a complete map of how that person is built to operate. Layered across a team, those maps become a spectrum. Here’s what we’re reading.
What this is not
It is not a personality test.
Personality tests sort people into categories using questions about how they self-report. PRISM doesn’t ask anyone how they think they are. It computes a chart from birth data — the same astronomical inputs that have been used to draw charts for centuries — and reads structural energetic patterns from the result.
Whether the underlying framework reflects something fundamental about human design or something interpretive about pattern recognition is, ultimately, an experiment. Live by it for a season. Notice what changes. Keep what works.
The framework
Human Design.
Human Design was synthesized by Ra Uru Hu in 1987. It draws on astrology, the I Ching, the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, and the chakra system, and resolves them into a single readable map of how a person is built to engage the world.
The map has five moving parts. Knowing them is enough to read your chart fluently.
The five moving parts.
| Element | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Type | Your fundamental energetic mechanics — how you're built to engage. One of five: Manifestor, Generator, Manifesting Generator, Projector, Reflector. |
| Strategy | The correct way for your Type to take action. Different for each Type. |
| Authority | Your internal decision-making mechanism. Where the yes and no actually come from inside you. |
| Profile | The costume your personality wears — two numbers from one to six describing how you learn, teach, and show up. |
| Centers | Nine energy centers, each defined (consistent broadcast energy) or open (variable energy you receive and amplify from others). |
The five types.
Manifestor
~9%The Initiator
- Strategy
- Inform before acting
- Wave
- Peace · Anger
Generator
~37%The Builder
- Strategy
- Wait to respond
- Wave
- Satisfaction · Frustration
Manifesting Generator
~33%The Multi-Passionate Builder
- Strategy
- Wait to respond, then inform
- Wave
- Peace + Satisfaction · Anger + Frustration
Projector
~20%The Guide
- Strategy
- Wait for the invitation
- Wave
- Success · Bitterness
Reflector
~1%The Mirror
- Strategy
- Wait one lunar cycle
- Wave
- Surprise · Disappointment
What PRISM does
From person to spectrum.
One person is a wavelength. PRISM computes the wavelength accurately — type, authority, profile, every defined and open center, every channel, every gate activation across personality and design sides.
A team or family is a spectrum. PRISM layers the wavelengths and surfaces what the group becomes together — the centers consistently held, the centers consistently variable, the decision cadences that work, the patterns of friction and resonance.
The output is a report, a dashboard, and a set of operating recommendations that update as the group changes. No one rebuilds from scratch when a member joins or leaves.
A note on limits
PRISM does not make hiring decisions. It does not diagnose. It does not predict. It is decision-support — useful starting points, not verdicts.
Every recommendation surfaces its top contributing factors and a confidence score. No black boxes. The framework’s creator called it an experiment; we treat it the same way.