Weighing a job offer
Something about it is making you hesitate and you can't pin down why.
Know your career non-negotiables before a decision forces you to
Kanso shows what matters most in your work, what you can live with, and what your current role may already be costing you.
MBTI and DiSC tell you about your personality.
Kanso tells you what you'd actually give up and protect in a role.
Free · 5 minutes · No card required.
Who takes Kanso
Three situations come up more than any others
Something feels off
You're not miserable, not leaving, but the energy has shifted and you can't name it.
Happy and want to stay that way
Good situations change. Most people only notice after the fact.
How it works
01 Reflect & Rank
Not everything can come first.
You have 8 credits to spend on the factors you'd refuse to compromise on - the things a role must deliver, or its the wrong role.
Everything else sits in one of two places: a reasonable expectation, or something you're willing to trade away.
Spend carefully. Most people discover they want more non-negotiables than they have credits for. That's the point.
02 Reveal
You receive a Trade‑off Profile summarizing your priorities, as well as:
- Key Drivers highlighting non‑negotiable factors and their tensions
- Priority Map your factors ranked by importance
- Playbook with actionable steps
- Blind Spots to highlight areas you might have overlooked
- Deep dives questions that you marked as very important or essential are looked at in more depth
03 Ask
After the assessment, you can chat with the Kanso AI Coach about your results.
Ask why a driver matters, get personalized advice for conversations with your manager, and explore next actions tailored to your profile.
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Kanso vs other career tests
If you've taken MBTI or DiSC, you probably got a picture that felt familiar. The missing part is what to do with it when you're choosing a role, weighing an offer, or deciding whether your current job is asking too much.
Personality tests
MBTI, DiSC, CliftonStrengths
They describe patterns in how you think or behave. Kanso shows what you would protect, what you would trade, and where a role may be costing you more than it should.
Job satisfaction tests
MindTrackers, burnout tools
They measure how you feel right now. Kanso shows what you'd need to feel differently.
Career direction tests
Holland Codes, O*NET
We don't point you at careers. We clarify what you'd need from any role - the one you have or the one you're weighing.
Why this works
Most career tools ask you to rate yourself across a list of values. The problem is predictable: autonomy, impact, work-life balance, growth - everyone marks them all as important. You end up with a profile that's more aspiration than decision.
Kanso forces a different question. You get a fixed number of credits to spend across what matters to you. Not enough to cover everything, because when you can't protect everything, you find out what you'd actually defend.
Steve Tapley built Kanso after 30 years in software and a decade working across teams, hiring processes, and organisational design at the SME level. The pattern kept repeating: capable people in the wrong roles, not because they'd made bad decisions, but because they'd never had a framework that asked them to name their actual trade-offs. They knew something was off, but they they couldn't easily identify what that was.
The Kanso credit allocation solves a specific problem - it prevents the self-assessment equivalent of everything being a 10 out of 10. Forcing a genuine hierarchy means the output reflects how you'd actually decide, not how you'd like to be seen deciding.
What you get
In 20 questions, Kanso builds a profile that’s specific to how you actually function - not just a personality archetype.
01 Trade-off Profile
A clear summary of your priorities, and what matters most, what you'd compromise on, and what you've been trading away without naming it.
02 Key Drivers
The factors you'd refuse to compromise on, and importantly, the tensions between them that most roles can't fully resolve.
03 Priority Map
How you ranked each factor.
04 Playbook
Practical actions you can take now; from small changes in how you structure your work to conversations worth having with your manager.
05 Blind Spots
What factors might be costing your without realising it.
06 Deep Dives
For your non-negotiables, you get a full breakdown of the upside when it's right, the cost when it isn't, and the specific questions worth raising with your manager.
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Work shouldn't cost this much of you.
Whether you're weighing a new offer or taking stock of where you are right now, five minutes is enough to know what you'd actually trade.
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Testimonials
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The career profile analysis is spot on. It's like it knows me better than me, and it was good to see some actions I can take to my manager.
Rom
Software Engineer
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