About Kanso

Kanso helps you decide what you need from a job and where you are willing to compromise. Use it when you are weighing an offer, questioning your current role or preparing for a conversation at work.

How Kanso works

Kanso has three steps:

1. Rate: consider each working condition separately. A Highly Important or Truly Essential answer uses one credit. After answering every condition, you can submit when you have used five to eight credits.
2. Review: see your priorities, possible conflicts and where you have room to compromise.
3. Ask: use Kanso Coach to examine an offer or prepare for a conversation with your manager.

Who Kanso is for

Kanso is for individuals making decisions about their own work. It is not an employer screening or recruitment tool.

How Kanso is different

Personality and strengths assessments such as MBTI and CliftonStrengths describe patterns about you. Satisfaction and burnout tools describe how work feels now.

Kanso helps with a different question: what do you need from the role in front of you? It does not assign a personality type, diagnose burnout or calculate job fit.

Founder

Kanso was built by Steve Tapley, a product leader and software engineer in Perth, Western Australia. Steve has spent 30 years building software, including a decade working across teams, hiring and organisational design in small businesses. He kept meeting capable people who knew something was wrong at work but could not name it clearly enough to act.

Your results are free. Playbook is an optional one-time purchase that adds practical steps, questions, a PDF report and 50 Kanso Coach messages instead of three.