About Kanso - The Career Trade-Off Profiling Tool

Kanso is a career trade-off profiling tool that shows you what you’d actually protect and sacrifice in a professional role - not what you think you should want.

How Kanso works

Kanso uses a three-step process:

1. Reflect & Rate: the user responds to workplace-condition questions one at a time, using the provided importance scale, and can move back and forward to review or revise answers. Each Highly Important or Truly Essential answer uses an available credit. The user can submit only after using between five and eight credits. The user reviews statements about work values, conditions, and priorities.
2. Reveal: Kanso calculates and presents a ranked profile showing strongest non-negotiables and sacrifice points, along with some of your key drivers, blindspot and deep dives into areas important to you.
3. Ask: the user unlocks Kanso Coach, an AI-powered coaching interface personalised to their trade-off profile, which they can use to explore their results, evaluate new roles, or prepare for conversations with their manager.

Who Kanso is for

Kanso is designed for:

• Individuals who want clearer career and role decisions.

How Kanso is different

Kanso differs from personality tests such as MBTI, talent assessments such as CliftonStrengths, and job satisfaction tools such as MindTrackers and burnout tests. Personality and talent assessments usually describe preferences, traits, or strengths, while satisfaction and burnout tools usually measure current wellbeing, engagement, stress, or risk.

Kanso does not assign a personality type and does not diagnose burnout. It identifies ranked decision priorities and trade-off tolerance so people can make clearer career decisions.

The core mechanism is an independent importance rating for each workplace-condition question. Choosing Highly Important or Truly Essential uses an available credit. The user can submit only after using between five and eight credits. The resulting pattern shows the conditions most likely to shape their career decisions.

Founder

Kanso was built by Steve Tapley, a product leader and software engineer based in Perth, Western Australia. Steve has spent 30 years building software, with the last decade working at the intersection of technology and people strategy in the SME space. The product was created to address a recurring pattern: capable professionals often know that something in their work is not right, but lack a practical framework to define what they are trading away and what they need to protect.

Your Trade-Off Profile is free. Playbook is an optional one-time purchase for the action sections of your results and extended Kanso Coach access.