The Shortcut

Career clarity in an afternoon

Pigment maps your professional strengths, blind spots, and career direction in a single sitting.
What It Does

What coaching gives you

Coaches and mentors give you something Pigment doesn't: a relationship. A coach learns your situation, holds you accountable over time, and adjusts the work as your career evolves. A mentor brings the perspective of someone who's been where you are.

For people working through transitions, a working relationship can be the difference between insight and action.

Where It Stops

Coaching is a big commitment

The financial commitment

Career coaching typically costs $150 to $300 per session. Most engagements run six to twelve sessions over several months. Mentoring is less structured but still requires finding the right person and hoping their experience maps to your situation.

The time commitment

Both are valuable. Both take time to produce results. And both depend heavily on the individual coach or mentor you happen to find.

Pigment takes a different approach

In a single sitting, you get a structured picture of your strengths, your blind spots, what makes your trait combination rare, and where your career direction points. Most people walk away knowing things about themselves they couldn't have found on their own.

The Difference

What Pigment shows you

Pigment shows you what you can't see on your own and gives you the language to use it.

Strengths you didn't know you had

Including ones that haven't had the chance to surface in your current role.

What makes you rare

Your traits measured against 500,000+ behavioral data points. Where you stand and why it matters.

Career direction mapped to your wiring

Not generic advice. Direction built from how you're actually wired to work.

Language you can deploy

Structured professional vocabulary for interviews, coaching sessions, and career decisions.
Side by Side

Two paths to career clarity

Dimension Pigment Coaches & Mentors
Time to first insight One afternoon Multiple sessions over weeks or months
Cost $99.99 one-time $150-$300+ per session, typically 6-12 sessions
What you discover Strengths, blind spots, career direction, and what makes your trait combination rare What emerges through guided conversation over time
Objectivity No relationship, no personal lens Shaped by the coach's own career path and training
Scope 500,000+ behavioral data points One professional's experience and methodology
Methodology Structured and consistent. Built by established leaders in trait science. Varies by practitioner
Ongoing support One-time report as a foundation Sessions, check-ins, accountability, action planning
Your story and context Pigment measures who you are professionally. It doesn't learn your story. A coach learns your full situation over time

Pigment and coaching do different things. Many coaches already use Pigment in their process.

Which to Choose

Start here

If you're considering coaching, Pigment is a good place to start. You'll walk in with a clear picture of your strengths, your blind spots, and what makes you professionally distinct. Many coaches already use Pigment because it gives both sides something concrete to build on from day one.

If Pigment gives you the clarity you were looking for on its own, that works too. The Career Self-Discovery covers career alignment. The Superpower Profile shows you what makes you competitively rare. For a lot of people, that's exactly what they needed.

Manifesto
“Pigment is like a decade of career mentorship in one afternoon.”
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Is Pigment a replacement for coaching?

It depends on what you need. Pigment covers strengths, blind spots, career direction, and what makes you rare. If you want ongoing guided support and accountability on top of that, coaching adds something Pigment doesn't.

What does Pigment measure?

Professional traits, strengths, career direction, and what makes you competitively rare. The Career Self-Discovery focuses on career alignment. The Superpower Profile focuses on your competitive edge. Both use the same structured methodology.

Do coaches use Pigment?

Yes. Many coaches use Pigment results as a starting point for their engagements. It gives them structured data from day one.

How does Pigment compare to a mentor?

A mentor draws from their own career path. That perspective is specific to their experience. Pigment measures your traits against 500,000+ behavioral data points, independent of anyone's individual story.

Why start with Pigment?

You get a clear picture of your professional wiring before you invest in coaching or any major career decision. If you do pursue coaching, you'll have structured data to bring with you. If you don't, you still have the clarity.

How long does it take?

Roughly 18 minutes. Results delivered within 24 hours.

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The complete guide to finding work that actually fits.

Read our Career Test guide to understand how different assessments work, what each one measures, and how to pick the right tool for your situation.

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