The questions behind your profile
Maps how you think, decide, and work — quick and focused. Most finish in 20 minutes.
"I've taken many assessments but this one asked things I've never been asked before."
Sam W.
Pigment is built by a team of leading coaches, executives, and design thinking practitioners. Between us, we bring more than a hundred years of experience, and several of us are New York Times best-selling authors. We identified 82 stable traits that are specifically professional: the ones that track with your success and happiness at work. Your profile maps you across all 82. To read exactly how it works, see our methodology.
You answer questions about how you think, decide, and work. About 20 minutes. We map you on all 82 traits, then compare you against 500,000 data points from anonymized Pigment users. That comparison finds what makes you rare. We show you the abilities almost no one else has, so you can build a career that is genuinely yours.
It is built entirely around you. No labels, no type you share with millions. Think of it as a guide to how you work. The kind of thing a great coach would write about you after months together. Across about 30 pages, it names the two abilities you are rare at and the systems you run on. It is not a one-time readout. It is a map you come back to whenever a career decision is in front of you.
Pigment was designed specifically to help you go from insight to action. We have built over 100 free resources for almost any career situation you will hit. Need to answer "tell me about yourself" in your own words? There is a guide for that. Deciding whether to leave your role or reshape it? There is a guide for that too. It all lives in our free Career Toolkit, ready whenever you need it.
There's some overlap. Some of what we measure is personality. But most of what we measure is stable professional traits: how you work on a team, how you decide, and how you communicate. Pigment is strictly professional, and the traits we measure correlate to your career success and happiness. We also give you a large career toolkit, so you can make career decisions from a clear read of where you thrive.
The depth comes from the data, not the clock. Your answers are measured against 500,000 data points from anonymized Pigment users. That runs across all 82 professional traits: how you think, decide, communicate, and where you do your best work. What a great executive coach might take months to uncover, Pigment captures in 20 minutes.
Wide versus deep. The Career Discovery Assessment is the full 360° picture of who you are at work, for when you're stuck or mid-transition. Superpower goes narrow: it isolates the few abilities that make you rare and shows you how to build around them. Most people go wide to get unstuck, then deep to get sharp.
Take the 1 minute quiz to see which is right for you.
Take the quizWe built Pigment to help people see themselves more clearly. If it doesn't do that for you, send us an email within 30 days and we'll give you a full refund. No questions asked.
500,000 private data points from real Pigment users are used to build your Superpowers.
Superpower searches for paradoxical traits you hold that rarely show up together in other people.
Building on PE-fit and other research traditions, Pigment breaks new ground while staying aligned with established findings.
Just as each person is different, so is every Superpower. No two are the same.
The most successful people aren't more talented. Often, they just have more awareness of their most valuable contribution.
120 questions. 20 minutes. No right or wrong answers, just how you actually think and work.
We compare you against 500k data points to find the statistically unique abilities you hold.
24 hours later: your full profile of your greatest abilities. No two are ever the same.
Lead from your greatest abilities. Build your team around them. Make career decisions from a place of certainty.
It's not that you're failing — the fit is off. When the work matches your wiring, the caring comes back.
In knowing your greatest abilities, your intuition becomes sharper in all that you're building.
Shape your work around what you do best, and more of it starts to flow and flow.

In understanding how you're wired, leadership becomes instinct. Something you see clearly and exude with intention.
Get the clarity to position yourself in a changing workforce. Lean into what you do that few others can.
Get clear, specific language to describe what you do best. So you can own your narrative.
| Pigment | Johnson O'Connor | Highlands | Birkman | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Take it yourself online, with no required appointment or consultant | ||||
| Names what is rare about how you work | ||||
| Shows how your strengths combine into something bigger | ||||
| Built for your career decision, not an employer's tool | ||||
| Names your blind spots and anti-patterns | ||||
| Ends in a concrete next move | ||||
| Yours to keep: one profile you own, not an ongoing engagement | ||||
| Backed by a 30-day money-back guarantee | ||||
| Price | $99 | $950 | $450 to $600 | $129 |
Pigment is a self-report behavioral profile, not a timed aptitude test like Johnson O'Connor or Highlands. We compare on the dimensions we built Pigment for. Independent validation is underway and not yet published, which is why every profile is backed by a 30-day money-back guarantee. Take it, and if it describes someone who is not you, we refund it.