Team chemistry
Paste blueprint codes. Understand team chemistry.
Two or more share codes — cofounders, a project squad, a leadership team — and the composition evidence does the rest: trait diversity, who covers what, where the single points of failure sit, and the two gates worth respecting before you commit. Codes only; nobody's answers, nobody's identity.
Compose a team
The reverse direction: pick the outcome, the team shape, and the headcount — and get the seat-by-seat personality composition the evidence favors, in priority order.
0→1 Launch, stream-aligned shape, 4 seats — priority order below; cut from the bottom, never the anchor.
- 1 · Vision & velocity lead
- The Catalyst. Someone has to convert an idea into believers and momentum — high Openness with social force is the launch engine.
- 2 · Systems builder
- The Architect. The machine behind the demo: imagination disciplined by structure so the prototype survives contact with users.
- 3 · Closer
- The Driver. Deals, deadlines, and decisions under ambiguity — the outcome-hungry seat that turns interest into revenue.
- 4 · Trust & ops anchor
- The Steward. The integrity layer: promises kept, money clean, the seat every early team skips and regrets (Pletzer et al., 2019).
Composition gates, applied forward: never assemble without a high Honesty-Humility anchor, and never let a majority run low on Conscientiousness — these are the two pairings the evidence flags hardest (Pletzer et al., 2019; Bell, 2007; McCarthy et al., 2023).
Topology lens: Stream-aligned — One team, one flow of work, end to end (Skelton & Pais, Team Topologies (2019)). Archetypes are hiring priors for conversations, never filters on people.