Directness
How blunt or softened you want messages addressed to you.
This is what they see
Your answers become a six-point radar on your public profile — the at-a-glance map of how to work with you.
A user manual for you — not a personality test
Communication DNA is your personal communication profile — how you give and take information, captured from a short survey and shown as a six-point radar.
Unlike a personality test, it isn't about who you are — it's about how to communicate with you. Practical, not psychological.
It's the foundation everything builds on: your "How to work with me" guideline, one-to-one compatibility comparisons, and every rewrite the Assistant produces are all calibrated to your DNA.
The six dimensions
Sarcasm tolerance
How cleanly sarcasm lands with you — or whether it just confuses.
Irony tolerance
How readily you catch when someone means the opposite of what they say.
Assumption sensitivity
How much implicit context you want spelled out explicitly.
Ambiguity tolerance
How comfortable you are with open-ended, loosely-scoped asks.
Feedback style
How you best receive critique: direct, gentle, or questions-first.
Built to be shared
Your DNA lives on your public profile at empatalk.app/u/your-name — made to hand to clients and teammates so they get you right the first time.
You set it once. Change any answer in your account settings and the next AI generation picks it up immediately. We never infer it from anything else: no log scraping, no behavioural tracking, no third-party data — and each answer's visibility is yours to control (public, team, or private).
For the full list of the 30 underlying factors we map, see the Communication DNA Factors reference page (/factors).
Quick answers
Is this a personality test?
No. It maps how to communicate with you, not who you are — practical, not psychological. Nothing is diagnosed or scored.
How long does it take?
About three minutes — roughly 30 plain-language questions.
Who can see my DNA?
You choose. Each answer is public, team-only, or private — and we never track behaviour or scrape anything to build it.
Discover your Communication DNA
Take the three-minute survey — you'll leave with your six-point DNA radar and a personal "How to work with me" guideline.
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Answer ~30 quick questions
Three minutes, plain language — each maps to one communication factor. No tests, no scoring of you.
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Get your radar + guideline
Your six-point DNA and a "How to work with me" note, written in your own voice.
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Share it on your profile
It lives at empatalk.app/u/your-name — clients and teammates adapt to you, so you stop repeating yourself.
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Example profile
At a glance: leads with the ask, wants feedback direct and early, and would rather send a sharp message than sit through a meeting.
Short & actionableDirect feedbackProactive AINeutral tone
How to work with me
Lead with the ask, then the context — I read top-down. Direct feedback is a kindness, not a risk. For anything complex, a short message beats a long meeting.