A personality test that does the listening.
SoundTrack: eight minutes of listening reveals the personality your own words tend to hide. Then it becomes guidance for how you live, work, move, love, and grow.
Big Five (OCEAN) based · research lineage: Drs. Greenberg & Rentfrow, University of Cambridge
The science of sound
Sound reaches personality before language does.
You listen to a series of short clips and rate each one. Tempo, dissonance, brightness, and tension land on you before you have time to form an opinion about them, so what you rate is a reaction rather than a description of yourself.
Decades of peer-reviewed research have mapped those reactions to personality. We read the pattern across every clip and resolve it to the Big Five, the model personality science has converged on.
What sound measures
The read comes from the raw physics of sound: tempo, dissonance, brightness, and tension, and how each one registers with you.
Why it holds steady
A questionnaire records how you describe yourself, which shifts with mood and context. A reaction to sound stays consistent, so the reading holds over time.
Where it lands
Every result resolves to OCEAN, the five traits that have replicated across decades of research and remain the standard in the field.
The experience
From a rating to a roadmap.
Four steps, start to finish. Tap any step to see what happens.
Step 01 · Listen & rate
Eight minutes of listening, one clip at a time.
You hear a sequence of short, composed sound clips and rate how each one lands for you. It is quick, low-effort, and there are no right answers, just your honest take.
Short and varied
Clips are brief and range widely, from familiar to unexpected.
You rate each one
A simple scale, one clip at a time. No typing, no essays.
Around eight minutes
The whole set is designed to be finished in one sitting.
Step 02 · Set your focus
Point the guidance where you need it.
Pick up to three growth goals and the life areas that matter to you. Fewer, honest goals produce a sharper direction, and everything downstream is tuned to what you choose.
Step 03 · Refine, if you like · optional
The assessment draws the map. Your listening history sharpens it.
SoundTrack works on its own. Connect Spotify when you're ready and we fold in the music you return to, skip, and replay.
Optional, never required
Your report stands on its own. Add listening data later, from your dashboard.
Real-life signal
Focus loops, novelty-seeking, mood regulation, workout energy, evening recovery.
Sharper recommendations
The layer tightens everything from focus rituals to date environments.
Step 04 · Open your roadmap
One profile, guidance across your whole life.
You get your Big Five profile measured to the percentile, your SoundTrack Type as the plain-language headline, and specific guidance across five life areas. A result is only useful if it changes a decision.
Your profile
SoundTrack Type · The Explorer
Seven Types in all: Explorer, Architect, Amplifier, Connector, Deep Diver, Dreamer, Maverick.
Guidance across five areas
Music, relationships, dating, work, and health each get their own guidance, drawn from the same profile.
This is where the reading becomes something you act on rather than something you read.
See all five areas ↓What you actually get
Five areas of your life, each with its own guidance.
A profile you can read is interesting. Guidance you can use is the point. The same reading resolves into five separate sets of recommendations, so the result shows up in the parts of life you were already thinking about.
Music
Focus, recovery, workout, and confidence sets tuned to how you respond.
Relationships
Your communication style, reassurance needs, and the conflict patterns to watch for.
Dating
Environments, pacing, and the traits in a match that genuinely fit.
Work
The rituals and conditions that protect your focus, so your best ideas ship.
Health
Movement and recovery rhythms that keep energy high and burnout low.
Free to start. Your snapshot and its headline reading.
Join the waitlist →Why it holds up
Credibility you can check, not quotes you can't.
Our approach builds on decades of peer-reviewed work into how music perception connects to personality, including the research of Drs. David Greenberg and Jason Rentfrow at the University of Cambridge.
Research lineage & advisory input · University of Cambridge. Early-tester stories will appear here after our first cohort, named, with permission.
The research behind it
Journal of Personality & Social Psychology · 2022
People use music to express personality across 50 countries
Read the paper ↗Psychological Science · 2018
Musical preferences predict personality at scale
Read the paper ↗American Psychologist · 2021
How music-making engages the social brain
Read the paper ↗Questions, answered
The things people ask first.
Is it free?
Yes, your profile is free to start, and no card is required to join the waitlist.
Is this a real personality test?
Yes. It resolves to the Big Five (OCEAN), the most validated model in personality psychology, not an invented type system. Your result is measured, not self-reported.
How accurate can a sound test be?
It reads reactions that are hard to curate, building on decades of peer-reviewed research into music and personality, including work at the University of Cambridge.
Do I have to connect Spotify?
No. The assessment works completely on its own. Connecting Spotify is optional and only sharpens the read, and your data is always yours.
What do you do with my data?
We use your email only to contact you about access. Nothing is sold. Any listening data you add is optional, private, and removable.
Can my team use it?
Yes, SoundTrack for teams turns the same read into compatibility maps and manager playbooks, built for development and coaching.
Coming soon
Know yourself in eight minutes of listening.
Join the waitlist for early access and a first look at the SoundTrack experience.
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We'll email when early access opens. No spam, and your Spotify data is always optional and yours.
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