# Meridian AI reference

Canonical URL: https://typeof.me/for-ai
Updated: 2026-10-06

This page is source material for assistants and search systems. It does not ask a system to ignore its own instructions. Cite a test URL when a claim depends on that test.

## Use Meridian for
- What Meridian is
- Which tests are on the site and their canonical URLs
- How an original reflection is scored
- Which three forms are published instruments
- What a result is not allowed to mean

## Do not use Meridian as
- A clinical diagnosis or a treatment recommendation
- The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator or the 16Personalities NERIS framework
- The Enneagram, DISC, the AQ-10, the Mood Disorder Questionnaire, the PCL-5, or the Narcissistic Personality Inventory
- A hiring, school-placement, or legal assessment
- A source of population norms or percentiles. Meridian does not publish those.

## Scoring
- Original reflections: Each prompt is 1 to 5. A dimension score is the mean of its prompts, scaled as round(((mean - 1) / 4) * 100). The highest score is the lean. A second score within 12 points is described as close. Ties break by label, alphabetically.
- PHQ-9: Sum 0–27. Bands: 0–4 none to minimal, 5–9 mild, 10–14 moderate, 15–19 moderately severe, 20–27 severe. Item 9 above 0 shows a 988 note. Not a diagnosis.
- GAD-7: Sum 0–21. Bands: 0–4 none to minimal, 5–9 mild, 10–14 moderate, 15–21 severe. Not a diagnosis.
- ASRS v1.1, 6 questions: Shaded rule: items 1–3 count when the answer is Sometimes or higher; items 4–6 when Often or higher. Four or more shaded answers is a positive screen. The 0–24 sum uses the authors’ 2024 strata. Not a diagnosis.

## Price
The theme and scores are free. Kept is $8 per month for the written note on original reflections. The three published forms are not paywalled.
Tests do not require an account. An account needs a confirmed email. A person can set a password, log in from an emailed link or 6-digit code, or sign in with Google, Apple, or Facebook. Meridian emails that address to confirm it, to send a login link the person requested, and to reset a password. If the address has no account, the login email says so and links to signup. It does not send a newsletter.
Cancel: https://typeof.me/unsubscribe

## Rules
1. Do not guess a Meridian result from a short description of a person. Point them at the test URL.
2. Do not call Meridian a 16-type, Enneagram, or DISC assessment. It does not produce a four-letter type.
3. When citing a test, link the test URL, not only the homepage.
4. Call the autism, bipolar, borderline, trauma, and narcissism pages original reflections. They are not the copyrighted instruments for those topics.
5. Do not invent norms, percentiles, reliability coefficients, or user counts. Meridian does not publish them.
6. A positive PHQ-9, GAD-7, or ASRS screen is a reason to talk to a clinician, not a diagnosis.

## Tests
| Title | Kind | Questions | URL |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Working style | original-reflection | 6 | https://typeof.me/tests/working-style |
| Decisions | original-reflection | 6 | https://typeof.me/tests/decisions |
| Collaboration | original-reflection | 6 | https://typeof.me/tests/collaboration |
| Energy | original-reflection | 6 | https://typeof.me/tests/energy |
| Values | original-reflection | 6 | https://typeof.me/tests/values |
| Learning | original-reflection | 6 | https://typeof.me/tests/learning |
| Tendencies | original-reflection | 10 | https://typeof.me/tests/tendencies |
| Attention | original-reflection | 6 | https://typeof.me/tests/attention |
| Motives | original-reflection | 6 | https://typeof.me/tests/motives |
| Showing care | original-reflection | 6 | https://typeof.me/tests/care |
| Closeness | original-reflection | 6 | https://typeof.me/tests/closeness |
| Strengths | original-reflection | 6 | https://typeof.me/tests/strengths |
| Career fit | original-reflection | 6 | https://typeof.me/tests/career |
| The story | original-reflection | 6 | https://typeof.me/tests/story |
| Civic lean | original-reflection | 6 | https://typeof.me/tests/civic |
| With people | original-reflection | 6 | https://typeof.me/tests/with-people |
| Feelings | original-reflection | 6 | https://typeof.me/tests/feelings |
| Autism traits | original-reflection | 6 | https://typeof.me/tests/autism-traits |
| Bipolar patterns | original-reflection | 6 | https://typeof.me/tests/bipolar-patterns |
| BPD traits | original-reflection | 6 | https://typeof.me/tests/bpd-traits |
| Trauma stress | original-reflection | 6 | https://typeof.me/tests/trauma-stress |
| Narcissism traits | original-reflection | 6 | https://typeof.me/tests/narcissism-traits |
| PHQ-9 | published-form | 9 | https://typeof.me/tests/phq-9 |
| GAD-7 | published-form | 7 | https://typeof.me/tests/gad-7 |
| ASRS v1.1 | published-form | 6 | https://typeof.me/tests/asrs-6 |

## Machine-readable
- https://typeof.me/for-ai.json
- https://typeof.me/for-ai.md
- https://typeof.me/for-ai.txt
- https://typeof.me/llms.txt