Or look at a circle that already works — four made up people, real words.
People start one when:
- a team keeps missing each other and nobody can say why
- somebody new is starting, and the first week decides a lot
- two people work together closely and want to do it better
- a group only meets sometimes, so the time has to count
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Your Circle, and how each one really works.
A small group who agree to show each other how they work at their best, so people meet you as you are, not as they guess.
Indications, not destiny.
This is a card
Circle card
Rosa Delgado
Navigator
Sees
“Ask the Navigator where this is going before you build it.”
shifts to Sage
Where they're coming from
Orients toward what lies ahead — scanning for meaning and pattern, interpreting what it means for the path, and illuminating the way forward.
Works best at the very start, when nobody can see it yet. Give them room to say what this could become.
Energetic Stance
Prime
Navigator · Visionary
Stance, and the part of the work they’re drawn to first.
What they are exceptional at
Sees possibility before others do — envisioning futures that don't yet exist and drawing people toward what could be.
How they move through work
Starting it
Calling likely takes the most out of them. They can still do it well; it just costs them more.
Social Charge
close to their natural energy · The color shows how closely the way they act matches where they get their energy.
How someone engages, and where their energy comes from. Not skill or confidence. Reserved and expressed are both strengths.
Working with them
Open with. Start with where things are headed and what this means for that. Give them the big picture first, then the details. Bring them the vision. They're drawn to what could be.
Best format. Leave it unfinished. A tidy proposal invites a yes or a no; an open one gives them somewhere to go.
How they think things through. They turn scattered signals into a picture of where this is going. Expect the leap first and the reasoning after; ask for the steps back.
To bring out their best. Starting things and building momentum probably come easy. Calling likely takes the most out of them: help them make the call and say which way it went. Under pressure they may push too hard or pull back, so agree on the next concrete step.
A starting point for connecting, not a verdict. The real person is always the better guide.
Where this reading comes from
Your Visionary signature reads from Symbolic Fluency, which shows up as Imagining.
Wavelength is built on the Big Five (OCEAN), with a facet-level architecture that resolves OCEAN into twenty-five sub-traits across five Orienting Stances. Everyone has access to all five stances; what varies is emphasis, accessibility, and cost. Pilot validation with 360-degree triangulation complete; broader validation in progress. Designed for self-understanding, leadership development, and fit-and-development conversations in hiring and team contexts. Not designed as a select-out filter or sole input to high-stakes decisions about another person.
The interpretive synthesis integrates Big Five trait psychology with interaction theory from Goffman and Collins, and ethnographic grounding from thirty-five years of longitudinal field research in Micronesia. The intellectual frame is Batesonian: pattern-recurrence across scales rather than five abstract types.
Wavelength is designed for self-understanding, leadership development, and fit-and-development conversations in hiring and team contexts. It is not designed as a select-out filter, a clinical diagnostic, or the sole input to any high-stakes decision about another person.
One of four people in the example circle. Nobody real, but built by the same code that builds yours.
Every yes a person gives here is saved to a record that cannot be changed afterward. Not by the organizer. Not by us.
Circles is for small groups of people who either know each other, or have a common connection who is bringing you together. By taking part, you are agreeing to share some basic information about yourself that our system predicts from how you answered the Stance questions.
What it says should resemble you in most ways, but it is not Minority Report, so we will not get it all right. If it did, that would be weird and creepy. The read should be close enough to give you, especially, but also the people around you, tips about how you are wired and how you work best, both on your own and in a small group like this one.
What it does for you
See how any two of your people work together.
Each person gets a short, honest read on how they operate, and you see how any two of them fit: where they click, where they grind, and how to bridge it. The circle is yours to shape.
How it works
- 1Invite a few people by email.Each takes a five to ten minute Stance Read. Simple questions, no right answers.
- 2They see their own read first, then choose.Each decides whether to share. Nothing reaches you until they do.
- 3Your circle fills in.Compare any two people, or ask Roger how to bridge a pair.
What you'll never see
You see how people work. Never what it costs them.
Their strengths, pace and presence, yes. Their capacity, load and recovery, never. That stays theirs alone.
Where to start
Make your first circle.
Name it, invite a few people. Even two is enough to feel why it works.
New CircleCircles emails you a link to sign in, so there is no password. Your own read comes next, on your own card, and your card is part of the circle too.
Roger’s here the whole way.
Ask what your read means, or how to work with someone in your circle.
Interested in more about how Wavelength, the system underneath Circles, works? Have a look at our family of tools. The entry level of each one is high level on purpose, and they build on each other for anyone who wants to go deeper.
Welcome to your Circle, and thank you for being part of it.