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See how your team actually thinks.

Know the cognitive shape of your team, before the next decision.

Academy of Tribes maps human complexity with rigorous mathematics, psychology, and practice: validated instruments, one topological lens, no labels. The map is not the territory. It is what you navigate by.

ToposTeam & personality mappingMap yourself (or your whole team) across validated instruments and one transparent topological lens.Enter Topos →PraxisConsulting & coachingConsulting and coaching that turn maps into decisions.Enter Praxis →PaideiaEssays & methodEssays and method: the Academy teaching in the open.Enter Paideia →TribesThe communityThe Academy's community, forming now.Enter Tribes →

Methodology

How the mapping works

Four steps, with more detail on the method taught in the open through Paideia.

1

Established instruments

Each member completes established psychometric instruments with published research behind them, the BFI-2 (the Big Five) being one of them.

2

Private by design

Individual results stay private to each member; that is a design commitment. The map only ever uses the geometry between people: every profile placed as coordinates in one shared landscape of twenty-four trait dimensions.

3

The shape of the team

Then we ask what shape the team makes. Topology (from the Greek τόπος, "place"), the mathematics of shape, surfaces three things: where minds cluster, where thin bridges carry the translation between them, and where the landscape sits empty.

4

Honest limits

Before a shape is shown, it is stress-tested: the map is redrawn thousands of times to see whether the same structure returns, and the page says plainly when a finding is noise. What survives starts a conversation. It never makes decisions about people.

Alone

Your coordinates

  • Extraversion42
  • Agreeableness75
  • Conscientiousness85
  • Neuroticism70
  • Openness80
Five domains from the free BFI-2. Topos+ adds the facets beneath them. A sample profile, shown as it appears in a report. See a sample individual report

Together

Your team's shape

Team topology4 clusters of thinking style, joined by 6 connections. One flagged position belongs to every cluster. The full reading is in the sample team report.3 shared members1 shared member1 shared member1 shared member1 shared member3 shared members14244334
Where minds cluster, and what holds the clusters together. A fictional eight-person team. The map is real engine output. See a sample team report

A concept demo

This is an illustration, not the product. It shows the idea behind mapping how a team thinks: minds that cluster, and the bridges between them. A real map is drawn from your own team's results, like the one above.

A fictional nine-member team: two groups of minds, joined by a single bridge. Click a member to see what the structure does without them. Then try adding a profile.

Gold ring: the critical positionDashed: a removed member, click to restoreLines: minds near enough in trait space to connect

9 members · one connected map · 1 critical position · resilience 0.89

The gold-ringed position holds the map together. If that member leaves, the groups disconnect.

The full pipeline works in twenty-four dimensions and verifies every shape before showing it.

Eric Andreas Helsem Schaumburg, founder of Academy of Tribes

About

Connecting tribes of knowledge

Academy of Tribes maps the hidden structure of leadership teams. Where most personality testing tells you what individuals are like, we show how a team’s minds actually combine: where coverage is strong, where the blind spots are, who holds the team together, and where the configuration itself (not the people) concentrates the risk worth examining.

That structural view matters most when the stakes are high: team composition, post-merger integration, leadership succession: any moment where the actual shape of a team matters more than another competency framework.

Built and run from Oslo by Eric Andreas Helsem Schaumburg, drawing on a decade across psychology, sustainability strategy, and organizational systems work.

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