The Mirror Free
Your AI career assessment. A Centaur Score measuring how well-positioned you are for the age of AI.
"In chess, a centaur is a human-AI team that beats both humans and AI alone. Your Centaur Score measures how well-positioned you are to be the human half of that partnership."
What It Does
The Mirror is a conversational AI assessment that produces a Centaur Score (0–100). Through a focused conversation about your actual work, it evaluates how AI intersects with your role and positions you on a spectrum from Automation Exposed to Strategic Centaur. It is free, requires no payment, and takes approximately five minutes.
The Mirror is the entry point to Career Threader. Your score and analysis carry forward into The Shift, The Edge, The Path, and The Thread if you choose to continue.
How the Conversation Works
The Mirror asks about your current role, not your job title. It wants to know what you actually spend your time doing, the tasks that fill your week, and your level of seniority. Based on your responses, it asks follow-up questions to understand the nature of your work: how much involves repeatable patterns, how much requires contextual judgement, and where AI tools are already changing the landscape around you.
The conversation typically runs three to four exchanges. The AI does not ask unnecessary questions. Once it has enough signal, it produces your results.
Tip: Be specific about what you do, not what your job description says. "I spend 60% of my time reviewing contracts for standard compliance" gives the Mirror far more to work with than "I'm a lawyer".
Document Uploads Personal
Personal tier subscribers can upload documents before starting the conversation. The Mirror reads these to build a richer picture of your situation before asking its first question.
What to upload:
- Your CV or résumé
- LinkedIn profile export or screenshot
- Professional certificates or qualifications
- Job descriptions (current or target roles)
- Performance reviews or development plans
Accepted formats: PDF, Word (.docx, .doc), plain text (.txt), and images (.jpg, .png). Maximum 10MB per file, up to five files.
Uploads are optional. The Mirror works well from conversation alone. But documents give it context it cannot get from a few chat messages: the specific language of your role, the breadth of your experience, and the qualifications that shape how you are perceived. This typically produces a more nuanced assessment with sharper insight lines.
Profile Extraction
When you upload documents, the Mirror automatically extracts a structured career profile: your current role, sector, seniority, key skills, career arc, qualifications, recent projects, and any AI tools mentioned. You will see a confirmation message: "Profile extracted. Your context will carry forward to all tools."
This extracted profile cascades to every downstream tool. The Shift will skip asking your sector. The Edge will reference specific projects from your CV when probing your human capabilities. The Path will know your seniority and go straight to asking about your goals. The Thread will have your career arc and focus on finding the meaning in it rather than asking you to recite your history.
The hub shows a "Profile loaded" indicator next to the Personal tools section when a profile is active.
Tip: Your CV is the single most useful upload. It gives The Mirror your full career arc in one document, which improves both the Centaur Score calibration and the downstream tools that inherit your context.
The Centaur Score
Your score reflects how well-positioned you are to be the human half of a human-AI partnership. It is not a measure of how "safe" your job is. It assesses the nature of your work against five components:
| Component | What It Measures |
|---|---|
| Task Exposure | How much of your current work could be automated or augmented by AI |
| Human Edge | The uniquely human capabilities your role demands: judgement, ambiguity, meaning-making |
| Adaptability | Your demonstrated ability to evolve with changing tools and contexts |
| Sector Trajectory | How quickly AI is restructuring your specific industry |
| Positioning | Whether your current role sits in territory that AI compresses or expands |
The Archetype Scale
Your score places you into one of four archetypes. These describe the nature of your work, not the value of your career.
| Score | Archetype | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 0–24 | Automation Exposed | Repeatable tasks with clear rules. The work can be defined well enough for a machine to learn it. |
| 25–49 | Transition Zone | Skilled execution that follows patterns. Valuable today, but the patterns are becoming learnable. |
| 50–74 | Emerging Centaur | Contextual judgement applied to variable situations. The human adds something the machine cannot yet replicate. |
| 75–100 | Strategic Centaur | Navigating ambiguity, creating meaning, and making decisions where data alone is insufficient. |
Important: A lower score does not mean your career is at risk. It means the nature of your current work has characteristics that AI can learn. Your next move matters more than your current position.
The Results Experience
When your analysis completes, the chat disappears and a full-screen cinematic reveal takes over. This is not a summary card. It is a designed experience that unfolds as you scroll.
Score Reveal
Your Centaur Score counts up with an animated ring, followed by your archetype and a role summary. An AI-generated insight line appears: a single confronting sentence about your specific situation. This line is the reason people share their score.
Archetype Scale
A contextual map showing all four archetypes with descriptions. Your band is highlighted. This gives your score meaning by showing where it sits relative to the full spectrum.
Spectrum Bar
A visual marker showing your exact position on the Automation Exposed to Centaur Resilient spectrum. If your sector is recognised, a triangular marker shows the sector median score for comparison, with a text line below: how many points above or below the median you scored. This comparison is based on sector analysis across 58 industries and is clearly labelled as such.
The sector comparison also informs the AI-generated insight line. If your score diverges significantly from the sector median, the insight line may reflect that tension, though it will never quote specific numbers.
Quadrant Map
A strategic position map plotting your Task Exposure against your Human Edge. Four territories: Protected Specialist, Strategic Centaur, Dormant Differentiator, and Replaceable Specialist. If your adaptability or sector trajectory scores are high, a projected trajectory arrow shows where your position could move.
Identity Cards
Three cards summarising your profile: Your Human Edge (what makes you valuable), AI Compression Risk (where you are most exposed), and Repositioning Direction (where to move next).
Share Card
A downloadable 1200×630px image designed for LinkedIn. Shows your score, archetype, quadrant position, and sector median comparison (if your sector is recognised). On a return visit, the share card shows your score change instead of the sector comparison. Use the Download Image button or the native Share button on supported devices.
Sharing Your Score
The share card is designed for LinkedIn. It shows enough to intrigue without revealing the full analysis. The image downloads as a PNG. On mobile devices with native sharing, you can share directly to any app.
Re-running The Mirror and What Changed Personal
You can re-run The Mirror at any time. We recommend every 90 days. If you have a previous result stored, the cinematic reveal changes to show your progress.
Score Comparison
Your previous score appears on the left in a muted treatment (smaller ring, static). Your new score appears on the right with the standard animated count-up. Between them, a delta indicator shows the change: green for improvement, red for decline, muted for no change. Below both scores, the date of your previous assessment is shown. If your archetype band changed, a transition arrow shows the shift.
What Shifted
For returning users, the archetype scale section is replaced by a component movement table. Each of the four scored components (Task Exposure, Human Edge, Adaptability, Sector Trajectory) shows the previous value, the new value, and a directional arrow. Components where the change exceeds 10 points are highlighted with an emphasised border.
Quadrant Map (Delta)
Your previous position appears as a ghost pin with a dashed border, labelled "Previous". A dashed line connects it to your current position. The evolution trajectory (shown for first-time users) is suppressed when delta data is present to avoid visual clutter.
Delta Share Card
The share card for returning users shows your new score with the change prominently displayed (e.g. "+8 since October 2025") in place of the sector median line. This creates a second sharing moment: the first share is "here is my score", the return share is "here is my progress".
If you have run The Mirror before, the Centaur concept explainer (the chess analogy) will not appear again. It only shows on your first assessment.
Note: The delta view is available on the Personal tier only. Free users see a standard fresh assessment each time.
In-App Help
Each section in the cinematic reveal has an info icon next to its label. Tapping it shows a one-sentence explanation of what that section measures or shows. Explanations auto-dismiss after a few seconds or when you scroll. The tool name in the navigation bar also has an info icon that opens a brief "About this tool" panel.
How It Connects
The Mirror is the starting point. Your results feed into every downstream tool:
- The Shift uses your sector and role context to map AI disruption specific to your industry
- The Edge uses your human-edge profile to identify which capabilities to develop
- The Path uses your score and positioning to prioritise career actions
- The Thread uses everything to connect your career narrative
If you uploaded documents, your extracted profile carries forward automatically. Each downstream tool adapts its conversation to skip questions already answered by your documents and reference specific details from your CV.
Best Practices
- Describe what you actually do, not your job title or department name
- Include the tasks that fill your week, not the ones on your job description
- Mention your level of seniority and decision-making authority
- If you already use AI tools in your work, say so. It affects your adaptability score
- Share your score on LinkedIn. The insight line is designed to start conversations
Common Questions
- Is this predicting whether I'll lose my job? No. It assesses the nature of your work against AI capabilities. Many roles with high exposure are evolving, not disappearing
- Why is my score lower than I expected? The score reflects your current work, not your potential. If you spend most of your time on pattern-based tasks, that drives the score down even if you are capable of more
- Can I improve my score? Yes, by changing what you do. The Path tool builds a specific plan for this
- Is my data stored? Your results are stored locally in your browser. Personal tier subscribers have cloud sync across devices
"The Mirror does not tell you what to think about AI and your career. It shows you where you stand, clearly enough that you cannot unsee it."