Compatibility scores tell you whether you match. Icosa shows you how your personality systems actually interact — the geometry of your connection, where growth flows, and what your pair looks like as a whole.
How your personality systems influence each other across four interaction types — Reinforcing, Complementary, Catalytic, and Neutral — mapped across your combined twenty-center grids.
As a pair, you have a formation too. One of 45 dyadic formations across eight families — Resonant, Complementary, Asymmetric, Stagnant, Distressed, Mirrored, Transitional, or Rupture — describes the overall shape of your connection.
Nine gateway positions — Body, Grace, Choice, Voice, Belonging, Feeling, Discernment, Identity, Vitality — show where growth can flow between you and where the structural barriers are.
A dyadic coherence score that captures how well your two systems are working together — and tracks how that integration changes over time.
Both partners complete individual assessments. The system then computes the interaction field between your two profiles — hundreds of dyadic metrics derived from the geometry of your combined grids.
Explore →See your individual formations alongside your dyadic formation. Understand not just who you each are, but what shape your relationship takes as a whole — and which formation family it belongs to.
Explore →Each of the nine gateways can operate as an open channel between partners, a point of friction, or a closed barrier. Gateway channel analysis shows where energy flows freely and where it stalls.
Explore →Nine named currents describe large-scale patterns in dyadic interactions — persistent dynamics that operate across the whole relationship system. Your report identifies which currents are active and what they mean.
Explore →Personalized growth paths generated for the pair, not just each individual. Centering strategies identify which dimensions to prioritize together and in what sequence for the most structural progress.
Explore →Track how your relationship coherence and dyadic formation evolve over time. Smart Retake captures movement between full assessments with targeted questions.
Explore →Compatibility scores frame relationships as a matching problem: how similar are you, how much do your types align, how likely are you to agree? That framing misses most of what actually happens between two people.
Icosa starts from a different premise. Relationships are not about matching — they are about interaction. Your personality system and your partner’s personality system create a field between them. That field has structure. It has dynamics. It has leverage points where growth can happen and friction zones where it stalls. The dyadic assessment maps that field directly.
Both partners complete individual Icosa assessments. The system then computes the interaction field between your two twenty-center grids — hundreds of dyadic metrics that describe how your capacities and domains influence each other across four interaction types: Reinforcing, Complementary, Catalytic, and Neutral.
Just as each individual has a formation — a named geometric portrait of their personality structure — each pair has a dyadic formation describing the overall shape of the relationship. Forty-five dyadic formations are organized across eight families: Resonant, Complementary, Asymmetric, Stagnant, Distressed, Mirrored, Transitional, and Rupture.
These names describe structural patterns, not verdicts. A Distressed formation does not mean the relationship is beyond repair; it means the current geometry has a specific pattern that calls for specific kinds of attention. An Asymmetric formation describes a structural imbalance — one partner carrying more of a particular dimension — that, understood structurally, becomes something you can work with rather than something you just feel.
Nine named currents describe large-scale patterns in the interaction field. Where formations give you the overall shape, currents describe the persistent dynamics operating across the whole system — the forces that feel like gravity in a relationship.
The nine gateway positions in the Icosa grid — Body, Grace, Choice, Voice, Belonging, Feeling, Discernment, Identity, Vitality — are structural leverage points in an individual profile. In a dyadic context, they become channels: positions where the interaction between two profiles is either open and flowing, partially obstructed, or blocked.
When the Voice gateway channel is closed between two partners, it shows up as a structural finding, not a behavioral observation. That distinction matters. It moves the conversation from “you never listen to me” to “there is a structural pattern here that we can understand and work with.” The channel analysis does not assign blame; it identifies architecture.
Individual centering plans identify what each person can do to move their own profile toward greater integration. Dyadic centering plans do something different: they identify what the pair can do together, in what sequence, to shift the structural dynamics of the relationship itself.
The plan is generated from the geometry of your combined profiles — which gateway channels to open first, which interaction patterns to reinforce, which friction zones need the most attention. It is not relationship advice in the generic sense. It is a structurally derived path forward, specific to what your two profiles actually show when placed in relationship with each other.
Icosa Atlas is a personality and relationship mapping tool. It is not couples therapy and does not replace it. For relationships in serious distress, professional support remains essential.