Reading Your Results
Everything in your Icosa report is structurally derived. Here is how to read each component.
Your structural portrait
The 4x5 grid is the foundation of your entire report. Each cell represents one harmony — the intersection of a capacity and a domain.
Structural integration index
Your coherence band describes how evenly your capacities express across all five domains. It is not a "good/bad" metric — it describes structural balance.
This profile falls in the Steady band — well-integrated with room for targeted growth.
Your named geometric pattern
Your profile geometry is matched to one of 76 named formations by Euclidean distance. Each formation has a clinical shorthand (a persona name) that captures its dominant characteristics.
Ridge Formation describes a profile where one capacity (usually Focus) is elevated across most domains while another (usually Bond) is compressed. It creates a "ridge" across the grid — a line of intensity with valleys on either side. People with Ridge formations tend toward systematic thinking, analytical depth, and structural clarity, sometimes at the cost of relational warmth.
Risk patterns and high-leverage positions
Both traps and gateways are structurally derived from your profile geometry. They point to where you are vulnerable and where small changes have the greatest cascading effect.
Traps
Self-reinforcing loops that pull harmonies toward extremes. A trap forms when adjacent cells amplify each other's Under or Over states, creating a feedback cycle that resists change.
Gateways
High-leverage positions where small changes cascade through the grid. A gateway harmony connects to multiple structural relationships — shifting it even slightly can improve coherence across the entire profile.
Per-capacity balance
Each capacity receives a health value (0.0-1.0) based on how evenly it expresses across the five domains. A capacity that is Over in one domain and Under in another will measure lower than one that is Centered throughout.
From understanding to action
Your results are not a verdict. They are a structural map. Here is how to use it.