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ARCANE

Understand your life. Improve your arc.

The app after sign-in, mirrored screen for screen. Four tabs: Home, My Arc, My Village, Data. Everything here runs on your phone.

9:41

Good morning, Zak.

One thread runs through your week.

On your mind

Past the pace you set

You've gone quiet with Sarah.

Down from most days to about once a fortnight since May — past the every-two-weeks you set for her.

Fairly sure
What this is based on
1,204 WhatsApp messages with Sarah and the cadence you set on her file — every two weeks. The gap is now six. Worked out on your phone.
WhatsAppYour people

Coming up

✉️
You promised Mum a call
Mum
Sun

Your week

Mind+

A short read on your week, every Sunday.

Reasoning across everything at once — the pattern behind the week, not just the counts. Runs in the cloud, opt-in.

🔒 Coming with Mind+

Your life

£Money
Soon · connect Monzo
Health
Soon · connect Health
Time
Soon · connect Calendar

Everything on this screen was worked out on your phone. Nothing here has left it.

Notifications

Only the things worth your attention. Off until you turn them on.
🔒On your lock screen these read only "Arcane has something for you." The detail stays behind Face ID.
It's been past your fortnight with Sarah
Want to reach out?
1d

You choose what pings you, and how often. Arcane never nags for the sake of it.

My Arc

The picture I form of you — yours to see and correct.

Your personality

Your people

Your diary

Your finances

Not built yet

Your CVYour work, told as one threadSoon

It's written down rather than hidden, so you can see where this is going. Nothing here is collected today.

Your personality

The part of you Arcane doesn't have to guess at.

What I've measured

VIA
IPIP-VIA-R
Strongest: Curiosity, Fairness, Perseverance. Your own order.

Coverage

2 of 5 measured40%
Next up: ipip-ipc — how you come across to others.
Mind+

Free measures. Mind+ connects.

Five instruments, one you. Mind+ reads across them at once — where your strengths and your traits agree, and where they pull against each other.

🔒 Coming with Mind+

Everything here comes from questions you answered yourself, scored on this phone. Comparing with a friend shares your scores, never what you picked.

Personality tests

None is a quiz, and none produces a type — they're the instruments researchers use, in the public domain, scored on your phone.

Ready to take

B5
IPIP-NEO-300
The Big Five · 300 questions · about 35 min
✓ Taken
VIA
IPIP-VIA-R
Strengths & values · 213 questions · about 25 min
✓ Taken
IPC
IPIP-IPC
How you come across · 32 questions · about 5 min
Take it
HH
HEXACO — Honesty-Humility
40 questions · about 7 min
Take it
OR
ORVIS
What work draws you · 92 questions · about 15 min
Take it

Not a diagnosis, not a type, and not a verdict. Your answers never leave this phone unless you choose to compare.

IPIP-NEO-300

The Big Five, placed against a comparison group.

These are bands, not verdicts. Each shows where you sit next to UK adults aged 30 and over — an open research sample, not a census. A high band isn't better, just further from the middle.

The five domains

OpennessHigh
Fairly consistent across its facets.
ConscientiousnessHigh
Orderly and dutiful — self-discipline is the standout.
ExtraversionAverage
The facets underneath disagree — warm one-to-one, quiet in a crowd.
AgreeablenessAverage
Fairly consistent across its facets.
NeuroticismLow
Steady under pressure, on the whole.

You're the authority on you. Traits move slowly, so I won't rewrite this after a hard week — and anything here is yours to correct.

Your people

Relationships are kept by tending, not by feeling. This is where I hold what you know about them.

Coming up

✉️
You promised Mum a call
Mum
Sun
Innerthe few you'd drop anything for
Closethe ones you keep up with on purpose
Orbitgood to remember, no cadence set

You cannot be close to everyone. Choose, then tend — and I'll only ever measure you against the cadence you set yourself.

S

Sarah

inner circle · you wanted every 2 weeks · 6 weeks quiet
Before you see them
  • 🎁 Sarah's birthday is in 12 days — turning 34.
  • 💬 Waiting on the interview result she mentioned.
  • You said you'd send Maya's school thing — 14 days ago.
  • Oat milk flat white, no sugar.
Dates that matter
🎁
Birthday
Turning 34
12 Mar
🔥
Remembering — the day her dad died
Reminded on the 28th; the 29th only comes in leap years
Their people
👶
Maya
Their child
What's going on
Interviewing for a new job, nervous about it
Open between you
Said I'd send Maya's school reading list
2 Sep
What they love
❤️
Oat milk flat white, no sugar
What they taught you
She opens up more on a walk than over text.
Does Sarah know?
Sources
WhatsApp · 1,204 messages
Linked by you. Nothing was matched automatically.

Only what you wrote here, plus the dates you kept. Nothing about them leaves this phone.

Your money, on purpose

You set the plan. I hold you to your own number, not to anyone else's idea of a good month.
Left to spend · August
£420
after the bills and what you've set aside · 11 days to go
How that's worked out
£2,400 in, minus £1,050 of commitments this period, minus £85 set aside for annual things, minus £845 assigned to envelopes. Every figure is a row on this phone or something you told me — nothing is forecast.
Your plan

What's here

ImportsA statement importer is next. Nothing reads a file yet.Soon
Money & your valuesNeeds a finished strengths test and a few months of spendingSoon
Money & your peopleNeeds spending attributed to a personSoon

Nothing here is a recommendation. For debt or products, MoneyHelper and StepChange are free and independent.

Your plan

What comes in

Salary
monthly · after tax
£2,400

Already spoken for

Rent
monthly · 1st
£850
Bills & subscriptions
monthly
£200

The annual things

Car insurance
£50 this period · £600 by 15 Dec
£50

Envelopes

Groceries
£150 of £400 left
£400
Eating out
£40 past what you planned
£120
Transport
£90 planned
£90

Assigning money to an envelope takes it out of what's left to spend, whether or not you've spent it yet.

Diary

Remembering
Arcane will remember this and gently learn from it.
🔒Kept private — remembered so you can search it, but never read by the model.
Today
Rough one today. I snapped at James in standup and felt off about it for hours after.
That sounds like it's still sitting with you. Was it the moment itself, or what it might mean about how work's been feeling lately?
Honestly the second one. Everything's felt like too much this month.
✨ Noted 2 · 9:12

Replies are written on your phone, so nothing leaves it. Private entries are never read by the model.

My Village

The people around you, together in one place.
🏘️

Nobody here yet.

A shared, private view of your circles is on the way — who's near, who to check in on, who could help whom.

Not built yet

Written down rather than hidden, so you can see where Arcane is going.

Your Data

What Arcane has, and where it came from. Yours alone.

The free tier keeps everything on your phone. Connect what you like, browse what Arcane made of it, and disconnect anything with one tap.

The Harvester

Bring your life into Arcane. Connect an app — it's organised right here on your phone.

Available

WhatsApp
Understand your relationships

Coming soon

Monzo
See where your money goes
Soon
Apple Health
Sleep, activity, and how you feel
Soon
Gmail
Who you talk to, and about what
Soon
Calendar
The shape of your week
Soon

Every connection is read once and organised on your phone — nothing is uploaded on the free tier.

By source

Connected

Connect an app to see it organised here — start with WhatsApp under Connect.

Privacy

Everything below is on this phone and nowhere else. Arcane's backend holds your account, and nothing you've imported or written.

Lock

Require Face ID or your passcode
Covers your diary and the people you keep — everything in the app.

What leaves this phone

Your email and password
To sign in. The password is hashed on the server and never stored here.
Personality scores, if you compare
Only the bands, only for a test you choose, only to someone you invited.
Your messages and imports
Never. They're parsed and stored here.
Your diary
Never. Entries are read on device, by a model that runs here.
The people you keep
Never. These are notes about other people, so they stay on your phone.

Export and delete land here next. Until then, deleting the app takes everything with it.

WhatsApp

How you show up across your conversations. Connected · analysed on your phone.
34
Chats
41
People
8,412
Messages

How your chats balance

12
You lead
14
Balanced
8
They lead

Your pull, overall

You 56%Everyone else 44%
You carry your conversations a little more than the people in them. Across 34 chats. It's here so you can notice the rhythm, not keep count.

The pull, chat by chat

Every message stays on your phone. Arcane reads it once to work out who carries each conversation — nothing is uploaded.

You & Sarah

Who's carrying the conversation.

The pull

You 62%Sarah 38%
Lately, you're carrying this one. You start most threads and reply quicker.

What makes it up

MessagesYou 58% · Sarah 42%
You send more of the messages.
Who texts firstYou 63% · Sarah 37%
You restart most conversations after a quiet spell.
Who has the last wordYou 55% · Sarah 45%
You're usually the one to sign off.
Reply speedYou ~40m · Sarah ~2h
You usually reply sooner than Sarah does.

None of this is a scorecard. Balance shifts with life — a busy month, a hard week. It's here so you can notice the rhythm, not keep count.

Fairly sure
How this is worked out
From 214 messages, Jan 2024 – Aug 2025 — 118 from you, 96 from Sarah. "Texts first" counts a message after a 6h+ quiet gap; "last word" the final one before the next gap; reply speed compares typical waits. The overall pull weights message share most, then who texts first, the last word, and reply speed.
WhatsApp

The app after sign-in, mirrored screen for screen. Home leads with one on-device observation, Coming up, and your life by domain. My Arc is the model of you — personality (five real tests), people, diary, finances. Data connects apps and shows the Pull across your chats. Everything runs on your phone.