About Qore
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Built by Adam Petritsis
You think you know how you think
You probably don't. Every day, Qore puts you inside a branching scenario where each choice escalates the stakes. Your decisions reveal patterns you never noticed — what you actually value when it matters, and which thinkers across history see the world the same way.
Key takeaways
- •The thinking quiz is free, takes about 2 minutes, and needs no signup or card.
- •Your choices map to 10 thinking styles, each tied to a real thinker across history.
- •A new branching scenario every day nudges your profile as your decisions do.
- •Ask Qore reads your actual decision history back to you, not a horoscope.
- •You earn Kori just by showing up, and only spend it when you want more.
How does Qore work?
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Take the quiz
7 dilemmas. 2 minutes. No signup. Discover which of 10 thinking styles fits you and share your result.
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Face daily scenarios
A new branching scenario every day — 3 decision points that build on each other. Some are timed. Some use sliding scales. Inaction counts. After the reveal, see how four wisdom traditions would respond and what the crowd chose.
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Watch your profile shift
Every scenario updates your thinking profile across ten values. Qore also reads how you decide, not just what: whether you overthink, commit fast under a clock, or dodge the fight. Track how you change over time. Build your streak. Share challenges with friends and compare paths.
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Ask Qore about you
Once you have a track record, Qore can read your file: every choice you have made. Ask it what your decisions reveal and it answers from your history, not a horoscope. It reflects patterns in what you actually chose, nothing more.
Ten values
- Character
- — Building wisdom through experience
- Inquiry
- — Testing what works, revising when evidence changes
- Truth
- — Holding to principles that transcend circumstances
- Resilience
- — Focusing on what you can control
- Outcome
- — Weighing consequences for the greatest good
- Authenticity
- — Being genuine, honoring freedom
- Harmony
- — Nurturing bonds and community
- Consistency
- — Same rules for everyone
- Compassion
- — Responding to who needs care now
- Equity
- — Designing fair systems for the disadvantaged
What are the ten schools of thought?
Your choices map to one of ten thinking styles, each tied to a thinker who saw the world similarly.
- Virtue Ethicist (Aristotle)
- Good choices come from good character and practical wisdom. You develop judgment through experience, not theory — reading the situation and aiming for the wisest path, not the most efficient one.
- Pragmatist (John Dewey)
- You test what works in practice and revise when evidence changes. False binaries frustrate you — you'd rather experiment, learn, and adapt than commit to a rigid framework.
- Idealist (Plato)
- You believe in higher principles that transcend circumstances. For you, doing the right thing isn't situational — some truths hold regardless of outcome.
- Stoic (Marcus Aurelius)
- You focus on what you can control and accept what you cannot. Duty, virtue, and inner resilience guide your path through difficult choices.
- Utilitarian (John Stuart Mill)
- You seek the greatest good for the greatest number. Outcomes matter most — a choice is right if it produces the best consequences overall.
- Existentialist (Simone de Beauvoir)
- Freedom is situated and relational — your freedom is bound up with the freedom of others. Authenticity means embracing life's ambiguity, not escaping into abstract individualism.
- Communitarian (Confucius)
- You see individuals as part of a web of relationships and obligations. Harmony, duty to others, and social bonds shape how you navigate dilemmas.
- Principled (Immanuel Kant)
- You trust reason and universal principles. If a rule can't apply to everyone equally, it's not a good rule — consistency and logic are your compass.
- Care Ethicist (Carol Gilligan)
- Moral questions are about relationships and responsibility. Who is vulnerable? Who needs care? For you, the right choice responds to real human needs — not the one that follows the neatest logic.
- Contractualist (John Rawls)
- Fair rules are the ones you'd agree to if you didn't know your own position. Justice means designing systems that work for everyone, especially those worst off.
Is Qore really free?
The quiz needs no signup. Your results are yours to share. Daily scenarios are free — one new challenge every day, with your profile evolving in the background. The more you show up, the sharper the mirror gets. When you want Qore to read your file and reflect it back, you spend a little Kori, the currency you earn just by playing.
Questions
Who founded Qore?
Qore is built by Adam Petritsis, an independent product designer and founder. Qore began as a personal experiment in turning ethics from a static label into a track record you accumulate.
Is Qore scientifically validated?
Qore's framework draws on peer-reviewed moral-psychology research including Schwartz's basic human values, Moral Foundations Theory, and the ethics-of-care tradition. The exact mapping from user choices to thinking styles is being calibrated against the live user base. Qore reports profiles as working hypotheses that sharpen with more data, not as clinical diagnoses.
Is Qore like 16Personalities or MBTI?
Qore is not a personality test. Whereas 16Personalities and MBTI sort you into a fixed type from a one-time questionnaire, Qore measures how you actually decide under pressure, across many days and many scenarios, and the profile shifts as your behaviour does. The output is a thinking style mapped to a school of thought (e.g. Stoic, Utilitarian), not a four-letter type.
Can Qore tell if I'm an overthinker?
Yes, in a way. Beyond your thinking style, Qore builds a "How You Decide" profile from the way you actually play: how long you keep weighing a choice after reading it, how fast you commit when a clock is running, and how often you take the exit that avoids a fight. It surfaces four decision traits, Overthinker, Decisive Under Pressure, Avoids Conflict, and People-Pleaser, each earned from your real choices rather than a self-rating. The traits unlock as you complete more scenarios, so they sharpen the more you play.
What is Ask Qore?
Ask Qore is an AI feature that reads your own decision history and reflects back how you actually think and decide. After you finish a scenario, it can surface a short observation about the path you took. Once you have completed 25 scenarios, a dedicated Ask Qore section opens where you get an opening insight plus up to five follow-up questions per session. Ask Qore is not a chatbot or a personality test: it only reflects patterns in the choices you have made.
How do streaks work?
On Qore, completing one scenario each day builds your streak. Miss a day and it resets, but you get two free streak freezes per month to absorb a 1-day break. Longer gaps can be covered by spending Kori.
Further reading
Qore's framework draws on peer-reviewed moral-psychology research, including Schwartz's Theory of Basic Values and Moral Foundations Theory.