Deep Reading

Your politics, in chapters.

A personalized long-form reading written from your own 32 answers, not your type: the strongest case for your position and the strongest challenge to it, your intellectual lineage, where you fit the parties, and where you broke from your kind. Chaptered, emailed to you, yours to keep.

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Deep Reading · Traditional Libertarian · The strongest case for your position
“Rights do not enforce themselves. Someone pays for the enforcement, and that someone has a name.”

From a real Deep Reading, written from 32 answers

What's inside

Six parts, written for one reader

The free result tells you your type. The Deep Reading is about you within it: where your answers sit inside your type and against everyone else, who you are closest to and furthest from, the tradition you argue from, the tensions in your own answers, the case for and against your position, and where you fit the parties and the ballot. Each chapter is written from your 32 answers and scores; the data chapters are drawn from them.

  1. Part I

    Your fingerprint

    • Where you sit within your type
    • You vs. everyone
    • Your place on the map

  2. Part II

    Among the types

    • Your closest neighbors
    • The road not taken
    • Your opposite

  3. Part III

    Where you come from

    • Your intellectual lineage
    • The tradition you argue from
    • Figures you’d recognize

  4. Part IV

    The shape of your mind

    • Where you broke from your type
    • The tensions in you
    • How you reason
    • The strongest case for your position
    • The strongest challenge to your position

  5. Part V

    Out in the world

    • What you believe, in your own weighting
    • Where you fit the parties
    • Your ballot, against your answers
    • Who you’d recognize today
    • Where you’d feel at home
    • Your reading

  6. Part VI

    In sum

    • The answers that are bedrock
    • Your political character
    • In sum

Chapter titles as they appear in the reading. The complete example shows every one, start to finish.

How it's made

Written from your answers, in about five minutes

An AI model writes it from your own 32 answers and scores, so no two Deep Readings are the same. Writing starts the moment you buy: watch it come together on screen, usually in about five minutes. Close the tab if you like; it's emailed to you, and saved to your dashboard if you have an account. Some readings are held for review first and are typically delivered within 24 hours.

Your reading opens only for you: in the browser that took the Scan, from your private link in the email, or from your account. The free result stays free; you never pay to see a result you've already earned.

The method, step by step: how the Deep Reading turns your answers into a portrait of you.

Price and terms

One reading, charged once

Price
$19, one-time. No subscription, nothing recurring. Payment is processed by Stripe; we never see your card details.
If it fails
If your reading fails to generate, times out or arrives incomplete, you're refunded automatically. You never have to ask.
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Who makes it
PoliticalDNA was created by Mike Sertic. It is an independent, for-profit project with no party or campaign behind it; the Deep Reading is how it pays for itself.

Where to start

The Scan comes first

The Deep Reading is written from your DNA Scan answers, so the free Scan comes first. It takes about four minutes, needs no account, and your result is yours whether or not you ever buy a reading.

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