Updates

What's new.

Letters from the founder on what has changed at PoliticalDNA and what comes next, and below them, a plain record of what shipped and when.

Letters

  1. Five weeks before November 3What changed at PoliticalDNA this summer, from a lookup that sets your representatives' votes against your own answers to 31 AI models taking the Scan, and why updates will come as letters from now on.Read the letter

Earlier milestones

  1. Methodology

    Measured, not estimated

    Your archetype’s share of Scan takers is now counted from real results rather than estimated — and the comparison moved out of the paid Deep Reading, free for everyone on the results page.

    How the Scan works
  2. Content

    How traditions descend

    Schools of thought now connect to each other, not just to thinkers — researched links showing what descends from what, what formed in reaction against what, and what arrived at kindred conclusions from unrelated premises.

    See the descent map
  3. Product

    The instrument is complete

    DNA Dynamics (in beta) joins the Scan, DNA Origins, and DNA Civics — four assessments that map where you stand, why you believe it, how you engage, and what you know.

    How the suite works
  4. Product

    Deep Reading

    A personalized long-form reading that interprets your result — the reading of you, not just your type. Every break in your answers, read back to you.

    How Deep Reading works
  5. Content

    Your intellectual lineage

    Every archetype now traces to the thinkers, traditions, institutions, and communities that shaped it — a researched map of where your politics actually comes from.

    Explore the lineage
  6. Methodology

    A sharper map

    Four independent dimensions and 32 archetypes replace the old left–right line — rebuilt from the ground up on a scoring model grounded in contemporary political science.

    How the Scan works

See where you actually land.

About four minutes, thirty-two questions, no account required.

Begin with the Scan