The Science Behind Your RQ

You’ve tried the apps. You’ve taken the quizzes. And mostly, you’re still guessing. We built something different — built on the intersection of validated psychological research and 42 years of clinical practice, then delivered through AI that understands what was learned along the way. This is the part where the guessing ends — and a clearer, more intentional path to the relationship you’re looking for begins.

What we actually measure

You’re not bad at relationships. You’ve just been working with the wrong information. Most tools — dating apps, personality quizzes, even some traditional compatibility tests — measure things that look meaningful on the surface but rarely predict what happens between two people in real life.

Our assessment measures something different: 63 psychological dimensions of how you actually show up in a relationship. The patterns you bring into every connection, whether you mean to or not. The strengths you can lean on. The places where small shifts can change the trajectory of a relationship — sometimes profoundly.

And it does it without asking you to be anyone other than who you already are.

What your RQ actually is

Your RQ — or Relationship Quotient — is a single score that captures how you show up across the dimensions that actually shape relationships: how you communicate, how you handle conflict, how you trust, how you connect, and the patterns that quietly drive your choices. It’s the relationship equivalent of an IQ score: one number that anchors a much deeper picture of who you are.

But the number is just the headline. The real value is in the breakdown beneath it — the strengths to lean into, the patterns worth understanding, and the areas where small shifts can change everything. Whether you’re working on yourself, navigating dating, or deepening an existing relationship, your RQ is the foundation that makes all of it clearer.

Built on validated psychological research

The dimensions we measure aren’t invented — they’re drawn from decades of psychological research into what actually predicts how relationships unfold. Decades of studies into attachment, communication, conflict, emotional regulation, and the deeper patterns that shape how people connect with one another.

This is the foundation: peer-reviewed, well-established, clinically meaningful. The kind of research that informs how therapists and counselors think about relationships every day. We didn’t try to reinvent the science. We built on it.

Refined by 42 years of clinical practice

Research tells you what generally tends to be true. Clinical practice tells you what actually shows up in real people’s relationships, year after year, conversation after conversation.

Our methodology is shaped by Dr. Steven Griggs’s 42 years of clinical practice and the more than ten thousand clients he saw across that career. Four decades of sitting across from real people working through real relationships — and watching the same patterns appear, again and again, in different forms. That kind of perspective is something no algorithm can produce on its own. It’s the difference between knowing what the research says and knowing what people actually do with it.

This is why our assessment doesn’t feel like a personality quiz. It was shaped by someone who has spent a career listening for what actually matters — and our methodology reflects that.

For Dr. Griggs’s full story — and the partnership that turned his clinical framework into a working platform — see About →

Where AI comes in

AI is a powerful tool. It’s also a tool that, on its own, can’t tell you what matters. It can analyze patterns, but it can’t decide which patterns are worth analyzing. That decision has to come from somewhere else — from research, from clinical experience, from people who’ve spent decades learning what actually predicts whether a relationship works.

That’s the role AI plays here. It doesn’t replace the research or the clinical experience. It applies them — at scale, consistently, and with a level of personalization that wouldn’t otherwise be possible. It’s how we take what was learned across 10,000 client relationships and translate it into insight that’s specific to you.

You shouldn’t have to choose between human wisdom and modern technology. We provide the best of both.

The 10 areas we look at

The 63 dimensions of your RQ are organized into 10 areas — the ten places where relationships are quietly made or broken. Most people have strengths in some of these areas and patterns worth understanding in others. That’s normal. The point isn’t to score perfectly. The point is to see clearly.

  • 1

    Character & Integrity

    The foundations underneath everything else — honesty, authenticity, the values that quietly shape how you treat the people closest to you.

  • 2

    Emotional Intelligence

    How well you understand your own emotional world, and how readily you can step into someone else’s.

  • 3

    How You Connect

    Your capacity for intimacy, warmth, and genuine closeness — the qualities that determine whether connection deepens or stays at the surface.

  • 4

    How You Communicate

    The patterns you bring into conversations, especially the hard ones. How you ask for what you need, and how you respond when someone else does.

  • 5

    Conflict & Repair

    What happens when things go wrong — how you respond in the moment, and how readily you find your way back to each other afterward.

  • 6

    Independence & Boundaries

    The balance between togetherness and autonomy — how you stay connected to yourself while also showing up for someone else.

  • 7

    Worldview & Values

    The deeper alignments that shape long-term compatibility — beliefs about money, family, faith, fairness, and how a life should be lived.

  • 8

    Wellbeing & Self-Care

    How well you take care of yourself, and how that capacity translates into what you can offer in a relationship.

  • 9

    Stability & Readiness

    The patterns that affect whether you’re emotionally available for what you say you want — and the places where readiness may need a little more time.

  • 10

    Strengths & Areas for Growth

    The quieter dimensions of who you are — the places where you shine, and the places where small awareness goes a long way.

What this turns into

Once you take the assessment, you have access to your RQ score and a free preliminary breakdown — yours to keep, no payment required. From there, you can go deeper in whichever direction makes sense for you.

Premium Individual Report

The Premium Individual Report is a long-form, personalized analysis of your full RQ profile — your strengths, your growth areas, and the patterns that shape how you show up in every relationship in your life. It’s the difference between knowing your RQ score and understanding what it actually means for you. ($19.95, one-time)

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Premium Couples Compatibility Report

The Premium Couples Compatibility Report takes both partners’ RQ profiles and turns them into a single, deeply personalized document. Where you align, where you diverge, the conflicts most likely to surface, and a quarter-by-quarter roadmap for strengthening the relationship. It’s the kind of clinical insight couples have historically only gotten from sitting across from a therapist — without needing the appointment. ($49.95, one-time)

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The Dating Community (Coming Soon)

And soon, a community of fellow members who’ve taken the same assessment. A different kind of dating space — one built around what actually predicts compatibility, not around what looks good in a profile.

The community is selective by design. Not every score qualifies for membership — we want every person you meet to have done the work to understand themselves. We don’t publish the threshold, because we want your honest answers, not the answers you think will get you in. Take the assessment authentically, and you’ll know where you stand.

If you’ve spent enough time on apps that don’t seem to know what you’re looking for, this is what you’ve been waiting for.

Join the Waitlist

The assessment is free. It takes about 30-60 minutes. You’ll come away with your RQ score, a real breakdown of who you are in relationships, and a clearer sense of what to do next.

Whether that turns into a deeper report, a better relationship, the love of your life, or just a better understanding of yourself — that part’s up to you.