Comparison guide

Blueprint vs Predictive Index

The Predictive Index (PI) is a workplace behavioral assessment built around four core drives — Dominance, Extraversion, Patience, and Formality — and packaged for hiring, onboarding, and team design. Blueprint is a different animal: relational rather than role-fit, and open to anyone.

Behavior at work vs. motives across life

PI is optimized for the employer's question: does this candidate's behavioral pattern fit the job we're hiring for? Its outputs feed into role targets and manager playbooks.

Blueprint is built on Eric Berne's Transactional Analysis and David McClelland's motivation research (nAch, nAff, nPow). It's designed for the person's question: what am I chasing, how do I meet people, and how do these two things play out across work, dating, parenting, friendship, and everyday life?

Dimension

Predictive Index

Blueprint

What it measures

Four workplace behavioral drives + a cognitive score.

Motivations (nAch / nAff / nPow) and ego-state patterns.

Research base

Behavioral trait research adapted for the workplace.

Berne's Transactional Analysis + McClelland's motivation research and TAT.

Output

Reference pattern (e.g. Analyzer, Maverick) + job-fit target.

A dominant type, supporting type, and motive profile.

Use case

Hiring, role design, workforce planning.

Predicting communication, stress drift, and relational dynamics.

Who it's for

Employers and HR teams (license-based).

Anyone who wants a relational read — across every context, not just work.

Not a hiring instrument

PI is designed to inform hiring decisions. Blueprint is explicitly not — we don't recommend using it to screen candidates. It's a tool for self-understanding and relational insight, from the personal end rather than the org-chart end.

A note on what Blueprint isn't

Blueprint is not a clinical tool, not a diagnosis, and not a hiring instrument. It's a relational map for self-understanding and conversation.

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