Deskrune Quiz · Issue 01

Failure mode, not personality.

Most ADHD quizzes sort buyers into archetypes — the dreamer, the firefighter, the perfectionist. That's a personality test wearing a productivity uniform. This one runs the other way: seven questions about the specific moment that keeps breaking this month, and a single $4.99 kit at the end that addresses it. If "all of them" is your honest answer, the result will say so.

Questions7 Time2 minutes EmailNot required ResultOne of five kits

The five kits

  • SelfHealer Basics — the 12-minute reset
  • ADHD Executive Function Kit — re-entry protocol
  • ADHD Finance Recovery — the bank-app gap
  • ADHD Job Search Kit — application momentum
  • ADHD Mental Health Tracker — clinician handoff
Sections
  1. How this works
  2. The quiz
  3. What the result means

01/ 03How this works

What it asks. Why it asks. What you get.

What it asks. Seven questions about the way the week is actually breaking right now: which problem hit hardest this month, how long after starting a project the team-of-one quits, what the default move is when the day folds in, how many half-active productivity apps are open, which sentence is the most uncomfortably true, and one closing question about the lie we all tell ourselves. None of them ask which color you'd be or which animal matches your work style. None of them ask for an email.

Why these questions. Each one maps to a specific signal from the diagnostic methodology. Re-Entry Collapse has its own tells; Hyperfocus Tunnel has different ones. The catalog is sorted by failure mode, not subtype, so the quiz is sorted the same way — every option carries weights toward one of five kits, and the result is whichever kit's failure mode the answers add up to the most. There is no "everyone fits" trick ending. If two patterns are close, the catalog defaults to SelfHealer Basics — the lowest-friction kit, the one built for the worst day.

What the result means. One of five kits at $4.99, with three reasons the answers pointed there and a Stripe checkout button right under the recommendation. Reading the kit page first is fine — there's a "read what's inside first" link before the buy button on every result. If "I just need a 12-minute reset" was the most honest answer at any point, that's what the quiz is going to recommend, and it isn't wrong.

The quiz sorts by failure mode, not personality. There is no "everyone fits" trick ending.

— The diagnostic rule

02/ 03The quiz

Seven questions, two minutes.

No email gate. No "claim your results" wall. The quiz runs entirely in your browser; nothing about your answers leaves the device until you click checkout. Use Tab and the arrow keys to move; Enter to pick; Escape to step back. Or use the mouse — both work.

7 questions · ~2 minutes · no signup

Which kit fits the default failure mode you're living with this month?

Not a vibe quiz. Each question maps onto a specific ADHD failure pattern; the result is whichever of the five $4.99 kits actually addresses yours. If "all of them" is your honest answer, the result will say so.

Question 1 of 7

03/ 03What the result means

If the result doesn't fit.

The quiz is a diagnostic, not an oracle. Sometimes the answers add up to a kit that doesn't quite match what's actually happening — usually because the failure mode this week is different from the one last week, or because two kits are close and the algorithm picked one. Below is what to do in either case.

If the result is wrong by a small margin. Read the kit page on the result screen ("read what's inside first"). If it doesn't fit, the buy page at /buy/ compares all five kits side-by-side; pick the one that does. The 14-day refund applies to the wrong-fit case the same as any other. Email [email protected]; the money goes back.

If multiple kits feel like they fit. That's normal. Two AFMs at once is the median ADHD experience, and the quiz's pick is the failure mode the answers leaned into hardest — not the only one in play. The catalog suggests starting with the recommended kit, using it for two weeks, and only then deciding whether a second one is needed. Stacking five kits on day one is the productivity-trap pattern the catalog was built to escape.

If "all of them" is the honest answer. The quiz is built to pick up on this. If the closing answer was "I just need a 12-minute reset" or "I just need someone to tell me one honest next thing," the result is going to be SelfHealer Basics, and that's the right call — it's the lowest-friction kit, designed for the worst day, not the best one. Start there. Add another kit later if the worst day stops being daily.

If none of them fit. The catalog isn't comprehensive — it's deliberately small. Five kits, each for a specific failure mode, with a public methodology at /methodology/ explaining how each one was built. If the failure mode you're living with isn't on the list, write to [email protected]. The team reads every email and uses what's in them to decide which kits to build next. Some of the catalog started as one of those emails.

If the result doesn't fit, write us.

Compare all five kits — $4.99 through 31 May