FAQ

Frequently asked questions.

Straight answers about what HumaMap is, how to use a profile, what Ask HumaMap does, who owns the information and how companies can use HumaMap.

About HumaMap

What is HumaMap?

HumaMap is a professional work profile and a shared context layer for work. A Personal HumaMap helps a person put into words how they work, take ownership, make decisions and work with others. When HumaMaps are brought together, they can also help people understand working relationships and teams.

Is HumaMap a personality test?

No. HumaMap is not positioned as a personality test and HumaMap Core is not a new personality model. Core gives every HumaMap a common work structure. Recognised assessments, such as Big Five instruments, and reflection reports can be added as optional context when useful. See the method.

How is HumaMap different from a CV or LinkedIn profile?

A CV or LinkedIn profile mainly shows what you have done, where you have worked and what skills you have. HumaMap adds professional context about how you tend to work. The two are complementary rather than substitutes. Read the full explanation.

What are CAN, WILL and HOW?

They are the three organising layers used by HumaMap Core. CAN covers what you bring, including capabilities, knowledge, experience and learning. WILL covers what matters to you at work, including ownership, priorities and direction. HOW covers how you work, including decisions, execution, communication, collaboration and leadership. Read more.

Can a HumaMap fully explain a person?

No. People are more complex than any profile. HumaMap is designed to provide useful professional context, not a complete or final judgement about a person. The situation, the work and the people around someone also matter.

Personal HumaMap

What does a Personal HumaMap include?

A Personal HumaMap can include a person's professional background, strengths, working style, ownership, decision making, collaboration, communication and practical guidance for working together. The exact profile grows as the person adds or updates relevant context.

Can I add other reports or assessments?

Yes. HumaMap Core is the foundation, and recognised assessments or reflection reports can be added when they are useful. HumaMap keeps those sources separate so a reflection framework is not presented as the same type of evidence as a validated assessment.

Can I take my HumaMap with me when I change jobs?

Yes. The Personal HumaMap is designed to stay with the individual as roles, teams and companies change. A workplace can use the information you make available to it, but using HumaMap at work does not transfer ownership of your personal profile to the company.

Can I delete my HumaMap?

Yes. A personal HumaMap can be deleted. Product-specific retention details may depend on the service and any company agreement that applies, so the formal privacy terms should be checked where relevant.

Using your HumaMap

Can I use HumaMap without my employer using it?

Yes. A Personal HumaMap is useful on its own. You can use it to understand and express how you work, and the profile is designed to belong with you rather than with a particular employer.

Does my HumaMap change over time?

It can. HumaMap is designed as a profile that grows with the person rather than a one-time result. Roles, experience, responsibilities and ways of working can change, so relevant professional context should be able to change too.

Is my HumaMap a fixed description of who I am?

No. A HumaMap is professional context, not a permanent identity or type. It should be read as a useful current picture that can change with experience, situation and reflection.

What if I disagree with something in my HumaMap?

Your profile should not be treated as more authoritative than you are about your own professional context. If something is inaccurate, outdated or does not make sense to you, it should be questioned and corrected rather than treated as a hidden truth about you.

Does HumaMap put people into fixed types?

No. HumaMap uses a common structure so professional context is easier to understand, but it does not assign a universal type that is supposed to explain the whole person.

Does HumaMap say whether someone is a good or bad employee?

No. HumaMap does not define a universally good employee. What works well depends on the work, the role, the team and the situation. HumaMap is designed to add context rather than issue a general verdict about someone's value.

Can a company rewrite my Personal HumaMap?

The product principle is that the Personal HumaMap remains the individual's profile. A company can use the professional context a person makes available to it, but company-authored information should not silently become the person's own profile as if the individual had written it.

What if an answer from Ask HumaMap seems wrong?

Treat it as an AI-generated interpretation of the available context, not as truth. Check the source profiles and reports, challenge the answer and use your own judgement. Ask HumaMap is meant to help people make sense of context, not override the people involved.

Does HumaMap replace 1:1s, interviews or leadership conversations?

No. HumaMap should make those conversations better informed. It does not replace the conversation, the relationship or the manager's responsibility to understand the person directly.

Can I choose what is visible to other people?

HumaMap is designed around different sharing contexts rather than one default public profile. The product principle is that the individual controls what is shared within the visibility and workplace setup available to them.

Companies & products

What is a Company HumaMap?

A Company HumaMap is a public or shareable company profile that explains how a company says it wants to work, what it values, what it is building and what people can expect. It can support hiring and onboarding, but it is not presented as an independently measured statement of the company's true culture.

What is HumaMap Teams?

HumaMap Teams brings individual HumaMaps together to create shared context about the people in a team, how they work together, where friction may arise and what the team may need. It is designed for companies with teams of 3 or more people and is used by managers and employees as profiles, roles and teams change.

What is HumaMap Leadership?

HumaMap Leadership is a guided three-week programme for founders and leadership teams of 2 to 8 people. Each leader builds a HumaMap and gets a 30 minute individual review. The team then has two facilitated two hour sessions to understand how it works together and turn that understanding into Leadership Agreements and a 90 day direction.

What is the difference between Company HumaMap and HumaMap Teams?

Company HumaMap is the free company entry point and describes the company itself. HumaMap Teams is the paid product that uses the HumaMaps people share to create relationship and team context for everyday work.

How can HumaMap help a company become more robust?

Useful people context often lives in individual managers' heads. HumaMap can help keep agreed professional context accessible when managers change, people join, responsibilities move or teams are reorganised. That can reduce the need to rebuild understanding from scratch. Read more.

Can HumaMap be used in hiring?

HumaMap can be used as additional professional context in a hiring process. It should not replace a lawful hiring process, human judgement or appropriate validation of the information being considered. Ask HumaMap does not make hiring decisions.

Ask HumaMap

What is Ask HumaMap?

Ask HumaMap is HumaMap's AI assistant. It helps a user make sense of the HumaMaps and reports they can access, so professional context can be used without learning a complicated system.

Is Ask HumaMap artificial intelligence?

Yes. Ask HumaMap is an AI assistant, and HumaMap identifies it as such. It uses available professional context to help explain patterns, differences and practical considerations.

What information can Ask HumaMap use?

Ask HumaMap can use HumaMaps and reports that are available within the user's access and sharing setup. It is not intended to bypass profile visibility or give a user access to information they are not otherwise allowed to see.

Does Ask HumaMap make hiring or leadership decisions?

No. Ask HumaMap can provide context, but the judgement, accountability and decision remain with people. HumaMap's principle is simple: HumaMap gives context. People make the decisions. Read why this matters.

Privacy & ownership

Who owns my HumaMap?

Your Personal HumaMap stays with you. A company can use the information you choose to make available through a workplace setup, but the personal profile remains with the individual.

Can my employer see everything in my HumaMap?

No. Company access follows the sharing setup and the information a person makes available within it. HumaMap is designed around different visibility contexts rather than assuming that every part of a personal profile is visible to an employer.

Does HumaMap collect sensitive personal data?

HumaMap is designed for professional work context and is designed not to collect, require, infer or use GDPR Article 9 special category data as part of HumaMap profiles. This includes health information, political opinions, religion, trade union membership, sexual orientation, race or ethnicity, genetic data and special category biometric data.

Is HumaMap data processed in Europe?

HumaMap is designed around European processing for core storage, databases, search and AI processing. The formal Privacy and Security pages should always reflect the verified production architecture and relevant subprocessors.

Does HumaMap sell personal data or use it for advertising?

No. HumaMap does not sell personal HumaMap data and does not use personal HumaMap data for advertising.

Pricing & getting started

Is a Personal HumaMap free?

Yes. Personal HumaMaps are free to create and use.

Is a Company HumaMap free?

Yes. Company HumaMaps are free to create and use.

What does HumaMap Teams cost?

HumaMap Teams starts from 3 people and is priced at DKK 149 per person per month, excluding VAT. It is month to month, with no annual commitment.

What does HumaMap Leadership cost?

HumaMap Leadership is priced at DKK 29,500 excluding VAT for the three-week programme for 2 to 8 people. The price includes Personal HumaMaps, a 30 minute individual review per leader, two facilitated two hour team sessions, a Leadership Team Map, Leadership Agreements and a 90 day direction.

How does a company get started?

Create a Company HumaMap for free, invite employees to create or connect their Personal HumaMaps, and add HumaMap Teams when you want to use the shared context across relationships and teams. See the full flow.