About Northstar
A values compass
for people and companies.
Culture fit is the single biggest predictor of whether someone thrives at work — and the thing organizations measure least. Northstar turns workplace values into something you can see, score, and act on.
The product
What Northstar is
Northstar is a values-alignment instrument. You take a short assessment, we build your personal workplace-values signature, and we match it against a curated corpus of company values to surface where you'll fit — and where you won't.
In one sentence
A compass that points an individual toward the organizations — and an organization toward the people — most likely to thrive together.
How it works
Four steps, about five minutes.
01
Take the assessment
About five minutes. No account, no résumé. Just calibrated questions about how you want to work.
02
We extract your values signature
Your answers are turned into a structured profile of the workplace values you actually prioritize.
03
We match against our company corpus
Your signature is compared semantically against a curated database of company values and culture signals.
04
Receive your Northstar report
A ranked list of best-fit companies, your alignment score with your current employer, and the values driving each match.
Who it's for
Built for three audiences who all pay the cost of values mismatch.
Job seekers feel it first. HR carries it on the balance sheet. Team leads live it every day.
Job seekers
The pain. Culture fit is guessed at from a careers page and a 30-minute panel — then discovered the hard way.
With Northstar. Get a ranked shortlist of companies where your values actually land, plus a fit breakdown you can use in conversations.
HR & People teams
The pain. Regretted attrition starts as values mismatch nobody could name during hiring.
With Northstar. Quantify culture fit pre-offer, articulate your company's values with evidence, and reduce the cost of bad matches.
Team & department leads
The pain. Stated values drift from lived values, and team-design decisions get made on instinct.
With Northstar. Diagnose values cohesion across a team, spot drift early, and make onboarding and re-team decisions with data.
Use cases
Concrete moments where Northstar earns its place.
Pre-offer fit check
Before signing, see exactly where you'll align — and where you'll have to negotiate.
Internal mobility & re-team
Use values data to place people where they'll thrive, not just where there's a seat.
Employer branding with evidence
Replace generic culture statements with a values profile candidates can actually verify.
Career pivot & relocation shortlist
Narrow hundreds of options down to the handful that match what you care about now.
What makes it different
Not another personality test. Not another culture survey.
Values-first, not personality-first
Northstar measures what you want from work — not who you are. Values predict fit; personality tests don't.
Evidence-based company corpus
Matches are computed against real company-values data, not crowdsourced vibes.
Private by default
No account required. Your report is held behind a private session token only you control.
A report you'll actually use
Designed to be shared in interviews, hiring loops, and team conversations — not buried in a dashboard.
Privacy & trust
Anonymous by default. Yours to share, or not.
Northstar doesn't require an account. Your report lives behind a private session token only you hold. We never sell your data, and you decide who sees your results.
Find your Northstar.
Five minutes now. A clearer map for the next decade of your career.