The Method

The Prism Model

A prism doesn't add anything to light. It reveals what was always inside it. Sagax does the same with a career. It passes your history through a lens and shows you the spectrum that was there the whole time.

The core idea

Surface skills are containers. Skill elements are what's inside.

The mistake every other tool makes is reading your job titles as if they were the truth about you. A title is a container. It changes with every role, every company, every year. Underneath every container are elements: the innate, recombinant capabilities you bring to anything you touch. Sagax reads the elements.

The container. What you visibly do

"Product Marketing Manager"

A container. It changes every few years, it's written in the language of the last company you worked for, and it tells you almost nothing about the engine underneath.

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The elements. How you actually work

The skill elements underneath

Innate, durable, transferable. The same handful of elements show up in everything you've ever done well, and they recombine into roles you'd never find by keyword.

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The same elements build different careers. Change the role, keep the person.

Three layers

Every career has a surface, an engine, and a core.

Sagax decomposes what you've done into three layers. Most tools stop at the first one. The recognition lives in the second, and the reason you do any of it lives in the third.

L1
Surface Skills
What you visibly do
The titles, the bullet points, the containers. Useful for a recruiter; nearly useless for understanding you. This is the only layer most assessments ever touch.
L2
Skill Elements
How you do it
No two audits surface the same set. Your skill elements are identified from YOUR context, not selected from a menu. The same elements that read as "just a teacher" recombine into a researcher, an analyst, a producer. This is where the recognition lives.
L3
Atomic Drive
Why you do everything
The irreducible core. The thing that's present in every single thing you do, whether you recognize it or not.
The decomposition, in one frame

One container breaks into elements, and the elements recombine.

What the resume says
Product Marketing Manager
↓  passed through the prism  ↓
Narrative Construction Information Architecture Empathy Modeling Systems Diagnosis Pattern Recognition
The same five elements also build
UX Researcher Fraud Analyst Documentary Producer Editorial Director

None of these share a keyword with "product marketing." They share the elements underneath it.

How an audit reads you

Evidence in. Recognition out.

01

Gather the evidence

Resume, testimonials, reviews, the off-resume things. Especially what others wrote about you. People describe what you do in ways you never would.

02

Decompose the containers

Every role and project is broken down into its skill elements. Separating the container you happened to work in from the elements you actually brought.

03

Find the shape and the drive

The elements that keep appearing form a shape. The reason they all point the same direction is the atomic drive: one sentence beneath everything.

04

Confront the gap

Where your self-description and the evidence disagree, Sagax commits to a read. The contradiction isn't an error. It's where the real skill was hiding.

05

Recombine into territories

The same elements recombine into roles you'd never reach by keyword. Across industries, matched at the innate level.

See the spectrum.

Five free turns. No account required.

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