What this is
A shorter assessment that covers the same fifteen systems as the long-form instrument, in seventy-five questions instead of three hundred and twenty.
Every question is original to HMM. None are lifted from any proprietary questionnaire, which matters if this is ever sold or bundled into a tier. No symptom is asked about twice, which is where most of the length in the original goes.
Take the assessment
All fifteen sections, five questions each. There is a button at the top to fill it with sample answers so you can see the chart without answering seventy-five questions.
Open it →Results and brief report
The priority chart with the retake ramp from red to brown, plus the short report that funnels into a program.
See the output →Design notes
Scoring model, why the y-axis is normalized, the colour ramp, and what still needs deciding.
Read them →The assessment
Results
Design notes
Scoring
Each question scores 0 to 3. A category's raw score is the sum of its five questions, so the maximum is 15. The chart plots percentage of that maximum, not the raw number, which is why the long-form example could show Adrenal at 36 and Small Intestine at 16 sitting at the same height. The raw score still appears in the chip under each point, exactly as in the original.
Priority bands
| Band | Share of maximum | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Low | Under 33% | Not asking for attention right now |
| Medium | 33% to 60% | Worth supporting |
| High | Over 60% | Where to start |
These cutoffs are a starting point and should be Jes's call, not mine. They decide how alarming the chart looks, and an assessment that lights up red everywhere sells nothing and frightens people.
The colour ramp
Assessments are ordered oldest to newest and coloured along a ramp from red to brown, so a client's first attempt is red and her most recent is brown. It handles any number of retakes rather than only two. The retake is the point: the chart is the before-and-after that makes the program worth buying, and it is the reason to keep someone subscribed.
Still to decide
- Where it sits. Free lead magnet, low-ticket purchase, or inside a subscription tier. That choice changes how hard the report should push.
- Gender branching. The original opens by asking gender to tailor questions. This version assumes a female respondent throughout, which matches who HMM serves, and drops the question. Say if you want it back.
- Diet, Lifestyle, and Medications. The long form scores these as context. They are not body systems and they do not belong as bars, but they do belong somewhere, most naturally in the Root Cause intake rather than here.
- Report length. Currently the top three priorities plus one line each. Long enough to be useful, short enough to leave a reason to book.