Your intake form tells you what the client decided to say.
VEX is the other half of intake: a client assessment that reads how a new client answers, not just what. Six questions on their phone, about eight minutes, their explicit consent first. Before session one you hold one page: the word their pattern reduces to, how they move under pressure, and the lever that opens the work.
Why intake forms stall
Every intake form is self-report. The client fills it in as the person they would like to be, or the person they think you want. So session one gets spent finding out who actually walked in: the warm-up questions, the careful circling, the real material surfacing at minute fifty. You pay for that discovery with your first session, and so does the client.
The information you actually need before session one is behavioral. Not their goals as stated, but what they protect when a question gets close. Not their history as summarized, but the pattern they fall into when they are not performing. No form field captures that, because it does not live in the answers. It lives in the answering.
What a behavioral read adds
The word
The single word their pattern reduces to. Your shorthand for the whole system you are about to work with.
The pattern
How they move under pressure: what they avoid, what they defend, where they go quiet.
The lever
The opening that moves this particular client, so session one starts where session three usually does.
How it runs
You send one link. The client opens it on their phone, reads the consent screen, and chooses to begin.
They answer six questions in their own words. About eight minutes, no login, no download.
The brief lands in your dashboard before you meet. One page, ready for session one.
How we keep this honest
- Every person is told up front, consents before anything is read, and can withdraw at any time.
- Raw answers stay private. The practitioner sees a rendered brief, never the writing itself.
- The person owns their read. It is theirs to keep and theirs to share.
- VEX never scores, ranks, or files anyone into a type.
Straight answers
Is this a personality test?
What does my client see?
Does it replace my intake form?
What does it cost?
Send your next intake as a reading link. Three clients free forever, no card. Then Solo $199 a month or $1,990 a year. Unlimited clients, unlimited re-reads.
Read your first client freeRather look around first? See the coaches already reading with VEX or write to hello@noctaracorp.com.