Peer perception · Toronto
Prism shows you how strangers actually see you — not how you think they do.
How it works
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At a networking event, you have ten or fifteen short conversations — five minutes each, sometimes less. You leave with a vague sense of how it went. So does everyone else in the room.
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Afterwards, everyone answers questions about the people they met — how each person actually came across, not how they presented themselves. Anonymous ratings. That is what makes them honest.
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The ratings are aggregated into a profile: six dimension scores, a personality archetype, and a written synthesis of how the room experienced you. Not your best self — the self that showed up.
What you get
Presence, Signal, Attention, Edge, Spark, Clarity. Each one scored by everyone you met — aggregated across raters into a single number you can actually use.
The contradictions in how people experience you. What you project versus what actually lands. These are often more revealing than the scores.
A written synthesis built entirely from peer ratings — no self-reporting. How the room experienced you, in plain language, without the flattery.
The idea
“Self-assessment is biased. You optimize for the person you want to be, not the person strangers actually meet. Prism closes that gap.”
Psychologists call it the meta-accuracy gap: most people understand their broad personality, but systematically misread how specific traits land on strangers. Research on thin-slice judgments shows that observers form accurate impressions within the first few minutes of meeting someone — and those impressions rarely match what the person thinks they’re projecting. Prism makes those impressions visible, structured, and useful.
Prism runs at networking events across Toronto. Attend one to get rated, or host your own and see what the room says about everyone in it.
Free for attendees. Hosts pay nothing.