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The Penta Hiring Map - Compose the Company's Aura on Purpose

Updated Jun 16, 2026 · Affirmology_PentaHiringMap_v1.md

The Penta Hiring Map - Compose the Company's Aura on Purpose

Affirmology founding team · computed from the synastry engine (relationship.py)

Recruiting and investor-narrative material, not just an audio. The premise: in Human Design, a small business of 3 to 5 people generates a group aura called a Penta, built from six channels (twelve gates) running Sacral to G to Throat, the circuit of doing the work, knowing the direction, and speaking it. A thriving company fills its Penta. We can hire to fill ours deliberately, instead of guessing at culture fit.

The six Penta channels (what a complete business aura needs)

What the founding pair already holds (Jeff + Sol)

Computed from both charts: - 2-14, The Beat - FILLED. Jeff carries Gate 2 (direction), Sol carries Gate 14 (resources and fuel). Direction and resources, the keys to the kingdom, already live in the partnership. - 5-15, Rhythm - FILLED. Sol carries Gate 5, Jeff carries Gate 15. The company's natural timing is already set between you. - Gate 31 (Leadership) - Sol carries it, half of 7-31. She is the natural alpha voice; she needs a Gate 7 to complete the leadership channel into flow. - Gate 46 (Success / right place) - Sol carries it, half of 29-46. She brings the "being in the right place" half of commitment-and-success; she needs a Gate 29 to complete it.

So two of six channels are already filled by the two of you, and Sol personally seeds two more. The spine of a thriving Penta is half-present in the founders.

The hiring map (the gates your next people should bring)

Hire and partner to complete the aura, in rough priority: 1. Gate 7 - completes Sol's 31 into the full Alpha channel of leadership-in-flow. A person with Gate 7 lets the leadership land smoothly and be followed. 2. Gate 29 - completes Sol's 46 into the Discovery channel of commitment and success: the one who says the deep yes and sticks. Strong for an operator or head of delivery. 3. Gates 1 and 8 (Inspiration) - the creative role model and public identity. A brand, design, or storytelling lead who makes the company known for something. 4. Gates 13 and 33 (The Prodigal) - the witness who holds memory and story. A person who keeps the company's experience, learns from it, and tells it back. Strong for culture, ops history, or community stewardship.

Why this matters beyond the team

• Recruiting: every candidate can be read for which Penta gate they bring, so hiring becomes design, not luck.
• Investor narrative: "we compose the energetic operating aura of the company on purpose" is a memorable, differentiated story about how Affirmology builds teams using its own product's intelligence.
• Product proof: this is the relationship engine working on the founders first, exactly the synergy layer the system was missing.

Computed by the shared synastry engine. Human Design / Penta / BG5 vocabulary is Tier C (benchmark-only); the computation is ours.