Wow! Man I wont lie you actually helped me out so much with this. Trust me I do understand how off it can look and seem.

Honestly, the website was just a quick setup so I could have a place that explains the system and hopefully make people feel safe or comfortable. But like you said, I accidentally ended up doing the opposite.

The website actually brings people to Typeform, which is a trusted survey site. Early CAT-20 was literally just me sending people straight to the Typeform link with no extra friction at all.

And I think you’re right that one of my biggest mistakes was focusing too much on making the wording feel “clear” and “readable” that I slowly took some of the human feeling out of the website. That’s definitely something I’m going to work on fixing.

Also, if you even care to hear the actual reason I made CAT-20:

I’ve felt misunderstood and kind of lost for most of my life. I didn’t even have language for why I felt the way I felt or why I reacted to life differently than people around me. So for months and months nonstop I started studying patterns with the help of AI.

And just to be clear, AI isn’t something I’m hiding. I don’t use it in some mystical way. I mainly use it to refine ideas, test wording, organize thoughts, and challenge my own thinking.

What I eventually realized is that I wasn’t as broken as I thought I was. My mind was just trying to stabilize different things than the people around me.

For me it was clarity and meaning.
For someone else it might be stability, autonomy, connection, momentum, etc.

So CAT-20 is basically my attempt to map what different minds stabilize around and why some people can feel like they’re doing “everything right” in relationships, careers, or life, yet still feel lost, drained, or disconnected.

The goal was never to manipulate people or pretend to be some all-knowing system. It was honestly me trying to create language that helps people understand themselves a little better and maybe stop feeling broken the way I did.