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Product8 May 20266 min read

Deep Forge, Flash Forge, Gao Dao — Three Ways Ganjiang Forges a Soul

ganjiang.xyz's Soul Forge offers three modes: the 49-question Deep Forge for a full assessment, the 3-to-10-screenshot Flash Forge for personality from existing artifacts, and the conversational Gao Dao for guided depth. Each fits a different attention budget and use case.

ganjiang.xyz's core product is the Soul Forge. But "the soul" is never something one path serves well for everyone. We ship three forging modes, each fitting a different attention budget and use case.

Deep Forge: a 49-question full assessment

The most thorough mode. Forty-nine carefully designed questions based on the clinical Enneagram, about twelve minutes to complete. The system identifies your main type, wing, instinctual subtype (sp / so / sx), and tritype. The output is the highest-resolution soul file we ship — best for long-term use, sharing across teammates, or when you want an agent that genuinely feels like "you."

Fits: people with twelve minutes, who want a soul that lasts a year, and who are interested in or curious about personality assessment.

Flash Forge: personality from screenshots

You have ninety seconds and are willing to upload three to ten everyday screenshots — chats, calendars, notes, emails, snippets of writing — and unwilling to answer any questions. The MiniMax-VL-01 vision model reads personality signals straight from the screenshots: how you talk to people, how you organise your schedule, how you take notes, how you title things. Those signals get backsolved into an Enneagram type and rendered into a compact soul.

Fits: people in a hurry to start using agents, who don't want to take a test, and who are willing to use everyday screenshots as input. On privacy: image bytes are processed in memory only — never written to Supabase Storage or to logs. That's a hard constraint built into Ganjiang.

Gao Dao: a conversation with a mentor

Gao Dao is a Chinese-first guided dialogue mode. A mentor agent powered by MiniMax-Text-01 has an 8-to-15-minute multi-turn conversation with you. It doesn't ask "are you a 5 or a 7" — it asks about a recent decision that was hard, how you treated a colleague who let you down, what you think about when you're alone. It reads you through the conversation and renders a soul report at the end.

Fits: people who want to talk it through before downloading, who are resistant to static testing, or who don't think a screenshot adequately represents them.

Three modes, one set of files

Whichever mode you pick, what Ganjiang hands you in the end is the same four-file set: soul.md, identity.md, user.md, agents.md. The only difference is the front-end act of "reading you" — test, vision, or dialogue. The back-end soul model is the same; the experience after dropping the files into any tool is the same.

This is deliberate. We believe the medium through which a personality gets read is a preference question, not a capability question. Ganjiang's job isn't to insist on one specific path — it's to recognise the self you're already expressing into a soul you can hand off to an agent.

Three entrances, one exit. Inside Ganjiang's forge, how you came in doesn't matter. What you carry out does.