Conversational development
Interview next week? Something you need to say to a friend?
Get ready for the conversations that matter. Anyan shows where you tend to reach right now. Yan, your companion, helps you prepare before a conversation and make sense of it afterwards.
10 minutes · No questionnaire · Yours to keep
What's coming up for you?
Illustrative. Yan prepares with you, and the person you're meeting, in mind.
Created by Simon Phillips, founder of The Change Maker Group
A validation study is under way with a chartered psychologist
Where it starts
You were born reaching for all four.
Watch a four-year-old. Spark racing down the slide, Glow greeting a friend, Pulse curled up with a story, Flow working out a puzzle. They don't decide which energy they are. They reach for whatever the moment needs, without a second thought.
Then we get told who we are. "She's the shy one." "He's the sensible one." A quiz result we quote for years. We don't lose the range. We narrow it.
Anyan tells you something different. Where you tend to reach right now, and that the rest is still yours. Each reading is a picture of now. There's no better or worse shape.
The name
Anyan means nature, temperament and power.
Anyan comes from the Welsh word anian. It means your nature, temperament and power: one word for all three.
Nature
You were born with all four energies. Nothing's missing.
Temperament
Where you tend to reach first, right now. It moves.
Power
What you bring to the people around you when you reach.
That's what development means here: each conversation you prepare for and reflect on widens your reach, so more of your power is there for the people around you.
What Yan does for you
Your companion between conversations.
Yan never joins the conversation. It helps you before and after, and gets to know you better each time.
Prepare
The conversation you've been putting off. Yan helps you think it through with both of you in mind: what you tend to reach for, and what they've actually shown you.
Reflect
Afterwards, make sense of how it went. Yan remembers, so the next conversation never starts from scratch.
Develop
The energy you reach for least is often the key to the people you find hardest. Yan helps you find it, one conversation at a time.
See it change
Watch your reach widen.
With Reach, a conversation with Yan every season shows how your reach has moved — with your situation, your temperament, and the energies you practise. Colour is now. Grey is where you were. The dashed line is how far you've reached.
The months move on their own — tap any one to see how a reach changes over time.
Each reading is a picture of now. There's no better or worse shape.
Illustrative: one person's reach over eight months.
For teams and organisations
Development that keeps going after the workshop.
The day goes well. Is Monday any different? Anyan keeps the work going, every week, for every person, and nobody gets sorted into a type.
Ways to start
Start free. Go further when you want to.
Free
A quick snapshot of how you tend to reach right now, from a conversation with Yan, Anyan’s AI companion.
Reach
A year that goes deeper. Your full reading, and a conversation with Yan every season, so you can see how your energies shift over time. It starts with a week of Yan helping you prepare for the important conversations coming up next, so you see how it works in practice.
Pro
For people who take their development seriously. Yan helps you prepare for the conversations that matter, and reflect afterwards on what you might do differently next time.
Free once a year. Reach every season. Pro whenever you need Yan.
"Really very good experience, a very personal tone and response and some very intuitive and relatable questions that have been super helpful!"
David Lincoln, former MD of Strengthscope
"Real change happens between people — in the conversations where we work things out together. The best tools out there give you a brilliant head start: a shared language for how each of us shows up. Anyan takes it further. We all carry four energies, and the best results come from reaching for all of them, not only the one or two we've come to rely on. The more fully everyone reaches, the better the conversations, the stronger the relationships, and the more a team achieves together. That's conversational development, and it's why I built Anyan."
Simon Phillips, founder
What's the conversation that matters to you right now?
Start with ten minutes with Yan. No questionnaire, and it's yours to keep.