Press kit
The Assessment Library Press Kit
Everything you need to write about the story-based DISC assessment and the person who created it.
Facts, boilerplate, bios, and story angles below are approved for publication and may be quoted verbatim. For interviews, images, or anything else, email support@theassessmentlibrary.com.
Fast facts
What it is
The first company built on the story-based DISC assessment: pick-your-path storybooks whose in-story choices produce a DISC personality profile.
Founder
Shawn Taylor, creator of the story-based DISC assessment. Read his story.
Method created
March 8, 2025, at 3:14 AM, when the first story-based DISC assessment was committed as working code.
Company founded
November 4, 2025. Publicly launched July 4, 2026.
The library
89 published story-based assessments as of July 2026, for adults, kids, and beginning readers, with new titles added continually.
Who it serves
Adults, families, educators, and kids, including third-party observer assessments that reveal how others expect a person to behave.
Approved boilerplate
Copy and paste freely. Please keep the category name, "story-based DISC assessment," intact.
Short
The Assessment Library is the home of the story-based DISC assessment, a new category of personality assessment created by founder Shawn Taylor in 2025. Instead of answering a questionnaire, readers step into a pick-your-path storybook and make real decisions in real situations. The choices they make reveal their DISC profile. It is a living diagnostic, not a snapshot.
Standard
The Assessment Library is the first company built on the story-based DISC assessment, a method created by founder Shawn Taylor in 2025. Traditional DISC tests are one-and-done questionnaires: easy to second-guess, colored by the mood of the day, and taken once, if ever. The Assessment Library replaces the questionnaire with a shelf of pick-your-path storybooks. Readers make real decisions inside branching stories, and those choices, made while thinking about the story rather than the test, produce their DISC profile. A constantly growing library of titles for adults and kids turns assessment into something people return to, and third-party observer versions reveal how others expect a person to behave. It is a living diagnostic, not a snapshot.
Founder bio
Shawn Taylor is the creator of the story-based DISC assessment and the founder of The Assessment Library. A former union carpenter, recording studio owner, city councilman, and software engineer in the assessment industry, he wrote the first story-based assessment in a single night in March 2025 and named it for his daughter. The Assessment Library launched publicly in July 2026.
"I have spent more than fifty years in the DISC assessment world, and I had never seen anything like what Shawn built. The story-based DISC assessment is his invention, conceived and created entirely on his own with no help from me or Assessments 24x7."
"The Assessment Library is entirely Shawn's creation, developed independently on his own time and separate from his work with Assessments 24x7. While our company has long focused on traditional DISC assessments, Shawn saw an opportunity to create something different and brought that vision to life on his own. Assessments 24x7 has no ownership or claim to the Assessment Library, but we are proud to support Shawn and recognize the creativity, initiative, and innovation behind what he has built."
The full origin story, with the complete timeline: Meet the founder →
Story angles
Threads journalists have to pull on. Every one is documented and on the record.
- The 3:14 AM origin. The idea arrived in a truck on a drive home; the first working assessment existed by 3:14 the next morning, in a file named for the founder's son's birthday, telling a story named for his daughter.
- The once-a-year irony. The concept was born the evening after marketing meetings about how to get people to take a DISC assessment even once a year. The answer: a shelf of stories people return to on their own.
- The first reader was nine. The founder's son was the first person to take a story-based DISC assessment, promptly tried to click through it, and inspired the anti-gaming timing detection now built into every book.
- Kids art-directed the company. The DISC trait character lineup was chosen entirely by the founder's children: his son picked every boy character, his daughter every girl one.
- A reading engine in disguise. For kids, the assessment doubles as a reading motivator with characters, collectibles, and worlds, built by a dad who could not get his son to pick up a book.
- How others think you would behave. Observer versions let a parent, teacher, or colleague make the choices they believe you would make, then compare. The gap is the story.
Style and brand notes
- The company name is The Assessment Library, always with "The."
- The category is the story-based DISC assessment (lowercase, no hyphen between story and based only when rewording; the category term itself is hyphenated as shown).
- The books are pick-your-path storybooks. Please avoid the phrase "Choose Your Own Adventure," which is a registered trademark of another company.
- One line that sums up the product: a story that reads you back.
Press contact: support@theassessmentlibrary.com
