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Answer seven questions
One question per screen, in your own words. No character limits, no rush — the more thoughtful and thorough you are, the deeper your analysis will be. Your progress saves as you go.
A guided self-reflection experience
Discover the mission your life has been preparing you to build.
Seven deeply personal questions about what you have carried, who you are drawn to help, and what you hope will outlast you. Your answers are read as one connected story — and returned to you as a Legacy Code you can act on.
Free to begin · About 20 minutes · Your words stay private
What you will leave with
Not a label. A reading of your own story.
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What your experiences prepared you to do
The through-line in what you survived — named clearly, perhaps for the first time.
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Who you are called to serve
The people whose faces keep coming to mind when you imagine helping.
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The values that guide your decisions
The principles underneath your choices, made visible and deliberate.
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How your story becomes service
The shape your experience could take — service, content, enterprise, or creative work.
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Practical steps to begin now
Not inspiration that fades by morning. A first move you can make this week.
How it works
Seven questions. One quiet stretch of honesty.
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Receive your Legacy Code
Your answers are read as one connected story and returned to you as a Legacy Code: your primary archetype, an interpretation drawn from your own language, and a one-sentence legacy statement.
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Go deeper with the Complete Legacy Map
Your code is the compass. The Map is the route: a full blueprint of your pathway forward — strengths, principles, your people, three directions, and a 30-day action plan.
The five archetypes
Your code is drawn from your words — never assigned at random.
Every Legacy Code resolves to one of five archetypes. Each names a different way a life becomes a mission. Which one is yours is written in how you describe your own story.
The Alchemist
“Turns what was survived into what sets others free.”
The Alchemist has been through the fire and come out carrying medicine. Where others see only what broke them, the Alchemist sees raw material — pain transmuted into wisdom, wounds turned into a way forward for people walking the same road.
The Lantern
“Lights the road for those still walking through the dark.”
The Lantern carries light into places they once stumbled through blind. They encourage, guide, and name what others cannot yet see in themselves — proof that the dark does not get the final word.
The Gardener
“Grows people, ideas, and futures with patient hands.”
The Gardener believes nothing meaningful is rushed. They plant, tend, and nurture — people, projects, communities — trusting slow work and steady care to produce what force never could.
The Keymaker
“Opens doors others were told don't exist.”
The Keymaker cannot stand a locked door. They create access, opportunity, and freedom — building businesses, movements, and systems that let people walk through into lives they were told were not for them.
The Hearthkeeper
“Builds the belonging people have been searching for.”
The Hearthkeeper makes room. They gather the scattered, shelter the vulnerable, and build the communities, families, and spaces where people finally feel they belong — and can become who they are.
Who this is for
For people who know they're built for more.
Not sure what that “more” is yet? That's exactly who this was made for.
Veterans building a second mission
Service didn't end at discharge. It changed shape.
Adults entering a new chapter
Roughly 35 to 60, standing at a threshold and choosing deliberately.
Emerging entrepreneurs seeking purpose
You can build anything. This tells you what is worth building.
Creators connecting story to work
Your lived experience is the material. Here's the shape of it.
People who overcame something
And now feel the pull to turn around and reach back.
Anyone whose life hasn't been simple
The complicated ones usually have the most to give.
A note from the founder
“I spent years designing a life that looked right and felt wrong — until I finally sat down and asked myself the hard questions.”
What I found underneath the labels — the roles, the history, the expectations — was a Self that had been trying to tell me what it was built for all along. My Legacy Code is the process I wish someone had handed me then: seven questions, honestly answered, that turn a life into a direction.
If you've been waiting for a sign that it's time to find your way forward — for everyone who has longed for one — this is it.
Joseph Cooperwood
Founder, My Legacy Code
Read Joseph's full story →A glimpse of the result
This is what comes back to you.
Your Legacy Code names your archetype, interprets it in your own words, and distills everything into one sentence you can carry. Below is a sample — yours will be drawn from what you actually write.
Get your real one — freeSample Legacy Code
The Lantern
“Lights the road for those still walking through the dark.”
“To turn what I survived into light for those still finding their way through the dark.”
Your full result includes a personal interpretation written from your answers, your signature phrases quoted back to you, and the currents that run beneath your story.
Go further
The Complete Legacy Map
Your Legacy Code is the compass. The Map is the route — a full blueprint of your pathway forward, generated from your answers.
$29one-time · yours forever
- Your refined mission statement
- Your three core strengths
- Your five guiding principles
- The people you are built to serve
- Three concrete directions for your life
- A check-off 30-day action plan
- Print-ready — keep it where you'll see it
See what's inside
Start with your free Legacy Code — the Map is there when you're ready.
Questions, answered
What people ask
No. You can begin answering right away — your words save in your browser as you go. You'll create a free account when you're ready to receive your Legacy Code, so it's kept private and waiting for you whenever you return.
About 20 minutes if you write freely. There are no character limits and no timers — take the time your answers deserve. The more thoughtful and thorough you are, the deeper your analysis will be.
No. There are no scores, percentages, or trait charts. Your Legacy Code is drawn from the actual words you use about your own life — it's a reading of your story, not a label from a quiz.
No. My Legacy Code is a personal-development and self-reflection experience. It is not clinical, psychological, spiritual, financial, legal, or career advice, and no specific outcome is promised.
Only you. Your answers are private to your account, never sold or shared, and you can delete everything at any time from your account page.
Everything your free result gives you, taken further: a refined mission statement, your three core strengths, five guiding principles, the people you are built to serve, three concrete directions your life could take, and a check-off 30-day action plan. Directions are possibilities to explore, not guaranteed paths to success.
Not at all. Veterans were among the first this was built for, but it's for anyone who knows they're built for more and wants to find out what that is.
From your account page, one click deletes your answers, your code, and your account — everything, permanently.
Seven questions. One quiet hour.
The more thoughtful and thorough you are, the deeper your analysis will be. Your future self is waiting on the other side of your honesty.
Begin the seven questionsFree to begin · About 20 minutes