C.S. Joseph on Skool: The Octagram Community Breakdown

C.S. Joseph is a Skool community built around the Octagram, a personality framework that subdivides the sixteen familiar types into 128. It runs two published tiers, $29 and $97 a month, and it holds the largest archive of any room we have broken down in this category: 3,254 posts against 238 members. On 31 August 2026 the Games board placed it fourteenth in Relationships on $8,348.92 a month.

Who is C.S. Joseph?

C.S. Joseph is the professional name of Chase Simonis. His Skool bio describes him as "a professional speaker and personality expert, specializing in Jungian analytical psychology and cognitive functions theory," and the community carries his name rather than a product name.

Chase Simonis, known publicly as C.S. Joseph

Speaker and personality theorist working in Jungian analytical psychology and cognitive functions. His name carries an unusually deep autocomplete tail for this category: on 31 August 2026 it returned cs joseph octagram, cs joseph personality test, cs joseph mbti, cs joseph famous people and cs joseph infj, which means the community inherits demand rather than having to create it.

The room opened on 3 August 2024, making it just over two years old, the oldest in this batch. Its 3,254 posts against 238 members work out at roughly 13.7 per member, the highest density of any Relationships room we have measured and about 1.6 times the next one.

What does the C.S. Joseph community sell?

A typing system with more resolution than the one the buyer already knows, sold on the promise that misreading people is what has been costing him. The page's own words follow, unedited. Five choices worth stealing are numbered in place; hover a marker for the reasoning.

The archive is the product

3,254 posts across the 758 days since the room opened is roughly 4.3 a day, every day.

That is the number that explains the price structure. A community selling live access has to keep producing to stay worth paying for, and its value resets to zero the month the founder stops. A community sitting on a two-year searchable archive of typing discussions has an asset that grows monotonically and that a new member cannot exhaust. The about page names archives as a deliverable in the same breath as courses and lives, which is a deliberate flattening: it tells the buyer the back catalogue is not a bonus, it is inventory.

Density matters more than volume here. 13.7 posts per member means the room is not a broadcast with a comment section; it is a working forum where typing questions get answered, and that is the format a 128-type system requires, because the entire point of the extra resolution is that it needs adjudicating case by case. Note that a posts-per-member figure counts every post in the room, including the founder's, so it measures activity rather than participation.

Two tiers, and what the higher one is actually gating

$8,348.92 across 238 members is $35.08 each, which is 121% of the $29 Standard price.

Unlike most rooms where a ratio above sticker is unexplained, this one publishes its own answer. A $97 Premium tier sits on the same page, and if every one of the 238 members were paying, a mix where roughly one in ten sat on Premium would produce this figure. That conditional matters: a roster is not a customer list, and elsewhere in this batch Mein Kind spricht runs at 19% of its own sticker, which is what a gap between the two numbers looks like. The arithmetic here is consistent with the published prices; it is not a count of who pays what, and the page does not disclose the split.

What is worth noticing is the wording of the gate. Premium is described as "elite perks" and as "includes Standard + more," which is the version of tiering least likely to make the cheaper tier feel deliberately crippled. The Standard buyer is told he is getting core access, not a trial. That distinction is why some two-tier rooms churn their entry tier and others do not.

The thirty day change is -$1,038.17, a fall of about 11% from a base of $9,387.09. In a two-year-old room a single month's decline is a data point and the page offers no explanation for it, so we will not invent one.

Why "16x8 128" is the whole positioning in four characters

It never mentions the competitor and it beats it anyway.

Anyone in the market for this already knows the sixteen types. Writing 16x8 128 hands that reader a comparison he completes himself, and a conclusion he reaches on his own is far more durable than one he is argued into. It also sidesteps the argument the founder cannot win in a sentence, which is whether the underlying framework is valid. The claim on the page is about resolution, not about proof.

The cost is that it only works on someone who arrives already knowing the reference. A reader who has never heard of the sixteen types sees a number with no meaning. That is affordable here precisely because the founder's own name is the search term feeding the room, so the traffic is pre-qualified before it lands.

The formula you can copy

Name your mechanism. Octagram is a noun a member can search, recommend and be loyal to in a way that "my approach to personality" never is.

Do the differentiating arithmetic in public. One expression, 16x8 128, does the work of a comparison table and does not require you to attack anything.

Treat the archive as inventory, not history. If your back catalogue is searchable and dense enough to answer a new member's actual question, say so on the sales page, because it is the one asset a competitor launching today cannot copy.

Deciding what belongs behind a second tier is the subject of Skool membership tiers. Setting the two numbers themselves is covered in how to price a Skool community, the platform's cut on an annual plan in how much Skool takes in fees, and this room's revenue against its peers in the Skool Games leaderboard.

Frequently asked questions

What is the C.S. Joseph community on Skool?

It is Chase Simonis's Skool community built around the Octagram, a personality framework that subdivides the sixteen familiar types into 128. Members get courses, live sessions, challenges and a two-year archive of typing discussion. At the time of reading the roster stood at 238, with 6 admins and 3,254 posts behind them.

What is the Octagram personality test?

The Octagram is C.S. Joseph's own framework, described on his page as sixteen types multiplied by eight for a total of 128. It sits in the tradition of Jungian analytical psychology and cognitive functions theory. It is a proprietary system rather than a clinically validated instrument, and this article describes how it is sold rather than assessing whether it is accurate.

How much does the C.S. Joseph Skool community cost?

Two tiers are published on the about page: Standard at $29 a month or $280 a year, and Premium at $97 a month or $937 a year, with Premium described as including Standard plus more. Both annual plans work out at roughly nine and a half months of the monthly rate, so the discount is effectively identical at either tier.

How is this different from MBTI or the sixteen types?

The page positions it on resolution rather than on correctness. The claim is that eight subdivisions per type produce 128 categories, so a reader who already uses a sixteen-type model is being offered more granularity rather than a replacement. The page does not argue against any competing system by name.

Is the archive worth paying for on its own?

That depends on whether you search it. 3,254 posts across 238 members is the densest archive of any Relationships room we have measured, about 1.6 times the next one, which means the format is a working forum rather than a broadcast. Whether that is worth $29 a month is a judgement no leaderboard row can make for you.

What should another founder take from this page?

Publish the premium price. Nearly every room we measure whose revenue per member exceeds its listed price leaves the reason unstated, and the reader is left doing forensics. This one puts both numbers on the public page, which explains its own economics and removes a sales call from a low-ticket purchase.