Mirorly

Library

The Mirorly question library.

21 question sets for hearing how you come across — from other people, or from yourself. Every question in every set is on this site, readable in full before you pay for anything.

This is the half that involves other people. If what you have is something to say rather than something to ask, that is the conversation catalogue — a different part of the product, and free without an account.

All 21 sets

Organised by when you would run it.

Not by topic, because the question you need is decided by the moment you are in. The cadence on each card is the one it was calibrated for — run a quarterly set annually and the answers go vague.

Annual anchor

Start here · once a year

The broad scan. Run it once a year with your full peer circle — direct reports, your boss, the people you collaborate with most. The dimensions you score low on are your map for the deep-dives below.

Quarterly deep-dives

One per cycle · rotate

Single-skill focus. Between anchors, pick one dimension where you want sharper signal — usually whichever scored lowest in your last annual round. Same peers, but a narrower lens. Don't run more than one of these at a time on the same people.

Career moments

One-shot · when relevant

For specific transitions. Use only when the moment is happening to you. Not on a schedule.

Natural rhythms

Per their own cadence

Templates designed for a specific recurring moment — your weekly 1:1, a quarterly look-back, end of year, end of a project. Some are self-only (no peers needed).

Relationship-specific

About one connection · annual

Focused on a specific working relationship — what your reports think of how you manage them, or what your peers think of how you collaborate. Send rarely, dig deep.

Context-specific

Replaces standard if it fits

If your leadership context is mostly remote, or you don't actually have a team (solo founder), these replace the standard deep-dives — same depth, calibrated for your situation.

Mirorly is built for considered, not constant. The same peers should not see a request from you more than one or two times a year — the cluster structure is the safety rail.

The test every question passes

What makes a question worth asking.

Four properties. Miss any one and the question slides back toward “rate your manager 1 to 5”, which asks the respondent to translate something specific into an abstraction before answering — so most of them do not.

01

Specific.

“Did Tuesday's product review go well?” beats “are you a good leader?”. Specific questions get specific answers.

02

Behaviour-focused.

Behaviour is observable, personality is not. Respondents can tell you what they saw; they struggle to tell you who they think someone is.

03

Recent.

Memory fades fast. A question about something last week is a different question from one about last quarter.

04

Actionable.

If the answer wouldn't change anything you'd do, the question wasn't worth asking.

Each set starts with the research — real papers, with the method and the effect size read rather than the abstract — and every template links to the work it draws on. “Research-backed” is easy to write; the bibliography is the only proof that counts.

Deliberately absent

What you won't find in the library.

  • Generic 1-to-5 ratings without context. “Rate your manager 1 to 5 on communication” makes the respondent guess what you mean, and you guess what they meant. Two layers of guessing is not feedback.
  • AI-generated questions. A human wrote and approved every one of these. The kind of question you get from “generate 50 feedback questions about leadership” does not survive the four-property test.
  • Personality assessments dressed up as feedback. “Are you a Type A or Type B?” is not feedback. It's a horoscope.
  • Engagement surveys. Engagement is a corporate concept measured by HR for aggregate reporting. That is not what you are trying to do here.
  • Buzzword categories. “Synergy.” “Empowerment.” “Stakeholder alignment.” If the category sounds like it came from a 2008 HR consulting deck, it is not in the library.

Where the library sits

Questions are the second half, not the whole product.

Most people arrive at Mirorly with something to say, not something to ask. The library is for the other direction — and for the day you want a number next to your own answer.

Usually first

Something to say

45 situations, each worded three ways, with the three likely reactions prepared before you walk in. No questions involved, nobody else notified, and no account needed.

Prepare a conversation →
When you're ready

Something to ask

Answer a set about yourself first, then send the same one out. What comes back is ranked by the distance between your answer and theirs, which is the part a survey tool cannot give you.

See how a round runs →

Read every question first. Then decide.

Nothing in the library is behind the paywall — all 21 sets are open on this site, questions and research alike. What a subscription buys is that the answers come back to one place, and that what you decide to do about them is still there next quarter.

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