The Human Science Behind Freyja
Freyja is not just another HR chatbot. She is the product of a deep collaboration between AI engineering and decades of research into human evolution and personality science.
Chiara Elisabetta Vanni, co-founder of AnimaFlow, is one of the foremost experts in the Enneagram personality framework. A qualified attorney, certified hypnologist, and karmic astrologer, Chiara has dedicated much of her career to the study of human evolution — understanding what drives people, how they grow, and what unlocks their deepest potential.
Her expertise was instrumental in shaping Freyja's revolutionary approach to team management:
Enneagram-Based KPI System
Traditional VFX studios measure artists by raw output: shots per week, iterations per task, hours logged. These metrics are crude, unfair, and often counterproductive — they punish thoughtful artists and reward speed over quality.
Chiara designed a fundamentally different approach. By integrating the nine Enneagram personality types into the KPI calculation, Freyja considers each artist's personality type, communication style, creative temperament, and individual growth trajectory. The result is performance metrics that are significantly more accurate, more fair, and more effective at predicting true potential.
Hypnology & Karmic Astrology as Interpretive Tools
Chiara uses hypnology and karmic astrology not as mystical practices, but as interpretive frameworks to understand the deeper motivational patterns that drive human behavior. These disciplines, combined with the Enneagram, provide a multidimensional map of each individual — enabling Freyja to offer insights about team dynamics, conflict resolution, and personal development that no traditional HR tool can match.
A 6-Month Partnership
Freyja's personality profiling system was not built in a weekend. It required months of iterative collaboration between Chiara's human science expertise and Gabriele's AI engineering — translating nuanced psychological concepts into structured prompts, validation logic, and scoring algorithms that an AI system can apply consistently and at scale.