About Numbershine

Max B. Pedersen is a licensed clinical psychologist (cand.psych.) with a PhD in work and organisational psychology. He is the founder and clinic director of EGOLAB, a Danish psychology practice where a team of psychologists works with therapy, testing and assessment in nine clinics and online. Numbershine is his answer to a problem he meets every week in practice: too many people need answers about themselves, and far too few can get them quickly.

His clinical training is long and specific: specialist-level training in cognitive therapy, specialist-level training in intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (ISTDP), and approval as a peer-reviewed ACT trainer. He has worked as chief psychologist at a pain clinic, taught at MSc and MBA level, and supervises other psychologists. His most recent further training covered ADHD, ADD and autism (2025).

Testing is part of his everyday clinical work: intelligence testing with the WISC and WAIS, attention testing with the TOVA, and full psychological assessments. Numbershine grew directly out of that practice. The instruments are chosen the way he would choose them for a client in the clinic, and the reports are written the way he would want a report written for someone he sees in person.

He has also spent years building AI for psychology, as the architect behind Lovespiel.com, an AI-supported couples counselling service, and the EGOLAB AI Psychologist. The AI that conducts Numbershine's interviews is trained and instructed by Max personally: what it may ask, how it phrases things, and what it is never allowed to conclude. When you answer its questions, you are working through a protocol a psychologist wrote, not talking to an unsupervised chatbot.

A proper psychological assessment is one of the most useful documents a person can own. It is also expensive, and the queue is long. Private evaluations commonly cost more than a month of rent, and public waiting lists, especially for ADHD, are measured in months or years. Most people simply never get one, and many stop asking.

The internet answered with quizzes: quick, unvalidated, and silent about their sources. They can be fun, but you cannot bring them to your doctor.

Numbershine is the third way: fast screening for the people, built to clinical standards. Licensed psychologists choose validated instruments and fix the procedures and the wording; the AI does the patient, repetitive work of administering them. You get an answer in hours rather than months, at a price closer to a book than to a clinic bill, and the free tests let you judge the quality of the work before paying anything.

If you have waited months for an answer, or put off asking because of the price, this service was built for you.

Everything Numbershine reports is framed in ICD-11, the World Health Organization's newest classification of mental and behavioural conditions, in effect since 2022. It is the reference used by the Danish health service and by clinicians across most of the world.

The choice matters in a practical way: results written in current clinical language keep their value. You can bring your report to a doctor or a psychologist and be understood at once, and nothing in it needs translating from an outdated framework. If you want to see how this compares with a clinician-led evaluation, read AI vs traditional psychological assessment.

Four commitments run through everything Numbershine publishes, from the shortest free test to the full assessment.

Our mission is to eliminate unhelpful psychological processes and improve quality of life through a better understanding of self.

Max B. Pedersen · Founder, Numbershine

The free tests are open to everyone, no account needed. When you want the full picture, the AI assessment is ready when you are. And if you have a question first, write to us.