roletype
roletype is the web implementation of Volume 2 of The Hype Cycle Playbook — the self-evaluation questionnaire that helps you identify which of 25 recurring roles fits your skills, risk tolerance, and current capacity.
The free assessment gives you your top-5 role profile with a transparent scoring breakdown. The paid report adds deep-dive analysis, failure modes specific to your profile, a 12-week action plan, and synergy combinations.
“Technology hype cycles follow predictable patterns. Whether Bitcoin 2013, ICOs 2017, AI 2024, or any of the dozens of tech hypes over the past two decades — the same actors appear: founders, analysts, evangelists, charlatans — people who build, explain, finance, or exploit the ecosystem. The same roles, the same mistakes, the same extraction patterns.”
— The Hype Cycle Playbook, Executive Summary
The playbook identifies 25 recurring roles across 6 categories and analyzes each: how it monetizes, what skills it requires, when the optimal entry point is, what the first 30 days look like, and how it typically fails. The framework is technology-agnostic — the 25 roles were derived from comparing crypto and AI cycles, but they appear in every speculative technology wave.
The assessment adds the Ikigai meta-lens: five dimensions of role fit — monetization, skills, inclination, ecosystem need, and timing. Timing is the dimension Ikigai doesn't have but hype cycles demand. A role that fits on four dimensions but fails on the fifth is a trap.
25 roles, 7 categories. Framework, monetization paths, failure modes, and timing analysis for each role.
The structured questionnaire to identify which role fits your profile. This is what roletype implements.
12-week curricula per role — the action plans referenced in the paid report.
Applying the same role framework to capital allocation in hype cycles.
Dr. Bastian Brand
Strategy & Analytics Consultant · Munich
Bastian started his career at McKinsey & Company as a Corporate Finance consultant, subsequently worked as an Investment Manager and Private Equity Analyst, and has been running an independent consulting practice since 2016 — advising across private equity, finance, and technology strategy. He holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Mainz and has a background in European Studies from IEP Paris.
The Hype Cycle Playbook emerged from observing the same patterns repeat across every technology wave he worked in or around — the same roles appearing, the same mistakes recurring, the same extraction mechanisms activating. The framework is the result of mapping those patterns systematically.
~8 min · Free Top-5 results · Based on The Hype Cycle Playbook Vol. 2
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