LIFESCRIPT AI
About

A 60-year clinical tradition,
read in everyday language.

Transactional Analysis began in San Francisco in the early 1960s. It was an attempt to take what therapists actually saw in the room — the small repeating patterns of how people talked, withheld, attacked, rescued — and give it a vocabulary anyone could use.

We use that vocabulary, not the jargon. The nine theorists below gave us the lenses. The report writes about you in the words you'd actually use at the kitchen table.

What Transactional Analysis actually is

A short, honest version. No academic detour.

1. We carry three voices inside.

One sounds like the people who raised us (Parent). One sounds like the small version of ourselves who first met the world (Child). One is the part that can actually look at what's happening right now (Adult).

Most of the trouble in our lives happens when the small Child voice or the borrowed Parent voice is running the meeting, and the Adult never gets to speak.

2. By age six, most of us made a decision about life.

Not a big one we remember. A small, silent one — something like "don't show what I want," "stay small," "be the strong one," "don't need anyone."

We made it because at the time it was the smartest possible move. And then we kept living as if it were still true. That's what Transactional Analysis calls a life script.

3. Scripts can be read. And re-decided.

The whole point of this work is not to label you. It's to put your own script in your hands so you can see it, and decide — from the adult you are now — whether you'd like to keep living inside of it.

The nine clinicians whose work shapes every report

We don't lecture about them in the report. They're working in the background.

Eric Berne
1910 – 1970
The founder. Gave us Parent / Adult / Child, the six ways people spend their time, the 36 most common interpersonal games, and the original idea of the life script.
Claude Steiner
1935 – 2017
Named three tragic endings people quietly walk toward (loveless, mindless, joyless) and the "stroke economy" — the rules we picked up about who's allowed to give and receive warmth.
Bob & Mary Goulding
b. 1917 / 1925
Catalogued the twelve early "don'ts" that families pass on (the injunctions) and developed the practice of redecision — going back to the small Child who made the call, and choosing again.
Taibi Kahler
b. 1942
Identified the five everyday drivers we live by: Be Strong, Be Perfect, Please Others, Try Hard, Hurry Up. His "mini-script" shows how a normal day quietly slides into a bad one.
Stephen Karpman
b. 1937
Drew the Drama Triangle — the three positions (Victim, Rescuer, Persecutor) most arguments rotate through — and described the "switch" that turns rescuers into persecutors in a single sentence.
Fanita English
1916 – 2023
Described episcript — the way a parent's unfinished script can be silently handed down to the child, sometimes across two or three generations.
Jacqui Schiff
1934 – 2010
Mapped the four levels of discounting — the small, almost invisible ways we tell ourselves that a problem isn't really there, or isn't really ours, or can't really be solved.
Richard Erskine
b. 1942
Described the racket system: how a single old belief generates the feelings, behaviors, and selective memories that keep proving the belief right.
Pamela Levin
1937 – 2019
Showed that humans develop in seven cycles across the whole lifespan — so the developmental task we missed at age four can return, asking to be completed, when we're forty.

Why use AI for this?

Three honest answers.

It can hold all nine lenses at once.

A human therapist usually has one or two of these theorists as their main lens. The AI we use has read all nine, and can spot when your story is really a Goulding question (an old "don't") and when it's a Steiner question (about who was ever allowed to give you warmth).

It's cheaper than therapy, on purpose.

Five sessions with a Transactional Analysis therapist in the United States runs $750 – $1,500. The report here is roughly one ten-thousandth of that, in dollars. It does not replace therapy — it gives you a map you can bring into therapy, if you choose to go.

It doesn't get tired.

A good report on a single person takes a few minutes of reading. A good script analysis means re-reading the same person fifteen times — once through Berne's eyes, once through Steiner's, and so on. That's the kind of careful re-reading the AI actually does for every report.

What it is not.

This is not diagnosis. It is not therapy. It cannot replace a relationship with another human being who has been trained to sit with you in difficulty. If something serious is happening, please contact a licensed clinician (or, if in crisis, see the numbers in the footer).

That's the map.

The report is the territory — how these lenses read the specifics of your own story. If you'd like to see what that actually looks like on the page, the home page has a sample line and a walk-through of what arrives.

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