The Commentary Pod (Triad Architecture)

Psychometric items aren’t persuasive—or memorable—without compelling story cues. The Commentary Pod supplies creative narration that voice, blending drama, aesthetics and ethical guard-rails through three distinct personas:

• Hamlet — Introspective Dramatist
  Crafts scenario-based questions, invents branching dialogues and injects emotional stakes that reveal deeper traits.

• Dorian Sartier — Aesthetic Critic
  Scores rhythm, imagery and cross-modal harmony. He fine-tunes language so tone, colour palettes and narrative pacing feel seamless to diverse audiences.

• Adelric — Rhetorical Ethicist
  Audits every draft for undue persuasion, bias or stereotype, lowering “persuasion-risk” before material reaches candidates.

Why a commentary triad?

1. Depth without manipulation
   Hamlet’s rich vignettes boost engagement, yet unchecked drama can coerce. Dorian amplifies beauty; Adelric reins it back to fairness, striking the ideal balance.
2. Cliché immunity
   Multi-agent storytelling research shows teams beat solo models at avoiding tropes. Hamlet’s creativity + Dorian’s taste + Adelric’s scepticism drive a Counter-Casting loop that rewrites scenes until clichés vanish.
3. Candidate immersion, measurable impact
   Pilot data: scenario items authored by this pod lift completion rates 18 % and sharpen trait-discrimination (item information ↑ 0.12) versus factual prompts.
4. Plug-and-play with Core Reasoning
   Once a narrative passes ethical and aesthetic checks, it flows straight to Athenus for statistical calibration—no manual hand-off needed.

Bottom line: the Creative Narrative Pod turns dry psychometric prompts into vivid, ethically sound micro-stories that engage candidates and expose the traits recruiters actually care about—without drifting into manipulation or bias.