Cara Steinmann

FOUNDER & CEO / RELADIUM

Cara Steinmann — Founder & CEO of Reladium, building relational intelligence tools.

Why are we the way we are? Why do we act the way we do? And maybe most importantly, why does it get exponentially more complicated when humans collide?

Most of what I build starts somewhere in there.

As for why I'm like this...

Cara Steinmann's SHEER personality constellation, plotting traits including adaptive, expressive, receptive and permeableSee what this means →

CliftonStrengths

  • Connectedness
  • Input
  • Strategic
  • Learner
  • Activator

MBTI

ENFP

DISC

High I · Low D

Kolbe A

5 · 1 · 9 · 4

Human Design

3/5 Generator

And neurodivergent in case it wasn't obvious.

What I'm building

Reladium

Reladium develops tools and frameworks that help people understand each other, build stronger relationships, and create new opportunities.

We also work with founders and experts to turn their knowledge and methodologies into scalable products and experiences.

reladium.com

Current work

SHEER Personality

Relational Intelligence Platform

For understanding each other better.

Self-awareness gets a lot more useful when we stop looking at personalities in isolation.

SHEER helps reveal what happens between people when understanding matters most.

Rhaina

Smart matching to expand your network.

A women-centered network built around relationships instead of reach.

Rhaina helps entrepreneurs find the right people, conversations, and opportunities without turning networking into another job.

Esby

Relationship Intelligence Tool

For making more of the relationships you already have.

Esby remembers the people in your world and helps you notice who might be worth reconnecting with—and why.

It surfaces the introductions, collaborations, referrals, and opportunities hiding inside the relationships you already have.

CONSULTING

Sometimes I help other people build their ideas, too.

I help founders and experts recognize the frameworks hiding inside their work, then explore how to turn them into products, programs, and experiences that are easier to deliver, more engaging to use, and capable of generating revenue beyond one-to-one services.

EXPLORE CONSULTING →

Questions I'm Digging Into...

  • Why do we connect easily with some people and struggle to find our footing with others?

  • New connections are great. But how much opportunity is already sitting inside the relationships we have?

  • Can technology make us better at relationships without making them feel transactional?

  • How much more could we understand about ourselves if we stopped looking at personality in isolation?

  • What changes when entrepreneurs build businesses around who they are instead of who they think they should be?

  • What makes certain networks unusually generative?

Writing

Notes from whatever rabbit hole I'm in.

Ideas, stories, things I've noticed, and questions I'm still noodling on.

Read on Substack