Mike Neal is an optometrist and the founder of Sensotype. He reviews every page on this site before it publishes.
An eye exam is a strange, useful kind of conversation. One at a time, thousands of times over a career, adults sit in a dark room and answer small, precise questions about how they experience seeing - which is better, one or two - and they answer carefully, because they want the right result. Somewhere in the margins of those exams live the other questions: the overhead lights at work are torture, is that normal? Why does everyone else like the restaurant brighter than I do? Is it just me?
It was never just them. People differ - measurably, consistently, and in ways they've usually been managing alone since childhood. Optometry gave Dr. Neal a career-long view into one sensory channel; Sensotype is that same conversation extended across all five.
His standard for every page here is the exam-room standard: would he say this sentence, out loud, to a patient he respects? That means preferences, never abilities. Experiences, never labels. And a hard line the site never crosses: Sensotype describes how your senses like to live, and it hands anything that sounds like distress to the professionals who can actually help.
Away from the site he's a man with strong opinions about restaurant lighting.
Start where everyone starts: the two-minute checks or the full Sensotype.