Profile study — jawline and neck in raking light, annotated with the landmark points Kanon measures
Profile study · illustrative — 4 of the 468 landmarks your report measures

Measured in minutes · Verified over months

Your face,measured.

Realistic, science-based appearance guidance — without surgery.

Six photos and a seven-minute questionnaire become a measured facial analysis — 44 published metrics, compared against norms for your demographic — and a phased, evidence-cited plan you can actually follow. No scores. No hype. No scalpel.

02 — The premise

A ruler.Not a rating.

Every other tool hands you a number and a verdict. Kanon hands you measurements, context, and a plan — and never once tells you your worth on a scale.

468 landmarks · the measured face

Why looks matter · The literature

You alreadyknow it.

Fifty years of replicated social science — not vanity. We build on it honestly, with citations, instead of pretending it isn't true.

Read the methodology in the sample report

01Beauty and the Labor MarketHamermesh, D. S. & Biddle, J. E. (1994) · American Economic Review, 84(5), 1174–1194

Documented earnings premium for above-average looks and penalty for below-average across labor markets.

02Maxims or Myths of Beauty? A Meta-Analytic and Theoretical ReviewLanglois, J. H. et al. (2000) · Psychological Bulletin, 126(3), 390–423

Meta-analysis of 900+ effect sizes: attractive people are judged and treated more positively, within and across cultures.

03First Impressions: Making Up Your Mind After a 100-Ms Exposure to a FaceWillis, J. & Todorov, A. (2006) · Psychological Science, 17(7), 592–598

Trait judgments (trustworthiness, competence, attractiveness) form from a face within 100 ms of exposure.

04What Is Beautiful Is GoodDion, K., Berscheid, E. & Walster, E. (1972) · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 24(3), 285–290

Original halo-effect study: people attribute better personalities and life outcomes to more attractive faces.

05Why Beauty MattersMöbius, M. M. & Rosenblat, T. S. (2006) · American Economic Review, 96(1), 222–235

Experimental labor market: the beauty premium transmits through confidence, employer (mis)perception of ability, and oral/social skills — not task skill.

06Attractiveness and Income for Men and Women in ManagementFrieze, I. H., Olson, J. E. & Russell, J. (1991) · Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 21(13), 1039–1057

737 MBA graduates: more attractive graduates, both men and women, earned increasingly more over time.

07The Evolutionary Psychology of Facial BeautyRhodes, G. (2006) · Annual Review of Psychology, 57, 199–226

Review: averageness, symmetry, and sexual dimorphism are attractive across cultures; preferences reflect evolved standards, not arbitrary ones.

08Facial attractiveness: evolutionary based researchLittle, A. C., Jones, B. C. & DeBruine, L. M. (2011) · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 366(1571), 1638–1659

Review of facial characteristics that influence attractiveness judgments and the sources of individual differences in face preferences.

04 — The face, mapped

Reference portrait — one of four illustrative capture subjects the method is shown on

Reference subject 01 · illustrative — norms matched to sex, age band & ancestry

01

Landmarked

A 468-point mesh fits your six-shot capture set. Every distance is normalized to your interpupillary distance, so measurements are camera- and distance-independent.

02

Normed

Each of 44 metrics is compared to published anthropometric ranges for your sex, age band, and self-identified ancestry — not a single generic standard.

03

Graded

A deterministic rules engine reads the findings and selects interventions from an evidence-graded catalog. Every recommendation carries its citation.

04

Tracked

Quarterly calibrated re-capture measures whether the plan actually moved the metric — verified, above the noise floor, or honestly marked stable.

What you actually get

A ~30-page analysis withthe receipts attached.

44

published metrics in the system — your report covers the ones your capture supports, and flags the rest

468

facial landmarks mapped per photo, across six captures

A·B·C

evidence grades on every method, each with citations

Cover summary — category bands, never a score

Per-metric norm comparison with citation

Phased protocol — what, why, how, cost, evidence

See the full sample report — every section of it, generated by the real pipeline for a synthetic reference subject.

06 — Measured in fine detail

Skin texture · patch variance
Periorbital · under-eye gradient
Pigmentation evenness
Jaw contour · edge definition
Canthal tiltFacial thirdsGonial angleNasofrontal angleBizygomatic widthPhiltrum ratioRamus : mandibleSubmental angleInterpupillaryMidface ratioFWHRDorsal profileCheekbone prominenceUpper : lower lipBrow tiltChin projectionJaw definitionSkin evennessGlobal symmetryDimorphism

A different starting point

The industry starts with ascalpel. We start with a ruler.

The old way

Surgery-first

  • 01A $200–500 consult that ends in a quote for a procedure
  • 02Opinion-based assessment, sold by the person who profits from it
  • 03Irreversible interventions offered before reversible ones are tried
  • 04One-size beauty standard, blind to ancestry and context
  • 05No measurement, no baseline, no way to verify anything changed
The Kanon way

Measurement-first

  • 01468 landmarks, 44 published metrics, demographic-normed
  • 02Deterministic rules choose your plan; every item cites its evidence
  • 03Non-surgical, sequenced, phased — reversible steps first, always
  • 04Ancestry-aware norms so your features are read in the right context
  • 05A measured baseline, so progress is verified — not vibes
Reference portrait — the plate your projected-outcome visualization is drawn on

08 — A realistic picture

See the plan,before you start it.

Your report includes a restrained, honest visualization of the projected outcome of your non-surgical protocol — grounded in what the interventions can actually move, never an idealized fantasy. It is a picture of the plan working, not a promise.

Pricing

Less than one hour of a surgeon’stime. A year of measured progress.

Plan 01 · Single

One-time report

$99

  • Full 44-metric analysis
  • Phased 12-month protocol
  • Delivered in minutes after capture QC
  • No re-analysis, no progress tracking
Get one report

Reference · Elsewhere

The surgical consult path

$5–10K+

  • Consult fees before any answers
  • Assessment by the person selling the procedure
  • Irreversible, with surgical risk and recovery time
  • Still no measured baseline or plan for the rest of your face

For comparison only. If surgery is genuinely right for you, a Kanon baseline makes that conversation better informed too.

18+ only. Payment is only taken after the intake questionnaire — if our screening suggests an appearance analysis isn't right for you right now, we'll say so and decline the sale.

10 — Founding 100 · Pre-launch

The first hundred memberslock the founding price.

Kanon opens soon. The first 100 members get the annual membership at $99/yr, locked for life — the standard price will be $149/yr. Join the founding list and we'll write when your spot is ready to claim.

One email, no spam — we write when your founding spot is ready to claim.

Fair questions

Asked and answered— honestly.

Can't ChatGPT do this for free?

A chatbot looking at your photo guesses. Kanon measures: 468 facial landmarks per photo, and a registry of 44 published anthropometric metrics, each compared against demographic norm tables from the measurement literature — matched to your sex, age band, and self-identified ancestry. Your report covers the metrics your capture supports and honestly flags the profile-dependent ones as pending — never padded, never faked.

The plan is built the same way: a deterministic rules engine selects interventions from an evidence-graded catalog, and every claim carries a citation. The writing is AI; the decisions are auditable rules. That is a different product from a chat answer — and the difference is easier shown than argued: see the full sample report.

How long does it take?

Once your photos pass the capture quality checks, the analysis pipeline delivers your report in minutes. The questionnaire itself takes about seven.

The one exception is deliberate: any report that trips a safety review is held for human attention and delivered within 24 hours.

What exactly do I get for $99 vs $149?

One-time report · $99

  • Full 44-metric analysis
  • Phased, evidence-cited protocol
  • Delivered once

Membership · $149/yr

  • Everything in the one-time report
  • Quarterly calibrated re-analysis
  • Progress tracking against your baseline
  • Protocol updates as your measurements move
  • Care-team messaging for a year

Same analysis either way — the membership is for verifying that the plan is actually working.

Will this hurt my self-esteem?

It is designed not to. Kanon never produces an attractiveness score or a ranking — no 1-to-10, no percentile, ever. Reports lead with your measured strengths before any opportunity, and every opportunity comes with a realistic, non-surgical action.

We also screen for signs that an appearance analysis could do more harm than good. If your intake shows those patterns, we decline your money and point you to better resources instead. That path is built into the product.

Is my data safe?

Facial geometry is biometric data, and we treat it that way. You give explicit, standalone consent before any processing — it is never bundled into the terms of service.

Raw photos and landmark data are deleted 30 days after your report is delivered unless you separately opt into progress tracking, and you can request deletion at any time. Tracking-tier data is retained only while your membership is active and is fully deleted within 30 days of cancellation or request.

Is this medical advice?

No. Kanon provides educational appearance analysis — it is not medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Nothing in a Kanon report prescribes or doses anything.

Where the evidence points to a clinical option (prescription retinoids, orthodontics), your plan flags it as "discuss with a licensed provider" and gives you the measured findings to bring to that conversation.

Who reviews my report?

We are honest about this: reports are generated by expert-calibrated AI, not read line-by-line by a person. Every report passes an automated safety gate before delivery — contraindication checks, banned-claims scanning, strengths-first ordering, citation completeness — and a random sample of delivered reports is independently audited by a human.

Any report that trips a safety signal is held for mandatory human review before you see it. What we never claim is that a person reads every single report — they don't.

Member results

Verified reviews,or none at all.

Trustpilot reviews will be embedded here once the first member cohort ships. We don't write our own testimonials, and we'd rather show you an empty box than a fake quote.