Burnout, focus, and the parts of building that nobody puts in the update. Founders only.
Applications are open for the next cohort
Nobody talks about this part in public, so here it is in plain language.
The number that matters is not 72. It is the distance between 72 and 10. That gap is not weakness, it is what happens when the only people you could tell are the people evaluating you.
Our founder spent four months as a patient navigator in a New York emergency room and watched 33 founders and executives arrive in psychiatric crisis. Almost none of them looked like the burnt out founder you picture. Most were still shipping, right up until they were not.
You cannot manage what you never measure, and almost no founder is measuring the one asset the whole company runs on. This is the number, and it moves.
No course, no library of videos, no streak to break. You already have enough things you are behind on. These are the parts that actually change how a week goes.
A score across load pressure, recovery capacity and prefrontal strain, tracked so you can watch the line move across the year you are building. Yours, private, forever.
Four other founders, matched to you by stage and by what your score says. Same five people every week, so by the third call nobody has to explain their situation again.
Every week, live. No slides and no lecture. A short piece on what is actually happening in your body, and then founders talking honestly to each other.
If your number lands somewhere we would worry about, you hear from us directly, with a warm introduction to a provider we trust and a rate held for members.
Your score sorts you into one of three profiles, and knowing which one you are changes what actually helps. Rest makes one of these worse.
Every level includes your score, your pod, the weekly call, and the Room. The difference is how much one to one work sits on top.
Tell us what you are building and what brought you here. We read every application ourselves and we do not accept everyone, because who is in the room is most of what makes the room worth being in.
Your cohort finishes. The Room keeps going, with the same people who watched you get through the hardest part of your year.
Your first month in the Room comes with every membership. After that it is $39 a month, and that price is locked for you permanently, even when it goes up for everyone else. Cancel in two clicks. No email, no retention call.
Completely, with no conversation attached. The guarantee is on your score actually moving, not on how you felt about the calls. It is the only promise we can make honestly, and it is the one that matters.
The weekly call has a hard stop and it is recorded, and we say out loud on day one that missing a week is fine. Your pod schedules itself around all of you. Nothing here is designed for a person with a clear calendar, because none of our members have one.
No, and we are careful about that. This is measurement, structure, and a room of people in the same position as you. It is not medical or mental health care and does not replace either. If your numbers say you need clinical support, we introduce you personally to a provider who does that work, and you pay them directly.
You. Not an investor, not your team, not your cap table. Not as a summary, not anonymized, not aggregated, not ever. If a fund one day sponsors seats, it sponsors an entire portfolio and never receives an individual name or score. That rule has no exceptions, and it is the only reason the answers are honest enough for the number to mean anything.
We tell you why, and point you at the free score and whatever else we think would actually help. Being turned down is not a judgement about you. Usually it just means the room is not the right fit at your stage.
Mostly founders and early operators. If the description above fits how your work actually feels, apply and tell us about it.
Any time, in two clicks, from your own account. No cancellation email and no retention call. You can also pause for a month instead of cancelling, which most people should do at least once.
Small enough that a real person reads your application and notices when your number moves the wrong way.
Studied neuroscience at Columbia, wrote The Strong Brain, and speaks at TEDx in Italy this year. Before that, an EMT and a patient navigator in an emergency room, which is where the counting started.
She has also built and sold a company, so she knows the 3:30am version of this from the inside rather than from a clinic.
A short assessment across load pressure, recovery capacity and prefrontal strain, built on the science of how sustained pressure changes sleep, focus and judgement.
It exists because self assessment fails exactly when you need it most. The instrument you would check yourself with is the same one that is compromised.
Free, no card, and you get your score and where you sit against other founders. If it tells you something you did not want to know, we are right here.