The written reading
How you think, in full
Areté measured two of these seven sections from your own reading: what the calibration found, and your state today. The other five describe your signature and do not change with this session.
The Cognitive Integrity Protocol
Areté reads the reasoning in your own words.
Areté is an instrument for recording and reviewing consequential decisions, not a clinical or diagnostic tool. Privacy & Terms
The problem
Fatigue, pressure, and cognitive load don’t announce themselves. They quietly reshape how you weigh risk, read people, and time decisions, while your confidence stays exactly where it was.
Your car has a check-engine light.
Your judgment doesn’t.
Areté is that light.
The instrument
Judgment rests in a well; its depth is your resilience. A knock sends the ball off centre. A deep well brings it back fast. A shallow one lets it drift. Areté sees the well flatten while your score still reads clear.
Resilience holds. You come back fast after a knock.
How it works
Measure your signature
One eight-minute calibration reads how you perceive, weigh, and decide, your cognitive baseline. You do it once.
A 60-second daily read
One quick read each day places your current state against your own baseline, clear, a step off, or compromised.
The Verdict
Before a consequential call, a pre-decision read grades your state and issues the verdict, green, amber, or red, with the blindspot named.
Team cognitive capital
Individual reads aggregate into a privacy-safe leader view, capacity, drift, and early warning across the team.
The instrument issues
Documents no other software can write, because no other software has measured the judge.
The Dossier
One button on any decision: state, faults, how you bend, the counterweight, the pre-mortem and the window, the war-room document, issued.
The Pre-Mortem
For irreversible calls: the failure story written in advance, from your measured pattern, with prevention attached.
The Decision Memorandum
A printable provenance record of every consequential call, the state of the judge at signature, on the record.
The Counterweight
The strongest case against your position, built by the perspective your configuration structurally ignores.
The Handover Brief
When you are compromised, the decision moves to a clear mind, with its full context. Your state does not travel with it.
The Weekly Letter
The instrument writes to you: the week your record wrote, the exposure that remains, the window the next one opens.
The Condition Card
Minutes before a decision-shaped meeting: your state, the one fault to watch in that room, and the counter.
The Board Memo
Cognitive capital for the board deck, aggregate only. Leaders see signals, never individual answers.
Judgment under uncertainty
In the largest forecasting tournament ever run, disciplined forecasters beat intelligence analysts with classified access by a reported ~30%, and what predicted the winners was not IQ, education or expertise. It was knowing exactly how much they knew. Areté measures that on your own record, and it holds both sides of that record, your forecast and the measured state you were in when you stated it, so it can split one by the other.
The Foresight Ledger
Probabilistic forecasts with a horizon, revised on the record, resolved against reality, Brier-scored with the same arithmetic the tournaments used. Foresight without a score is opinion with better posture.
Certainty, priced by state
What is your 80% worth on a clear day versus a drifting one? Every forecast carries the measured state it was committed in, so once your record holds enough resolved calls, the instrument prices your certainty by state. A sentence no forecasting platform can produce, because none of them measure the judge.
The Council Forecast
Before the room argues, every executive answers privately in numbers. The dispersion is the finding, the noise audit, live, with individual answers sealed from everyone. The leader included.
Scored only from your own resolved forecasts. Nothing projected, nothing self-reported, the rating is computed by the instrument.
What you get
Catch drift before the big call
The read happens before the decision, not in the postmortem. A red morning becomes a reason to wait on what cannot be undone, while there is still time to choose.
Decision ROI
Every logged decision carries the cognitive state it was made in. Over time you see which states produce your best calls, and your expensive ones.
Meet your overconfidence
Your stated confidence is scored against real outcomes. The gap between how sure you were and how right you were becomes a number you can shrink.
Protect the team
Aggregate load and drift trends surface rising strain across the team early, patterns to look into, not diagnoses.
For teams & institutions
Payroll shows what your people cost. Nothing shows what their judgment is worth, or when it’s eroding. Areté gives leaders and program directors a live, aggregate read of the team’s cognitive capital.
Leaders see signals. Never individual answers.
Every team number is an aggregate. No manager can open a member’s reads, responses, or profile, by design, not by policy.
Trust
Strictly confidential
Your reads are yours. No employer ever sees individual data.
Built for GDPR
No trackers, no external CDNs, no ad tech. Export or erase your record at any time.
Export & delete
One click exports everything you’ve created. One click erases it.
On-device signals
Passive interaction dynamics are computed in your browser, only derived reads are stored.
Pricing
Priced like the counsel it replaces, not the software it resembles. Access is by application: the instrument works because its operators take it seriously.
The Founding Cohort
Thirty places. The complete instrument, permanently, in exchange for validating it. Founding operators are named in the first validation report.
The Instrument
Annual, by application. Final terms set by the founder, this figure states the category, not a checkout.
Sovereign
For councils, boards, and heads of institutions: a private instance with the aggregate layer and program design. From €30,000 / year.
Honest print: figures state the positioning; final terms are set in conversation, there is no self-serve checkout by design. Items marked Roadmap are in development, they are not in the product today.
| Compare | CohortCoh | InstrumentInst | SovereignSov |
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| Signature, daily read & decision verdicts | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Calibration & weekly insights | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Export & delete your data | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Leader dashboard (aggregate) | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sustained-drift early warning | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Team pulse & activity feed | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cohort program tracking | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sso / saml | — | — | Roadmap |
| Admin console & audit logs | — | — | Roadmap |
| SLA, onboarding & data residency | — | — | On request |
Eight minutes to your baseline, once. Sixty seconds a day after that.
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Step 2 of 5 · Calibration
There's no right answer, go with your first instinct.
Question 1 of 36
Step 3 of 5 · Your body today
This tunes today’s reading to your body. If you don’t know your numbers, leave the sliders: the instrument learns your norm from consistency, not precision.
One moment.
Before the fitting
Three facts, not a description of you. Areté compares your record with people at the same stage. No company or coach sees these next to your name.
Your level
Leave any of them blank. You typed these, so Areté keeps them as you wrote them, never as a measurement.
Step 1 of 5 · The fitting, done once
No right answer. The forms are unnamed on purpose; what counts is what you reach for first.
Step 4 of 5 · The fitting
Areté has already read one of these from how you chose. If yours differs, it keeps its reading and records that you disagreed, then settles it against your real decisions.
Signature resolved ✓
Three short stages that put a decision under time pressure and watch how the reasoning holds. About three minutes.
Step 5 of 5 · First light
Your baseline is in. Whatever you're weighing right now, hiring, an email, where the budget goes, one sentence is enough. Areté reads the reasoning in your words, against the state you're actually in.
A private read, it stays inside your account. Nothing on your mind?
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Cognitive Integrity Protocol
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Notifications
Daily reminder
A daily prompt at your chosen time to maintain the reading sequence.
Reach me when closed
The Standing, stale-read and critical-state alerts arrive even with Areté closed.
Your brief is ready · today's cognitive intelligence, assembled.
Live reading
Areté · CIP-01/100
Stress level · today
Read your state to begin.
Run a quick, confidential calibration to map your current stress level.
Reads how you move and type, on-device: movement and timing only, never the content.
Today's reading · The verdict
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Read your state to begin.
The stability of your judgment, read from your own record
Reading record
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Consistency
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Reads · 7 days
Your decisions, by the state you made them in
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Clear-headed
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Drifting
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Your blind spots when the load climbs
A short taste; the full read goes deeper
Complete a calibration to access your deep read.
Where you are
Complete a calibration to read your current state.
Early signals over time · integrity across every reading
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Decisions Logged
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Avg CIS
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Bad Outcomes
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Pending
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Strictly confidential. Sent over an encrypted connection, and you can export or delete everything at any time. Nobody sees your results unless you choose to share them.
One calibration maps the four layers of your judgment: the distortion each introduces, where it shows in real decisions, and the move that counters it.
The projection starts from your calibration answers. Move these to see how a rougher or better body state would move the same call. They are entered values, not readings.
Name a decision and run the check.
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Scored later against the real outcome, in Calibration.
Stamped with your latest reading, not the what-if above, with the stakes, whether it can be undone, the kind of call and your confidence. A commit while compromised stays open two hours, then stands.
Paste what you already have: meeting notes, an email, a transcript. The instrument surfaces the decisions and stated expectations as candidates. The pasted text itself is never stored.
Every decision pulled through the Intercept: severity, the verdict shown, and any override. The leader always decides; the record simply remembers.
The decision text and your state summary go to the provider; never your identity or history. Leave it disconnected for strict on-device counsel.
The written reading
Areté measured two of these seven sections from your own reading: what the calibration found, and your state today. The other five describe your signature and do not change with this session.
How a leader sees the team: aggregated signals, never individual answers.
This week's leadership read
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Cognitive capital
Average CIS across the team · by week
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Team avg CIS
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vs last week
State distribution · latest readings
Read from the team's own readings over weeks: how many sit clear, drifting or well off baseline, and how the average moves week by week. Aggregates only, never a person.
State signals only: no names, no answers, no content.
Privacy model. Leaders see aggregated signals, never individual answers; each person's readings stay theirs alone.
On a call you cannot take back, whose read carries most: by present state, not seniority.
One question, answered privately in probabilities. The dispersion is the finding; individual numbers are never shown, to anyone.
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Anonymized team signals: recent changes in member state.
Anyone with this code joins your workspace; their answers stay their own.
Live team aggregation; this dashboard updates as members check in.
Outcome reporting for a leadership program: the numbers a board asks for.
Program outcome
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Avg readiness
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Participants
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Critical now
The procession
Each point a participant, flowing through the program, rising out of drift into a clear window as they pass each week.
Cohort average CIS · by program week
Where the cohort sits right now
The shift a program director reports: participants moving from drift into a clear operating window.
Anonymized: state signals only, never answers.
Anyone with this code joins the cohort; their answers stay their own.
Live cohort reporting. A new cohort starts with a short series; it builds over the program.
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Subscribe once with your calendar's private address. Areté re-reads the week on its own, app closed or open, so the watch can warn you before a heavy moment.
Google: Settings → your calendar → Secret address in iCal format · Outlook: Settings → Shared calendars → Publish → ICS · Apple: right-click the calendar → Share → Public calendar
— · last read — · — moments on watch · re-read every —
What Areté keeps: start, end, a category and a stakes weight. On the subscribed feed, the server reads titles only to grade them and keeps none. Prefer titles never to leave this device? Import a file instead.
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Sign in and take a reading to begin the record.
Assembling the record…
Opening the Canon…
Assembling your vault…
Reading the field…
Priced like the adviser it replaces.
Not like software.
The Founding Cohort
What you’re using right now: signature, daily read, decision verdicts, calibration, insights.
The Instrument
Annual, by application. This figure states the category, not a checkout, final terms are set in conversation.
Sovereign
Councils, boards, heads of institutions, a private instance. From €30,000 / year.
Honest print: Team pricing shown is a placeholder for pilot conversations. Items marked Roadmap are in development, they are not in the product today.
Experimental. Voice and body signals are off unless you turn them on. Movement and typing is on, and reads timing only.
no data
Enable a channel to begin. The behavioural signal is on by default.
Gathering the rhythm.
Mic off.
Audio is processed here; only pitch and energy numbers exist, in memory.
Camera off.
Frames are read at 80×60 and discarded. Nothing is stored or sent.
Off.
Below your resting baseline reads as load. Kept in this session only.
These channels read you only while this tab is open. The Sentinel, a small browser extension, carries the same timing-only read across every tab, so the state you bring to a decision comes from the day you had.
The Sentinel is running. Your day is read across every tab.
All sensing is processed on this device. Raw audio and video never leave it.
Decision moments on your plate, from the calendar and the open ledger. Each is typed, state-matched, and risk-ranked. A mismatch means the instrument is compromised for precisely that kind of call.
Every decision on your plate, plotted by how it matches your state. The sweep lights each as it passes: the hotter and closer to centre, the more your current state works against that call.
Reading logged.
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Consecutive readings
Recalibration protocol
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Paced breathing · focus the instrument
Cycle 1 / 4
Directive
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Re-measure your state
Protocol complete. Enter your current readings to prove the restoration, the delta is on the record.
Cognitive integrity
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The Intercept
How sure are you, out of ten?
How much do you want this to be the answer?
What has to be true for this to work?
When will you know if it was right?