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Sleep & Recovery
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Sleep & Recovery
The single largest overnight modulator of attention, working memory and emotional regulation. Deficits compound silently across a workforce.
The Science behind high performing Teams
The metric your company has never measured.
For decades, organizations have measured output.
Soma Performance measures the underlying drivers that create it — with scientific rigor, at the level of the individual.
Chapter IA thesis on business performance
Companies optimizeeverything.Except the peoplecreating the results.
The blind spot
Modern organizations measure nearly everything. Except the driver behind all of it.
REVENUE · GROWTH · COSTS · MARGIN · PRODUCTIVITY · EFFICIENCY · QUALITY · OUTPUT · CUSTOMER SATISFACTION · SALES · ATTENDANCE · TURNOVER · ENGAGEMENT · HEADCOUNT
Not one of these measures the person producing the numbers.
Ignorance is expensive.
Sleep deprivation alone costs the US economy around 411 billion dollars — every year.
What that means in practice:
0%
of adults don't get enough sleep — and the number is rising.
More than one in three. At that scale, virtually every team is affected.
0%
lower productivity among employees sleeping less than six hours.
Over a year, that adds up to roughly one lost working month — at full attendance and full salary.
0–0
lost productivity days per year from chronic insomnia — per affected employee.
Most of it stems not from absence but from diminished performance in day-to-day work — a loss no absence statistic captures.
And sleep is only one of six drivers.
Sources: RAND Corporation · CDC
Soma · Chapter I
The wellness gap
For years, companies have invested in well-being: gym memberships, mindfulness programs, coaching, health days. These initiatives measure participation and satisfaction — not what actually limits performance.
Every employee is different.
One is held back by poor sleep. Another by chronic stress, inconsistent nutrition, or the way their workday is structured. Treating everyone the same means overlooking exactly what makes each person different. That's why Soma identifies what limits each individual — before recommending a single intervention.
The problem isn't a lack of wellness. It's a lack of understanding.
Chapter IIThe Science
Built on Science. Designed for real life.
Every recommendation generated by Soma is based on current scientific evidence — and translated into practical, easy actions that employees will realistically implement.
Our approach
Not one expert. A convergence of fields.
Soma does not rely on a single expert, a single study, or a single discipline. Scientific research is often difficult to apply in everyday work — and most people simply don't have the time to search through papers, filter opinions, and separate signal from the noise.
Instead, every recommendation is developed by combining the current best understanding from multiple scientific fields with expert consensus — then distilled into something an employee can actually do every day.
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Neuroscience
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Sleep Science
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Nutritional Science
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Behavioral Psychology
Chapter IIIPerformance has drivers
Performance isn't random.It's measurable.It's improvable.
Cognitive performance is not determined by a single factor. It emerges from a small number of measurable behavioral systems that work together. Understanding these systems is the foundation of the SOMA model.
The SOMA ModelSix measurable drivers
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Nutrition & Hydration
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Nutrition & Hydration
Glucose stability, micronutrient sufficiency and hydration determine the substrate on which every cognitive process runs.
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Movement & Fitness
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Movement & Fitness
Aerobic capacity and daily movement drive cerebral blood flow, BDNF expression and long-term cognitive resilience.
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Work Habits
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Work Habits
How attention is structured across a day — focus blocks, transitions, meetings, recovery — is a stronger predictor of output than hours worked.
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Stress Management
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Stress Management
Autonomic balance sets the ceiling for creativity, decision quality and interpersonal effectiveness under load.
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Supplementation
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Supplementation
When the fundamentals are in place, targeted, evidence-based supplementation can help address specific, verified deficiencies. Always optional — never a substitute for sleep, nutrition or recovery.
IVHow Soma works
Four stepsOne clear process
- 01
Assessment
Assessment
The employee answers questions about sleep, nutrition, movement, stress and work habits. About 15 minutes, scientifically structured.
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Analysis
Analysis
We analyze every answer to find the factors that genuinely limit their performance. Not the obvious ones, but the decisive ones.
- 03
Strategy
Strategy
Every employee receives a personal report: what holds them back, why, and what concretely helps. All of it derived from their own answers.
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Improvement
Improvement
The recommendations are built to fit into the working day: small, concrete steps instead of resolutions that fade after two weeks. People who understand why something works are more likely to stick with it. That is exactly what the report is designed for.
VThe individual report
Written for a single person. Never a segment.
Every report is built around one individual — their answers, their patterns, their highest-impact levers. No team averages. No generic advice.
IN THE FULL REPORT
- 01—Performance Overview
- 02—Your Priorities
- 03—Patterns & Connections
- 04—Your Levers & Tools
- 05—Summary & Outlook
SOMA · Individual Performance Report
Priority 1
Sleep–Caffeine Timing
Impact on your performance85%
Around 2:30 pm your focus drops noticeably — tasks drag on and you push demanding work to tomorrow. The cause starts in the morning: you usually drink your first coffee within the first 20 minutes after waking — exactly when your cortisol is already at its peak and keeping you alert. During that window, caffeine blocks adenosine receptors that carry almost no tiredness signal. It works against nothing while your body still builds tolerance. In the afternoon the picture flips: cortisol falls, adenosine rises, fatigue arrives — and now the coffee has no leverage left. Your slump isn't a fatigue problem. It's a timing problem.
Your Tool
Morning Light Routine
- WHAT
- Bright daylight early in the day is the strongest cue for your internal clock.
- HOW
- Step outside for 10 minutes right after getting up. Morning light is the strongest start signal for your internal clock and ends fatigue at the root. Outside, not at the window — even when overcast, outdoor light is far brighter. First coffee 60–90 minutes later.
- WHY
- Shortens sleep inertia, stabilises your evening sleep window and cuts the snooze impulse at the root.
Excerpt from a sample report. Fictional employee data.
FOR THE ORGANIZATION
One report for each employee.One picture for the company.
Your company receives an aggregated report: the patterns, risks and highest-impact levers across your workforce — never individual results.
Private by default
Only the employee sees their individual report.
Patterns, not people
Company insights are aggregated and anonymized.
Minimum group size
No company report is generated below a minimum number of participants, so individual results can never be inferred.
VI · The next step
The metric your company has never measured.Start measuring it.
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