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The Nervous System Intelligence Platform for Human Performance

Develop resilient leaders, healthier teams, and high-performing organizations through personalized nervous system training.

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Corporate wellness is treating the wrong system.

Burnout, disengagement, and leadership volatility aren't mindset problems — they're nervous system problems. Webinars, meditation apps, and EAP hotlines can't move a body that's stuck in fight, flight, freeze, or fawn.

76%

of employees experience burnout at least sometimes

$322B

annual cost of burnout-related turnover and lost productivity

1 in 4

leaders report being too dysregulated to lead well most weeks

Sources: Gallup, Deloitte, McKinsey research on workplace burnout.

Team coherence

Stress spreads through teams. So does calm.

Each person gets private, on-demand nervous system support. Leaders see the team picture (anonymous and grouped) with clear next steps, not just charts.

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Somarae team dashboard showing team coherence, stress shift, recovery time and a 12-week resilience trend
01 The executive pulse

Measure real resilience, not just survey answers.

See how well your team stays steady under pressure, and how quickly they recover, week by week.

  • Team Coherence: How regulated your team stays as a group, even during demanding sprints.

  • Recovery time: How fast people bounce back after acute stress. In this sample it drops from 4.2h to 1.8h.

Why it matters

Clear resilience trends throughout the quarter, instead of a yearly survey that arrives after burnout has hit.

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Weekly team stress heatmap and top team resets ranking
02 The stress rhythm

Know when your team runs hot, and what cools them down.

A weekly map shows the days and times stress peaks across the team, plus which resets actually help.

  • Strain map: Pinpoints shared hot spots, such as Thursday afternoon deadlines.

  • Top team resets: The 1–5 minute practices your people use most and find most calming.

Why it matters

Managers can protect focus time, plan resets, and avoid scheduling high-stakes meetings during peak stress.

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AI team recommendations with meeting openers, co-regulation rituals and anonymous strain themes
03 The response

Team rituals built for how your people are wired.

Soma turns anonymous patterns into simple practices teams can do together, because calm spreads just like stress does.

  • Meeting openers: 90-second check-ins that settle the room before important conversations.

  • Co-regulation rituals: Group movement, humming, or breathing, adapted to the team (including women-led teams).

  • Anonymous strain themes: Shared pressure points like back-to-back meetings, with no names or quotes.

Why it matters

Wellbeing becomes daily team habits that build trust and psychological safety.

Why bring a Somarae pilot to your team

12 weeks to see your team's nervous system picture, and to change it.

Private by design

Results appear only for groups of 5+ active members. Conversations, reflections, and cycle data stay private to each person.

No IT project

Your team downloads the app from the App Store or Google Play. Nothing to integrate.

Minutes, not hours

1–5 minute practices that fit between meetings, so it never feels like another to-do.

Leadership-ready readout

At week 12 you receive an aggregated impact summary ready for your leadership team.

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Dashboards shown use sample data. Aggregated and anonymized, minimum 5 members.

The bottom line

Dysregulation is a P&L problem.

6×

Burned-out employees are 6× more likely to leave within 3–6 months.

Source: McKinsey Health Institute

$228–355M

Estimated annual cost of disengagement and attrition at a median-size S&P 500 company.

Source: McKinsey Health Institute

~5:1 ROI

Average return per £1 invested in workplace mental health — highest for proactive, scalable, tech-enabled programs.

Source: Deloitte

50–200%

Cost of replacing one mid-level employee, as a share of annual salary. One avoided regrettable departure pays for the pilot several times over.

Source: SHRM / Gallup

The science

Nervous System Intelligence

The capacity to notice, regulate, and recover your physiological state — so you can lead, collaborate, and perform from a regulated body, not a hijacked one.

Self-regulation

The ability to notice and shift your own state before it spills over into decisions, meetings, and messages.

Co-regulation

How regulated humans calm rooms. The science behind psychologically safe teams and non-defensive feedback.

Recovery

Completing the stress cycle so the body lets go. Without recovery, performance compounds into burnout.

Capacity

Expanding the bandwidth to stay clear, present, and creative under pressure — not just survive it.

The science

Why somatic — not cognitive — moves the needle.

You can't think your way out of a stress response. You have to move through it. That's why most cognitive-only programs don't shift the metrics that matter.

What cognitive-only tools do

Meditation apps, EAPs, and mindset training help people understand stress. They operate on cognition — they don't change the physiology stress actually runs on. That's why most corporate wellness programs don't move engagement, retention, or leadership effectiveness.

What somatic work does

Breath, movement, and vocal toning work directly on the autonomic nervous system — the layer where the stress response actually lives. That's why somatic practice produces felt, measurable change in mood, recovery, and decision-making capacity.

Stanford breathwork RCT (2023)

Five minutes/day of structured breathwork — especially cyclic sighing — produced greater improvement in mood and larger reductions in physiological arousal (respiratory rate, heart rate, HRV) than mindfulness meditation.

Balban et al., Cell Reports Medicine

Breathwork meta-analysis (2023)

Across randomized trials, breathwork interventions significantly lowered self-reported stress vs. controls.

Fincham et al., Scientific Reports

HRV ↔ leadership capacity

Higher vagally-mediated heart rate variability is linked to better executive function, decision-making under uncertainty, emotional regulation, and working memory — the substrate of leadership.

Thayer et al.; Forte et al., Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2022

What Somarae delivers to your organization

Personalized somatic wellness, delivered as in-the-moment nervous system support across the workday — not another portal nobody opens.

Personalized voice & chat sessions

An emotionally intelligent AI guide that meets each person where they are — confidential, available, and tuned to their patterns.

In-the-moment micro-practices

1–5 minute somatic resets between meetings, before hard conversations, and after pressure spikes.

Leader-specific protocols

Regulation tools built for the decisions, feedback loops, and high-stakes moments leaders actually face.

Team rituals

Lightweight, optional group practices that build co-regulation without adding another standing meeting.

Outcomes you can measure

For leaders

  • •Clarity and composure under pressure
  • •Faster recovery from setbacks and conflict
  • •Non-defensive feedback and communication
  • •Sustained focus across high-stakes weeks

For teams

  • •Lower burnout and absenteeism
  • •Stronger psychological safety
  • •Better collaboration after hard conversations
  • •Higher engagement and retention
The pilot

The 12-Week Pilot Program

One fiscal quarter. Pre/post measurement. Real nervous system change you can bring to your leadership team.

Weeks 1–2

Baseline

Confidential pre-assessment: perceived stress, burnout risk, recovery capacity, engagement. Kickoff with leaders.

Weeks 3–10

Active practice

Personalized somatic sessions, in-the-moment micro-practices, leader-specific protocols, and team rituals.

Weeks 11–12

Measurement & readout

Pre/post deltas, qualitative themes, leadership effectiveness shifts, and a rollout recommendation.

Metrics we track together

Confidential, aggregated cohort metrics — never individual sessions.

Burnout riskPerceived stressRecovery capacityEngagementLeadership effectiveness

Option to extend to 24 weeks for org-wide rollout.

How it works

1

Discovery call

We learn your team, current wellness stack, and the outcomes that matter.

2

Pilot design

We tailor the 12-week pilot to your org — cohort size, rhythms, and metrics.

3

Launch

Onboarding, leader briefings, and ongoing personalized somatic support.

4

Quarterly readout

Pre/post data, themes, and a clear path to org-wide rollout if it's a fit.

Who it's for

Decision-makers investing in employee retention, leadership development, and modern wellness benefits.

Heads of People / HRL&D and Leadership DevelopmentDEI & BelongingWellness & BenefitsFounders & CEOsCOOs scaling fast
Trauma-informed · Confidential · Built by practitioners

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