Areté learns how you decide when you are yourself,
and tells you when you are not. Before you sign.
For people whose decisions have weight, and those who stand beside them.
The hard call moves to next week. You reread an email four times. You say yes on Thursday to something you would have refused on Monday. Then you blame the diary.
By the time you feel tired, the decisions are already made.
The assessment was done once, years ago, on a good day. The watch knows your sleep, not your Thursday. Your coach hears the week in the state you tell it.
Nobody is reading the person making the call.
The measure is how fast you come back after a bad week. Areté watches the return, and says when it slows.
Burnout has signals weeks before it has a name. Areté reads six of them and says which are moving.
No advice, no coaching, no diagnosis. It reads the state you decide from and keeps the record. What you do with that is yours.
With your client's named consent you see the shape of their week: state, trend, whether they are deciding off baseline. Before each session, a brief: what kind of week it was, before they tell you. Never what they wrote. Never their decisions.
A leadership team, a cohort in a programme, a board. Each person gets Areté for themselves: their own baseline, their own drift, the question before the call they cannot take back. What they write and what they decide stays theirs.
What you get, with each person's named consent, is the shape of the group over weeks: who is deciding off baseline, where the load is climbing, the six burnout signals before anyone says the word. Eight weeks, three to five people, one conversation at the end about what it showed.
The instrument is built and running. The assessment retests at 81 percent, which measures consistency, not truth. That the state you decide in predicts the decision is what the next study is designed to test. It has not been run.
One executive coach works with it today. I would rather you read that here than find it out in week three.
The worst call in the room came from the person who was most sure, and nothing warned anyone. The information was fine. The mind signing it was not, that day, at that hour.
Physics taught me what a measurement is. Philosophy taught me what a judgement is. Areté is the two put together.
Sabrine Hammami
Day one you calibrate. Then eight weeks of the whole instrument: the morning reading, the checkpoint before a decision, the record. One leader alone, or a coach with two or three clients. One price for the eight weeks, stated in the reply to your application. Not per client, not per month.
Apply, and you get the terms and a start date back within a day. I sit in every pilot, so there are only a few at a time.
Answered by Sabrine, personally, within a day.