Throws alphabet soup at you. HbA1c, LDL-C, CRP, ALT/AST. None of it tells you why you felt electric after that float session or garbage last Thursday. Disease metrics. Not vitality metrics.
You pay $150. You lie there for an hour. You walk out. Someone asks "did it work?" All you can say is "I feel great." No number. No before-and-after. No proof. Just a feeling you can't explain.
One number. 0 to 1000. Computed in real time during your session. Three domains fused: what your nervous system is doing, how you actually feel, and how much your body shifted. The question "did it work?" finally has an answer.
Four heart rate variability metrics capture your parasympathetic tone, total variability, baroreflex modulation, and respiratory coupling. Plus fractal complexity analysis when the signal allows. This is what your nervous system is doing right now, measured from the space between your heartbeats.
A 60-second check-in before your session. How's your energy? How's your mood? Because your nervous system and your felt experience don't always agree. VIBE captures both and makes the mismatch visible instead of averaging it away.
The metric nobody else measures. How much did your body actually shift from before the session to during the session? Not where you started. How far you moved. This is the $150 question, and now there's a number that answers it.
The formula correctly places young adults above elderly, and elderly above post-heart-attack patients. It sees what aging and disease do to the autonomic system. Cohen's d = 2.60.
Ring, wristband, arm band, patch. Whatever reads your heart rhythm. Takes ten seconds, you forget it's there.
60-second check-in. Energy level, mood. Done before you sit down.
Float tank, PEMF, acupuncture, energy healing, breathwork. Doesn't matter. VIBE measures the response, not the modality.
Before, during, and after. One number. Cryptographically signed. Yours forever.
The measurement framework. 0-1000, three domains, personal baseline calibration over 15 sessions. Published and peer-reviewable.
Every score cryptographically signed and chained. Publicly verifiable. Zero personal information. Audit-grade provenance.
End-to-end encrypted messaging. Messages exist in memory only. Close the tab, everything's gone. Invite-only access.
Decentralized coordination network. No central servers store your data. Nodes communicate directly. Built for RAM-only hardware.