Mental fitness for founders
Seven capacities, each the working opposite of a block that stalls founders. Fear, guilt, shame, grief, lies, illusion, attachment. You train the capacity; the block loses its grip. Designed by a board-certified psychiatrist. Not therapy. Training.
Meditation apps lower the noise. Coaches tell you what they did. Neither measures anything, and neither has a structural model of what actually goes wrong in a founder. Status 27 does: seven blocks, seven capacities, trained in order from survival to letting go.
Six placement questions the first time you train each capacity. Levels move as you train. You see the delta, not a mood log.
Real-world challenges with an evidence file. Thirty-second truth drills graded by a rubric. Status scenarios with a sparring partner. Values made explicit before motivation is rebuilt on them.
When the scoreboard says training alone will not move it, the app says so and points to a clinician. That is the feature nobody else ships.
Six weeks on one capacity. A daily practice you do, a weekly lesson you watch, a number that moves.
Forty-two statements about the past month, one at a time. Twelve minutes. Seven readings and a recommendation on where to start.
Capability: pick a challenge, rate your body before and after, write one line for the evidence file. Communication: a topic, thirty seconds, graded on six things.
At the end of the block the domain is scored again. The delta is the result. If two blocks move nothing, that is information too.
The other five follow once these have been through their first hundred founders.
Three challenges a day from the areas you choose: one Warm, one Load, one Edge. Talk to a stranger, make the cold call, enter the race you are not sure you can finish. Points per tier, levels from points, a weekly and all-time board. Each completion is a line in a file you read back when you do not feel confident. Confidence is a record, not a mood.
"Tell the board the real number." "Tell your co-founder what you actually think." Thirty seconds, transcribed on your device, graded on whether the hard thing came first, how specific you were, how many hedges, whether you owned it, whether you finished, and what it cost you to say.
Status 27 is a training program, not medical care. It does not diagnose, it does not treat, and using it does not make you anyone's patient. If you are dealing with depression, anxiety, or anything that is pressing on your whole life at once, a clinician is the right first step, and the app will tell you that when the numbers say so. In a crisis, call or text 988.