The science behind the system.
Momomoon runs on one idea: your body registers stress before your mind names it, and those signals can be read, interpreted, and acted on. Here’s the science under each part of the system.
Reading the signals
HRV. Heart rate variability is the millisecond-level difference between consecutive beats — the cleanest live read on your autonomic nervous system. We watch the dynamics, not single readings, so we catch the inflection before it becomes a peak.
Multi-signal sensing. HRV alone is noisy. Pairing it with heart rate, motion, sleep, and temperature reduces false positives and surfaces real shifts — one signal alone can lie, several together rarely do.
Context and baselines.Physiology without context isn’t actionable. We cross-reference your calendar, routines, and learned baselines so a spike at 9 AM after a late Sunday is treated differently from one at 4 PM after a hard call.
Intervening, not just alerting
The reset. Slow, exhale-led breathing is one of the most direct levers on the parasympathetic nervous system — it raises vagal tone and pulls you down off a stress peak. The 90-second haptic reset guides that breathing with subtle vibration, no screen required.
Short by design.A brief, well-timed interruption is easier to sustain than a long sit-down session, and it lands while the spike is still forming — when it’s cheapest to interrupt. The goal is to close the loop in the moment, not to add another practice to your day.
Currents: CBT, kept short
The method.Currents are built on cognitive behavioral therapy — the most-studied talk-therapy framework there is, with decades of trials behind its core moves: naming the feeling, rating its intensity, reframing the thought under it. A Current compresses one of those moves into a guided 3-minute session that starts from what you’re actually feeling.
Why the rating matters.The 1-to-10 rating at the start and end isn’t decoration — self-reported intensity before and after is how brief interventions are measured in research, and it’s how a Current shows you it moved something instead of asking you to take its word.
Momo, grounded in your signals
Momo doesn’t answer from a generic script. It reads your context — recent physiology, what’s on your calendar, and what it has learned about you over time — and responds to your actual state. The same sentence means something different at 9 AM on no sleep than at 4 PM after a hard call, and Momo is built to tell the difference.
The Lenses
The Drawingadapts the House-Tree-Person test — a projective drawing method clinicians have used for more than 75 years — where what you draw surfaces what’s harder to put into words. It’s a mirror for reflection, not a clinical diagnosis. The Moment, Lens 02, reads a photo you capture and the line you write about it — Momo describes what it notices and reflects it back. More CBT-grounded Lenses are coming: structured, evidence-based frames for working through what the signals reveal.
Learning your patterns
The system builds a personal baseline and gets sharper the longer you use it — separating your normal from your elevated, and surfacing the patterns that repeat: the pre-meeting ramp, the post-travel shift, the 3 PM wall. Those patterns roll up into your timeline so the response gets more precise over time.
A fuller write-up — citations, validation, and the references we designed against — is in progress.