Stress is not new. What's new is how we measure it.

For decades, stress has been spoken about as something to reduce, avoid, or "manage." But in reality, stress is unavoidable—and it's also a powerful catalyst.

The critical question isn't if we experience stress, but how we respond to it, recover from it, and adapt in ways that make us stronger.

Until now, there's been no comprehensive, science-backed way of measuring that capacity.

Existing wellbeing tools have been fragmented, reactive, or superficial. Employee engagement surveys capture workplace sentiment but miss physiological stress signals. Wearables track sleep and heart rate but don't integrate psychological resilience factors. Research-validated resilience scales provide scientific rigor but offer only static, one-time snapshots. None could capture the full picture of resilience – the psychological and physiological interplay that defines how we meet life's challenges.

The WONE Index changes that.

Introducing the WONE Index: Where Science Meets Wisdom

The WONE Index is a scientifically validated assessment of stress and resilience that uniquely captures both an individual’s current stress experiences and the dynamic, modifiable factors that support long-term resilience.

At its heart, the Index recognises a fundamental truth: resilience isn't fixed. It's not something you either have or don't have. It's a capacity that can be measured, understood, and most importantly, built through intentional practice.

This represents a fundamental departure from traditional approaches to workplace wellbeing. While most tools offer snapshots – a single survey score, a daily step count, a stress level reading–the WONE Index provides something far more valuable: a longitudinal view of your evolving capacity to handle life's challenges and recover stronger.

The Index exists because the science is clear: with the right insights and actions, every person can strengthen their resilience. But first, we need to measure it properly.

What the WONE Index Measures: Four Pillars of Resilience

The WONE Index draws on decades of research in health psychology and stress science, mapping resilience across four core pillars. Each represents factors that scientific evidence has consistently shown to be the most influential in how we experience, respond to, and recover from stress.

🧠 Core Resilience: Your Inner Foundation

This pillar captures how you adapt, relate, and recover under pressure through four critical themes:

Coping & Emotion Regulation: Do your responses to stress help you feel grounded, or keep you stuck? Effective coping isn't about staying calm all the time, but finding ways to move through difficulty without making it harder on yourself.

Social Connectedness: When things get hard, do you feel genuinely supported? Research shows resilience requires having people you trust, not lots of people.

Purpose & Positivity: Do your days feel guided by something meaningful? Even during difficult times, moments of joy, gratitude, or lightness serve as psychological anchors.

Current Stress Load: Are work pressures, burnout, or personal challenges stretching you beyond your capacity for recovery?

😴 Sleep & Energy: The Foundation of Recovery

Rest is how your body rebuilds its capacity to face each day. This pillar measures sleep duration and quality, sleep disruptions, and daytime energy levels. Quality rest doesn't just help you feel better tomorrow. It fundamentally strengthens your nervous system's ability to handle stress over time.

🏃 Physical Activity: Training Your Stress Response

Movement trains your brain and nervous system to handle stress more effectively. Think of it as intentional stress that builds strength from the inside out. The Index captures how much you move, how consistently, and how sedentary your day is—focusing on sustainable movement that supports resilience.

🥦 Nutrition: Fueling Your Capacity

What you eat directly feeds your capacity to manage stress. The Index evaluates whether you're nourishing your body and brain with balanced nutrition, while also assessing alcohol intake which lowers your body's capacity to recover from stress.

How the WONE Index Works: The Integration Breakthrough

Here's where the WONE Index becomes truly revolutionary: it combines self-reported psychological data with objective physiological measurements, then uses AI to create personalized insights that evolve over time.

The Psychological Layer captures your lived experience through scientifically-validated reflections on your coping strategies, relationships, sleep quality, activity levels, and stress load. This becomes a structured and powerful reflection process that helps you tune into your own patterns and needs.

The Physiological Layer integrates biometric signals from connected wearables. Using overnight heart rate variability (HRV) measurements, the Index assesses how well your body is handling stress behind the scenes. A higher and more stable HRV generally reflects better recovery, adaptability, and nervous system balance. The Index examines your baseline HRV, whether it's trending up or down, and how stable it is week to week—together offering a physiological snapshot of your body's capacity for handling stress.

The AI Integration transforms raw data into actionable wisdom. Every 30 days as you retake the Index, artificial intelligence analyses your trends across all pillars, identifies patterns, and generates personalized recommendations that meet you exactly where you are. The index isn’t a one off assessment, but a dynamic compass adapting to your changing needs and circumstances.

Why the WONE Index Is Different: Pioneering New Territory

The wellness landscape is filled with tools that measure pieces of the puzzle.

One app tracks your steps. Another tracks your sleep. A survey asks how stressed you feel. A wearable records your heart rate. None capture resilience's full complexity alone.

The WONE Index is the first to bring it all together.

While employee engagement surveys capture workplace sentiment, they miss physiological stress signals. While wearables like Fitbit, Oura, and WHOOP provide strong physiological tracking, they lack integration with psychology or resilience science.

The WONE Index bring these worlds together. It combines the scientific depth of research instruments, the continuous insights of wearable technology, and the personalized intelligence of AI—then wraps it all in a deeply human approach that honors both the science and the wisdom of lived experience.

It transforms stress from something vague and reactive into something visible, measurable, and actionable.

This represents a category-defining innovation. You no longer have to choose between subjective surveys or objective sensors, between psychological insights or physiological data. The WONE Index recognises that resilience is inherently multidimensional—and real insight lives in the integration.

This is the shift from the old world of wellbeing—reactive, fragmented, crisis-driven—to a new world of proactive, personalized, preventative care.

Why It Matters: Individual Empowerment Meets Scientific Advancement

The WONE Index exists to answer a simple but profound question: How resilient am I today—and how can I build more resilience for tomorrow?

For individuals, it transforms self-awareness into empowerment. Instead of vague advice to "manage stress," you get a personalized map showing where small, intentional shifts could make the biggest difference. There are no "good" or "bad" scores—only invitations to notice where care, attention, and small changes might create meaningful impact.

Each assessment generates targeted recommendations: from grounding “Micro Moments” to deeper skill-building interventions and habit-building journeys, ensuring every person is met where they are.

For the field of stress science, the Index represents a breakthrough. By combining psychology, physiology, and technology, it creates a living, longitudinal dataset that pushes forward our collective understanding of stress, health and human performance.

A privacy-first approach ensures individual data remains completely confidential while allowing anonymised, group-level insights to improve wellbeing strategies across organisations and communities.

Most importantly, the Index makes resilience tangible. It proves that resilience isn't fixed or abstract but measurable, buildable, and within reach.

From Stress to Strength: The Future We See

We believe resilience is the new edge of human performance. It's what allows us not just to withstand pressure, but to thrive through it.

The WONE Index is a compass, a practice, and a new standard for understanding ourselves in the face of life's inevitable challenges.

By making resilience visible and actionable, the Index helps each of us build the inner resources to move from stress to strength—and together, create a future of work and life that is more sustainable, human, and resilient.

Your resilience is measurable. Your capacity to grow is real. The WONE Index makes this not just possible, but practical. And that changes everything.