Glass-box model · Kato guide

Your brain has a ceiling today.
See where it is, and why.

Katoptron shows the score, the formula, and the error margin. Kato reads your check-in and picks one move for the next 2 hours. 7-day trial.

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Scene 01 · baseline

A day when everything lines up

84capacity / 100

Eight hours of sleep, low stress, decent hydration. The model puts executive resource close to its ceiling. This is your reference point — not a population average, but your own best day.

Scene 02 · a four-hour night

The cost is not spread at random

57capacity / 100

The prefrontal cortex and hippocampus give way first — they are the heaviest consumers. The occipital holds. Look at the map: the regions that fall are not the ones you would guess.

Scene 03 · breakdown

Every point deducted is accounted for

57capacity / 100

No consumer competitor exposes its model. Here you click, and you see the arithmetic. The numbers add up — and you can check.

−18 pts sleep debt
−7 pts emotional load
−2 pts hydration
Scene 04 · recovery

And what the next night pays back

79capacity / 100

Recovery is asymptotic: most of it happens on the first night, the rest comes back slowly. The model says so, and states how far off it may be.

The mechanism

Three stages, none of them hidden

Most cognitive performance tools hand you a score and ask you to believe it. This one hands you the score, the formula, and the margin of error.

01

You declare your state

Sleep, stress, fatigue, inflammation, hydration, alcohol, nicotine, current medication. Nine sliders, twenty seconds. Nothing is measured on your body: this is a simulation built from what you report.

02

The model assigns the costs

Each input weighs differently depending on the brain region. The directions follow established mechanisms; the magnitudes are an engineering choice the product owns and documents, version by version.

03

Your tasks recalibrate the model

The timed baseline measures your actual performance. The gap between what the model predicted and what you did is displayed, not buried. That is what makes the tool arguable — and therefore credible.

Your guide

Kato. He read your morning. He gives you one move.

Not ten wellness tips. A presence in the app: it reads your sliders, mirrors them back, and picks one step for the next 2 hours — computed on your device, not in a cloud.

Kato
Kato · alive
listening to your check-in

You declare. He looks. He decides.

Two minutes in the morning. Kato mirrors your numbers with a tone, then one commitment — not an Instagram checklist. That’s what “sleep 8 hours” apps never do.

Simulated check-in · stress ~2/10

Kato · Stress

You said stress is low. While it holds: lock 45 min before the next spike — one move, not a list.

Try it with Kato · 7 days

Demo here. In the app, Kato reads your sliders — not this script.

The transparent box

Here is a score, fully taken apart — go ahead, touch it

This block is not a screenshot. These are the application's own formulas, running here: move the sliders and watch the arithmetic redo itself. Add up the points deducted and you get the score back. It is the only argument we have, and it can be checked without taking our word for it.

71prefrontal cortex / 100 Degraded regime

100− 18,4− 7,2− 2.1= 72.3

This total exists only today. The 7-day trial compares it to your next days — that is what you pay for.

Theoretical ceiling100
Sleep debt −18,4
Emotional load −7,2
Hydration −2.1
Prefrontal cortex 72.3

Move the sliders: the arithmetic redoes itself in front of you. These are the application's formulas, not a mock-up. Indicative values, not measurements.

PRE—

Why nobody does this

Because an exposed model is an attackable model. The moment you publish your weightings, you invite contradiction — and you have to be able to withstand it.

We prefer that risk to the alternative. An opaque score teaches you nothing: it tells you how you are without telling you what it comes from. And it is the “what it comes from” that lets you decide, tonight, whether that last hour of work is worth the hour of sleep it costs.

The model's version log is available inside the application, with what changed and why.

Your baseline

Five tasks, five minutes, once

They measure real performance, on you, under the conditions of the moment. They are compared to no sample: they exist to establish your own baseline, and then to place your days against it.

01

Simple reaction time

Raw processing speed, and above all its variability — often more informative than the average.

~60 s
02

Backward digit span

Working memory: hold a sequence and give it back in reverse. The longest span you reach is your marker.

~70 s
03

Spatial blocks

Visuospatial working memory, dependent on the parietal cortex and the hippocampus.

~70 s
04

Inhibitory control

Respond to one signal, hold back on the other. The prefrontal brake, measured directly.

~60 s
05

Sustained attention

Holding the instruction over time. It is the first function to give way after a short night.

~90 s
Your data

The safest processing is the kind that never happens anywhere else

Sleep, stress, fatigue, declared medication: these are health data under European regulation. That is precisely why they never leave your device.

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Health data transmitted

Everything is computed and stored in your browser. No server receives what you declare, your cognitive measurements or your history.

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Cookies, third-party trackers or profiling

This home page counts its visits and the clicks on its buttons, anonymously and without cookies, to know where its readers come from and what interests them. The application itself measures nothing at all. Your account exists only to check whether your subscription is active.

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Button that erases everything

Immediate and unconditional. CSV and JSON export available at any time: your data follows you if you leave.

Pricing

Seven days to judge, then you decide

The demo on this page stays open and complete, forever: the film, the sliders, the live math. What you pay for is the app — your baseline, your history, your trends.

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The exact scope

We write down our limits before you find them

In a market saturated with promises, a product that draws its own boundaries tells you two things: what it actually does, and that it does not need to sell you a dream to stand up.

Five things we would rather put in writing

Questions

What we get asked most

What is Kato — a ChatGPT-style AI?
No. Kato is Katoptron’s personality / guide: it reads your local check-in and suggests one move from your numbers (Stress, Sleep, Focus, Energy). It is not a cloud chatbot or an LLM inventing answers. Your declarations stay on your device. Educational simulator — not medical advice.
Are the numbers reliable?
They are orders of magnitude, and the product says so everywhere. The model's directions rest on established mechanisms — sleep loss hits the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus first, alcohol reaches the cerebellum first. The exact magnitudes vary enormously from one person to the next. Treat them as relative trends between your own days, never as a measurement.
Why not compare my scores to other people's?
Because it would be dishonest. Comparing against a population requires norming on a representative sample under a controlled protocol. We do not have one, so we do not claim it. Comparing you to yourself, on the other hand, is sound: same tasks, same device, same person.
What happens at the end of the 7 days?
At the end of the trial your card is charged for the plan you chose (monthly or annual), unless you cancel first in your account. Cancellation is one click — no email required. Without an active subscription, app access closes; you can resubscribe later.
Does my data go to a server?
No. What you declare, your cognitive measurements and your history are computed and stored in your browser. The server knows only your email address and the state of your subscription — nothing of what you report about your sleep, your stress or your medication.
Does this replace medical advice?
Absolutely not, and it is not the same category of object. Katoptron diagnoses nothing, screens for nothing and monitors no condition. Fatigue, reduced concentration or degraded sleep that settle in over time are matters for a healthcare professional. Before taking any dietary supplement, particularly if you are on medication, pregnant or living with a chronic condition, speak to a doctor or a pharmacist.
What devices does it work on?
Any recent browser, on desktop or phone. The volumetric map uses WebGL and falls back automatically to a 2D map if the hardware cannot keep up. The application installs to a phone's home screen and then works offline.

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