What CardioMood shows an executive coach that a session can't

Coaching runs on what the client remembers. A CEO sits down for an hour and describes the last two weeks: a bad night before the board meeting, a good week after, stress that feels manageable. The coach works from that account, and memory is a weak record of what a body went through.

I founded CardioMood to give coaches a second record. It is a physiological early-warning system for executive coaching. The client wears a medical-grade bracelet day and night, and the coach sees continuous data on heart rate variability, heart rate, blood pressure, sleep and recovery.

What the bracelet measures

The wearable is CE-MDR certified and FDA cleared. It tracks stress, HRV, sleep, pulse rate, SpO2, temperature, respiration rate and activity type, at least 19 validated vital parameters in total. The algorithms for heart rate, SpO2, respiration rate and sleep staging have been validated in peer-reviewed studies.

The battery lasts six days, so a client can put the bracelet on and stop thinking about it. The bracelet also stores up to six days of data by itself. A long flight or a few days with a dead phone doesn’t leave a gap in the record. When the bracelet reconnects, it syncs through the mobile app to the cloud, and the coach’s dashboard updates.

How a coach works with it

CardioMood follows four steps.

1. Onboard. An interview captures the client’s goals, context and lifestyle. A baseline biometric measurement sets the starting point, so later readings are compared with this person’s own normal.
2. Personalise. Guidance on sleep, stress and recovery is built from patterns in the client’s own data.
3. Intervene. Weekly progress reports show the trends, and the programme is adjusted with AI support as the body responds.
4. Outcome. Resilience, energy and performance are measured in the same body data that set the baseline. Coach and client can both see what changed.

Between sessions, the coach doesn’t have to watch charts. Coaches set alert thresholds for each client or for a group. When a reading falls outside its normal range, the alert arrives as a push notification, an email and a flag on the dashboard. If nobody acknowledges it, it escalates automatically, and every alert is logged.

Each morning, every client also gets a recovery score based on overnight HRV, sleep quality and breathing patterns.

Where the AI comes in

A coach with a full caseload can’t read every client’s data every day. CardioMood runs correlation analysis in the background around the clock and surfaces links between metrics that are specific to each client.

Reports take one click. They come out as white-labelled PDFs, with a plain-language summary for each metric that explains what the numbers mean. A coach can put measurable progress in front of a client instead of describing it.

The AI coach platform also runs without a coach, for leaders who want the guidance directly.

Privacy by architecture

I think executives will only wear a device like this around the clock if they trust where the data goes.

Each coach gets a private AI container. The coach uploads their own methodology, protocols and tone of voice, and that material stays sealed in the container, isolated from every other practice. The coach’s intellectual property stays theirs. Employers and boards get no access to an individual’s data. The platform is built for GDPR from the start, and messages between coach and client are encrypted.

Who it is for

CardioMood is built for coaching practices that work with CEOs, founders and board-level leaders. The company is based in Geneva, Switzerland. A practice that wants to see the platform can request a demo on cardiomood.com.