run the pilot with us.
A 12–16 week study on your own teams that tests whether early signals, plus targeted changes to how work is designed, recover measurable productive capacity.
We don't ask you to believe the thesis. We test it — and we are clear about what Canary can do now, and what we are still validating.
tell us about your team.
A real person responds within one business day.
how a pilot works.
- 12–16 weeks
- Long enough to see a real pattern, short enough to stay low-risk.
- controlled, not anecdotal
- 2–4 intervention teams against 2–4 comparison teams. No company-wide rollout, no procurement marathon.
- base fee only
- No pricing surprises. We discuss cost openly in the first conversation.
- clear metrics from day one
- Health, energy, productivity, quality, overtime and absence — agreed before you start, not invented afterward.
four phases, one comparison.
baseline
Each team's Sustainable Capacity Index (energy, recovery, workload, focus), plus working hours, meeting load, quality and productivity.
detect
Find silent strain: teams whose SCI stays below their own normal.
intervene
Reduce meetings, reprioritise workload, protect focus time, adjust staffing, improve scheduling, change decision rights.
measure
Compare intervention and comparison teams on health, capacity and business outcomes.
| Team | People | SCI | vs. Q2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Productsilent strain | 14 | 61 | −8 |
| Engineeringsilent strain | 32 | 66 | −5 |
| Sales | 18 | 72 | +1 |
| Operations | 11 | 74 | +3 |
| Finance | 7 | 78 | 0 |
Suggested for Product: move two recurring meetings to async and protect two focus blocks a week.
Contributors found: meeting load up 22%, focus time down 18% over three weeks.
- Move two recurring status meetings to async updatesTeam lead · Week 1
- Protect two 2-hour focus blocks a week, calendar-wideTeam · Week 1
- Rebalance on-call so no one covers two weeks runningEngineering manager · Week 2
sixteen weeks, in one picture.
- week 1Baseline: both arms measured the same way.
- week 4Work-design changes start in the intervention teams.
- week 14Readout: SCI 61 → 67 against 62 → 62.
- week 16The economic test: recovered capacity against the cost of the changes.
- Intervention teams · SCI 67
- Comparison teams · SCI 62
Three intervention and three comparison teams · illustrative values
one economic test.
- Intervention teams · 3 teamsSCI 61 → 67
- Comparison teams · 3 teamsSCI 62 → 62
The economic test compares recovered capacity in the intervention arm with the cost of the changes made.
Recovered productive capacity greater than the cost of intervention. Along the way, the pilot sets out to show that:
- Early signals predict capacity deterioration.
- Work-system factors explain a meaningful portion of it.
- Targeted interventions improve health and capacity.
- Business performance improves.
- Recovered capacity creates positive ROI.
- Employee trust is preserved.
what you get.
- A real say in the product — pilot feedback shapes what we build next.
- You talk to the founder, not an account manager.
- Nothing about an individual is ever shared upward — the same privacy wall as full deployments, and never used for performance reviews, promotion or dismissal.
- Genuine opt-in for every participant, with a real ability to withdraw.
what we ask.
- An honest picture of your current workforce health approach, if any.
- A named point of contact who can champion the pilot internally.
- Willingness to prove it on your own people before any larger commitment.
prove it on your own teams first.
Base fee only, no multi-year commitment, and a real person within one business day.
Apply to start a pilot ↑