Performance is biological first.
You've handled the strategy, the team, the capital. The variable you haven't touched is the biology every one of those decisions runs on — and over the last year or two, it's started charging you more for the same output.
Sleep, stress regulation, energy stability, decision clarity — treated as a system, not a discipline problem. For founders and senior operators, roughly 35–50.
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1,000+ hours in the peer-reviewed literature · 20+ years in commercial operating roles · Executive education at IMD, Yale SOM & UC Berkeley · IAC- and Oxford Leadership-certified coach
The pattern
Still delivering. Paying more for it every quarter.
- Sleep is lighter than it was two years ago.
- Energy is less reliable — the good days feel random.
- Decisions that used to be automatic now cost visible effort.
- Recovery takes longer, and there's less of it in the calendar.
- On paper, nothing is wrong. That's what makes it hard to name.
This isn't a discipline problem. The diagnosis is wrong, not the goal — and the cause has a mechanism.
The argument
Your output is downstream of your nervous system state.
Decision quality, energy, and leadership presence are not character traits. They are outputs of physiological systems — sleep architecture, HPA-axis load, glucose stability, recovery capacity. When those systems erode, no productivity method compensates. You cannot out-discipline a dysregulated nervous system.
The mechanisms above are well-established, not novel: elevated stress signalling impairs prefrontal function (Arnsten, Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2009); cumulative regulatory wear is "allostatic load" (McEwen, NEJM, 1998); sleep restriction degrades glucose handling within days (Spiegel, Leproult & Van Cauter, The Lancet, 1999); cardiorespiratory fitness tracks long-term mortality with no observed ceiling (Mandsager et al., JAMA Network Open, 2018). The work is applying them in sequence, to you.
The system
Sapiens OS — ten systems, one readout.
A neurobehavioral framework built from 1,000+ hours of primary research. Ten biological and behavioral systems that together determine executive capacity. The point isn't to fix all ten — it's to find the one or two that are load-bearing for you, because fixing the loudest symptom while the real constraint holds is how most protocols quietly fail.
- Sleep
- Nutrition
- Movement
- Stress Regulation
- Social Connection
- Light & Dark
- Agency
- Meaning
- Rest
- Curiosity
Fit
Who this is not for.
- Not for anyone looking for a quick protocol or a supplement stack. If a checklist would have solved this, you'd have solved it already.
- Not for acute crisis. If what's happening needs clinical care, that's not this — and I'll tell you directly and point you to the right professional.
- Not for people who want a coach to agree with them. The value is the mechanism, including the parts that are inconvenient to hear.
The honest comparison
You have other options. Here's where each one stops.
A longevity clinic
Gives you the panel. But a lab result you don't act on is expensive trivia — data without behavior change doesn't compound. The panel is the input; the sequenced protocol is the intervention.
A concierge physician
Rules out disease — which matters, and which you should do. It is not built to catch sub-clinical regulation decline, where every marker is "normal" and your capacity is still eroding.
Doing it yourself
You already know most of what's in the podcasts. Knowing was never the constraint. Sequencing it and holding it under a real quarter — travel, board cycles, the launch that eats a month — is where it dies.
This isn't therapy and it isn't medicine. It's the layer between the lab result and the behavior — the one nobody else is holding.
How we work
One system, three depths.
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Healthspan Audit
Free · 8 minutes
- Your ten systems, self-reported
- A mapped result on screen
- No email required to see it
Most people start here
Performance Diagnostic
€350 · 90 minutes
- Full read across the ten systems
- Written protocol within 48 hours
- 6–9 actions, sequenced over four weeks
- With what we left out, and why
Go deeper
90-Day Reset
Four figures per quarter
- Four sessions a month, 1:1
- The protocol adapts as the quarter changes
- Begins with the Diagnostic
Pricing in plain sight: €350 for the Diagnostic, on this page, not "on application." Deeper work is four figures per quarter, quoted in writing before you commit. No price set on the call based on how you sound. If the map is all you ever want, it's a complete product.
Who's behind this
Not a wellness background. A business one.
Vlad Andreev spent 20+ years in commercial roles — negotiation, brand strategy, P&L — across Europe and the Middle East. The standard toolkit couldn't explain what was happening in his own biology, or in the leaders he worked with. So he went one layer down: 1,000+ hours in the peer-reviewed literature, and the Sapiens OS framework.
Executive education at IMD (Change Management), Yale School of Management (Virtual Teams) and UC Berkeley. IAC- and Oxford Leadership-certified coach. No PhD and no medical degree — which is exactly why every claim here names its mechanism, so you can check it rather than trust it, and why nothing on this page is medical advice.
Still testing, still refining — and publishing his own data, including the stretches that don't look good.
The practice
Tracked, not claimed.
The framework runs on the founder first. Four years of nightly sleep-quality scores, published as they are — including the 2024 stretch that wasn't good.
Nightly sleep-quality score, monthly average. Source: founder's own tracker, 2022–2026.
Verify the thinking
The mind behind the framework is public.
This isn't a sales page pretending to be an expert. Read the work, then decide — the writing is out in the open, several times a week.
Start with the map.
Ninety minutes on your system across the ten pillars. A written protocol within 48 hours, built around the one constraint that's actually load-bearing for you.
No pitch, no pressure, no follow-up sequence. If we're not a fit, I'll tell you on the call.