CHRP

How CHRP reads you

Know where you are. Then move.

CHRP uses two different sets of words, and the difference between them is the whole idea: dimensions are where you are now, states are where you are going. One is a read, like a resting heart rate. The other is a destination, like the session you choose next. This page explains both, and exactly who can see them.
Dimensions = the readStates = the destinationNo surveysYour data stays yours

What does CHRP actually look at?

CHRP reads your music listening behavior — what you play, when you play it, in what order, and how that moves against your own normal — and nothing else. There is no survey, no check-in, no wearable, and no microphone.

The reason is simple: you are already doing this. Choosing music is something people do dozens of times a day to change how they feel, without being asked and without thinking of it as data. That makes it a rare thing — a signal that does not decay because someone got tired of logging it.

Your baseline is your own. CHRP compares this week's you to previous-weeks you, not to a population average, so a naturally high-energy listener and a naturally quiet one both get a read that means something.

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EPI Score is derived from music listening behavior — what someone plays, when, in what sequence, and how that deviates from their own baseline — not from surveys, check-ins, or wearables.

Basis
How the product is built. A description, not a research finding.
What this does not establish
Says nothing about accuracy. That the score is derived from behavior is a design fact; how well it reflects state is a question CHRP is still answering.

What are the dimensions CHRP tracks?

The dimensions are the read — EPI Score™, Balance, Calm, and Motivation — and they tell you where you are right now, the way an HRV number tells you something about your body without telling you what to do about it.

They are descriptive, not prescriptive. A low Calm week is not a verdict and not a diagnosis; it is a fact about your listening that you can now see instead of guess at. What you do with it is yours.

Dimensions you track — where you are now
DimensionWhat it readsThink of it as
EPI ScoreYour overall emotional performance state, on a 0–100 scale.The single headline number, the way a resting heart rate is one number.
BalanceWhether your listening looks steady and regulated, or swingy.How even your week has been, not how good it was.
CalmSteadiness under load — how settled your patterns look when pressure rises.The opposite pole from tension. High Calm is a settled read.
MotivationDrive and forward pull — engagement with challenge and effort.Whether you are leaning into the week or coasting through it.

The app also surfaces Energy and Focus alongside these. Which dimensions make up the headline set is something we are actively refining as the product matures — the four above are the durable core.

What are the states CHRP helps you move toward?

The states are destinations — Flow, Ready, Recharge, and Recover — and they are what you pick when you want music to take you somewhere rather than just tell you where you are.

You already do this without naming it. The playlist before a workout and the one after a brutal day are not the same playlist, and the difference between them is not taste — it is intent. CHRP just makes the intent selectable.

States you move toward — where music takes you
StateFor when
FlowYou need to disappear into the work.
ReadySomething starts soon and you need to meet it.
RechargeYou are running low and the day is not over.
RecoverThe hard thing is done and you need to come down.

Why does CHRP use two different sets of words?

Because knowing and moving are two different jobs, and one set of words cannot do both honestly. Dimensions answer “where am I?” States answer “where am I going?” — and collapsing them would hide the fact that a read is not a plan.

The closest everyday parallel is a fitness tracker. Your resting heart rate and your HRV are the read; the easy run, the interval session, and the rest day are the destinations. Nobody confuses the two, and nobody would want a tracker that reported “your interval-session score is 62.” CHRP works the same way.

Two halves of one loop
HalfThe wordsWhat it answersEveryday parallel
Know yourselfEPI Score · Balance · Calm · MotivationWhere am I right now?Your resting heart rate and HRV
Move yourselfFlow · Ready · Recharge · RecoverWhere am I trying to get to?The session you choose next

The two never mix. There is no “Flow score” and no “Recovery dimension” — those phrases borrow a word from the wrong half and describe something CHRP does not do.

Who can see your data?

You can, and by default nobody else. When CHRP is deployed through a team, a unit, or an employer, that organization receives anonymous aggregate trends only — never your individual score, and never your name attached to one.

This is structural rather than a setting. There is no administrator screen where individual scores can be switched on, because the aggregate is what the organization receives in the first place. A privacy promise that depends on someone remembering to leave a toggle alone is not a promise.

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The individual sees their own EPI Score. Organizations receive anonymous aggregate trends only, never individual data.

Basis
A structural property of the system design, not a policy setting an administrator can change.
What this does not establish
A statement about architecture. It is verifiable by review of the product, not by citation.
What each party receives
WhoWhat they seeWhat they never see
YouYour EPI Score, your dimensions, your trends over time, and playlists for the state you pick.Nothing is withheld from you about your own read.
Your coach, commander, or employerAnonymous aggregate trends across the group — the emotional weather, not the individuals.Your individual score. Your name against any score. Your listening history.
CHRPThe listening signal needed to produce your score.CHRP does not sell your data, and does not use it to make decisions about you.

What does CHRP not do with what it reads?

CHRP does not diagnose you, does not assess your fitness for duty, and does not hand any organization a way to single you out. It reads how you listen, which is not the same as assessing your health.

The full standing list of what CHRP does not claim lives on the science page, alongside the evidence for what it does. Both belong in the same place, because a claim and its limit are the same claim.

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