The method
What we measure, and how.
Three faces of strain, one Living Code, and a human who reviews it.
Three Faces of Urban Stress
Status anxiety, loneliness and burnout. Twelve questions, four per face, each about the last 30 days.
Face scores and Living Code
Each answer scores 0 to 4. A face score is its four answers out of 16, shown out of 100; higher means more strain. One question per face is reversed to catch careless answers. Living Code is 100 minus the average of the three faces; higher means stronger.
A human coach decides
AI guides reflect with you between sessions. Every plan is set by a human coach, and licensed advisors review the questions and the scoring.
What your Living Code means.
- 80+
Thriving
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- 60 to 79
Steady
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- 40 to 59
Strained
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- Under 40
Depleted
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The research behind each face.
Status anxiety
People in more unequal countries report more status anxiety at every income level.
Layte and Whelan, European Sociological Review, 2014Loneliness
Weak social relationships carry a mortality risk comparable to well known risk factors such as smoking.
Holt Lunstad, Smith and Layton, PLoS Medicine, 2010Burnout
The World Health Organization lists burnout as an occupational phenomenon in ICD 11, not a medical condition.
World Health Organization, 2019
What it is, and what it is not.
It measures
How often you have felt these three kinds of strain in the last 30 days, and how that changes when you retake it.
It does not
Diagnose any mental health condition, replace a doctor or therapist, or predict your future. It is a starting point for a conversation.
Question wording version 1, October 2026, pending sign off by our licensed advisors.