Biometric-Informed Nervous System Regulation
Traditional wellness apps treat mental health as disconnected activities—"do some breathing," "log your mood." PSight integrates biometric feedback with regulation state tracking to create a closed-loop regulation system.
Your body knows when you're dysregulated before your mind does. PSight listens to your body.
The Polyvagal Foundation
Polyvagal Theory describes how our autonomic nervous system responds to safety and threat. The vagus nerve connects brain to body, regulating heart rate, breathing, digestion, and emotional state.
The "Window of Tolerance" is the zone where we function optimally—neither hyperaroused (fight/flight) nor hypoaroused (freeze/collapse). Trauma, stress, and chronic dysregulation narrow this window.
The insight: What if your wellness app knew whether you needed grounding or activation before you consciously realised you were struggling?
The Window of Tolerance
Different arousal states require different interventions. PSight detects your current state and suggests the right approach.
Hyperaroused
What it can feel like
Anxiety, panic, rage, hypervigilance, racing thoughts
Interventions
Regulated
What it can feel like
Calm alertness, social engagement, clear thinking, emotional flexibility
Interventions
Hypoaroused
What it can feel like
Shutdown, dissociation, numbness, fatigue, depression
Interventions
What Makes It Different
Not another mood tracker. A closed-loop system that responds to your physiology in real-time.
Biometric-Informed Interventions
Connects to HRV monitors and EEG devices. When your heart rate variability drops or your nervous system shows signs of dysregulation, it proactively suggests interventions—not waiting for you to realise you're struggling.
Adaptive Exercise Selection
The wrong intervention at the wrong time can make things worse. If you're hyperaroused, it suggests grounding and slow breathing. If you're hypoaroused, it suggests activation exercises. State-aware, not one-size-fits-all.
Pattern Recognition Over Time
Tracks what interventions work for you specifically, at what times, in what contexts. Learns your regulation patterns and personalises recommendations based on your history.
Training Loop Integration
Therapy mode helps regulate now. Training mode builds long-term capacity through EEG neurofeedback. The two systems work together: one for now, one for building capacity over time.
Biometric Integration
Consumer-grade hardware, meaningful insights.
Heart Rate Variability (HRV)
Primary indicator of parasympathetic nervous system activity. Low HRV often signals stress or dysregulation.
Designed for
Target devices for the prototype: Apple Watch, Garmin, Polar, Oura Ring
EEG Brainwave Patterns
Alpha, beta, theta, and delta wave ratios indicate arousal states and cognitive load.
Designed for
Target devices for the prototype: Muse, OpenBCI, consumer-grade headbands
Respiratory Rate
Breath patterns correlate with nervous system state. Rapid shallow breathing indicates sympathetic activation.
Designed for
Target devices for the prototype: wearables with respiratory tracking
System Architecture
Explore how PSight detects arousal states and selects interventions. Click on any node for details, and use the flow buttons to trace data through the system.
The Bigger Picture
PSight is part of a broader vision: making nervous system regulation accessible to everyone.
Therapy mode handles the now—detecting dysregulation and suggesting immediate interventions. Training mode builds the future—using EEG neurofeedback to expand the window of tolerance over time.
Your body already has the signals. PSight helps you hear them.
Why aXai
aXai is a disability-led AI, software and accessibility company. We build AI systems, software, and concepts and prototypes ready to scale, and we deliver them through AI-supported work: skilled people with disability in real, properly paid roles, working to clear quality standards, with AI removing the barriers and people keeping the accountability.
Every project runs on our own infrastructure, the Decision Bus and Project Layer, so each step is planned, signed off by a person and on the record. That is our operating advantage. Read how it works.
Interested in Biometric Wellness?
Whether you want to discuss the Polyvagal Theory implementation or explore how biometric integration could work for your application, we'd love to hear from you.