Small Wins
It notices. You just answer.
A band she already wears records her day. When her heart rate sits well above her own usual for long enough, the app buzzes once and asks what’s going on. One tap, and that moment is labelled for good. No session to start, nothing to remember, nothing to read while you’re holding a child.
There is no
start button.
A parent at four in the afternoon doesn’t open an app. So the band records all day, the app watches, and it speaks first — once, with a question it can’t get wrong.
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A parent at four in the afternoon doesn’t open an app. So the app has to open itself — and then get out of the way again.
| Time | What happens | What you do |
|---|---|---|
| 7:10 | The band goes on with her socks. | Nothing. No app. |
| All day | It records on its own — heart rate, movement, skin temperature. The phone isn’t needed. | Nothing. |
| 16:12 | One buzz. “Onnie’s been well above her usual for six minutes. Anything going on?” | One tap: getting dressed |
| 16:12 | Underneath, instantly: the last three times around now — what she was doing, what you tried, how long it took to settle. No verdict. | Reads it, or doesn’t. |
| 16:31 | “Settled. Nineteen minutes.” Nothing else. | Nothing. |
| 19:30 | The day, on one screen, after bedtime. | Two minutes, if she wants them. |
The gold rule. Gold marks something you finished — a week recorded, a trial done. It never marks something she did. Her regulation is not a score and it never gets a gold star.
Six taps a week, not eleven a day.
The default state of the app is quiet. One number, her usual underneath, and nothing asking to be done. Everything else only appears because something actually happened.
Notice
The band records all day on its own — heart rate, movement, skin temperature — and keeps going when the phone isn’t near. The app watches for a rise that is well above her own usual and holds there. It speaks first, once.
Answer
One tap says what was happening: getting dressed, leaving the house, somewhere loud, nothing she’s fine. That moment is now labelled — her heart rate, her context, in your words. Underneath, your own last three times around now.
Test
When something starts to look like it helps, the trial engine proves it properly: intervention days and control days decided in advance, one endpoint, both arms shown. “No effect” gets the same space as a win.
What it is never allowed to say.
Two sentences can carry the same buzz. One is the product; the other kills it in about six weeks — and not for a regulatory reason.
It asks, it never predicts
“Well above her usual for six minutes. Anything going on?” — a measurement and a question. Never “a meltdown is likely in ten minutes”. We have never measured whether that is true for your child.
Show the history, don’t score it
Your own last three times around now, laid out straight. Never “movement helped three of the last four times” — you only try something when things are already bad, and bad things come down on their own.
Three a day, maximum
A cap, quiet hours, and a hard off switch. An app that buzzes a tired parent eleven times is uninstalled by Friday.
Gaps stay gaps
Where the signal wasn’t good enough, the line stops dead. We never draw a guess to make a chart look complete.
No gamification
No streaks, no badges, no score on her regulation. The one gold screen celebrates your finished week — never her behaviour.
It stays on the phone
Her physiology is hers. Nothing about her leaves the device unless you explicitly choose to send it, on a screen of its own.
For a parent who has been handed strategies and wants to know which ones are real.
Movement breaks. Deep pressure. Low-stimulation rooms. Each arrives with confidence attached, and almost none of it has been tested on your child. Small Wins records what actually happened, gives you your own history straight, and — when you want it — runs a proper single-case trial with a clinician’s named recommendation and an objective measure. It never names a diagnosis, never predicts a hard moment, never scores your child, and never hides the control arm. A small win is a shorter recovery, a calmer transition, one fewer thing to keep doing — modest, specific, earned.
Small, real, cumulative.
Small Wins is in build, gate by gate, with no date to promise. If you’re a clinician or a parent who’d like to hear when it’s ready, say so.
- It reports, it never concludes
- Gaps stay gaps
- Your data stays yours
- One clear action
