Founder Burnout
54% burned out last year.
73% are hiding it.
Founder burnout isn't a willpower problem. It's a systems problem. Your calendar doesn't know your body is breaking down. Body Agent does — and it intervenes before you crash.
The data on founder burnout
54%
of founders experienced burnout in the past year.
Sifted / CEREVITY, 2025
73%
of those founders are hiding it from their teams, investors, and families.
Sifted / CEREVITY, 2025
19 hrs
awake and you're cognitively equivalent to legally drunk (0.05% BAC).
Williamson & Feyer, Occupational & Environmental Medicine
Shadow burnout
Most founders don't recognize burnout until they're deep in it. The body shows the signs weeks before the mind admits them.
HRV, recovery trends, and sleep quality are early warning signals
The pattern nobody catches
Recovery drops from 72% to 45% over three weeks. Sleep quality degrades. HRV trends down. You don't notice because you're still shipping.
By the time you feel burned out, your body has been signaling for weeks. Body Agent watches those signals and intervenes — protecting mornings, lightening schedules, and alerting you to the trend before it becomes a crisis.
How Body Agent protects against burnout
Recovery trend monitoring
Body Agent tracks your recovery over weeks. When it detects a sustained downtrend — not a single bad night, but a pattern — it flags it proactively.
Autonomous calendar protection
Low recovery morning? The agent creates holds, reschedules meetings, and protects your cognitive peak hours. Before you even check your phone.
Meeting reschedule via Gmail
On low recovery days, the agent emails attendees via Gmail with Calendly links to rebook. No awkward messages to send yourself.
Recovery-revenue correlation
See exactly how burnout affects your revenue. Weeks with recovery below 50%: how much did revenue drop? The data makes the case for rest.
A low recovery morning, handled
Recovery 31% — third straight day below 50%. The agent intervenes.
What a burnout intervention looks like
Protect the founder, protect the company.
The founders who perform best are the ones who recover best. Let the agent catch the warning signs early.