Six-signal check-in
30 seconds to log energy, stress, sleep, intensity, decision fatigue, and context switching.
Burnout Radar: a 30-second weekly read on how you're holding up
A private weekly wellness check-in for founders. Answer six quick questions about energy, stress, sleep, work intensity, decision fatigue, and context switching. Nautis turns those into a burnout risk score, watches the trend, and suggests adjustments before you hit the wall.
- Time to complete30 sec
- CadenceWeekly
- PrivacyPer user
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What is Burnout Radar?
Burnout Radar is a founder burnout tracker inside Nautis. Once a week you rate energy, stress, sleep, work hours, decision fatigue and context switching, and it returns a private risk score from 0 to 100 with the signals driving it. Trends, early-warning alerts and small suggested adjustments help you notice a bad stretch early. It's a self-check, not a medical or clinical tool.
Founders check runway every month and rarely check themselves at all. The trouble with a draining stretch is that every individual week looks survivable. You slept badly, but the launch went out. You worked fourteen-hour days, but only for a fortnight. A weekly number written down at the same time each week is what lets you see that the fortnight has quietly become a quarter.
Open Health & Wellness and then Burnout Radar, and click + Weekly Check-in. Energy, stress, sleep quality, decision fatigue and context switching are rated from 1 to 5, and work intensity is your average daily hours, from 6 to 18. An optional mood chip (Drained, Stressed, Neutral, Focused or Energized) adds colour. After Save Check-in, the gauge shows your score in a band: Low risk in green, Moderate risk in amber or High risk in red, with an arrow for the change since last week. The What's affecting your risk card names the signals that pushed it, and Early-warning alerts flag patterns across recent weeks, or read All clear.
The privacy rules are what make it worth using. Each member's check-ins are private to that person, aren't ranked against anyone else's, and don't appear in HR Management, reports or anything employee-facing. Nobody answers honestly if a manager might be reading, so this design is deliberate, and it's why a co-founder can't open yours.
Be clear about what the score is. It's built from your own answers and gives you a prompt to slow down, not a diagnosis. If it stays high for weeks, or you're feeling unwell, talk to a doctor or a mental health professional. A dashboard can't do that part.
Built for
- Founders and team members tracking sustainability
- Solo founders without a built-in support system
- Operators keeping an eye on their own pace
Capabilities
What you can do with Burnout Radar
Everything ships out of the box. No setup, no plugins, no extra tools.
Risk score 0-100
Lower is better. Banded into Low (green), Moderate (amber), High (red).
Top contributors
Surface the signals driving your number this week.
Early-warning alerts
Patterns across recent weeks raise alerts before things get bad.
AI weekly summary
Plain-language recap with one concrete recommendation to try.
Private by default
Your data is yours — never compared or ranked against teammates.
Use cases
How startups use Burnout Radar
A Sunday-evening habit for a solo founder
Pick one time and keep it. After two weeks in a row, a streak badge appears in the header. The Trend tab plots the last eight weeks with a 4-week rolling average, so one terrible week reads as a spike rather than a collapse, and the History table keeps every past check-in with its signals.
Checking yourself before a one-way-door decision
When you log a call in Decision Loop during a high-risk week, or mark it irreversible, Nautis suggests a 24 to 48 hour pause. Later, the decision carries a High-risk week badge, and Decision Loop's insights compare outcomes by the burnout level you were at when you decided.
Planning recovery after a launch
Click View suggested adjustments for up to five small, specific changes, such as blocking a 45-minute window with no meetings. If your risk is high, the AI recovery playbook builds a multi-day plan with a title, description and duration for each step, and saves it with that week's check-in.
Writing down what the week actually felt like
The Journal tab takes a short note on what caused stress and what helped. Nautis can summarise long entries with AI, which makes it quicker to scan back over a rough month and spot the trigger that keeps coming back.
Quick start
From zero to using Burnout Radar
- 1
Take the check-in
Once a week, ~30 seconds.
- 2
Read your score
Risk score, change vs last week, top contributors.
- 3
Watch the alerts
Patterns get flagged early so you can adjust pace.
- 4
Try the recommendation
AI surfaces one thing to try before the next check-in.
What the AI does with your check-ins
Once you've checked in a few weeks in a row, an AI Weekly Summary card explains the picture in plain language and adds one Recommendation to try before the next check-in. The recovery playbook and journal summaries are AI features too.
Those three draw a little from the organization's AI credits. The weekly check-in itself doesn't use any, so the habit costs nothing even when credits are tight.
Burnout Radar vs a journal vs a team pulse survey
They answer different questions. A journal tells you what happened, a team survey tells leadership how the company feels, and Burnout Radar tells one person whether their own pace is drifting.
| Question | Paper or notes-app journal | Burnout Radar | Team pulse survey tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who sees the answers | You | You only | Usually leadership or HR, often in aggregate |
| Structure | Free text | Six fixed signals plus an optional mood | Questions the company chooses |
| Trend over time | Reread old pages | Eight-week chart with a rolling average, plus full history | Team-level trends |
| Suggestions | None | Up to five adjustments, plus an optional AI recovery playbook | Varies by product |
| Connection to decisions | None | Feeds Decision Loop warnings and insights | Not usually |
| Medical or clinical assessment | No | No | No |
Plans and limits
- Burnout Radar is open to founders and team members with Burnout Radar permissions in the organization, and it's tracked in App Usage like other modules.
- AI features draw on your plan's monthly credits (1,000, 2,000 or 2,600 depending on plan); standard check-ins don't. Compare plans on pricing once the 14-day, no-card trial is up.
What Burnout Radar doesn't do
- It isn't a medical or clinical tool. The score reflects your own answers and can't diagnose anything or replace a professional.
- Only your most recent check-in can be edited. Older weeks are locked to keep the history honest, and removing one means contacting support.
- There's no export. The History table and the eight-week Trend chart are where the data lives.
- There's no team view, by design. If you want a company-wide pulse, use a survey tool and tell people up front who sees the results.
Burnout Radar questions
Is a founder burnout tracker worth it if I already keep a journal?+
They work well together. A journal captures what happened in your own words, while a fixed weekly score makes slow drift visible in a way rereading entries rarely does. Burnout Radar has its own Journal tab, so you can keep both in one place.
What do the Low, Moderate and High bands mean?+
Low risk, in green, means you're in a sustainable zone. Moderate, in amber, means it's worth watching your pace this week. High, in red, means you should strongly consider easing up, and it's the band where the recovery playbook is most useful.
Can team members use Burnout Radar, or only founders?+
Anyone in the organization with Burnout Radar permissions can use it. Each person sees only their own check-ins, so offering it to the team doesn't give anyone a view into someone else's score.
When does the AI Weekly Summary appear?+
After you've checked in for a few weeks in a row. It needs a run of data points to say anything about the trend, which is one more reason to keep the same day each week.
Should I take a high score as a sign something is wrong with my health?+
Take it as a signal to look at your pace, not as a health assessment. If a high score persists or you feel unwell, speak to a doctor or a qualified mental health professional, who can assess what a self-reported score can't.
Can my co-founder or team see my score?+
No. Each member's check-ins are private to that person. The dashboard shows your data only.
Is this a performance review?+
No — it's a wellness tool. Nobody is rated against the score, and nothing on Burnout Radar shows up in HR Management, reports, or anywhere else employee-facing.
What if I miss a week?+
Nothing breaks — you just won't have a data point for that week. Take the next check-in whenever you're ready. Your streak resets, but your history stays intact.
Why did my score go up even though I rested?+
The score weighs a few signals together. A great sleep week with very high decision load and context switching can still push the score up. Look at the What's affecting your risk card to see which signal moved the needle.
Can I delete a past check-in?+
You can edit the most recent one. Older entries are kept to preserve the trend — reach out to support if you need one removed.
Why do I see 'Get started' on my dashboard?+
You haven't taken your first check-in yet. Click + Weekly Check-in to start — it takes about half a minute.
Can I export my check-in history?+
Not directly today. You can scroll through the full History table on the dashboard, and the Trend chart covers the most recent eight weeks at a glance.
Does Burnout Radar work on mobile?+
Yes. The dashboard adapts to smaller screens — the + Check-in button collapses to a short label, and signal buttons stay easy to tap with a thumb.
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