The Regulation Profile
Twenty-four questions across six domains, looking back over a month rather than a week. The weekly check tells you where you are. This one tells you which part of you is carrying it.
- 24 items · 0–96
- Six domains, scored separately
- Once every 90 days
This one needs your account.
The Regulation Profile is stored against your record so the next one can be compared with it — which is the only reason a quarterly instrument is worth taking at all. So it needs you signed in. It is free, it costs no tokens, and it always will be.
- Six domain scores, each out of sixteen — load, recovery, sleep, noticing, capacity and bracing
- A named weakest domain, and the practice that targets it
- Comparison against your last profile, with a stated noise floor so a small move is not sold to you as progress
- One domain the weekly check has no item for at all: bracing
All twenty-four questions
Here they are, in full, before you decide anything. A questionnaire you cannot read until you have an account is not worth answering.
Your current profile
— out of 96
By domain
Next one
It reads best once a quarter. Taken more often than that, the second score mostly measures how well you remember the first one — so the number would move without anything about you having changed. The weekly check is the one for the meantime.
The PKJ Regulation Profile · RP-1
Twenty-four questions about the last month.
Answer them the way the month actually was. There is no good score here — a high number is not a grade and a low one is not a failure, because the only thing this is for is telling you which of the six domains to spend the next quarter on. About eight minutes. Your answers are held on this device as you go, so you can close the tab and come back.
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One last thing, optional
0/400
Your Regulation Profile
— out of 96
By domain — this is the part the weekly check cannot do
Where to start
Do it nowWhat happens now
This is on your record. Your dashboard reads from it, and so does the daily note if you have it switched on — the practice it sends you is chosen from your weakest domain and from which resets your own before-and-after numbers show working for you.
What this is, and what it is not
It is an original instrument and it has not been validated. The Regulation Profile was written by Pen King Jr. Its six domains are drawn from constructs the stress and autonomic literature treats as markers of nervous system state — perceived load and controllability, return to baseline, restorative sleep, interoceptive awareness, end-of-day capacity, and sustained protective muscular bracing. Drawing on that literature is not the same as being validated against it. This has no clinical cutoff and no published reliability, and the same is true of the weekly Regulation Index. Both do now have published population norms — a reference distribution of how everyone who has taken them actually scores, at /instrument — which locates a score among other people's and still says nothing about whether the instrument is valid.
It cannot diagnose anything. Not ADHD, not anxiety, not burnout, not dysautonomia, not anything else. It is not a screener and a low score is not evidence of a disorder. If something about your health is worrying you, that is a conversation for a clinician, and there is a page here for them.
What it is good for is direction. Six numbers, four times a year, that you can put next to each other. Almost nobody has that, and having it is what makes it possible to say "recovery is what is carrying this, and it is not sleep" instead of guessing.
The scoring is open: it lives in regulation-profile.js, loaded by this page and by the server both, so the number you see and the number stored are computed by one piece of code.