The OSRP is not a personality quiz. It is a sequential protocol that puts your nervous system and your thinking under accumulating load — and measures what happens. Developed over twenty years of operational work. One sitting. Your profile at the end.
Free to take · 60–90 uninterrupted minutes · chest strap optional
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Sequential stages
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Metrics in your signature
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Sitting, start to finish
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Normative rankings
What it measures
Five metrics. One signature.
Every number is relative to your own session — your own peak, your own trough, your own recovery. No percentiles, no comparison to a population. The shape of your response under load is the result.
Metric 01
Emotional Load Tolerance
How much your nervous system moves when the pressure is emotional, not physical. Measured from your heart data — not from what you say about yourself.
Metric 02
Self-Regulation Stability
How steady your system holds while you answer questions about who you are. Stability under self-reflection is its own kind of load.
Metric 03
Cognitive Depletion Rate
How fast your thinking degrades as load accumulates. Ten timed creative prompts trace the drop-off curve directly.
Metric 04
Convergent Persistence
Whether you keep solving when the problems get hard and the clock keeps running — acceleration or fade, measured item by item.
Metric 05
Nervous System Recovery
When the load lifts, how far back do you come? Recovery is trainable — this is the number the work moves first.
How it works
Six stages. The load accumulates by design.
The order matters. You settle first, then the protocol stacks emotional, self-reflective, and cognitive load in sequence — and finishes by measuring how your system comes back.
1
Anchoring Breath
Follow the prompts on the screen to guide you through the breathing protocol. Don't worry about doing it exactly right — just stay with your breath.
2
Forced-choice scenarios
48 items across leadership, moral gray areas, identity, parenthood, failure, and decision-under-pressure. No neutral option will be provided.
3
Trait self-report
60 quick statements on a 5-point scale. 15-minute cap.
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Divergent cognitive task
10 prompts, 90 seconds each. Assessing how fast your cognitive resources deplete under load.
5
Convergent reasoning
76 items in 10 minutes, hard stop. Assesses your decision speed and persistence.
6
Recovery breathing
A few minutes to let your system come back — and to measure how far back it comes.
The practical part
What you need. What you get.
What you need
→60–90 uninterrupted minutes. Quiet room, phone away, no one coming through the door. The timer doesn't pause.
→A computer. The full protocol runs in your browser.
→Optional: a Polar H10 chest strap on Chrome or Edge. This is what unlocks the nervous-system half of your profile.
No strap? Take it anyway. You'll get the complete cognitive and trait profile — depletion rate, persistence, the five-domain trait read. The heart-measured metrics stay blank until you retake it with a strap. Put the strap on 5–10 minutes before you start so the contact settles.
What you get
→Your five-metric signature — charted, with every number explained in plain language.
→Your HRV timeline across the whole session: peak baseline, trough under provocation, recovery. (Strap sessions.)
→A written analysis of what your profile means for how you perform when it counts — including read-throughs to the role you're in and the one you're after.
→A PDF report you can keep, and the option to debrief the whole thing with an Intero practitioner.
Regulated isn't calm. It's accuracy.
Most people have never seen their own response to load measured. Set aside the time, take it seriously once, and you'll have a baseline you can actually train against.