How Tulsy works: the Energy Forecast, Longevity Reserve and Combined State
Tulsy turns a few minutes of daily logging into three connected measures. This page explains, in plain language, what each one means, what goes into it, how your cycle phase and personal baseline shape it, and what it cannot tell you.
What you log
Tulsy is built around manual logging, which takes under two minutes a day. No wearable is required. If you use Apple Health or Google Fit, Tulsy can auto-fill steps and exercise, and you can identify meals from a photo.
- Energy and mood across the day
- Sleep duration and quality
- Stress and workload
- Nutrition and digestion (gut health)
- Movement and training
- Recovery signals such as soreness and fatigue
- Cycle status: cycling, irregular, perimenopause, menopause, or post-surgical menopause
- Optional: recent blood test results across 36 biomarkers in 7 categories
The Energy Forecast (0 to 100)
The Energy Forecast is a daily score from 0 to 100 that estimates how much usable energy you are likely to have. It is predicted the night before, so you can plan, and refined as you check in through the day.
Conceptually, it combines three things: what you logged recently, where you are in your cycle, and how today's signals compare with your own recent normal. A short night means something different on day 3 of your cycle than on day 24, and something different again for someone whose baseline sleep is six hours versus eight.
The score also shows its main drivers, so you can see why a forecast is high or low rather than just the number.
The 14-day personal baseline
Tulsy compares you with yourself, not with a population average. Your baseline is built from your most recent 14 days of logs and keeps rolling forward. That is why your first forecast appears on day one, but meaningful personal patterns usually emerge within 7 to 14 days.
Using a personal baseline means a signal is read as unusual only if it is unusual for you.
How cycle phase is factored in
Energy, sleep, recovery and stress tolerance vary across the menstrual cycle for many women. When you are cycling, Tulsy uses your cycle phase as context, so an expected dip is not treated as a failure and an unexpected one stands out.
Onboarding branches on your hormonal reality. If your cycles are irregular, or you are in perimenopause, menopause or post-surgical menopause, the model does not assume a regular 28-day cycle and relies more on your personal baseline and trends.
The Longevity Reserve (30-day score)
The Longevity Reserve is a rolling 30-day score that shows whether your capacity is building, holding steady or being drawn down. It looks across six areas: sleep, stress, nutrition, movement, recovery and gut health.
A single hard day barely moves it. A month of short nights, high stress and little recovery does. It is designed to show the trend that daily numbers hide.
When you add biomarker results, they give extra context to the areas they relate to, such as inflammation or metabolic health.
Combined State
Combined State maps where your energy is today against the direction of your Longevity Reserve, and places you in one of five states:
- Peak State: high energy and a building reserve
- Sustainable: steady energy and a stable reserve
- Borrowing From Reserve: energy is holding up, but the reserve is falling
- At Risk: low energy and a falling reserve
- Recovery Mode: lower energy while the reserve rebuilds
What the scores cannot tell you
Tulsy shows patterns and correlations in your own data. A correlation means two things moved together; it does not prove one caused the other.
The scores are not a diagnosis, a measure of disease risk, or a prediction of lifespan. They cannot detect medical conditions, and they are only as good as what you log. If you notice symptoms that worry you, or a pattern that does not feel right, speak with your GP or a qualified health professional.
Frequently asked questions
- Is the Energy Forecast a measure of health?
- No. It is an estimate of how much usable energy you are likely to have on a given day, based on your own logs, cycle context and 14-day baseline. It is not a medical measure.
- Why does Tulsy need 7 to 14 days?
- Your baseline is built from your own recent data. Your first forecast appears on day one, but personal patterns become meaningful once about two weeks of logs exist.
- Does Tulsy work if I don't have a regular cycle?
- Yes. Onboarding adapts for irregular cycles, perimenopause, menopause and post-surgical menopause, and the model relies more on your personal baseline and trends.
- Do I need a wearable for these scores?
- No. All three measures work from manual logging. Apple Health and Google Fit can optionally auto-fill steps and exercise.
- What is the difference between the Energy Forecast and the Longevity Reserve?
- The Energy Forecast is about today and tomorrow. The Longevity Reserve is a rolling 30-day view of whether your capacity is building or being drawn down. Combined State puts the two together.
Keep reading
Tulsy is free to download, with Premium for deeper trends and biomarkers. We are early stage, so tell us what would make these measures more useful at info@tulsyai.com.
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