Three protocols — morning, midday, evening — timed to the cortisol, adenosine, and melatonin curves your body already keeps.
Cortisol awakening response
Adenosine balance, focus hold
Sleep onset, deep-stage support
Scroll. The day arrives in three tilted cards — morning, midday, evening — each timed against a real biological window. Skip a phase and the others quiet down. Skip none and the rhythm holds.
Light first. Liquid second. Cortisol allowed to peak — not spiked. The day starts before the screen does.
06:42
Ritual window
The 14:00 trough is adenosine, not coffee. Stacking caffeine fights chemistry. We support the trough and let it pass.
13:18
Ritual window
Sleep onset begins 60 minutes before bed — when you eat, dim, and signal. The PM tincture works because the rest of the evening already made room for it.
22:05
Ritual window
Most stacks treat the day as one unit. We dose each phase on its own clock — different stack, different hour, different goal.
Cortisol peaks 30 min after waking. Adenosine builds across the day. Melatonin should rise from 21:00.
You don't need 600 mg of magnesium at noon. You need 400 mg at the right hour.
That 14:00 wall is your A1 receptor saturation, on schedule. We support the trough — we don't fight it.
Nine ingredients can't override a 22:00 espresso, a phone in bed, or a midnight snack.
Adenosine accumulates from the moment you wake. By early afternoon, it saturates the A1 receptors that govern alertness. Caffeine occupies the same receptors temporarily — stacking more compounds the cortisol cost.
The Midday capsule is adaptogenic, not stimulant. The trough still happens — it just stops bottoming out.
−47%
trough depth vs. baseline
+38 min
sustained focus interval
0
added caffeine in protocol
Every ingredient ships with the grower, the latitude, the standardization assay, and the lot test. Scan the COA QR on any pouch — it shows you the same paperwork our compounder sees.
0 min
deep sleep / week
Polysomnography subset · n=84
0 min
sustained afternoon focus
Self-report + CGM · n=412
−0%
cortisol awakening variability
Salivary CAR · n=126
0%
still on protocol at week 11
Adherence cohort · n=412
We don't ship until your protocol is calibrated against your actual day. Less waste, less guessing, faster signal.
We ask three questions — typical wake time, lunch hour, intended bed time. The protocol windows snap to your actual schedule, not a generic one.
Connect Oura, Whoop, Apple Health, or skip. Wearable data refines the recommendation each week — earlier wind-down if HRV stays low, lighter AM stack if cortisol spikes.
AM sachets · Midday capsules · PM tincture, dosed per phase. Restocks ship 4 days before you run out. Pause, skip, or step down anytime.
Three clinical specialists. Three rounds of revision. Their critiques shaped every gram in the stack.
Dr. Mira Hansen-Okafor
Sleep medicine · Stanford
Co-author, polysomnography subset
Dr. Liam Rasmussen
Endocrinology · Karolinska
Cortisol axis review
Dr. Priya Anand
Neuropharmacology · UCSD
Adaptogen pharmacokinetics
What stood out wasn't dose strength — it was timing discipline. Halo Daily anchors every active to the right window. That's what the literature has been asking for.
Dr. Mira Hansen-Okafor
Sleep medicine · Stanford
Per batch
98 assays
identity · purity · contamination
Verified by
Eurofins + USP
blind duplicates · 6-week turnaround
Audit trail
Public COA
scan QR on any pouch
Pair a wearable and the protocol refines itself each week. Skip it and you're still calibrated — just on a monthly cadence instead of weekly.
↻ 2-way sync · OAuth — never sells your data
AM stack drops creatine for 5 days; PM glycine bumps to 4 g.
Midday capsule moves to 11:45; chromium added next cycle.
PM tincture moves +30 min earlier; apigenin doubled to 100 mg.
"I stopped chasing the second coffee. The 14:00 wall just stopped showing up, and I didn't have to white-knuckle through it."
Mara Solberg
Senior product designer · Oslo
No flash sales. No hidden auto-bills. Step out for a cycle and resume — your protocol stays calibrated.
$0
$5.28 / day
One cycle, no commitment.
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$4.71 / day
The cadence we recommend.
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$4.08 / day
Lock your year. Best per-day.
All cohorts are 28-day cycles. FDA-registered as a dietary supplement; not intended to diagnose, treat, or prevent disease. Pregnant or nursing? Pause and consult your clinician.
We answer the same nine questions in nearly every onboarding call. Here they are, in writing, so you don't have to schedule one.
No. The Midday capsule contains no caffeine, no synephrine, no yohimbe. The adaptogenic blend (rhodiola + lion's mane + alpha-GPC) supports adenosine balance instead of overriding it. If you drink coffee, this replaces — not stacks with — a second cup.
Allocation opens 21 March, 09:00 GMT. 2,400 starter rituals — historically, cohorts close within 48 hours. Reserve, calibrate, and your first cohort ships within five days.
$148
starter cohort · 28 days
0
auto-bills until you confirm
28d
full refund window