APEX v1 · Closed-Loop Active

Closing the loop on human readiness.

VRL builds wearable sensing and the APEX platform — measuring physiological readiness in real time and helping the body return to baseline, for operators and athletes who can't afford to guess.

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Loop latency

< 250ms

Sense → infer → respond

Signals fused

HRV · EDA · Respiration

Multimodal autonomic

Readiness states

GREEN / AMBER / RED

Echo AI engine

Form factors

3 devices

Pod · Collar · Shirt

Built for regulated environments

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The Platform

One engine. Three applications.

APEX shares a single readiness core — Echo AI inference, audit ledger, and blind matching. Defense leads today; Sports and Ledger are in active development.

APEX / DEFENSELead application

Operational readiness for the people on point.

APEX Defense gives small units and training cadres a live, shared view of operator physiological state. Pre-mission state assurance, inter-iteration support to help bring physiology back to baseline, and an after-action physiologic record — without adding another dashboard for someone else to interpret.

Pre-mission state assurance
Inter-set baseline support
After-action physiologic record
Edge inference · audit ledger
DoD-aligned pathways (SBIR/OTA)
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Mission loop

01
Baseline
Operator-specific autonomic signature captured at intake.
02
Monitor
Echo AI flags drift from baseline in real time during ops or training.
03
Support
Closed-loop hardware helps physiology return to a ready state between iterations.
04
Record
Immutable, audit-ready record of physiologic state across the mission.

APEX / SPORTS

Readiness for the team room.

Live autonomic readiness for athletes and coaches — surfacing under-recovery and over-reach as the same dysregulation problem, before either becomes injury. Same Echo AI core, same closed-loop method, shaped for sport-science workflows.

Live readiness feed per athlete
Session load + recovery context
Roster-level readiness view

APEX / LEDGER

Audit-grade readiness gating and double-blind matching for contingent labor. In active development.

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Active pilot

Piloted with MTSU Women's Soccer

Live readiness monitoring across the roster.

Training data

Echo AI trained on ~398K physiological vectors

WESAD + SWELL-KW datasets.

Production loop

Galaxy Watch → APEX → Echo AI readiness inference

Live end-to-end inference path.

The Science

Echo AI. Readiness as a state, not a guess.

Echo translates raw autonomic signals into GREEN, AMBER, and RED — a shared language for coaches, commanders, and program staff.

StateGREEN

StateAMBER

StateRED

Bilateral failure mode. Underload and overload are not opposites — they are the same autonomic dysregulation viewed from two sides. Echo treats them as one signal.

Closed-Loop Method

01
Baseline
Establish the individual's autonomic signature across HRV, EDA, and respiration under known states.
02
Monitor Drift
Echo AI tracks deviation from baseline in real time — quantifying underload and overload as bilateral failures of the same system.
03
Support Baseline
Closed-loop hardware uses thermal, haptic, and breathing-pacer cues to help the autonomic system return toward baseline.
04
Confirm Return
Re-measure. The loop closes only when physiology confirms — not a timer, not a guess.

HRV

Heart-rate variability

EDA

Electrodermal activity

RESP

Respiratory rhythm

For performance monitoring and research use only. Not a medical device. Not evaluated or cleared by the FDA. Not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or medical condition.

Hardware

Three devices. One closed loop.

Vector hardware is engineered to sense and respond on the same autonomic signals — not to log data for someone else to interpret later.

VR-01

Victor Pod

Closed-loop recovery seat

Seated platform delivering thermal, haptic, and breathing-pacer cues, gated by live autonomic state to support a return to baseline.

AC-02

Alpha Collar

Thermal · Haptic · Cervical EMG

Cervical wearable combining cooling, vibrotactile cues, and muscle-tension sensing for in-mission readiness support.

BS-03

Bravo Shirt

HRV · EDA · Respiration capture

Sensor garment for continuous autonomic monitoring. Feeds Echo AI with multimodal physiological data.

About

Founder-led. Veteran-owned. Built in Tennessee.

Vector Research Labs is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business headquartered in Murfreesboro, TN. We exist because the people doing the hardest work — operators, athletes, frontline labor — deserve technology that closes the loop, not technology that hands them another dashboard.

We're backed by advisors across quantum sensing, human-performance research, and medical-device regulation — a bench built for the regulated environments we ship into.

Murfreesboro, TN

Status

SDVOSB

CAGE

1AMZ0

Advisory Coalition

Dr. William RobertsonQuantum Physics & Sensing
Dr. Marissa BelloChief Research Officer
Dave PhelpsMedical Device & Regulatory

Engaged with DoD pathways

Contact

Let's close the loop together.

Tell us about your unit, team, or program. We respond to every inquiry from a real human.

EmailJason.wold@vectorresearchlabs.com

Phone847-772-3950

LocationMurfreesboro, Tennessee

StatusSDVOSB · CAGE 1AMZ0 · NAICS 541715