What the 79% number means
In this early snapshot, 79% of measured sessions ended with a lower self-reported distress measure than the session began with. We use that as a product signal: a reason to keep studying whether Steady's short support flow is useful in emotionally activated moments.
Pre/post self-report within a support session
Steady's Get Support experience is designed for short, in-the-moment regulation support. For this early analysis, a measured session is one in which a distress measure was available both before and after the support flow.
- A user begins a support session and reports their distress before the intervention flow.
- The user moves through the short Steady support experience.
- A post-session distress measure is captured.
- The pre- and post-session values are compared for direction of change.
This page reports the proportion of measured sessions in which the post-session value was lower than the pre-session value. It does not turn that within-session change into a diagnosis, clinical outcome, or claim of treatment effectiveness.
What this early signal is useful for
- Product iteration: it suggests that measuring pre/post experience is worth continuing as we improve the flow.
- Feasibility: users can complete a short support experience and provide within-session feedback that can be evaluated.
- Hypothesis generation: the direction-of-change signal gives us a concrete question to test in larger and better-designed evaluations.
- Transparency: publishing the denominator and limitations makes the number more useful than presenting 79% without context.
This is not clinical efficacy evidence
| This snapshot can describe | It cannot establish |
|---|---|
| Within-session direction of self-reported distress change | That Steady caused the change |
| What happened in these 38 measured sessions | How every Steady user will respond |
| An early product signal worth testing | Clinical efficacy or treatment of a mental-health condition |
| Immediate pre/post experience | Whether any change lasts hours, days, or longer |
| Session-level observations | Participant-level effectiveness if some people contributed more than one session |
Moving from an early signal toward stronger evidence
As Steady grows, the next useful questions are not simply whether the 79% number gets larger. They are whether we can understand the signal more rigorously and whether it is meaningful over time.
- Unique users as well as total measured sessions
- Average and median magnitude of pre/post change, not only direction
- Completion and return-use patterns
- Retention over meaningful time windows
- Which support flows are associated with better or worse outcomes
- Whether findings hold in larger pilots and more diverse populations
- Longer-term follow-up where appropriate
- Stronger evaluation designs when the product and sample are ready
Product data and external research are different evidence layers
Steady uses evidence-informed breathing, grounding, stress-regulation, and behavior-change concepts. Research supporting those techniques can inform product design, but it does not automatically validate the Steady product itself. We keep those evidence layers separate.
How to cite or describe this finding
Preferred wording: “In an early Steady product-data snapshot of 38 measured support sessions, 79% showed lower self-reported distress after the support flow than before it.”
Avoid: “Steady reduces distress by 79%,” “Steady is 79% effective,” or language that treats this preliminary session-level signal as clinical efficacy.
Source: Steady internal product analytics. Preliminary, non-randomized, non-clinical product data. Published Aug 25, 2026.
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