For researchers — running a study

Sleep Scientist is a platform that hosts sleep studies. When you publish one, you are the responsible researcher — the app surfaces, records, and enforces your decisions; it does not run the study for you. Outcomes are measured objectively from Apple Health, so there's no assessor bias.

What you set when you publish

Intervention & outcome — the behaviour to test and the sleep metric it targets (more total sleep, earlier onset, wind-down).
Randomization — participants are assigned to arms server-side, balanced across the cohort.
Blinding — open-label, or blinded (participants aren't told their group, the metric, or results until the study ends). Behaviour can't be fully double-blinded, but blinding still removes expectation bias.
Eligible regions — you choose which countries you accept participants from, and you are responsible for meeting each region's requirements.
Duration & enrollment window — how long each participant runs (a few weeks to years, or open-ended) and a last date to join. Blinded studies unblind when a participant's window ends.
Your own consent form — shown to every participant before they enroll. You own its content.
Ethics attestation — you confirm you hold the necessary ethics/IRB approval or a documented exemption, and can provide proof.

Your responsibilities

Ethics/IRB approval, a lawful basis and consent appropriate to each region you enroll in, honest claims (this is a wellness tool — no diagnosis or treatment claims), and participant safety. Sleep Scientist provides the mechanism and the anonymous, derived data; it does not provide ethics approval or legal cover.

What participants share with you

Only anonymous, derived nightly metrics tied to a one-way participant hash — never raw Health data or identities. See the Privacy Policy.

Get in touch

Interested in running a study? Email apps@augmentedmind.io.

Sleep Scientist is published by Augmented Mind AB.