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What Time Gates is, and what it promises
Time Gates is training for pacing. Six plain words, a short session most days, and a rule we hold ourselves to: we describe what the exercises practise, and we never claim more than the research supports.
The honest promise
Every claim this product makes fits in one sentence: practice at a specific skill, on things that look like the exercise, with your own numbers shown improving over weeks. Not better focus. Not better grades. Not less anxiety.
That sentence is deliberately smaller than the ones our competitors use, and the reason is on page three. The short version is that drilling a task makes you better at that task and its close cousins, and the evidence that it improves anything further away is thin to absent. A product that promises otherwise is either not reading the literature or is betting you will not.
What we can do is choose drills that are the skill we care about, wrap them in the strategy layer where transfer has actually been found, and measure the result in a way that does not flatter us.
The six pillars
The teenager sees six plain words. None of them is named after a deficit, and no exercise in this document is described as fixing anything.
Each pillar has a short daily form and a longer weekly one. Pages five through ten give every exercise: what you see on screen, the numbers it starts from, how it is scored, and the study that earns its evidence grade.
Who it is for
Teenagers between thirteen and eighteen who are bright, and whose difficulty is in pacing rather than in capacity. The families describe a recognisable handful of things: hitting enter before the instruction ends, walking into a room and starting to talk without noticing what is already happening in it, no detail about yesterday but an hour on one looping thought, bumps and drops and spills, a nervous system that runs hot and settles slowly.
Many have a diagnosis, or several. Many do not. Time Gates does not ask and does not care, because the exercises are chosen for what they train, not for what someone has been called.
One feature of this group shapes the entire product. Bright teenagers with executive-function gaps rate themselves as doing fine: a study of adolescents with such gaps found a discrepancy between measured performance and self-rating, because high ability compensates until the load rises. Moderate
So progress in Time Gates comes from task data, never from a self-report questionnaire, and the steering model is instructed to weight what you did over what you said about it.
How to read the evidence grades
The strength labels describe support for the particular skill or outcome named beside them. Results are described separately: a study may find better memory-test scores without finding better reading or everyday attention.
A grade describes the drilled skill unless it says otherwise. Several exercises here are graded strong as a measure and weak as training; that distinction is the whole difference between an honest product and a Lumosity.
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