Six weeks from now, what success story will you want to tell?
This is a Drexel University LeBow College of Business research study observing human habits and goal setting. Participants download our app, set a personal goal in our system, then log what happens for the next six weeks.
Complete the post-study survey at the end of your six weeks and you’re entered for the chance to win a $200 Wawa gift card, drawn Wednesday, November 11th.
The app
This is the whole thing. Scroll it.
Not a screenshot tour — the real screens, in order, doing what they do. Scroll picks the moment; the moment plays itself.
Act one
You install it and answer three questions.
Name, age, what you do. Then the two that matter: what you are trying to do, and what your day actually looks like. Write them badly. The app keeps your exact words and does not tidy them up — if you wrote “wrecked by 2pm,” that is what comes back.
There is no account, no email, no password. The invite code screen is skippable and you can skip it.
Act two
It writes you a plan. You take up to three.
Five suggestions, built out of what you just typed — not a template, and not a list of things everyone gets. You take up to three. Three is the ceiling because the alternative is a list you abandon on Thursday.
Then it does something most apps will not: it stops. If you signed up on a Wednesday it does not start you mid-week. It shows you the plan and waits for Monday.
Act three
Monday to Friday. Tick, and write a line.
Two of three on day one is a normal day one. The journal is one line or five paragraphs, whichever you have in you, and it is the part the Saturday reflection is built from.
Some participants also get a short note in the morning. Which ones is decided at random when you consent, not by anything you do — and that difference is the actual experiment.
Act four
Saturday, it reads your week back to you.
No habits to log. You say how it went in your own words, and what comes back sets that against what you actually recorded — the day it broke, the one that stopped needing your attention, the one that is still hard.
It is a mirror, not a report card. It will not tell you a two-of-five week was good, and it will not tell you it was bad either.
Act five
Six weeks later, the whole story.
Six Evolutions, forty-two days, and a tally that is yours whatever it says. The last Saturday looks back across all six weeks instead of one.
Then the study ends and the habits do not. Whatever was working in week six keeps working in week seven, and that part does not need us.
Joining
Consent first, then the app.
The order is not bureaucratic politeness. Which group you are in is decided when you consent, and the app cannot put you in one on its own — install it first and you are in the study without being in the study.
The consent form is being finalised. Nothing on this page enrolls you yet — write to coach@whatcomesnextllc.ai to be told when it opens.
Run by Drexel University LeBow College of Business under Drexel IRB protocol HRP-504, study number 2605011824. Minimal risk.
The consent form opens on Qualtrics, the survey platform Drexel uses — so the link does leave this site, and that is expected. The app arrives through TestFlight, Apple’s beta service.
Questions, or anything about your rights as a participant: coach@whatcomesnextllc.ai.
The drawing
One winner, drawn at random on Wednesday, November 11th, 2026. Surveys received by Tuesday, November 10th are entered. No purchase, no payment, no fee — participants are not paid for taking part, and the gift card is an incentive to complete the closing survey rather than compensation for the six weeks.
Participants who withdraw before completing the post-study survey are not entered in the drawing. Withdrawal has no other consequence.
What you’ll actually be asked to do
Under twenty minutes a day. That is a ceiling, not an average.
Monday to Friday
Open the app, tick off the habits you kept, and write a line about the day. Some days that line is three words. Nothing is graded and nothing is retroactive — yesterday closes at midnight.
Saturday
No habits to log. You write a few sentences about how the week went, and the app reads it back to you alongside what you actually recorded. It does not grade that either.
Sunday
Next week’s plan is waiting. Keep what worked, drop what did not, pick up to three again. Then the app leaves you alone until Monday.
You need an iPhone
The app arrives through TestFlight. There is no Android build and there will not be one during this study.
Groups start on Mondays
September 7, 14, 21 and 28. Whenever you sign up, your first day is the next Monday on that list.
What is collected
Which habits you checked off, what you wrote, and when you opened the app. Not your location, not your contacts, not your health app, not anything from any other app on your phone.
You get a report at the end
Finish the six weeks and everything you logged comes back as one piece of writing about your own six weeks. Every participant who finishes gets it, whichever group they were in.
You can stop
At any point, for any reason or none, and nothing happens. Six times through and it is over either way — you keep the app, the habits, and everything you wrote.
The goal is yours.
The verdict isn’t.
That is why the study is not fussy about what you pick. What makes a six-week goal work is not that it is ambitious, it is that something other than your own mood gets to say whether you hit it. The barbell does not negotiate. Neither does the call log, the exam, the empty inbox, or the dish that either tasted good or did not.