{
  "editionSlug": "2026-q2",
  "attribution": "# State of Capacity Intelligence, Q3 2026. Flowdealer. N=602. CC-BY-NC 4.0. https://flowdealer.ai/research/state-of-capacity-intelligence/the-execution-paradox/",
  "items": [
    {
      "qId": "q1_roles",
      "label": "Roles",
      "question": "What roles do you perform?",
      "type": "multi-select",
      "responseOptions": "Select any of eleven named functions, plus free entry",
      "polarity": "none"
    },
    {
      "qId": "q2_work_situation",
      "label": "Work situation",
      "question": "What's your work situation?",
      "type": "categorical",
      "responseOptions": "Side builder · Founder · Freelancer · Business owner · Employee · Early startup team, plus free entry",
      "polarity": "none"
    },
    {
      "qId": "q3_productive_best",
      "label": "Productive best",
      "question": "How close to your \"productive best\" are you right now?",
      "type": "scale-0-5",
      "responseOptions": "Slider, 0 to 5",
      "scaleRange": [
        0,
        5
      ],
      "polarity": "direct"
    },
    {
      "qId": "q4_quality_of_life",
      "label": "Quality of life",
      "question": "How would you rate your current quality of life?",
      "type": "scale-0-5",
      "responseOptions": "Slider, 0 to 5",
      "scaleRange": [
        0,
        5
      ],
      "polarity": "direct"
    },
    {
      "qId": "q5_hours_per_week",
      "label": "Hours per week",
      "question": "How many hours per week do you spend working?",
      "type": "categorical",
      "responseOptions": "Under 40 · 40 to 60 · 60 to 80 · 80 to 100 · 100 or more",
      "polarity": "none"
    },
    {
      "qId": "q6_plans_schedule",
      "label": "Plans a schedule",
      "question": "Do you actively plan your schedule?",
      "type": "categorical",
      "responseOptions": "Yes, regularly · Sometimes, inconsistently · No, I don't plan",
      "polarity": "none"
    },
    {
      "qId": "q7_replan_frequency",
      "label": "Replan frequency",
      "question": "How often do you have to re-plan your day due to unexpected changes?",
      "type": "scale-1-5-inverted",
      "responseOptions": "Almost never · Few times a month · Few times a week · Almost daily · Daily",
      "scaleRange": [
        1,
        5
      ],
      "polarity": "inverted"
    },
    {
      "qId": "q8_text",
      "label": "Follow-through, open text",
      "question": "What helps you follow through on your commitments and responsibilities? What doesn't work?",
      "type": "text",
      "responseOptions": "Free text",
      "polarity": "none"
    },
    {
      "qId": "q9_external_pressure_needed",
      "label": "External pressure needed",
      "question": "How often do you find it difficult to follow through without external pressure?",
      "type": "scale-1-5-inverted",
      "responseOptions": "Almost never · Few times a month · Few times a week · Almost daily · Daily",
      "scaleRange": [
        1,
        5
      ],
      "polarity": "inverted"
    },
    {
      "qId": "q10_priority_difficulty",
      "label": "Priority difficulty",
      "question": "How often do you find it difficult to decide what your next priority should be?",
      "type": "scale-1-5-inverted",
      "responseOptions": "Almost never · Few times a month · Few times a week · Almost daily · Daily",
      "scaleRange": [
        1,
        5
      ],
      "polarity": "inverted"
    },
    {
      "qId": "q11_overcommit_frequency",
      "label": "Overcommit frequency",
      "question": "How often do you commit to more than you can actually deliver?",
      "type": "scale-1-5-inverted",
      "responseOptions": "Almost never · Few times a month · Few times a week · Almost daily · Daily",
      "scaleRange": [
        1,
        5
      ],
      "polarity": "inverted"
    },
    {
      "qId": "q12_plan_completion",
      "label": "Plan completion",
      "question": "By the end of a typical week, how much of what you planned actually gets done?",
      "type": "scale-0-5",
      "responseOptions": "Slider, 0 to 5",
      "scaleRange": [
        0,
        5
      ],
      "polarity": "direct"
    },
    {
      "qId": "q13_text",
      "label": "Plan-breaker, open text",
      "question": "When executing your plan is harder than it should be, what's usually the reason?",
      "type": "text",
      "responseOptions": "Free text",
      "polarity": "none"
    },
    {
      "qId": "q14_primary_drain",
      "label": "Primary drain",
      "question": "Which drains you most on a typical workday?",
      "type": "multi-select",
      "responseOptions": "Cognitive load · Social interactions · Emotional demands · Physical fatigue · All drain me roughly equally",
      "polarity": "none"
    },
    {
      "qId": "q15_text",
      "label": "One fix, open text",
      "question": "If you could fix one thing about your work ethic or execution, what would it be?",
      "type": "text",
      "responseOptions": "Free text",
      "polarity": "none"
    },
    {
      "qId": "q16_tool_count",
      "label": "Tool count",
      "question": "How many tools do you actively juggle to manage work and life?",
      "type": "ordinal-bands",
      "responseOptions": "1 to 3 · 4 to 6 · 7 to 9 · 10 or more",
      "polarity": "none"
    },
    {
      "qId": "q17_tools_used",
      "label": "Tools used",
      "question": "Select your 3 to 5 most frequently used tools for managing work",
      "type": "multi-select",
      "responseOptions": "Select from a named tool list, plus free entry",
      "polarity": "none"
    },
    {
      "qId": "q18_text",
      "label": "Tool dislikes, open text",
      "question": "What do you dislike the most about your current tools and systems?",
      "type": "text",
      "responseOptions": "Free text",
      "polarity": "none"
    },
    {
      "qId": "q19_drive",
      "label": "Drive",
      "question": "How hungry are you to achieve more?",
      "type": "scale-0-5",
      "responseOptions": "Slider, 0 to 5",
      "scaleRange": [
        0,
        5
      ],
      "polarity": "direct"
    },
    {
      "qId": "q20_wellbeing_priority",
      "label": "Wellbeing priority",
      "question": "How important is it that success doesn't cost you your health or sanity?",
      "type": "scale-0-5",
      "responseOptions": "Slider, 0 to 5",
      "scaleRange": [
        0,
        5
      ],
      "polarity": "direct"
    },
    {
      "qId": "q21_overwhelm_frequency",
      "label": "Overwhelm frequency",
      "question": "How often do you feel overwhelmed by life, commitments and/or responsibilities?",
      "type": "scale-1-5-inverted",
      "responseOptions": "Almost never · Few times a month · Few times a week · Almost daily · Daily",
      "scaleRange": [
        1,
        5
      ],
      "polarity": "inverted"
    },
    {
      "qId": "q22_introversion_extraversion",
      "label": "Introversion to extraversion",
      "question": "Where would you place yourself on the introversion to extraversion scale?",
      "type": "scale-0-5",
      "responseOptions": "Slider, 0 to 5",
      "scaleRange": [
        0,
        5
      ],
      "polarity": "none"
    },
    {
      "qId": "q23_neurodivergence_impact",
      "label": "Neurodivergence impact",
      "question": "How much does neurodivergence (ADHD, autism, dyslexia, or similar) impact your daily work?",
      "type": "categorical",
      "responseOptions": "Not applicable to me · Minimally · Moderately · Significantly",
      "polarity": "none"
    },
    {
      "qId": "q24_age",
      "label": "Age",
      "question": "What is your age?",
      "type": "numeric",
      "responseOptions": "Age in years; bucketed into cohorts only afterwards",
      "polarity": "none"
    },
    {
      "qId": "q25_text",
      "label": "Anything else, open text",
      "question": "Anything else you want to share?",
      "type": "text",
      "responseOptions": "Free text, optional",
      "polarity": "none"
    }
  ],
  "burnoutBands": [
    {
      "slug": "severe",
      "label": "Severe",
      "profiles": "Full Burnout",
      "n": 75
    },
    {
      "slug": "struggling",
      "label": "Struggling",
      "profiles": "Planning Chaos, Overwhelmed, Demand Overload",
      "n": 272
    },
    {
      "slug": "at-risk",
      "label": "At Risk",
      "profiles": "Diffuse Strain, Productive but Paying, Quiet Struggle",
      "n": 88
    },
    {
      "slug": "healthy",
      "label": "Healthy",
      "profiles": "Coping, Thriving",
      "n": 160
    }
  ],
  "statisticalMethods": [
    {
      "name": "Correlations",
      "use": "Pearson throughout, except drive against completion, which is reported as a Spearman rank correlation"
    },
    {
      "name": "Confidence intervals",
      "use": "bootstrap percentile, 2,000 resamples, for means"
    },
    {
      "name": "Wilson score intervals",
      "use": "for proportions"
    },
    {
      "name": "Cohen's d",
      "use": "effect size for differences between two group means"
    },
    {
      "name": "Multiple comparisons",
      "use": "not corrected; this edition is exploratory and every figure should be read that way"
    },
    {
      "name": "Missing data",
      "use": "complete-case per metric, no imputation, so a table's N can be lower than the sample"
    }
  ]
}