About INTERO

Built to read what pressure actually does to a person.

The why, the journey, and the name — which is also the mission.

The why

Output gets measured. What it costs you doesn't.

Every high-performance world measures output — times, reps, calls closed, missions run. But what producing that output does to the person happens inside the nervous system, and it mostly goes unread. When it goes unread, depletion gets mistaken for weakness, drift gets mistaken for attitude, and recovery gets guessed at.

INTERO exists so that anyone operating under real pressure can see what the load is actually doing to them — read against their own physiology, never anyone else's — in time to do something about it. Developmental, never clinical: a read is the start of work, not a verdict about a person.

The journey

From the field, to doctrine, to instruments.

The field years
This company wasn't drawn up in a conference room. It comes out of two decades spent instrumenting people under real load — working with Polar hardware since 2004 — in the worlds where pressure isn't a metaphor: fire and EMS, law enforcement, the military, motorsport, the emergency department.
The doctrine
Years of watching the same pattern — capable people coming apart in ways their output numbers never explained — became a written methodology: how load actually moves through a person, what the nervous system does with it, and what you can train once you can see it.
The instruments
Doctrine became product. The OSRP puts a person's five capacities on the record in one sitting. LiveLabs runs live scenarios with real physiology streaming from every operator. Both are running today.
What's next
TERO carries the read into every day — a coach that has your back 24/7/365 — and CONSOLE puts it in front of the people who watch over people. Both are in build now.

The name

INTERO comes from interoception.

in·tero·cep·tion
noun — the sense of the internal state of the body: the brain's continuous read of heartbeat, breath, gut, temperature, effort.

Your other senses face outward. Interoception faces in — it's how the body reports on itself, and it's where pressure lands first. Long before performance visibly breaks, the inner signals have already moved: the beat interval tightens, recovery shortens, the system spends more to hold the same line. Growing research ties interoceptive awareness to emotional regulation and decision-making under stress — the exact terrain where high performers win or lose.

That's why the name is the mission. Everything we build — the OSRP, TERO, CONSOLE, LiveLabs — is the same act at a different scale: making the inner read visible, honest, and trainable.

The people

Who's behind it.

Jeff Banman

Founder

Jeff has spent more than thirty years operating in — and then instrumenting — the worlds where performance carries real consequence: the fire service, US Army Special Operations as an Airborne Ranger, and the CIA, where he conducted counterterrorism operations across more than twenty-three countries and two combat zones. Out of that came the question INTERO exists to answer: why capable people come apart under load, and what the nervous system knows before anyone can see it. He went on to build a human-performance venture delivering biofeedback analytics to military, government, and first-responder organizations, developed performance protocols for US SOCOM and the intelligence community, and has put Polar hardware on humans under pressure since 2004 — including thirty-day continuous physiological captures for Naval Special Warfare. He is the author of When It All Goes to Hell, on chaos and crisis. The doctrine every INTERO surface runs on is his: performance is regulated from inside, and the inner read can be measured honestly and trained deliberately.

Jeroen Molinger, PhD

Chief Science Officer

Jeroen has spent his career reading human physiology where the stakes are highest. A clinical medical exercise physiologist trained in the Netherlands — Maastricht, SOMT, and a doctorate spanning Erasmus MC and Duke — he came up through the intensive care unit at Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, studying what critical illness does to the body's capacity, and serves as Senior Lead Clinical Medical Exercise Physiologist at Duke University Medical Center, across the Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care and the Duke Heart Cardiovascular Performance and Innovation Lab. His published work spans cardiopulmonary exercise testing, metabolism under critical illness, and muscle physiology — applied across ICU patients, elite athletes, and special-operations forces. At INTERO he leads the science: the validation program run the slow, honest way, so every claim we make is one we can support in a room where it matters.

There are more of us — this page grows as the team does.