Make a “layer” between the athlete and coach. Right now, Strava gives you a 2 sentence Ai analysis of your uploaded ride within 30 seconds of uploading. No coach can ever compete with that.

What if you did something similar, but gave the coach the “approval” power?

Athlete uploads file.

Ai does analysis

Ai texts the coach- “Hey- your athlete uploaded a file. Here’s our analysis. Would you like to Approve? Reply with Y or N for No. Would you like to Add to this analysis? Reply with A.

Coach replies with “A”. Coach types in, “Nice to see this Cam, You are really crushing it and I am proud of you for going for after the hard weekend you had. Looking forward to talking with you this week”.

Ai then adds this to the Ai analysis and then sends a text or message to the Athlete.

Here’s you analysis!

It’s transparent so that the athlete knows that some of it is Ai, and some is from them.

It adds value that a coach can’t do instantly.

When coach is confident that the Ai analysis is dead on, then they can just “auto-approve” all Ai analysis. Maybe giving a 30 minute time window for the coach to reply/add-to in case they can’t get to the text right away.

When 30 minute window times out, coach can select to either “auto-approve” or “Auto-disapprove” any Ai analysis. IF they disapprove, still send the Ai analysis to them in an email (hidden to the athlete) so they can use if wanted.

Anyhow, that “layer” between the coach and the athlete is needed desperately. If someone(in the software world) doesn’t solve this asap, athletes will continue to stop coaching relationships. We are already seeing it in our business.