AI Coach

The AI Coach is a sparring partner for coaches: ask a question about an athlete and get an evidence-based answer grounded in their own numbers in seconds, instead of generic advice. It knows which athlete you are viewing, pulls in the workouts, metrics, and zones itself, and helps you decide faster on a schedule, the intensity distribution, or the build towards a race.

What does the AI Coach do?

The AI Coach is a tool for the coach, not the athlete: it only talks to you. It asks pointed questions, tests your assumptions against training physiology, and helps you shape an evidence-based plan. It only sees data for athletes you have access to.

It can, among other things:

• fetch and analyse an athlete's planned and completed workouts
• propose changes to an athlete's schedule that you then write to the calendar in one click (see Proposed calendar changes)
• read daily wellness and health metrics, zones, races, notes, and the annual plan
• inspect a single workout in depth (per-second data, time-in-zone, intervals)
• remember a standing preference you share (your coaching style, sport focus, how you communicate with athletes), personal or shared with your team

Opening the AI Coach

1. Open an athlete's calendar
2. Click the round button with the Coachbox icon in the bottom-right corner
3. The chat panel opens above the button. The rest of the page stays visible and usable
4. Ask your question, for example about the training distribution of the past weeks or an outline for a block

To read a long answer comfortably, click the expand icon to make the panel fill the screen. Close it with the cross or the Escape key.

Proposed calendar changes

When you ask the AI Coach to plan, change, move, or remove training, it does not write to the calendar straight away. It stages the changes as a proposal that you review first.

How it works

1. Ask for a plan in the chat, for example "give Bert a two-week swim block"
2. The AI Coach first reads the existing workouts in that period, then proposes its changes
3. The panel widens into a split view: on the left a calendar preview with the proposed workouts, on the right the chat under the heading "Proposed changes"
4. Review each proposed workout. The weekly totals in the preview include the proposals, just like the real calendar, so you see the load at a glance
5. Click Apply at the bottom to write the proposals to the calendar, or Discard to drop the whole proposal

If you edit a card before applying, the AI marks it as "Edited by the coach". Apply becomes available once at least one proposed workout is ready.

Reading the status dots

Each proposed workout carries a coloured dot in the top-right corner that shows what the AI wants to do with that day:

• Green: New. A new workout on an empty day.
• Amber: Changed or Moved. An existing workout is adjusted or shifted to another day.
• Struck through: Removed. The AI proposes deleting an existing workout.
• No dot. The workout stays unchanged and is shown for reference only.

Nothing on the real calendar changes until you click Apply. Applying runs through the same checks as manual planning (seats and billing), so the AI bypasses no rules.

Good to know

• The AI Coach is built for endurance sports and declines questions outside that domain.
• It does not invent numbers: before making claims about an athlete it fetches the data first. If something is missing, it says so.
• The aggregated power-duration curve and best power over a period (across multiple workouts) are not yet readable by the AI. That data does exist in Coachbox itself; agent access is coming. Analysis within a single workout already works.
• The AI Coach replies in your language.