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How we're building coaching that holds.

Notes from the engineers and coaches behind Agora — on methodology, systems, and the difference between an answer and a coaching relationship.

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How is this different from platforms like TrainHeroic or Trainerize?

TrainHeroic and Trainerize deliver your programming brilliantly. They just still need you in the loop for everything else. Here's the structural difference, a feature comparison, and what it means for the hours you work.

July 29, 2026·9 min read

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Your first nutrition plan

The nutrition side of the Agora Fitness app: how your coach builds your targets and day templates, what a training day actually looks like, and the five ways to log a meal — photo, voice, a sentence, search or barcode.

July 27, 2026·8 min read

Your first fitness program

A walkthrough of the Agora Fitness app: opening your coach's link, setting up your profile, and the conversation that turns their methodology into a training program you can follow and log.

July 26, 2026·6 min read

How to create your first coach

A step-by-step walkthrough of joining Agora and building your first AI coach — what to prepare, what each screen asks for, what happens to your documents, and what to do once it's trained.

July 25, 2026·7 min read

"It's just ChatGPT with a prompt, right?"

You can upload your methodology to ChatGPT, write a good instruction, and get something that sounds like a coach. Here is exactly where that stops working — and the seven-case test you can run yourself in ten minutes.

July 24, 2026·9 min read