Vertical - AI Running Coach

Train with a science-based coach that adapts to you. Built on modern training science and decades of real-world experience, Vertical learns from your training and recovery data, understands how you respond, and adjusts your plan before problems start.

We built Vertical on a foundation of 200+ peer-reviewed papers — covering periodization, recovery, injury prevention, and more — curated by coaches who've worked with athletes from first-time 5K runners to world champions. Every decision your coach makes combines modern training science with real coaching experience, applied to your level.

HOW IT WORKS

1. It starts with a conversation. Connect your wearable data, then talk to your coach. Goals, schedule, injury history — the things a watch can't measure. Data plus dialogue gives your coach a complete picture of who you are.

2. It builds a plan with you. Draft a plan, talk it through, reshape it. Move your long run, ask why, skip a day. It's a conversation, not a prescription.

3. Every workout, your way. Paces, zones, structure — but flexible. Swap days, shorten a run. Your coach reshuffles everything.

4. After every run, your coach is there. Reads the data, tells you how it went, and adjusts what comes next. Mention a niggle and the next two weeks rewrite themselves.

WHAT MAKES VERTICAL DIFFERENT

• You never fail a Vertical plan. It just adapts. Missed a run? Changed your schedule? Your plan rewrites itself around what actually happened.

• 50 metrics on your wrist, finally understood. HRV, sleep, training load, recovery — your coach reads it all and explains what matters in plain language.

• The science exists. Now it's applied to you. Periodization, load management, recovery protocols — all well established, now personalised to your training.

• Your watch knows your heart rate. Your coach knows you. Context, goals, how you're feeling — the things data alone can't capture.

INTEGRATIONS

Connect your Garmin for full workout history and health metrics. Strava, Apple Health, and Wahoo support coming soon.

PRICING

Free assessment — connect your watch, get a full training analysis with 200+ data points in 3 minutes. No credit card.

Vertical PRO — full coaching with unlimited conversations, daily HRV-aware plan adjustments, post-run debriefs, and race readiness coaching.

You never fail a Vertical plan. It just adapts.