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A rating that climbs, read monthly, earned daily

Fewer blunders, a real opening repertoire, and a rating that means something by month three. On their phone and watch tonight. Who needs you, each morning.

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Puzzles at 07:15One slow game a weekAnnotate before the engineRating monthlyTilt guardrail
TODAY · CHESS
Weekday mornings, 07:15 · fifteen minutes
1PuzzlesFifteen minutes or twenty puzzles, whichever ends first. Level set so a third are missed12
2Name the missFor each failed puzzle: the pattern, from a list. One tap
3Repertoire drillFive lines from the spaced queue, on weeks 5 onward
Today · Journey · Coach · You
NUDGE · IN YOUR VOICE
From Tomas
TB
Tomas BergGrowthArc · 07:10 on a weekday

“Fifteen minutes. Yesterday you missed two knight forks; the first three today are forks.”

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Later
MILESTONE
21DAYS

Puzzle rating

Tactics respond first

Every discipline

One engine, 33 journeys. How the loop works →

Recovery and habit changeSobriety and habit change
All 33 disciplines →

What you get

What this journey rides on

Journey Studio

A chess journey, built

Rename it, assign it, and the first step lands tonight.

Client app

On their phone and wrist

Today’s steps in order, each with a tick. iPhone and Apple Watch.

Nudges

Nudges in your voice

8 in the template, timed to when they help. The unanswered one retires.

Coach dashboard

Who needs you, each morning

Who kept, who skipped, what they typed. The reply drafted.

Check-ins

Scored checkpoints

A rating, a recording, a timed run, a filmed rep.

Sessions

The session, briefed

What moved, what stalled, in their words. Two minutes.

What the client sees change

Fewer blunders, a real opening repertoire, and a rating that means something by month three

What you can promise, and when

  1. wk 3
    Puzzle ratingTactics respond first
  2. wk 6
    Blunders per gameCounted in the student’s own annotations
  3. wk 12
    Rating, 30-day averageThe one the student wanted; read at the honest cadence
  4. wk 16
    Repertoire under pressureOpenings held in rated games, not in the trainer

the client noticesa dip, named in advancethe slow one

The client experience

Three screens, and nothing else

Today

The drill, the queue and the tick

Today shows the puzzle block with a timer, the five repertoire lines from the queue, and a tick for each.

The week

Five mornings, one evening, the review

The week shows mornings kept, the Thursday game with its blunder count, the coach’s review as read or waiting, and any late-night rated games in a quieter colour, because they are information rather than blame.

What changed

Puzzle rating weekly, blunders fortnightly, rating monthly

Three lines at three cadences.

What it learns

A practice that knows its own clients

For this studentWhich patterns they miss, and when they tilt
For the coachWhich drill moves which student
Across the platformPuzzle level and retention

You get

  • Sees the annotated game and the student’s own notes before Saturday, with the blunders already counted
  • Knows which student is tilting from the account, not from a confession three weeks later

Your client gets

  • Sees the rating at a cadence that cannot lie, and the two faster signals that show progress meanwhile
  • Gets puzzles at a level that is hard on purpose, with the missed patterns coming back until they stop being missed

Where you land

Most chess coaches land on Pro

Everything on this page is on every plan. Pro adds unlimited clients and the companion in your voice.

Founding 100 · the first hundred paid coaches lock 40% off for life. The counter is on the pricing page.

Pro · Most popular
$149/mo · $119/mo billed annually

The full-time solo practice. Where most coaches should land.

  • Unlimited clients
  • Health scores + quiet-client alerts
  • Journey Studio with AI drafting
  • Payments, invoicing, payouts (Stripe)
  • Documents & knowledge base
  • Readings on schedule: weight, scales, photos

Start this journey

Start the chess journey

The template carries the morning drill, the slow-game evening, the annotate-before-engine rule, the tilt brake and the spaced repertoire queue.

No card to start. Every plan takes 0% of what you earn.

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