Your training planshould adapt to your life.
Train with a science-based AI coach
Built on modern science, your watch data, and real-world coaching experience, it keeps your plan realistic, adapts to your life, and helps you pursue your goals with fewer injuries and setbacks.
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The problem
The best plan is the one you can actually execute.
The best coaches don't hand you a plan and walk away.
They know when to push and when to pull back. They're there at every step.
But the tools most runners have? Static schedules that shatter the moment life gets in the way.
With Vertical, you will never fail a plan. It will just adapt.
The disconnect
Your watch knows
your heart rate.
It doesn't know you.
HRV, sleep score, Body Battery, VO₂ max. We have more data than ever, but data only matters in context.
Your watch cannot ask how you are feeling and will still say "productive" when you feel anything but.
Vertical combines modern training metrics with your real life.
The gap
The science exists.
It's just not applied to you.
Periodization, load management, recovery protocols, all well established. But locked behind coaching certifications, academic papers, and expensive 1:1 coaching. What reaches you is a generic template.
50 metrics on your wrist.
Decades of research in journals.
Yet no one is asking:
how are you actually feeling?
How it works
Meet your coach.
It starts with a conversation.
Connect your wearable data, then hop on a voice call or chat with 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.
Grounded in real research & coaching experience.
We built a collection 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.
Then it builds a plan with you.
Draft a plan, talk it through, move sessions and ask why. Have a training philosophy or workouts you like? The coach works around that. It's a conversation, not a prescription.
Every workout, your way.
Paces, zones, structure, but flexible. Swap days, shorten a run. Your coach reshuffles everything.
After every run, your coach is there.
Your coach reads the data, analyzes each training session together with you, and adjusts what comes next. Mention an injury, the next two weeks rewrite themselves.
Solid tempo today. Your splits were even and heart rate stayed in zone. You negative-split the last 2k which is exactly what we want. Tomorrow is easy 6k, keep it under 5:40.
Integrations
Every device.
One complete picture.
Vertical pulls biometric data from your watch: heart rate trends, HRV, sleep, recovery. Then combines it with how you actually feel. No manual logging. Just one coach that sees everything.
Pricing
Your coach. Free to start.
Find out exactly where you stand. Your coach analyses your training history and tells you what's holding you back.
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- Training zone breakdown
- Personalised coach insight
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Full coaching, daily adaptations, and unlimited access to your coach.
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- Unlimited coach conversations
- Daily HRV-aware plan adjustments
- Post-run debriefs after every session
- Full training history analysis
- Race readiness & taper coaching
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You never fail a Vertical plan.
It just adapts.
Connect your Garmin, get a full training analysis in 3 minutes, and meet the coach that adapts to your life, not the other way around.
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