A Coach That Has
Already Read the File
Every other assistant starts the conversation by asking who your child is. This one is signed in to your account, so it opens knowing the age band, the hours logged this year, and what your state expects — and it can hand you a drill you can press play on before the kettle boils. It is the same coach who runs the drill out loud on the Audio Coach — here, with your child’s record open.
Why a general chatbot cannot do this job
Not because it is not clever enough. Because of where it gets its facts.
An assistant that only knows what you type
- You describe your child again at the start of every conversation, and it still has last week’s numbers wrong.
- It recommends drills it has invented. They sound plausible. They are not in your curriculum, and there is nothing to press play on.
- It takes your word for the hours — which means anyone editing what the page sends could move the figures on a document your state may read.
A coach reading the record itself
- Age band, badges, hours logged and your state’s requirement are re-derived on the server from your child’s record for every single message.
- Drills come out of your own catalogue by id. The coach is forbidden from inventing one, because every real id has a coaching track behind it.
- The browser is trusted with exactly two things: your message, and which of your children it is about. Nothing else it claims is believed.
What it knows before you type a word
This is the block the coach reads at the top of every conversation. It is assembled server-side from your child’s record — not from anything the page tells it.
- Athlete
- Maya
- Age band
- U14 (ages 13–14)
- Badges earned
- 7
- PE hours logged this year
- 34.0
- Home state
- Texas (TX)
- State requirement
- No specific PE hour figure set
- Working on next
- Unit 4 — Receiving Under Pressure
A child with no history yet is described as new rather than as weak at everything, so the coach opens by calibrating — asking what they can already do — instead of prescribing remediation nobody asked for.
- Which child, established by the server The account decides whose record may be discussed. A page cannot ask about a child it does not have access to, and cannot assert that child’s numbers.
- Where the hours actually stand Logged hours come from the same compliance ledger the transcript is built from, checked against your state’s requirement for your child’s level. When a state sets no figure — about half of them — it says so rather than inventing a target.
- It remembers between visits One conversation per child, kept so that “like we did last week” means something. It is stored with the rest of that child’s data, and it is deleted by the same request that deletes everything else.
An actual exchange
A parent asking the question they are really asking — are we behind, and what do I do about it tomorrow.
Parent · Tuesday evening
Coach Spatrian
Illustration of the interface. In a real conversation the hours, the state and the drill are your own.
- “Cone weave” is a link, not a description Recommendations are drawn by id from the drill catalogue in your curriculum. Every one of those ids has a hand-authored coaching track behind it, which is why the coach may not invent a drill: an invented id is a dead end where a family expected a session.
- It can find the lesson too Ask for a topic and it searches your own curriculum for the lesson that covers it, rather than describing a lesson you do not have.
- It says what to watch for You are the teacher of record. The coach answers a parent as the person running and assessing the session, and a student as the athlete doing it — and it opens with the questions that person is most likely to have.Plan this week’s PE Are we on track for our hours? A drill for ball control
The line it will not cross
The coach proposes a session. It never records one.
Nothing an AI says reaches your compliance log or your child’s transcript until you tap the button. The proposal arrives as a card with a duration and a skill; pressing Log it writes it through the same path as a session you logged by hand. An AI-asserted figure must not walk into a document you may hand to your state.
If your child talks to it
Students get their own coach. That is the point — and it is why the rules around it are written down.
Told, not tracked
The first thing the coach says to a student is that their parent can see these chats. Covert logging of a child’s conversation would be the wrong trade even if it read better on a feature list.
You read the whole thread from Coach Conversations in the parent menu, and any session it suggested to your child is still waiting for your approval, not already in the log.
Bounded, and deletable
Each athlete has a daily message allowance and a burst limit, so a bored afternoon cannot run away with itself.
Conversations are stored with the rest of that child’s record, which means the existing deletion and retention machinery covers them: erase the child’s data and the coach’s memory of them goes with it, without a second thing for anyone to remember.
It is easier to try than to describe
The chat needs an account, because the entire point is that the coach reads your child’s record rather than asking you to type it. The free plan takes a couple of minutes to set up — and you can hear the same coach out loud, with no account at all, on the sixty-second sample.
Get Started Free Hear the same coach out loudCoach Spatrian is a coaching and planning aid, not a medical, diagnostic or legal service, and not a substitute for your judgement about your own child. You remain the teacher of record: the hours, the grades and the transcript are yours to approve and to sign.